Boray P'ri Hagafen as an Invocation for Life

Baray P 'ri Hagafen as an Invocation for Life To re-enliven our Kawana when enacting the Kiddush blessings, we look to the many dimensions of life within us suggested by the entwining, twisting, vine-like, life-structuring processes of the DNA molecule within our cells, symbolized by the multiply-variegated, fruitful grape-vine. Blessing: Literal Translation: who creates the fruit of the vine. Baray P'ri Hagafen. DNA r,:,~,:t Draw closer, You, TlN Cosmic Energy Pool, Seat Yourself into our awareness; not do the work; it delegates to the RNA, which, WI.th the ALIVENESS function o:,1yr,of the Cosmos DNA provides a blueprint directing the growth of plants and animals. Protein molecules, (which create the possibility of billions of mobile moleculesacting together, and is therefore necessary for growth, movement and muscle tissue)have many shapes. DNA has but one shape, the double helix, whose variety is not in its outward form but in the information it encodes. DNA is like a book - its external shape gives no clue to its content. It itself does connect us; Guide put together by the DNA, goes into the cell and manufactures proteins. This aloofness from "manual" exercise helps us to recognize that even at the molecular level, there is a governing and guiding principle at work . ~ie:Reffe~ttiverse ).£l) Vine, esp. Grape-Vine the product of the spiralling, coiling, double-helix vine of 1'.:l 1£l) GefenBar Wild Vine 11')?11£l) GefenDalit Creeping Vine Cl110 1£l) GefenS 'dom Bad Vine 11')?)11£l) GefenRaglit Spreading Vine i71\U 1£l) GefenSadeh Meadow Vine DNA, weaving containing structures for life, ~becoming every living thing on this planet. Amayn.