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Everplans, for example, has a worksheet to help people create an ethical will, a document that communicates their values, life lessons and most important experiences.

In the Jewish tradition, an ethical will is a statement of values, laden with wisdom and propelled by aspiration.

One can only wish that Sacks’s brilliant, urgent “ethical will” can transcend his grandchildren and inspire all who fervently hope to emerge from this difficult time with an enhanced sense of human solidarity, responsibility, morality and love.

Jonathan Sacks’s latest, and last, book, “Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times,” is an ethical will of sorts, in the form of a comprehensive, erudite survey of moral philosophy and a plea for a renewed commitment to a communal moral code.

I still haven’t written an “ethical will” — I’m saving that for when I have grandchildren someday — but my file includes a letter to my girls only to be opened when I’m gone.