Now do AM-erica.....................
That's the initial pun -- "people, nation"
The spelling in Hebrew is with an alef, therefore em [....אמ], "mother" [אם].
(This is great -- even the end of this post, "May it be a Year of Great Wonder", matched right back up to the topic of the thread, "miracles portrayed".)
As I was putting together the following information, "300" came up a few times in the articles. It fit with the letter shin (300) as the eternal flame (the light), so I thought I'd mention it. The letter also resembles a hovering dove. This appears in jewerly designs, for example:
18K GOLD DIAMOND
STAR OF DAVID DOVE PENDANT
A Star of David made of matte 18k yellow gold,
comprised of a Hebrew letter shin and a gold triangle.
A single, dazzling diamond is set in the center of the shin.
Columbia, like Jonah, means "dove", and
The Talmud compares the spirit of God hovering over the waters to a dove that hovers over her young.[14][15][16]
In post-biblical Judaism, souls are envisioned as bird-like (Bahir 119), a concept that may be derived from the Biblical notion that dead spirits "chirp" (Isa. 29:4). The Guf, or Treasury of Souls, is sometimes described as a columbarium, a dove cote. This connects it to a related legend: the "Palace of the Bird's Nest", the dwelling place of the Messiah's soul until his advent (Zohar II: 8a--9a). The Vilna Gaon explicitly declares that a dove is a symbol of the human soul (Commentary to Jonah, 1). The dove is also a symbol of the people Israel (Song of Songs Rabbah 2:14), an image frequently repeated in Midrash.
Back to the telegraph line and getting a rope (and gold star jewelry)...
John Gast's 1872 painting American Progress depicts Columbia as the Spirit of the Frontier,
carrying telegraph lines across the Western frontier to fulfill manifest destiny.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(personification)
"New Jerusalem" (location), Yom Kippur and the first lighthouse in America:
You are Jonah. The real you, for "Jonah" -- in Kabbalistic parlance -- is another name for the soul. Hence, the story of Jonah is the story of a soul's journey here on earth. Thus, on Yom Kippur, as we examine our lives and consider our purpose in this world, we remember the historical Jonah whose real-life narrative symbolizes our spiritual odyssey.
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/430304/jewish/The-Story-of-Your-Life.htm
essay: a short piece of writing on a particular subject.
Ergo, the little book of Jonah is the... "You"essay.
Friday night, September 14, 1716 (Julian), the beginning of Yom Kippur 5477...
(Here are the corresponding Gregorian and Hebrew dates.)
As early as 1675, settlers lit bonfires on a hill overlooking Boston Harbor as an aid to navigation, but it wasnt until 1715 that the Colony of Massachusetts Bay spent almost 2,400 British pounds to construct a light tower, the first in the New World. When on September 14, 1716, the beacon from Little Brewster Island pierced the night sky overlooking Boston Harbor for the first time, there were only seventy lighthouses in existence in the whole world.
https://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=473
The first lighthouse in America was on Little Brewster Island in Boston Harbor and was lit on September 14, 1716. When the British took over and controlled the harbor in 1775, General George Washington dispatched 300 men in whale boats to overtake the island and destroy the lighthouse so as not to be useful to the British. After the war, in 1783, a new lighthouse was built on the site of the old, reusing some of the original materials at the base. This new lighthouse, which stands today, was built seventy five feet high with seven foot walls at the base, tapering to less than three feet at the top.
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In 2003, Dr. Sally Snowman was hired as keeper, becoming the 70th keeper, and the first female, to serve at Boston Light.
https://www.bostonpreservation.org/advocacy-project/boston-light-little-brewster-island
... as we examine our lives and consider our purpose in this world, we remember the historical Jonah whose real-life narrative symbolizes our spiritual odyssey:
"I'm going to retire on December 31st, 2023," she said.
"I'm so privileged to be the 70th keeper of the Boston Light, with the first 69 all men.
"Can you imagine coming across the Atlantic Ocean in the 1700s, a horrible trip, and then seeing this lighthouse flashing?
"It gave hope, it's the light showing the way."
First and last female keeper of 300-year-old lighthouse prepares to farewell job she loves (Jan 1, 2023)
First and last:
The historic Boston Light overlooks the sea from Little Brewster Island, casting a light beam 27 miles into the Atlantic. This is the oldest continually used and last staffed lighthouse in the country, which dates back to the Revolutionary War.
https://www.nps.gov/boha/learn/historyculture/boston-light.htm
300 and 6 years since the first light as of
Sun, 25 September 2022 (Gregorian) after sunset = 1st of Tishrei, 5783, and
The Talmud compares the spirit of God hovering over the waters to a dove that hovers over her young.
This hovering dove is located in Genesis 1:2. The Spirit of God [רוח אלהים] = 300, and comes attached to the "and" -- the letter vav [ו] which = 6...
Genesis 1
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God [ורוח אלהים] moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
On that note, here's the name JERUSALEM because in Hebrew, the corresponding red letters are the shin and the vav, the 300 and the 6:
יְר-וּשָׁ-לַיִם
2. "And the spirit of G‑d hovered upon the waters." (Gen. 1:2) Midrash Rabba explains that this "spirit of G‑d" hovering upon the waters is actually the "soul of Mashiach"...
So, the simplest acronym for this year—תשפג—is “May it be a Year of Great Wonder” (תְּהֵא שְׁנַת פֶּלֶא גָּדוֹל). The “Great Wonder” that we are anticipating this year is the coming of Mashiach, who is related to the word “wonder,” since Isaiah calls Mashiach the “wondrous counselor” (פֶּלֶא יוֹעֵץ), which itself equals the word “physician” (רוֹפֵא).[4]
The Mashiach is the expert physician who comes to heal us from all our ailments. He achieves this with the Torah. So that is the simplest thing we should have in mind and pray to Hashem that we merit seeing it with our physical eyes this year.
"Ben He He said: According to the labor is the reward." (Pirkei Avot 5. 23)
AM-erica:
6:00 -- "Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cooooold out there today."
Here we go again.
You essay, You essay, You essay
(Gotta laugh......)