On Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, we pray that we will be written into the book of life, Sefer haChaim. We ask God to grant us another year of health and blessing. On the New Year we also recall that some of our beloved family and friends are no longer with us. The prayerbook says: “On Rosh Hashanah it is written, on Yom Kippur it is sealed: How many shall pass on, how many shall come to be.”In Judaism, The Book of Life is an idea, a metaphor. I never imagined that an actual book...