<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; "><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">On a Rosh Hashanah which fell on Shabbat, R' Levi Yitzchak rose and said, "Lord of the</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; "><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Universe, today <span class="GramE">You</span> judge each person for the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px; "><span class="GramE"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">coming</span></font></span><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> year, and grant him life or condemn him to</span></font></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; "><span class="GramE"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">death</span></font></span><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">. But, on this Rosh Hashanah You are forced by Your own Torah to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">write</span> that <span class="GramE">You</span> grant Your entire</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; "><span class="GramE"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">people</span></font></span><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> a good life in the coming year. After all, on Shabbat You <span class="GramE">have</span> decreed that one <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">cannot write</span>. How</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; page-break-after: avoid; "><span class="GramE"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">then</span></font></span><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">, can You fulfill 'On Rosh Hashanah it is written <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px; "><span class="GramE"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">down</span></font></span><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">'? </span></font></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; page-break-after: avoid; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; page-break-after: avoid; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">There is no way <span class="GramE">You</span> can inscribe anyone in the Book of Death, because writing is forbidden on</span></font></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; "><span class="GramE"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Shabbat.</span></font></span><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> On the other hand, <span class="GramE">You</span> may certainly inscribe <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px; "><span class="GramE"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">us</span></font></span><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> in the Book of Life, for when there is <span class="SpellE">piku'ah</span> <span class="SpellE">nefesh</span>,</span></font></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; "><span class="GramE"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">the</span></font></span><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> prohibition against writing on Shabbat falls aside."<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; "><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">(A Touch of Wisdom, <span class="GramE">A</span> Touch of Wit)<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; "><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">RABBI SHMUEL CHOUEKA</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">May you all be inscribed B'Sefer Hachayim combined with continued learning and the ability to disagree without</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">being disagreeable and extending compassion to all the arba minim.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">ri</span></font></div></body></html>