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The Name in the Nucleus

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Ancient Jewish mystics and modern geneticists share a surprising common ground - both see divine meaning encoded in living texts. Through personal narrative beginning with childhood dreams of creating human life, striking parallels emerge between Talmudic accounts of golem-creation through God's name and our contemporary understanding of DNA as an information-bearing code. By analyzing kabbalistic interpretations of Torah alongside genomic structure, profound similarities surface between Judaism's four-layered PaRDeS system of textual interpretation and the dense, multi-level encoding of genetic information. Both sacred texts and genomes preserve evolutionary histories - the Torah through its Ugaritic literary inheritance and DNA through fossil sequences of earlier life forms. Just as medieval kabbalists viewed Torah as woven from divine names, the genome reveals itself as a manifestation of sacred expression, with all biological codes collectively forming a kind of divine text. This comparative framework offers fresh insights into genomic complexity through traditional Jewish hermeneutics, while emphasizing appropriate humility before both scriptural and biological mysteries. The analysis illuminates how these seemingly disparate systems share core features as information-bearing, generationally transmitted, living texts.

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    Published 2002

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    Aryeh Stollman