Celebrating Life
Finding Happiness in Unexpected Places
1st Edition
Published on 3. July 2025
208 pages
978-1-3994-2074-7 (ISBN)
Description
Following the painful loss of his father, former Chief Rabbi Sacks began to learn how to celebrate life in a new way.
Based, in part, on Rabbi Sacks's collection of columns in the UK's Times newspaper, Celebrating Life is a series of reflections on subjects such as morality, friendship, listening to others and giving thanks. It also talks about topics such as being a parent, finding and losing one's faith and most of all, finding happiness. In Celebrating Life, Rabbi Sacks discovers where happiness lives, often in unexpected places, through family, community, friendship and responsibilities. He also finds it through a renewed relationship with God who spoke to his deepest needs.
But this redesigned and reissued edition has something for everyone, for people of all faiths and none. It shows us how to be human and, in becoming so, how we can touch the divine.
Based, in part, on Rabbi Sacks's collection of columns in the UK's Times newspaper, Celebrating Life is a series of reflections on subjects such as morality, friendship, listening to others and giving thanks. It also talks about topics such as being a parent, finding and losing one's faith and most of all, finding happiness. In Celebrating Life, Rabbi Sacks discovers where happiness lives, often in unexpected places, through family, community, friendship and responsibilities. He also finds it through a renewed relationship with God who spoke to his deepest needs.
But this redesigned and reissued edition has something for everyone, for people of all faiths and none. It shows us how to be human and, in becoming so, how we can touch the divine.
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-3994-2074-7 (9781399420747)
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Book
05/2025
Bloomsbury Continuum
€16.50
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Person
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks was Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Britain and the Commonwealth. He was the author of numerous books, including From Optimism to Hope, The Persistence of Faith and The Dignity of Difference, for which he won a Grawemeyer Award in Religion.
Content
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
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
