Theos-Talk Archives (August 2004 Message tt00137)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> "Hashem", maybe. It means "the name", which is a term used in 
> conversation to avoid using the name of God in vain.

So what d you say when you are pounding a nail and you idiotically 
pound your own thumb instead? I know you don't just say "Aw, shucks."

Jews have used the word Hashem in y presence and it was from them 
that I learned its significance.

> Yahweh? I can 
> GUARANTEE that no Jewish scholar would use that name

Dorry but there is a :reb" who posts on the Internet (and whom I 
ignore now because he is a horse's ass and worse - a bore) who does 
use Yahweh. He is a Jew and a Jabbalist and he does lecture on 
Hebrew.

; there isn't even a 
> "w" sound in Hebrew!!!!

So how does an observant Jew say "man, that WORLD Trade Center really 
came down with a bang?" Or how do you say "Hebrew" without a "w"?

> As far as anybody can tell, the YHVH name of God 
> had no pronunciation

Not as far as I can tell. The high priest entered the SS of the 
Temple once a year and said the Shem, which was prohinted to be done 
by any one else. That makes it clear there was a pronunciation.

> there were no associated vowels.

Lots of Hebrew wrds were written without vowels.