The rabbi who was mesader kedushin at my wedding is unmarried. My husband and I are looking for a shidduch for him and hope that he will find his bashert soon. He is perfectly qualified to be a shul rabbi, but is teaching in the meantime.
I think a crucial aspect of a shul rabbi’s job is one that most people don’t think about because it goes on behind the scenes– pastoral counseling. There are so many congregants who meet with the rabbi for counseling as they are going through difficult times. I myself met with a rov several times while I was in the dating world and was very confused about a lot of things. A rabbi needs to understand his congregants’ issues, and he will not be able to, for instance, counsel a couple who are having marriage problems if he does not have the life experience to know what marriage is like.