Christopher Columbus is a suspected "Crypto Jew".
In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. This was the morning following the edict to expel the Jews from Spain on Tisha B'Av. Yet the same king and queen.. financed Columbus' adventure, in which he discovered a New World.
Who could make a movie about this kind of stuff. No one would believe it. In the beginning, the land (the earth). Check out the Torah, the first verse:
Gen 1.1 In the beginning God created the heaven and [= 1492] the earth:
These are the middle 5 words of the verse [of 7 words], "bookended" by the words bereshith - haaretz, "in the beginning.. the land".
Just thought I'd point that out.
the classic interpretations are that the Spirit of God hovering over the surface of the waters is the soul of the Mashiach... hovering like a dove... on Tisha b'Av.
And here's this man who is the subject of so much hate, a supected crypto Jew named Christopher Columbus, sailing out right after that edict on Tisha B'Av... Columbus meaning dove, just as the personification of America is named Columbia, and the dove is symbolic of the Jewish people.