Live Long and Prosper! Traditional Geocache
GuentherGal:
This one had a good run. I'm moving on to bigger and better things. My wish for you? Live Long and Prosper! The container was removed. Cache on!
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Do you know where the Star Trek Vulcan hand salute originated from?
This cache will take you to the Vineland Hebrew Cemetery, a small graveyard found at the intersection of Route's 55 and 56 in Vineland. I have passed by here hundreds of times and never noticed it before. You can NOT access this from Route 55; it is very close to the Route 56 E ramp. Parking coords are provided.
Please park outside the main gate and take the short stroll to the cache. There are only 169 interments listed here, some of the earliest are over 100 years old. Note that the back corner of this plot must have been designated the children’s corner as the markers here indicate all of these angels were very young.
The cache is a matchstick holder in an oak tree. There is no need to move any landscaping or touch any of the memorials to find this container. You will need to bring your own writing utensil.
I was only able to find one large marker for the Davidows which has the inscription of the Priestly Blessing. See if you can spot it on your trek or perhaps find another one. As always, please be very respectful of the area.
“The Vulcan salute is a hand gesture consisting of a raised hand, palm forward with the fingers parted between the middle and ring finger, and the thumb extended. Often, the famous line, 'Live long and prosper', is said after it. The salute was devised and popularised by Leonard Nimoy, who portrayed the half-Vulcan character Mr. Spock on the original Star Trek television series in the late 1960s.
In his autobiography I Am Not Spock, Nimoy wrote that he based it on the Priestly Blessing performed by Jewish Kohanim with both hands, thumb to thumb in this same position, representing the Hebrew letter Shin, which has three upward strokes similar to the position of the thumb and fingers in the salute. The letter Shin here stands for Shaddai, meaning 'Almighty God'.
Nimoy wrote that when he was a child, his grandfather took him to an Orthodox synagogue. There he saw the blessing performed and was very impressed by it.”--From Wikipedia
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