How Our Family Got Here Through All The Challenges

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                 

I've always wanted to tackle this, and time's a-wasting.  Before mankind kills itself off, I want to look at our human genealogy. (Oops, the announcement that Israel hit Iran's nuclear facility and Trump is pulling an Obama.-(6:35pm Thursday ) ; It's official, The War between Iran and Israel.  Israel has been been hitting Iran with wave after wave this evening.  The latest is that  Iran's top military leaders have been killed.)  Retaliation will be coming soon. 

Our genealogy   is awesome!  Our version of the world's beginnings is from my religion of Judaism, and I think it's awesome, too.  It's a wonderful explanation for man then and even now, so that all minds can understand it.  This explanation is for my children, grandchildren and great-grandson and all else of this new generation of technical and awesome mechanical tools and computers. 

Mankind has been around eve since about 10,000 years ago along with the Mammoths who gave us meat.  We weren't the top- grade production of mankind yet.  The models were getting there, though.  

It happened more like 6,000 years ago that man with our type of thinking came into being.  Exactly 5,785 years ago, appeared Adam, a full-fledged man.  Now, like a robot, how could he produce his own kind?  The plan was to take his DNA from his rib-bone to produce his co-worker and mass production, and that human was called Eve.  Pretty clever.  It was Adam who carried the DNA of both sexes, meaning the Y haplotype and the Mt haplotype  to continue onwards from one model to the next in line model.  Eve only had to carry on her own line of Mt haplotype  to be repeated with each generation.  Everything else the duo needed to survive existed before they came into existence.  They were given a wonderful existence in a garden of plenty, but they needed a challenge to develop their brains which were pretty empty.  They had no experience in their life so far.  

It suddenly occurred to Eve where she was, and things could improve.  She was the impetus for their development of food and housing, since she was the baby-carrier of their future people who bore both of their haplotypes in a balanced amount in their veins. Her body changed slightly each time with hormone production.  Adam and Eve blinked and realized that there were man-eating animals in their existence, but plenty of food if they worked at it-still being able to pick much fruit from trees like they had first done to survive.  

Their first production models were Cain and Abel who fought each other, and they were both strong, but In the story of Cain and Abel, Cain killed Abel. Cain was jealous that   HaShem-God,  accepted Abel's sacrifice, but not his. Cain then murdered his brother in the field. In the biblical story of Cain and Abel, Cain was a farmer, and Abel was a shepherd. Cain was described as a worker of the ground, tilling the soil and cultivating crops. Abel, on the other hand, was a keeper of sheep, tending to flocks and ensuring their well-being.  Cain, the firstborn,  a farmer, and his brother Abel,  a shepherd.  made sacrifices, each from his own fields, to God, their maker.   God had regard for Abel's offering, but had no regard for Cain's. Cain killed Abel and  (G-d) cursed Cain, sentencing him to a life of transience. 

 In the beginning, hunters migrated following the herds in order to have food.  Later, the farming community migrated in finding better soil to grow the flora AND fauna used as food.  

               Abram/Abraham and Sarai moving to Canaan

A descendent of Abel was Abraham, whose model was tapped by G-d to understand that life, this line of humans, had only one G-d called Ha-Shem (the name).  All other models had surmised that it took many of them to make their creation.  Abraham's creation was about 1948 BCE, in the 2nd millennium BCE (before the common era). That was 3,973 years ago.  Abraham and his family before and after were also shepherds herding sheep, using the meat, milk, and covering of wool for clothing as well.  They also learned to forage and kept adding information to those brains of theirs.  Each generation was getting smarter and smarter.  Their experiences were recorded in their brain as part of their memory.  

Here is Jacob and his 4 "wives."Leah , Rachel with one of her two sons, and their handmaids, with their children.  Jacob is the younger son of twin sons of Isaac and Rebekah (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob).  Jacob was the 3rd of the patriarchs of ours.  The other twin was Esau; and the story goes that Jacob took Esau's birthright away to keep for himself, another long story more exciting than  a fictional novel.  

