They share an eye, the letter ayin:
| ב | ק | ע | י |
| ש | |||
| ו |
= 488 =
פתח
The Moon represents the Kingdom of David and
Two men on the Moon share a left eye, which is the Sea of tranquility ("the first location on another celestial body to be visited by humans") -- the large, astonished man with a "C" for a nose, and the small man with the cute smile and button nose (the Sea of vapours).
(The small man's right eye is the Sea of serenity, which also functions as the large man's "third eye".)
Divine Plan,
The Hebrew Letters Ayin: Divine Providence ("left eye" 9x)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chokhmah#cite_note-12:
The Zohar,1 the fundamental text of the Kabbalah, contains a stirring prophecy: "In the six hundredth year of the sixth millennium, the gates of sublime wisdom will open and the wellsprings of lower wisdom will [burst forth, to] prepare the world to enter the seventh millennium."
The six hundredth year of the sixth millennium began in 1839. The term "sublime wisdom" refers to the teachings of the Torah, and more particularly, to the mystic knowledge of the Kabbalah. "Lower wisdom" refers to secular knowledge, and "the seventh millennium" to the Era of Redemption, which like the Sabbath which follows the six ordinary days of the week, will be characterized by rest, comfort, and spiritual activity.
This Month in Physics History
January 2, 1839: First Daguerreotype of the Moon
Appropriately, it was an astronomer who coined the term photography in 1839, when Johann Heinrich von Madler combined "photo" (from the Greek word for "light") and "graphy" ("to write"). Astronomers quickly embraced the use of photographic plates because of their good resolution and the ability to make much larger images.
Daguerre himself is believed to be the first person to take a photograph of the moon, using his daguerreotype process, on January 2, 1839. Unfortunately, in March of that same year, his entire laboratory burnt to the ground, destroying all his written records and much of his early experimental work -- and that historical image of the moon. A year later, John William Draper, an American doctor and chemist, took his own daguerreotype of the moon.
https://www.aps.org/archives/publications/apsnews/201301/physicshistory.cfm
(Wed, 2 January 1839 = 16-17 of Tevet, 5599)
"This is the first time that anything like a distinct representation of the moon's surface has been obtained."
-- Contemporary description of Draper's 1840 daguerreotype
Thu, 26 March 1840 21-22 of Adar II, 5600
"The hope of 2000 years"...
On the one hand, it's the general round number since the destruction of the Temple to the ground and beginning of the long galut of Edom. OTOH, what if like the Tzimtzum light, it's subtracted?
(Although Daguerre's early work survived when his studio caught fire on 8 March 1839, while the painter Samuel Morse was visiting from the US,[56] fewer than 25 of them are known to be around today.[57]. LINK)
A year blessing for the present year [5]784 (תשפ"ד):
"May this be a year of opening a door" = 2488:
תהא שנת פתיחת דלת
In the same general place of the Zohar reference to the opening of the gates of wisdom (Vayera, 117a-118b, pgs. 364-367 Soncino Zohar Vol I) is
"when the days of the Messiah will ne near at hand, even children will discover the secrets of wisdom and thereby be able to calculate the millenium."
(The Torah begins with a big bet: 'ב is 2000, as in years)
"שומשום היפתח"
Sesame seeds grow in a seed pod that splits open when it reaches maturity,[4] and the phrase possibly alludes to unlocking of treasures.[5] Babylonian magic practices used sesame oil.[6] But it is not certain that the word "sesame" actually refers to the sesame plant or seed.[7] Sesame may be a reduplication of the Hebrew šem 'name', i.e., God, or a kabbalistic word representing the Talmudic šem-šāmayīm ("shem-shamayim"), 'name of heaven'.[8]