Tag: Hashem
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The Name of God
The name of God in the Old Testament is unpronounceable these days. Modern Jews call God Hashem sometimes. Hashem as I understand it just means The Name. There has been a prohibition against speaking the four Hebrew letters of God’s name since at least the time of Jesus. The word means “I am that I…
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Unmanifest Impersonal Divine
A divine without names is the purest capacity. The Jews have Hashem and the Muslims have Allah. Those are designations not names. They speak to us of a God beyond matter and energy, beyond our illusions of It, beyond the images we make of It, and beyond associations. But what good to us is God…