[Avodah] Firing a Rabbi

[Yosef Skolnick]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Richard Wolberg <cantorwolberg at cox.net>wrote:

> Halacha says that you cannot fire a rabbi.
>
Can you please be more specific?

> There is a very important distinction which needs to be made.
> Firing a rabbi implies terminating a contract prior to its conclusion.
>
Agreed.  What if the rabbi is incompetent or is in some other way affecting
the way the shul/community is run negatively.

> However, I would take issue with contending that halacha says
> you have to renew a rabbi's contract. If that were the case, then once
> a rabbi is hired by a shul, he automatically has a life time tenure.
>
Who says that we can make a contract with a Rabbi? Doesn't that defeat the
purpose of the Rabbi if he is constantly worried about how different
congregants(sp?) are going to view his positions?  Where is the original
source of the modern professional rabbinate?  ie- Why

> To reiterate -- not renewing a rabbi's contract is NOT firing him.
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