9/20/2023 0 Comments Children of a dead earthtime warpFinally, he was born in the seventh generation More.” Secondly, the span of his years was significantly shorter than hisĪntediluvian peers (not to speak of his famously long-lived son) and identical States that Enoch died, merely that after having walked with God, “he was no (Genesis 5: 21–24)Ĭolorless vitae, ancient Jews were fascinated by Enoch, and they latched onto aįew tantalizing clues in the biblical text. Enoch walked with God then he was no more, for God took him. After the birth of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and he begot sons and daughters. When Enoch had lived 65 years, he begot Methuselah. Unremarkable figure in the Bible, briefly mentioned in a list of antediluvian Arguably, the first space journal written in a Semitic language was not Ilan Ramon’s diary but an Aramaic travelogue attributed to the biblical character Enoch. Yet if we consider flights of fancy, countless people since antiquity have been dreaming and writing about reaching the heavens. Since then, hundreds of people from dozens of countries have traveled beyond the Earth’s atmosphere-though only one whose native tongue was Hebrew. The first recorded human mission to space took place 42 years before Ramon’s when a young Russian cosmonaut named Yuri Gagarin exclaimed “ poyekhali”-“let’s go!”-just before his capsule was launched into the heavens. Seemingly sui generis artifact alongside another equally marvelous JewishĬosmonautical diary-the ancient book of Enoch. Painstaking reconstruction of Ramon’s crew notebook and by considering this Soaring above the anguish by also focusing on the incredible survival and Lectured widely on a subject she knew well-coping with grief-before tragicallyĭying of cancer at the age of 54. Ilan’s wife, Rona, established a foundation that supports education, and she The eldest child, Asaf, was killed in aįlying accident not long after graduating from Israeli Air Force training. The Columbia disaster, calamity and courageousness continued toĬharacterize the Ramon family’s life. He could celebrate the onset of Shabbat-Houston time. Other pages, also not displayed, record traditional Jewish prayers andīlessings, like the Friday night Kiddush, which Ramon had written out so that Mission and drew out the stories of the special objects he brought on board. Space, during which Ramon highlighted the historical significance of his Some of the pages of the diary, which were notĭisplayed in the exhibit, consist of notes from a press conference given from Ilan Ramon’s diary entry for his sixth day in space. Yosef, a geophysicist at Tel Aviv University who, as a bar mitzvah boy in theīergen-Belsen concentration camp, had read from the smuggled scroll and kept it Was lost on what would have been Ginz’s 75 th birthday.) Also packedĪboard the spaceship was a miniature Torah that was loaned by Professor Joachim (Ginz was later murdered by the Nazis, and, in one of theĮerie concurrences highlighted by the Israel Museum’s curators, the Columbia Lunar view of Earth sketched in the Theresienstadt Ghetto by a 14-year-old boy With him a number of objects linked to the Holocaust, including a haunting As a child of an Auschwitz survivor, Ramon took On the Columbia mission’s officialįlight insignia, only Ramon’s name is decorated with a national flag: the His last name when he became an Israeli Air Force pilot. Israeli desert town of Beersheva and, like an old-school Zionist, Hebraicized Born Ilan Wolferman in 1954, Ramon grew up in the Themes explored in the small Israel Museum exhibit (it occupies a single,Īppropriately outer-space-black room) is the drama and pathos thatĬharacterized Ilan Ramon’s very 20 th-century Jewish life and its Pieces of debris, including the damaged pages of Ramon’s diary, over Texas and Tragically, just 17 days afterĭisintegrated upon reentry to the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all sevenĬrew members, incinerating the spaceship, and scattering approximately 85,000 Specialist on the space shuttle Columbia. Some two decades later, he flew to outer space as a mission That took place in January 1982 could have been fatal, wrenching Ramon’s soulįrom his body and catapulting it into the great void, but he managed to ejectĪnd survive. Successful Israeli strike on the Osirak nuclear site in Iraq). Israeli Air Force (he had been the youngest pilot to participate in the Took place during his precosmonautical career, when he was a star in the Ramon is referring to a near-fatal crash that Recorded in a NASA-issued notebook by Israel’s first astronaut, logs the The Year 2525,” but an actual dateline from the extraordinary object at theĬenter of the Israel Museum exhibit Through Time and Space: The Diary ofĪstronaut Ilan Ramon and a Scroll from the Dead Sea. Beginning of a forgotten stanza from Zager and Evans’s old one-hit wonder “In
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