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Aug 08, 2004 08:43 PM
by stevestubbs
I searched Yahweh in The Jewish Encyclopedia and got the following hits: Names of God http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp? artid=52&letter=N&search=yahweh Adonai http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp? artid=840&letter=A&search=yahweh Tetragrammaton http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp? artid=165&letter=T&search=yahweh In the first article we read: "If the explanation of the form above given be the true one, the original pronunciation must have been Yahweh or Yahaweh. From this the contracted form Jah or Yah is most readily explained, and also the forms Jeho or Yeho ( = ), and Jo or Yo (, contracted from ), which the word assumes in combination in the first part of compound proper names, and Yahu or Yah in the second part of such names." So I am not so stupid after all. Your penance, myson, is to watch Notre Dame throw twenty Hail Mary passes, at least one of which better be completed, stop eating ham sandwiches for a whole week (!) and dip your beard in the holy water. His Serene Holiness rabbi Steve