Celebrating Life

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Paperback

9781472974365

'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.

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