Remember us for life

http://jewishworldreview.com ^ | Jonathan Rosenblum

[manny613]

Beginning on Rosh Hashanah and continuing through Yom Kippur, we add at the start of every Shemoneh Esrai prayer, "Remember us for life, O King, Who desires life?" What precisely is this life for which we pray? Do we have anything more in mind than that we not die in the year to come?

[manny613]

Eternal life can be experienced in this world

[RoadTest]

Here's what Christians believe about life: "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life." John 5:39

[purpleland]

"Every day in our prayers we say, "He has planted eternal life within us." Eternal life can be experienced in this world...To experience eternal life means to rejoice in the very fact of our existence, unconnected to anything outside of ourselves. That rejoicing derives from the recognition that we exist only because G-d brought us into being and sustains us at every moment."

Reverence for life,

Amen...

[purpleland]

"Every day in our prayers we say, "He has planted eternal life within us." Eternal life can be experienced in this world...To experience eternal life means to rejoice in the very fact of our existence, unconnected to anything outside of ourselves. That rejoicing derives from the recognition that we exist only because G-d brought us into being and sustains us at every moment."

Reverence for life,

Amen...

[goldstategop]

There is a Book Of Life maintained in Heaven. On Rosh Hashana, God created the world. And that's why its a solemn occasion of reflection and renewal. As imperfect as we are as human beings and even when we fall short, we beseech God in His mercy to inscribe us in the Book Of Life for yet another year so we may serve Him better through good deeds in this world.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)