Theos-Talk Archives (August 2004 Message tt00147)

stevestubbs wrote:
> 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."
I never said I FOLLOWED Jewish Law; just that I knew it.

> 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.
I hope you are not talking about "Rabbi" "Doctor" David Berg, a used 
car salesman who bought a mail order doctorate and declared himself a 
rabbi without any degrees.

> ; 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"?
A) Probably "That World Trade Center really came down with a bang", 
assuming they speak English.

B) Ivrit.

> 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.
He said the 13 letter name of God, for which YHVH is an abbreviation.

Bart