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.
