GEN752 Some people believe that a person’s goal is to stay alive as long as possible and, if possible, to reach immortality.  While this has been an elusive goal for man from time immemorial, no one has been able to escape inevitable death in a physical sense.  Some have believed that if they can leave their names on a building, that is, have it called by their names, they will achieve immortality.  This was the goal, according to some commentators, of the generation who built a tower in order to challenge God.  They believed if they could erect this building, they “would make a name for themselves,” achieving immortality.  God not only foiled their plot by destroying the tower and dispersing the people, but He made sure that the immortality they sought and their memories would never be achieved.  Not one name of any of these individuals is recorded in the Torah.  But Judaism does tell us how indeed to achieve immortality in the spiritual sense.  AMEMEI 234