Rabbi Arthur Stern

About this episode

Rabbi Arthur Stern shares his journey from a successful business career to becoming a rabbi after overcoming addiction and homelessness.

Arthur Stern had no thought of becoming Rabbi Stern while pursuing a successful career in business, certainly not while living in a homeless shelter during a period when his life came apart due to addiction to alcohol and other drugs. Even when the voice unexpectedly came to him to become a rabbi – a message that seemed to be from God – he struggled with accepting it as actually a message from God. But, after a series of events confirming that was the direction God wanted him to go, and even though he was again working full time as a business executive, Arthur Stern went to rabbinical school and became Rabbi Stern.

People in this episode

Guest: Rabbi Arthur Stern

Topics covered

• addiction
• religion
• spirituality
• personal transformation

Keywords

• rabbi
• homelessness
• alcohol addiction
• spiritual calling

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