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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Q: What are the unique features of HASHPA’AH compared to other training programs in Spiritual Direction?
A: HASHPA’AH is multi-dimensional in approaches. Just as the various Rebbes had different styles of counseling, so too HASHPA’AH includes faculty who model varying styles and approaches.
Q: Why is HASHPA’AH only open to ordained Jewish clergy or students?
A: We fully affirm that therapists, chaplains, and laypeople may be gifted in the arena of spiritual counseling. However, limiting enrollment to Jewish clergy insures a high level of Jewish learning, permitting more advanced text study as well as a commonality of interests and needs.
Q: Why is HASHPA’AH a three-year program?
A: This allows for more learning and personal development, as well as more supervised practice in working with mushpa’im (directees).
Q: Why does HASHPA’AH give smicha, ordination as Mashpia, as well as Certification as Spiritual Director?
A: Our training draws both from the uniquely Jewish tradition of direct relationship with a rebbe or mashpia as well as from the many practices and lessons we have learned from other religious traditions.
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