An Ode to Joy Judaism and Happiness in the Thought of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks and Beyond /
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Sumari: | XXXI, 386 p. 1 illus. text |
Idioma: | anglès |
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2023.
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Edició: | 1st ed. 2023. |
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Accés en línia: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28229-4 |
Format: | Electrònic eBook |
Taula de continguts:
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Personal Reflections: Rabbi Sacks and Joy
- 2 Rabbi Sacks and Joy: A Personal Reflection
- 3 Joy as Challenge: Personal Reflections on Working with Rabbi Sacks
- 4 Beethoven’s Last Sonata
- 5 The Language of the Soul
- Part II Joy in the Bible
- 6 “What Good Is That?” Happiness and the Emotional Range of Ecclesiastes
- 7 Joy to Shushan: The Book of Esther’s Radical Cocktail of Happiness
- 8 Odes to Joy in Sonnets and Psalms
- 9 Flowing with Joy
- 10 Joy and Trembling
- Part III Joy in Rabbinic Literature
- 11 Reflections on the Human Experience of Joy
- 12 All for the Best: Rabbi Akiva’s Theodicy of Joy
- 13 Inclusive Joy: On Maimonides’ Definition of Meaningful Happiness
- 14 Show Me Those Pearly Whites: Divine and Human Smiling
- 15 Bright Yellow Judaism
- 16 Simha Shel Mitzvah: The Commandment of Joy, or the Joy of a Commandment?
- 17 Finding Happiness in the Transience of Sukkot
- Part IV Joy in Legal Thought
- 18 Law’s Joy: Celebrating the Study andPractice of Law
- 19 Joy as a Legal Metaphor
- 20 Emotion, Connection, and Motion: Deploying Positive and Negative Emotions in Conflict Resolution
- Part V Joy in Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah
- 21 Happiness and Joy: Rabbi Sacks’ Dialogue of Athens and Jerusalem
- 22 Crescas and Rabbi Sacks on Happiness and Joy
- 23 Standing Before God in Joy and Fear
- 24 Joys, Oys, and the Pursuit of Happiness
- 25 Affirming Life in Joy Across the Divinity Divide: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and Friedrich Nietzsche
- 26 Sacks on Sisyphus and Soloveitchik: From Myth to Meaning
- 27 “I Will Tell You How Once They Were Joyous”: On the Joy of the Baal Shem Tov’s Hasidim and of R. Nahman of Bratslav
- Part VI Joy in Jewish History and Modernity
- 28 Happy Alone or Happy Together? R. Jonathan Sacks, Contemporary Culture, and the Promise of Hope
- 29 Joy and Judaism at the Battle of Bunker Hill
- 30 Joy in the Interfaith Encounter
- Part VII Joy in Hebrew Literature and Prayer
- 31 Joy, Sorrow, and Emotional Equilibrium in Agnon
- 32 The Joy of Ordinary Living
- 33 Celebrating the Good Through the Sheheheyanu Blessing
- 34 Ashrei Yoshvei Veitekha: Joy in the Ancient Synagogue
- 35 The Music Beneath the Noise: Faith and Joy in the Writings of Rabbi Sacks
- 36 Expressing the Inexpressible: Rabbi Sacks on Music and the Search for a Religious Aesthetic
- Part IX Joy in Psychology and Human Agency
- 37 Agency in the Bible: Humans Wrestling with God
- 38 Serve God with Joy (and Self-Actualization): Positive Psychology and the Thought of Rabbi Sacks
- 39 Joy Stick: Judaism, Video Games, and the Pursuit of Happiness
- 40 Rabbi Sacks’ Psychology of Individual and Collective Well-Being
- 41 Becoming Whole: The Positive Value of Negative Emotions
- Part X Joy in Jewish Education
- 42 Positive Psychology and Jewish Wisdom in the Classroom: A Synergic Effect
- 43 The Jewish Value of Joy and Positive Education
- 44 Joy and Parenting: Partners or Paradox?
- 45 Building the Joyful Classroom
- 46Three Paths to Joy: Noble Sacrifice, Inner Peace, and Covenantal Community.