An Ode to Joy Judaism and Happiness in the Thought of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks and Beyond /

Dades bibliogràfiques
Autor corporatiu: SpringerLink (Online service)
Altres autors: Brown, Erica (Editor), Weiss, Shira (Editor)
Sumari:XXXI, 386 p. 1 illus.
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Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
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.