Relationship between God, human society, individuals and Land of Israel in the Torah scrolls are woven into one system of religous order.
The Holy Land is the promised land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Sabbatical law is one of the most important in the Torah.
It allow exile punishment to the people, to complete the Sabbatical years not been fulfilled properly.
In the Jewish holiday of Sukot people live in huts for seven days, to be close to nature.
This is to celebrate the renewed reading of the Torah from Jenesis.
In Pagan religons priests established a similar religous system, linking man's behavior to that of nature.
But the Golden Ratio, which was used widly for aesthetics, and imposing a combination of natural and religous order, almost does not appear in the entire Torah, which is full of numbers and measures.
This is in contrast to the Pyramids, Parthenon and Pantheon, with their sophisticated Golden Ratios.
These were the temples of the enemies of the Jewish people in ancient times, and enemies of the rising monotheistic belief.
Yet Judaism and early Christianity were percieved as more advanced and capble of handling human life.
How could that be without the science of Golden Ratio?
Surely the religous scholers were aware of its importance, even in times of religous persecution and times of change to urban life style.
Judaism had to adjust to modern life its tradition of man's links with natue, but instead a sparation process started.
The immense interpretations of the Torah’s laws didn’t recall the Golden Ratio or even nature's importance.
In the Diaspora, the concept of ignoring nature, and aesthetics, had become even stronger as a central motif for Jewish scholars.
The only imortant thing were moral values and the detailed religous laws.
Human Beings in their flash and blood, with their full neuances, captured the imagination.
Imagination refute formal images and recreate them as dynamic ones.
People were considered brothers and friends, illuminated by God's light and capable of moral attributes, and this was the only important thing.
They asked for Resurgence as a dynamic sublimation process, in an unceasing dialogue between Mankind, God and Earth.
How could Judaism and early Christianity detach themselves so confidently from the values of nature, science, and aesthetics?
There isn't any inherent contradiction between monotheism and the Golden Ratio.
Morality and science should co-exist as vital bricks for building society.
Truth and beauty are simply two differnet ends for the same people.
Perhaps Land of Israel, the original geographical base of Judaism and Christianity, had special properties which allowed scholars to extend their range of interpretation of human life, to a degree uncommon in the Pagan world.
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