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Star Trek’s Vulcan Salute Has A Deeper Meaning That Leonard Nimoy Loved
By WITNEY SEIBOLD
Leonard Nimoy was given a lot of creative freedom when it came to inventing idiosyncrasies of the Vulcan species in “Star Trek.” He was the one who invented the Vulcan salute.
A 2015 article in the Washington Post quoted Nimoy as having invented the salute as an expression of his Jewish heritage. The hand sign invokes a letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
In a 2013 interview, Nimoy said that the Vulcan salute resembles the letter shin, the first letter in Shekhinah, part of a kabbalistic veneration of divine feminine energies.
Nimoy recited Shekhinah prayers as a child, and according to an interview with StarTrek.com, he had seen others making the hand sign that inspired the Vulcan salute during them.