      12 sons of Jacob (1791 BCE) or {3,816 years ago} from sisters Leah and Rachel and each handmaiden of sisters

Their production line included Isaac and then Jacob of each generation, and Jacob had 12 sons and finally a daughter.  Luckily, they weren't the only ones producing.  The world was getting more and more populated with this human line.  Another line, who also existed for a long long time, were called Neanderthals, but they were dying out. They got to a point of not being able to mentally take on  the challenges given them, and they couldn't solve their problems to continue existing.  However, their DNA was carried in many of the humans in small amounts.  According to the Jewish Bible, Jacob was born in 1791 BCE. This is based on the Exodus's dating of Abraham's birth around 1951 BCE, with the birth of Isaac 25 years later in 1851 BCE and Jacob's birth 35 years after Isaac's, according to Armstrong Institute. Some Jewish sources also provide the birth year as 2108 from creation, according to Chabad. 

  Jacob of the Bible lived from approximately 1836 BC to 1689 BC. His life spanned the period between the birth of Isaac (1896 BC) and the death of Jacob (1689 BC), according to a chronology published by Bible Truth Publishers.  This is a different calendar than our Jewish one, so is off about several hundred yearsfrom ours.                                                      

Moses, son of Amram and Jochebed of the tribe of Levi (3rd son of Jacob and Leah)  (1391 BCE) or 3,416 years ago, was from Abel, a shepherd, and he did take on the challenge of his people being held by Egyptians as slaves, and could react to the messages of Ha-Shem given to him in order to free the people.  He led the people out of Egypt and back to Canaan, which had altered greatly after their 400 year hiatus.  Another challenge to  stimulate the brain!  Moses was a Levite.  

There is also research exploring how environmental factors and experiences can lead to epigenetic changes - modifications to DNA that don't change the sequence but can affect gene expression. This is a field of active research, exploring how experiences might influence the way our genes are used.  These changes, which can be influenced by environmental factors and lifestyle, can turn genes "on" or "off" and impact how they function. 

Epigenetics refers to how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work. These changes don't alter the DNA sequence itself, but they can modify how the DNA is read and used. 

• Stress and trauma: Experiences like stress and trauma can leave lasting epigenetic marks. Our ancestors have had, throughout the ages, more stress and trauma than anyone up to 
• this very minute.  I believe that's why Balfour wrote his Doctrine, not realizing that other 
• parts of his English government were already giving away the Jewish Homeland he hoped
• to help to achieve.  

Some epigenetic changes can be passed down to future generations, meaning that a parent's lifestyle or environmental exposures can influence the health and development of their offspring. 

• Epigenetics refers to the way your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work.
• Epigenetics turns genes "on" and "off."
• Your epigenetics change as you age, both as part of normal development and aging and because of exposure to environmental factors that happen over the course of your life.
• Epigenetic changes can affect your health in different ways.

One thing that caused me to think about this is the way our young children can manipulate our cell phones and TV so well.  They have taken to these devices like a duck takes to water.  All the time we seniors hem and haw at what to do and need guidance.  Many now go without the use of a phone or even a TV set.  They can't do it!  The question is, has this epigenetic capability caused the youngsters, some even at age 5, to be so capable?  Are our children born knowing???

Through all our challenges to continue living, we have taken them on with the feeling of guidance from our G-d, our creator, the maker of the universe.  May we always live up to the challenges and continue on.  The slings and arrows from others shall not deter us in our mission to set a good example-like of the Golden Rule of Life.  We've been toughened up to slough it all off and keep on going.  

Time lines are important.  I think of the fact that the USA was created in 1776, which was only 249 years ago, and look at their clothing back in their day, or their transportation of ships.  Our minds have developed tremendously since then so that now we've started visiting other planets! 

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