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Jesus and Mr Spock
I don't know if the creator of Star Trek thought about this when creating the character of Spock, but there are similarities in that each is partially human, and sometimes, but not often, exposes their human side. I always think of this when I hear the verse "My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me?"
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/21/leonard-nimoy-describes-h_n_864911.html
Leonard Nimoy Describes His Jewish Roots
Leonard Nimoy Describes His Jewish Roots
ROCKVILLE, Md. (RNS) The V-shaped hand sign that made actor Leonard Nimoy famous as Mr. Spock may have seemed to be from a planet far away. But the "Star Trek" star says he created it from childhood memories of his Jewish family.
"I reached back to my early years as a child when I was sitting in a synagogue in Boston with my family at the High Holidays," he said Wednesday (May 18) at B'nai Israel Congregation here.
Before the sold-out audience in suburban Washington, the 80-year-old actor re-enacted the blessing Jewish leaders recited at that Orthodox service. Prayer shawl over his head, he stuck out his hands in the shape of the sign he adapted for the TV show that ran for just three seasons in the 1960s but became an instant pop culture phenomenon....
When he saw the gesture as a child, he had made a point of learning how to do it himself....Nimoy said he later learned that it was the shape of the letter shin in the Hebrew alphabet, the first letter of "shalom," or peace.
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"I reached back to my early years as a child when I was sitting in a synagogue in Boston with my family at the High Holidays," he said Wednesday (May 18) at B'nai Israel Congregation here.
Before the sold-out audience in suburban Washington, the 80-year-old actor re-enacted the blessing Jewish leaders recited at that Orthodox service. Prayer shawl over his head, he stuck out his hands in the shape of the sign he adapted for the TV show that ran for just three seasons in the 1960s but became an instant pop culture phenomenon....
When he saw the gesture as a child, he had made a point of learning how to do it himself....Nimoy said he later learned that it was the shape of the letter shin in the Hebrew alphabet, the first letter of "shalom," or peace.
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