This is the story of a 4,000 year old culture and people
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The Common Vein is about the pursuit of understanding the world within us and around us and trying to draw the common principles that underly science biology and human endeavours. This site specifically is an attempt to understand the spirtuality of the Jewish people and how the religion runs parallel with the rest of the guiding principles within us and around us.
The Basic Universal Premise
Units Combine
(Bond) with Other
Units to
Form a New Unit
In a Given Environment
Often with a Unexpected Result
Courtesy Ashley Davidoff MD
Said in Another Way
All Things are made of
Parts
which are Connected by
Bonds to
Other Parts
In a Given Context or Environment
In the Conscious or Unconscious “Pursuit” of Oneness
In Our Material and Physical Experience
From the Smallest Scale –
An Electron
Bonds with a
Proton to
Form a New Entity
The Hydrogen Atom
And in the Middle(Our Biological Experience)
The Sperm
Bonds with the
Egg to
Form a
New Life
When the sperm meets the egg there is a miraculous result as a new soul is created
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And at the Largest Scale
Galaxies
Bond with
Other Galaxies to
Form the
Universe
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The Result is not Always Positive
When it is the Best Thing that Can Happen it is
Thumbs Up
When it is the Worst Thing that Can Happen it is
Thumbs Down
And When It is neither the Best nor the Worst
It is Somewhere in Between
Either a Partly Up
Or a Partly Down
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Often it is not as simple as 1 + 1 (1 unit + 1 unit)
It may Innumerable units making up a new unit
For example
Water Molecules to the Droplet of Water
Cells to the organ
Or the Planets to the Solar System
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This art piece depicts the universal structural organization in biology. Different parts of a structure (drawn as disc shaped structures in the periphery of the art piece) are bonded to form a new and unique entity (sphere in the center) , with unique function guided by universal and common principles
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Jewish Music and Song are starting to take shape
The story starts with creation
Shana Tova to all
The first word of creation (bereshith) begins with a beth that contains a seed (dagesh) that gives rise to the universe and the world (including Adam and Eve )
Shana Tova to all
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and for some the story starts with Big Bang
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and there is a common line….
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and Life moved on
Wishing all family and friends a Happy New Year (Rosh Hashana) celebrating the birth of the world according to Jewish tradition. The first letter of the Torah (beth) is seen on the right in white, pregnant with a little seed (dagesh) waiting to be released. The shofar announces the birth of the world.
Night and day, the heavens and the earth, the sun moon and stars, and the first generations of animal and human life are about to embark on their journey of nature and nurture – and this Sunday is the beginning of the celebration of this event A Happy and Healthy New Year to All
Acknowledging the power of Le Dor Vador and the lessons learned from previous generations
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10 basic rules of human interaction were established
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and the Torah followed
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Painted in Vienna. The artist’s self portrait is standing to the right of the seated rabbi, looking outwards. The inscription on the Torah scroll says “Donated in memory of our late honored teacher and rabbi Moshe Gottlieb of blessed memory 1878”; it is an epitaph for the artist.
All figures depict people from Gottlieb’s early life in Drohobycz. The artist himself appears three times: as an adult wearing a pendant standing to the right of the Torah, as a child at lower left wearing the same pendant, and as a boy at the far right. The woman he courted, Laura Rosenfeld, appears twice: at the top left, standing and holding a closed prayer book, and second from the right on the top row, next to her mother. (Summarized from notes by the Tel Aviv Museum.)
This is the story of a 4,000 year old culture and people