THREAD -> I have a little dream; it goes like this. You are wandering through an enormous library. It has millions of books and you're wandering through and you're looking at all the titles of the books, and then suddenly you stopped dead. 
There's a book and on the title, it’s got your name. You take it out, open it up, and you see that there are several hundred pages of that book written by many different hands in different languages.
You try and work out what this book with your name on it is, and with a shock you realise that this book has been written by your ancestors.
Every single one of them has written a chapter in this book telling their story and handing it on to their children. And as you get to the end of the book, with a shock you see an empty page with your name on it, and you realise that is the chapter that you have to write.
Now you're in the middle of this library. Can you just put that book on the shelf, walk away and forget it?
I don't think you can really, because if you did, all those hundreds of generations of your ancestors would have kept that book going in vain because it would have stopped with you. I know I couldn't do that.
If they put their faith in their children to keep the book going, then they have all put their faith in me, and I have to write my chapter in that book and when the time comes, give that book onto my children and grandchildren.
To be a Jew is to be part of the most remarkable story ever lived by any people, covering more countries, more adverse circumstances, more triumphs and tragedies than any other story.
And then the sudden realisation that every one of us has a chapter to write in that story and hand the book on. That is what it is to be a Jew, particularly during Elul and the Yamim Noraim - Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
And the second I realised that, I knew I couldn't walk away. I had to write my chapter and then give the book to my children and grandchildren for them to continue the story.
