![]() ![]() ![]() We have now begun the holiday on which we are asked to be joyous. If that is the case, then we must examine what being happy is all about. In fact, she writes: “The more overtly we have studied and pursued it, the less happy we have become and the more confusing it gets.” She quotes a study by economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers of Wharton who state that despite two decades of economic growth in America, men and women are no happier then they had been. She claims that Americans outwardly say they are happy, even when they are really not. According to Psychology Today, last year 4,000 books were published on happiness, up from 50 in 2000.” “Is this endless pursuit of happiness just making us all miserable? We’ve said our affirmations, drunk coffee out of cheesy mugs with nonsensical, motivational quotes, and bought millions of tomes on getting rich quick while thinking positive thoughts. In the recent edition of Newsweek, one of the regular columnists, Julia Baird, writes about happiness: Rabbi Vernon Kurtz’s Sample Sermon The First Day of Sukkot – October 3, 2009 ![]()
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