08-01-2020, 08:43 PM
(07-25-2020, 04:13 AM)Great Central Sun Wrote: Yeah, God's name is in Hebrew YHWH or YHVH.
I wonder if this is where they got Yahweh from. It's the Tetragrammaton the 4-letter name of God. It actually doesn't have a pronounciation as far as I know.
There are multiple names for God in Judaism and Hebrew. The name used depends more on the action of God being described or the relationship with God at that moment. Yod Heh Vav Heh is the Tetragrammaton, and it is forbidden to be pronounced in traditional Judaism. While reading Torah whenever this name appears it is replaced by the speaker with Adonai. Adonai is another name for God which means "Lord".
The reason this name is forbidden is because it is believed to be the most potent and magical of all the names. If you are performing theurgic rituals it is very potent to invoke. Yahweh is the anglicized version of the name but the pronunciation is no where near correct. When it is invoked in ritual the name is usually spelled out verbally, but that is not the most potent version of the name.
It has also been said that the Torah itself is the name of God.