[b-hebrew] The name YHWH is gone from the lips of Catholics

pporta at oham.net pporta at oham.net
Sat Sep 13 02:04:10 EDT 2008


> Shalom l'kulam;

A friendly and incidental remark about this greeting of yours:

Maybe would it not be better to use "Shalom l'kulKHEM" as it is used in 1Sa 
22:7?

Pere Porta
Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain)



>
>
>
> This is interesting, especially when not all Yuhudhim refrain from using 
> the
> name of Yohowah. There are some of us, who refuse to replace the name of 
> our
> deity with descriptive pronouns during our readings of the Torah, due to 
> the
> fact that we think if the name is written within the text of the Torah, 
> then
> when reading the Torah, in silent or aloud, we are to pronounce the name.
> There are also some of us, who think that during prayer we should make an
> effort to use the name of Yohowah. There are also some of us, who like are
> ancestors think we should greet and bless each other in the name of 
> Yohowah.
> I happen to be one who follows the above standard.
>
>
>
> The only time I refrain from using the name of Yohowah per se, is when I
> know it offends my audience, unless such offense comes from my reading of
> the Torah, or any other portion of the Tanakh. If someone gets offend by 
> my
> use of the name of Yohowah, merely because I am using it when I read the
> text of the Miq'ra that has it contained within, then they will merely 
> have
> to deal with such.
>
>
>
> Yo*h*anan bin-Dawidh
>
> Haslet, Texas
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