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- From: lorencrow AT earthling.net (Loren Crow)
- To: Steve Brailsford <Steve.Brailsford AT NSMG.Seagatesoftware.com>
- Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: RE: Alert
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:50:45 -0600
At 12:18 PM 1/19/99, Steve Brailsford wrote:
>I have heard there is a superstition that if you were to write out the
>actual name of God, the
>creation would cease. I don't know where this comes from.
That's from Kabbalistic thought. The idea, as I take it anyway, is that
the *true* name of God would require such a long time to say that the
universe would pass away before it could be uttered.
Cheers!
Loren
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