After serving as an U.S. Air Force Chaplain in Japan for two years, Rabbi Shrager served as Rabbi at Indiana University, where the Rabbi is a Ph.D. candidate in Folklore. Of course it's the name that is inscribed. But our names and our persons are the same. According to the Talmud, at Rosh Hashanah God pays particular attention to our names, recording them in one of the books which are opened in heaven for the occasion. The Biblical view is that to know an individual's name is to be familiar with the very essence of that person's being and personality.
Anonymity is equal to non-existence.
No matter who we are, our names have the potential to evoke good feelings in others, to be respected, and to become the equivalent of the types of lives we will lead through daily acts.