tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253262287269996752.comments2023-05-19T05:40:05.903-07:00Jewish Themes in Star TrekYonassan Gershomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07918610823274529036noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253262287269996752.post-82878116056507876952021-12-26T21:54:50.513-08:002021-12-26T21:54:50.513-08:00Hi Yonassan,
I wanted to send you an email and was...Hi Yonassan,<br />I wanted to send you an email and was wondering if you could send me your email.<br />With Appreciation,<br />Terry Gips Terry@afors.orgTerry Gipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10203702074269376373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253262287269996752.post-10196927545318112612021-09-12T06:54:38.430-07:002021-09-12T06:54:38.430-07:00It is interesting to be watching a Star Trek episo...It is interesting to be watching a Star Trek episode and being reminded of a story out of the Torah. Suemariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06735606308677920635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253262287269996752.post-25290584487209613062019-10-19T11:02:24.827-07:002019-10-19T11:02:24.827-07:00Dear Rabbi Yonassan Gershom,
I found your blog wh...Dear Rabbi Yonassan Gershom,<br /><br />I found your blog while researching Jewish themes in Star Trek. I became interested in the subject when I realized that I'm affected by the Vulcan phenomenon known as Pon Farr. What I mean by that, is that I counted the years on my paternal line, and realized that for the past 3 generations all of my paternal ancestors were born and passed away in multiples of 7 years. Doing further research on the topic, I found Rabbi Jonathan Cahn's book Mystery of the Shemitah which discusses the Jewish 7 year cycle in more detail.<br /><br />Some interesting notes from the book:<br /><br />*Yeshua (Jesus) was born on a Sabbath year<br />*Kind David died in a Sabbath year<br />*Joseph's 7 years of plenty & 7 years of famine fell during the Sabbath cycles<br />*Yahweh's covenant with Abram fell on a Sabbath year<br />*Enoch's birth and the year he was taken to "heaven" both fell on a Sabbath year<br /><br />I wanted to know what you thought about my analysis, and what significance this pattern may have for me. <br /><br />Regards,<br />Yanis<br />VulcanBroodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07441535719342776162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253262287269996752.post-53798230134926274292019-09-20T01:52:15.484-07:002019-09-20T01:52:15.484-07:00In intuit QuickBooks premier edition you can add u...In intuit QuickBooks premier edition you can add up to 5 users dial our <a href="https://quickbookssupportphonenumber.us" rel="nofollow">QuickBooks premier support phone number</a><br />to resolve any kind of error occurring in any of the users.<br />Charlesdayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14773516967845965767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253262287269996752.post-11011934162221858662018-10-24T09:40:33.779-07:002018-10-24T09:40:33.779-07:00Yonassan, can't find any direct and private em...Yonassan, can't find any direct and private email for you, so here's a short version of my hoped-for thanks to you:<br />Meine Kenntnisse in der deutschen Sprache, als totaler Amerikaner scheinen -- mir selbst sogar -- überraschend gut, even though I've never resided in Europe or in any non-Anglophone environment. Your reincarnation perspective has been of great help to me, a deeply Jewish-inclined blue-eyed blond, fiercely studying languages (as in Qohelet 12:12) amid Americans & monoglossia on every side. Now in the DC area (address is **** at ****), I have so many benefactors in my wake, so it's the least I can do to thank a few of them here & there as I am able. Gam lekha, shalom uverakha, vegam le-isha shelkha and to all your loved ones! Loquamurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10866569712438454461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253262287269996752.post-91512882339182358362018-01-16T09:54:25.178-08:002018-01-16T09:54:25.178-08:00Hello. My mind just linked the Vulcan philosophy o...Hello. My mind just linked the Vulcan philosophy of IDIC with the counting of the Omer; the 7 attributes times the 7 atrributes times the 7 attributes times ... weaving into infinity....Marvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09259909564781171693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253262287269996752.post-23728613645539415362016-10-20T20:46:32.995-07:002016-10-20T20:46:32.995-07:00Dịch vụ vận chuyển gửi hàng ở thái lan
