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The Wisdom of Spock, from the Future! Friendship with God uniting Hinduism, Judaism, and Islam! Putting “Om” back in Shalom, and “Allah” in Salaam!
As I have recently published in ThePrint, in an article entitled: “India and Israel are forever connected – We are ancestrally the same!” I stated it’s time to put the Om back in Shalom!
Both “Om” and “Shalom” refer to the divine: “Om,” according to Hinduism is one of God’s names. “Shalom,” too, in Hebrew the Midrash says, is among one of God’s names!
Where I also stated, “What if we look at Om and turn it sideways?”
Om and Allah are identical!
But then a friend started asking me questions on the actual Jewish origins of Shalom, which got me researching and thinking! And what is the origin of Salaam?
Allah in Salaam!
According to a website: the word salaam comes from salm, which means peace. The word silm – only slightly different – refers to the religion of Islam – because it is a religion of peace.
The word salima has three meanings:
- to be safe and sound, unharmed, and secure
- one being blameless or faultless
- to be certain, established, and clearly proven
The name of Allah, As-Salaam, has also been used in the Quran.
Putting the “Om” back in Shalom!
According to Wikipedia and experience with many Jewish friends, Shalom now means “Hello!”
But originally it meant in Arabic Salaam… with Allah inside the word between the “S” and “m”… and meant to refer to either peace between two entities (especially between a person and God or between two countries), or to the well-being, welfare or safety of an individual or a group of individuals. Either way it meant peace with God… and the God is either Om or Allah… where I’ve connected it all…
Shalom in Hebrew is spelled as:
And I started looking at the last character in blue above! Specifically, the characterfrom the above. A handy Google Lens search on this symbol yields a Wikipedia page describing the meaning of the Shin/Sin symbol which means God.
“Shin also stands for the word Shaddai, a name for God. Because of this, a kohen (priest) forms the letter Shin with his hands as he recites the Priestly Blessing. In the mid-1960s, actor Leonard Nimoy used a single-handed version of this gesture to create the Vulcan hand salute for his character, Mr. Spock, on Star Trek.”
Where they state it was Leonard Nimoy’s hand-gesture in his greetings as the character Spock in the original Star Trek!
So I researched the origin’s of the Spock hand-gesture and found an article in the Washington Post, entitled: The Jewish roots of Leonard Nimoy and ‘live long and prosper!’
Where this article stated in an original interview with Nimoy that he recalled the hand-gesture from his Jewish upbringing in Boston, with his parents being of Jewish Ukrainian heritage.
“Leonard Nimoy first saw what became the famous Vulcan salute, “live long and prosper,” as a child, long before “Star Trek” even existed. The placement of the hands comes from a childhood memory, of an Orthodox Jewish synagogue service in Boston. The man who would play Spock saw the gesture as part of a blessing, and it never left him. “Something really got hold of me,” Nimoy said in a 2013 interview with the National Yiddish Book Center.” Source: Washington Post: The Jewish roots of Leonard Nimoy and ‘live long and prosper!’
Conclusion
Can Spock’s greeting unite us all? What if Om is Allah and Allah is Om? What if Shalom is Salaam and Salaam is Shalom? Would this not change the world order?
To explore strange new worlds, To seek out new life and new civilizations, To boldly go where no man has gone before. – Star Trek
(Akshay Sharma is a Computer Engineer, tech analyst, ex-Gartner, having authored 280+ research notes, on emerging technologies like Cybersecurity, 5G, and IoT. He is a Cybersecurity advisor, and was CTO of a Kolkata-based software firm with clients like the World Bank, India’s DRDO and US Defense sector clients. He has recently been appointed as Chief Technology Evangelist for an AI/ML startup called Accure.AI.)
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