Book of Life

This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Find sources: "Book of Life" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

In Judaism and Christianity, the Book of Life (Hebrew: ספר החיים, transliterated Sefer HaChaim; Greek: βιβλίον τῆς ζωῆς Biblíon tēs Zōēs; Arabic: سفر الحياة, romanized: Kitab al-ḥayā) is the book in which God records, or will record, the names of every person who is destined for Heaven and the world to come.^[1][2] According to the Talmud, it is opened on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, as is its analog for the wicked, the Book of the Dead. For this reason, extra mention is made for the Book of Life during amidah recitations during the High Holy Days, the ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the day of atonement (the two High Holidays, part To understand the foreboding allegory of the day of Judgement and the Book of Life, one must invest in finding a verse or indication of holiness before the eyes of God in which he finds himself at home and in line with his whole being, by doing so his name, or his "actions" are recorded in the holy scriptures, ensuring his place before God as holy. Jeremiah 13:1 Thus says the Lord to me, "Go and buy a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, and do not dip it in water."So I bought a loincloth according to the word of the Lord, and put it around my waist.