Celebrating Life: Finding Happiness in Unexpected Places

by Jonathan Sacks

Overview

Following the painful loss of his father, former Chief Rabbi Sacks began to learn how to celebrate life in a new way.

'I have tried to say what happiness is, how we make it, how we lose it, and how we sometimes walk past it without recognising it. Happiness isn't somewhere else, it's where we are. It isn't something we don't have, we do. It isn't fantasy, it's reality experienced in a certain way. Happiness is a close relative of faith.'

Sacks discovered where happiness lives, often in unexpected places, through family, community, friendship and responsibilities. He also found it through a renewed relationship with God who spoke to his deepest needs.

Based, in part, on his columns in the UK's Times newspaper, Celebrating Life is for people of all faiths and none. It shows us how to be human and, in becoming so, how we can touch the divine.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472974365
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	08/13/2019
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	90,933
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Sir Jonathan Sacks, who died in late 2020, was Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Britain and the Commonwealth. He was the author of numerous books, including Celebrating Life, From Optimism to Hope, The Persistence of Faith and The Dignity of Difference, for which he won a Grawemeyer Award in Religion.

Table of Contents

Part One: Making a Blessing over Life

Part Two: Affirmations in Unexpected Places

Part Three: Where Happiness Lives

Part Four: Finding God

Part Five: Faith in the Family

Part Six: The Moral Voice

Part Seven: Communities of Faith

Part Eight: Faith and Friendship

Part Nine: From Optimism to Hope