What happened to Israel in Babylon that he gave up the Name that delivered him from Egypt?
"For all the gods of the nations are idols - All the gods worshiped by
the people of other lands are mere "idols." None of them can claim to
have a real existence as gods. The word "idols" is
translated by the Septuagint, δαιμόνια daimonia, "demons." So the
Latin Vulgate "daemonia." The Hebrew word - אליל 'ĕlı̂yl - means
properly "of nothing, nought, empty, vain." See Job 13:4. The meaning is that they had no real existence; are
the creations of politics, religion and imagination; they could not in any sense be regarded as
what they pretended they were; they had no claim to reverence and worship as
gods." Barnes' Notes, Psalm 96.5, taken from I Chron 16.26 http://bible.cc/psalms/96-5.htm
Babylonian captivity made changes to the Hebrew alphabet and calendar, and changes in the Jewish religion. This was the last high-point of Biblical prophecy of Ezekiel, followed by the Torah emerging as central in Jewish life.[9] This coincided with the emergence of scribes and sages as Jewish leaders. Hence came the Zohar.
Of first importance is the loss of the Name. Less sacred comments on the Name occur in PK Dick, who says: "concerning St. Sophia, Buddha, Siddhartha, Apollo, "none of these other names
allude to God in the sense that YHWH does. It is as if the others are
attributes or cultural (i.e., man-made) hypostases, and YHWH is YHWH; viz:
there is no God but God, i.e., the God who "is what he is," the
tetragrammaton. The others are names humans give to God; YHWH is the name by
which God referred to himself..."He brings into existence what
is."" The
Exegesis, 545
In the indoctrination of the extended Roman prison that is the modern Space Fence, PK says, "Satan
pretends YHWH won; YHWH will cause to exist what Satan pretends (i.e., occludes
us into believing) exists. It is a sort of trick played on Satan, but in deadly
earnest: to make Satan's "falsework" (pretense) real. A wise
strategy." 546 He is preaching the corollary of opposites, that Satan is
allowed to think he won, even to the extent of driving YHWH from the urwelt, in
order to work some much greater, inconceivable act. Thus "God turns the
lie ("God won") into the truth, and Satan is surprised; he didn't
foresee this." 546
There are many fans of tricksters, but not so many hold that the
facetious is the real, the defeated victorious. "Those most duped are most
right, paradoxically; YHWH takes advantage of the irony and ambiguity to cause
to be what seems to be; this is his fundamental power/nature> [and of course
it is right out of Romans 5, "calling that which is not as though it were"],
so the Christian Apocalypse is in full swing. Thus "the fact is, this is a
prison. Satan won in 70 A.D. and the Essenes are dead; but YHWH is instilling
them in some of us in the present..."546 "The battle is going on, but
Satan is at the center--of government, of church. Still, YHWH has the crucial
advantage of a priori foresight. It was revealed to me that ultimately he wins
every hand." 546
House of Jahweh- The Encyclopedia Judaica, Volume 7, pages 680-682, sums it all up as you can see for yourself.
YHWH. The personal name of the God of Israel is written in the Hebrew Bible with the four consonants yhwh and is referred to as the "Tetragrammaton". At least until the destructions of the First Temple in 586 b.c.e., this name was regularly pronounced with its proper vowels, as is clear from the *Lachish Letters, written shortly before that date. But at least by the third century b.c.e., the pronunciation of the name yhwh was avoided, and Adonai, "the Lord", was substituted for it, as evidenced by the use of the Greek word Kyrios, "Lord", for yhwh in the Septuagint, the translation of the Hebrew Scriptures that was begun by Greek-speaking Jews in that century. Where the combined form *Adonai yhwh occurs in the Bible, this was read as *Adonai *Elohim, "Lord God". In the early Middle Ages, when the consonantal text of the Bible was supplied with vowels points to facilitate its correct traditional reading, the vowel points for 'Adonai with one variation - a sheva with the first yod of YHWH instead of the hataf-patah under the aleph of 'Adonai7 were used for YHWH, thus producing the form Yehowah. When Christian scholars of Europe first began to study Hebrew, they did not understand what this really meant, and they introduced the hybrid name "Jehovah". In order to avoid pronouncing even the sacred name *Adonai for YHWH, the custom was later introduced of saying simply in Hebrew ha-Shem (or Aramaic Shemc, "the Name") even in such an expression as "Blessed be he that cometh in the name of YHWH" (Ps. 118:26).
