Boca Raton synagogue provides mental health resources I think the primary struggle that people had was loneliness, rabbi says
David Steinhardt the Senior Rabbi of B nai Torah Congregation says for most of the last year the chairs inside the temple in Boca Raton have sat empty.
and last updated 2021-05-12 21:30:36-04
BOCA RATON, Fla. â David Steinhardt, the senior rabbi of B nai Torah Congregation, said for most of the last year, the chairs inside the temple in Boca Raton have sat empty.
âI think the primary struggle that people had was loneliness,â he said. âAs a rabbi, I serve as an interpreter of text and a teacher I am a pastoral counselor. I do lifecycle events.â
Boca Raton temple providing mental health resources May 12, 2021 at 5:21 PM EDT - Updated May 12 at 5:21 PM
David Steinhardt the Senior Rabbi of B nai Torah Congregation says for most of the last year the chairs inside the temple in Boca Raton have sat empty.
“I think the primary struggle that people had was loneliness,” he said. “As a Rabbi, I serve as an interpreter of text and a teacher I am a pastoral counselor. I do lifecycle events.”
He said the COVID-19 pandemic further changed his outlook on mental health and its role in the temple.
“The greatest challenge people were facing wasn t the challenge of physical health, but it was the challenge of mental health because of the pain loneliness can cause,” he said.
Rabbi David Steinhardt of Boca Raton, Fla., confessed that he had never dealt with anything remotely comparable: in the last four months, five congregants or their close relatives have died by suicide. All were single men aged 20 to 60.
In contrast, during his nearly 38 years in the rabbinate, Steinhardt – spiritual leader of the 1,200-unit B’nai Torah Congregation in Boca Raton, Fla. – said he had dealt with a total of four suicides. Convinced that these latest suicides were related to COVID-19, he decided to organize programs by mental health professionals and to address the mental health challenges the pandemic has presented.
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