HAND SIGN
At a few dark points in history under Hadrian and others, it was torture and death to have, read, or quote the first 5 books of the Bible, or say God's name YHVH out loud, so the Jews made 1-handed and 2-handed signs to declare "YHVH BLESS YOU".
Saying Numbers 6:24-26 out loud over the people would get the Priests, Rabbis, and husbands and fathers killed. So the hand signs were the only safe way for hundreds of years for the Priests and Rabbis to bless the people in YHVH's name, and husbands and fathers to bless their wife and children in YHVH's name. It's remains as a sign today.
It's in a small way similar to the sign of the fish Christians used to declare their faith without being caught and killed. None of these Christian or Jewish hand signs or symbols are in scripture. They were created to fill a need. 2 to say God bless you. 1 to say I'm a Christian.
YESHUA
There's evidence that Jews 100 years before Jesus understood YHVH and the title Son of Man to mean the Son of God, Messiah, Redeemer. AND ANCIENT of DAYS and EL was understood to mean the Father. Both were understood to be God, Father and Son. (Mark 14:61-62, Daniel 7:9-11, Daniel 7:12-14) This is why Jesus was followed by Jews. They were looking for someone exactly like Him as per their understanding of scripture prophecy regarding Messiah King Redeemer God WITH US. The only mistake they made which became a major stumbling block for them in the future was, they thought Jesus would set up His earthly government and rule the nations at that time. They and we are waiting for this to happen in the future as per scripture. (Luke 1:31-33, Isaiah 9:6-7, Acts of the Apostles 1:6, Revelation 11:15)
Daniel Boyarin has some excellent historical information showing that Father and Son was an ancient understanding among Jews, but was renounced when the Nazarim were kicked out of Judaism after the Bar Kokhba revolt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Kokhba_revolt
Constantine later kicked the Nazarim out of Christianity because they were too Judaic. See RELIGIOUS POLICY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_the_Great
Nazarim are what the Jews called believers in Christ. (Acts of the Apostles 24:5, Matthew 2:23, Mark 14:67, Mark 16:6)
Christians are what the Greeks called us. (Acts of the Apostles 11:26, Acts of the Apostles 26:28, 1 Peter 4:16)
The Way is what NT believers called themselves. (Acts of the Apostles 24:14, Acts of the Apostles 9:2, Acts of the Apostles 19:9, Acts of the Apostles 19:23, Acts of the Apostles 24:22, 2 Peter 2:2)
CONTEXT
IS Leonard Nimoy using "YHVH bless you" in proper context?
IF he would've used a Christian hand symbol for "God bless you" in Star Trek we'd be thrilled.
Jews, MJs, and Christians who understand the gravity of the hand sign do use it as a solemn "GOD BLESS YOU" much as LN used it. If you notice he never used it as a light "hi", it was always a solemn parting blessing such as Numbers 6:24-26 is meant to be.
FINGERS TOUCHING
When the index finger and middle finger touch, and the ring finger and little finger touch it makes the Hebrew letter SHIN, a pseudonym of YHVH known as Shem (Name) or Hashem (the Name). Jews didn't need to use "Name" or "the Name" UNTIL it was dangerous to say YHVH. It also makes the 1st 2 Hebrew letters of YHVH, or Yah which is a scriptural short form for YHVH. IOW, YH is found often in scripture. YHVH is found much more often in scripture.
HANDS TOUCHING
When the 2 hands touch it makes an almost exact representation of Y H and V H, the 4 Hebrew letters of God's name. We maybe don't see it but Hebrew readers can easily see it. IOW, 1 hand spells YH (Yah) and 2 hands spell YHVH (Yahveh). Hebrew is read right-left.
I'll pray for them too.