Côn...<a href="http://raovat113.com/threads/di%CC%A3ch-vu%CC%A3-va%CC%A3n-chuye%CC%89n-gu%CC%89i-ha%CC%80ng-o%CC%89-tha%CC%81i-lan-ve%CC%80-vie%CC%A3t-nam-gia%CC%81-re%CC%89.142364/" rel="nofollow">Dịch vụ vận chuyển gửi hàng ở thái lan</a><br /><a href="http://kenhsinhvien.vn/topic/cong-ty-van-chuyen-gui-hang-o-thai-lan-ve-viet-nam-chi-phi-thap.535989/" rel="nofollow">Công ty vận chuyển gửi hàng ở thái lan về việt nam chi phí thấp</a><br /><a href="http://phanthiet24h.com/15440/di%CC%A3ch-vu%CC%A3-va%CC%A3n-chuye%CC%89n-gu%CC%89i-hang-o%CC%89-thai-lan-ve-vie%CC%A3t-nam-gia-re%CC%89.html" rel="nofollow">VẬN CHUYỂN GỬI HÀNG Ở THÁI LAN </a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06897978299222258552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253262287269996752.post-8395058062847640822016-09-09T10:09:50.784-07:002016-09-09T10:09:50.784-07:00kol tuv uv'racha...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...kol tuv uv'racha...<br />~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br />STEPHAN PICKERING / חפץ ח"ם בן אברהם<br />Torah אלילה Yehu'di Apikores / Philologia Kabbalistica Speculativa Researcher<br /> לחיות זמן רב ולשגשג<br /><br />THE KABBALAH FRACTALS PROJECT<br /> chofetzchayimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04599957617930620791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253262287269996752.post-81979552110938469222016-09-08T09:57:48.702-07:002016-09-08T09:57:48.702-07:00I suppose they would have to synchronize chronomet...I suppose they would have to synchronize chronometers periodically with a standard one on Earth.Perhaps when the ship drops out of warp? The stardates do seem to be standardized somehow. I was never clear how, though.Yonassan Gershomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07918610823274529036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253262287269996752.post-87153776720776493322016-09-08T08:30:33.875-07:002016-09-08T08:30:33.875-07:00SinceI am both vegetarian & kosher I find it e...SinceI am both vegetarian & kosher I find it easier I think. There's usually a vegan something I can eat at most events. But yes, it can be tricky.Yonassan Gershomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07918610823274529036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253262287269996752.post-11830805486132574372016-07-24T10:13:54.307-07:002016-07-24T10:13:54.307-07:00A SONG OF THE VULCAN DIASPORA:
[translation and f...A SONG OF THE VULCAN DIASPORA: <br />[translation and footnotes by Kate Gladstone — <br />traditionally chanted to a tune somewhat reminiscent of "Sledgehammer" as sung by the twenty-first century Terran bard Rihanna] <br /><br /><br />In the ashes between stars we meditated <br />On impermanence <br />As we remembered Vulcan. [1] <br /><br />There on the bulkheads we hung our lyres <br />As if our destroying kinsman had called to us for songs <br />As if he had demanded melodies of home, <br />As if he had said, <br />“Sing to me now <br />Of the power in Vulcan's logic!” <br /><br />How can we chant the Stanzas of Surak under alien skies? [2] <br /><br />If I forget thee, Vulcan, may my brain forget reason. <br />May my tongue cease to speak logic if I do not remember thee, <br />if I do not consider Vulcan's legacy my highest purpose. <br /><br />Remember, each sentient being, what Nero did on the day Vulcan was destroyed. <br />“Tear it down,” he cried, “tear it down to the subatomic!” <br /><br />Romulans, our kinfolk bound to emotion — <br />May long life and prosperity come <br />To the one who confronts you with your illogic, <br />As your captain has confronted us with its consequences. <br /><br />May sentients live long and prosper <br />As they bring your descendants <br />To the contemplation of mortality in an unforgiving cosmos. [3] <br /><br /><br />[1] This and subsequent verses are structurally, and otherwise, uncannily similar to an ancient (approximately 3000 years before spaceflight)Terran lament. To date, Federation anthropologists have offered no completely satisfactory explanation for the seeming coincidence, which appears too thoroughgoing to be completely attributed to Preserver action. <br /><br />[2] In Modern Standard Vulcan (ever since its initial codification by grammarians of the orthodox Surakian school), questions beginning with any word equivalent to "How?" are never rhetorical, but are always literal. <br /> In other words, the implication here is the direct opposite of what it would have been in many Terran languages ("We cannot possibly chant," etc.) Here, the anonymous composer is not implying that Vulcan's heritage cannot be preserved or transmitted after the destruction of the homeworld: on the contrary, he or she is calling on fellow survivors of Vulcan's demise to find ways to preserve and transmit this heritage. <br /><br />[3] The idioms used in the last line are generally translated as "contemplating mortality" and "in an unforgiving cosmos" when encountered in post-Surak Vulcan speech or writing; for instance, these are the only translations provided in the SAREK-GRAYSON STUDENT DICTIONARY OF MODERN STANDARD VULCAN. <br /> However, these two phrases in question include archaic words which originally had quite different, much more concrete meanings: all of which are still found in poetic and ritual texts whose study remains central to the Vulcan primary school curriculum. <br /> Specifically, the compound word which now means "contemplating" once had a much more concrete meaning: namely, "having one's head penetrated or cracked open" — similarly, the prepositional phrase which now means "in an unforgiving cosmos" once meant "through forcible contact with stone." In other words, any Vulcan schoolchild (and certainly a Vulcan poet or singer) would be well aware that a wish to see future generations of Romulans being brought to "contemplate mortality in an unforgiving cosmos" — an entirely justifiable wish, fully compatible with the anti-aggressive strain of Surakite thought — could also be quietly understood as an unadmitted hope that the Vulcans' obstreperous cousins might someday, somehow, get their heads smashed in by rocks. KateGladstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07062492442607584456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253262287269996752.post-21779040313100827432016-07-24T10:00:10.726-07:002016-07-24T10:00:10.726-07:00I used to keep kosher.
In situation after situati...I used to keep kosher.<br /><br />In situation after situation of this type (being where I was expected to eat something un-kosher), Spock'/ approach was among the many (MANY!) that I earnestly tried.<br /><br />Unlike Spock, I did NOT get good or worthwhile results.KateGladstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07062492442607584456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253262287269996752.post-31935514187554883502016-07-24T07:25:40.069-07:002016-07-24T07:25:40.069-07:00Re:
"... Imagine being the only survivor from...Re:<br />"... Imagine being the only survivor from an entire extended family. No parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins - just you, all alone in the universe. ... It took three generations for the newly established families of Holocaust survivors to have grandparents ... "<br /> I've heard that, during and after World War Two, when young Jewish refugees arrived in America, England, or other countries where they could return to school, in many schools they were made ashamed by teachers who gave assignments that involved things like "Interview three generations of your family about their childhoods" — or "Ask one of your grandparents to tell you about his/her own family history: what were his/her own grandparents like?" — or embarrassed further by class-wide/schoolwide projects/parties/events where students were strongly encouraged (maybe required) to bring a grandparent/uncle/aunt/cousin (similarly, often there were letter-writing activities — in class, or as homework — where students were required to write and mail a letter inviting a grandparent/uncle/aunt/cousin in another town to an event at the school or in the community. Extra points were given if the relative answered and the student read the letter in class aloud, and it was very common for everyone in class — except the young refugee, the Holocaust survivor — to be able to merit those extra points.)<br /><br />KateGladstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07062492442607584456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253262287269996752.post-40451508574466466142016-07-24T06:53:25.889-07:002016-07-24T06:53:25.889-07:00Re:
"use Jerusalem time! Just sychronize a c...Re:<br />"use Jerusalem time! Just sychronize a chronometer with Israel back on Earth." —<br /><br />But why wouldn't this chronometer be affected (like anything else on a warp-speed ship) by Einsteinian relativistic effects that — literally and physically — cause time to pass much faster on/in an object that is traveling at extremely high speeds? Please Google this character-string: "Einstein"+"twin paradox"+"speed of light"KateGladstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07062492442607584456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253262287269996752.post-22431779392500497352015-02-27T23:19:27.179-08:002015-02-27T23:19:27.179-08:00Live Long and Prosper also has a similar greeting ...Live Long and Prosper also has a similar greeting / blessing in Pharaonic Egyptian times. I forget the exact words, but it translated to " Life ! Health ! Prosperity ! " in the ancient Egyptian language.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03892334449267029806noreply@blogger.com