The Book of (Your) Life
“Inscribe us in the Book of Life,”
Kotvenu b’sefer he-ḥayyim,
Jews pray between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. This comes from a midrash in the Talmud (Rosh Hashana 32b) about our fates in the year to come, but it also brings to mind an equally important question of this time: What is the Book of Our Life?
What is the story of our lives?
What is the story that is, and what is the story that we want to be?