What About The Celtic Tree Alphabet And The Indian Toda People?(Edit 2 on 20.Oct.19)From a discussion forum post at https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/shefa-tal-hands-photo.644770/#post-4180328It is interesting how there are similarities between the Shefa Tal, and the Ogham, or Tree Alphabet, which was a symbolic alphabet kept track of on the fingers as well for the so called Celts.Recent theories in the studying origins of language have said that for most extremely early languages, there was likely just as much gesturing with hands.Though not personally Jewish, I have studied world mythologies and comparative religion, and truly believe that Hebrews (and Y-DNA Haplogroups J1, J2) and the messianic traditions are key in understanding past/future (sorry to get all esoteric on ya).The Shefa Tal is said to date back to time of Aaron and Moses, it is a Rabbinic/Kohanim hand blessing.The Kohanim Modal Haplotype (Y-DNA), OR Y-Chromosomal Aaron, (folks with name Cohen, Kohn) is mostly within Haplogroup J2https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-chromosomal\_AaronNow in my own research have found a people in South India, the Toda, who might be some kind of ancient cousins of the Hebrews, as the males are 47% Y-DNA Haplogroup J2.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toda\_peopleThe reason I bring this up in relation to the Shefa Tal, is to find out specifically what Tal meansThe reason being, is that in South Indian, or Carnatic Music, the very word Tala, or Thala is a hand and finger method of keeping track of rhythm. This may all just be a coincidence. I see Shefa Tal as meaning "Abundance of Dew", is Tal the word for abundance? Tala, or Thala, is certainly related to Numbering...“Tala refers to the beat set for a particular composition (a measure of time). Talas have cycles of a defined number of beats and rarely change within a song. They have specific components, which in combinations can give rise to the variety to exist (over 108), allowing different compositions to have different rhythms.”Carnatic music singers usually keep the beat by moving their hands up and down in specified patterns, and using their fingers simultaneously to keep time.We’ll come back to the letter T soon. And there’s plenty more on the idea of Indian origins of Hebrew language, such as http://viewzone.com/matlock.html.