Summary: <p>It is the Shabbat of Hanukkah, typically a time when we give and receive gifts. But this Hanukkah takes place in the tenth month of our pandemic. What is the right kind of gift to give in a pandemic?</p> <p>In his book <em>Morality</em>, the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks contrasts the happiness that comes from the market with the happiness that comes from a moral dimension. When we try to find our happiness in the market, he puts it this way: we spend money we don’t have, on products we don’t need, for a happiness that won’t last. By contrast, the biblical and rabbinic traditions emphasize <em>a moral dimension</em>. Happiness is not what you buy or what you own. <strong>Happiness is what you do, living a moral life, being a force for good in the world.</strong></p>