THE PROHIBITION OF USE OF THE NAMES OF GOD. The prohibition
applies both to the pronunciation of the name of God and its committal to
writing, apart from its use in sacred writings. The prohibition against the
pronunciation of the name of God applies only to the Tetragrammaton, which
could be pronounced by the high priest only once a year on the Day of Atonement
in the Holy of Holies (cf. Mishnah Yoma 6:2), and in the Temple by the priests
when they recited the Priestly Blessings (Sot. 7:6; see also Ch. Albeck (ed.), Seder
Nashim (1954), 387). As the Talmud expresses it: "Not as I am written am I
pronounced. I am written yod he vav he, and I am pronounced alef dalet" (nun
yod, i.e., Adonai; Kid. 71a).
Jehovah (
/dʒɨˈhoʊvə/) is
an anglicized
representation of Hebrew
יְהֹוָה, a vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה
(YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible.[1]
יְהֹוָה appears 6,518 times in the traditional Masoretic Text, in
addition to 305 instances of יֱהֹוִה (Jehovih).[2] The earliest available Latin text to use a
vocalization similar to Jehovah dates from the 13th century.[3]
Most scholars believe the Name latinized as "Jehovah" to be a late
(ca. 1100 CE) hybrid form derived by combining the Latin letters JHVH with the
vowels of Adonai, but there is some evidence that it may already have been in
use in Late
Antiquity (5th century).[4][5] It was not the historical
vocalization of the Tetragrammaton at the time of the redaction of the
Pentateuch (6th century BCE), at which time the most likely vocalization was Yahweh. The historical
vocalization was lost because in Second Temple Judaism, during the 3rd to 2nd
centuries BCE, the pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton came to be avoided,
being substituted with Adonai
"my Lord". wikapedia Jehovah
Adonai (אֲדֹנָי) is Hebrew for "my lords", from adon "lord, owner".[16] The singular form is Adoni, "my
lord". This was used by the Phoenicians for the god Tammuz and is the
origin of the Greek name Adonis.
- Catholic Apologetics-After the exile
(6th Century B.C.), and especially from the 3rd century BC on, Jews ceased to
use the name Yahweh for two reasons. As Judaism became a universal religion
through its proselytizing in the Greco-Roman world, the more common noun
elohim, meaning "god," tended to replace Yahweh to demonstrate the
universal sovereignty of Israel's God over all others.
-"Using the pattern above, I determined
that the name/title "Adonai" represented as "Master", "Sovereign",
or "Lord" — not as a substitute for "
" —
appears in the Old Testament ±325 times, especially in Isaiah (30 times),
Jeremiah (14 times), and almost exclusively in Ezekiel and Amos (208 times and
18 times respectively). Obviously, I can't list all them here, so I am
presenting only a sampling of the verses that use the name "Adonai"
to describe our Most High God."
Psalm
8:1 — O , our Master
[Adonai], how excellent is Your Name in all the earth, You who set Your
splendour above the heavens!" (TS98)
Psalm 147:5 — "Our Lord [Adonai] is great, his power is vast, his wisdom beyond all telling." (CJB)
Isaiah 3:15 —
"What do you mean by crushing My people and grinding the faces of the
poor?" declares the Master [Adonai], of hosts.
(TS98)
Isaiah 6:8 — "I heard the Lord's [Adonai's] voice, saying, 'Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?' Then I said, 'Here I am. Send me!'"
Isaiah 25:8 — "He will swallow up death forever. Adonai [YHWH] Elohim [Adonai] will wipe away the tears from every face, and he will remove from all the earth the disgrace his people suffer. For Adonai [YHWH] has spoken. (CJB)
Jeremiah 14:13 — "But I said, 'Ah, Master [Adonai] ! See, the prophets say to them, "You are not to see a sword, nor have scarcity of food, for I give you true peace in this place."'" (TS98)
Ezekiel 39:25 — "Therefore thus said the Master [Adonai] , 'Now I am going to bring back the captives of Ya'aqob. And I shall have compassion on all the house of Yisra'el, and shall be jealous for My set-apart (holy) Name.'" (TS98)
Malachi 3:1 — "'Look! I am sending my messenger to clear the way before me; and the Lord [Adonai], whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple. Yes, the messenger of the covenant, in whom you take such delight — look! Here he comes,' says Adonai [YHWH]-Tzva'ot." (CJB)
-the compound name
"YHWH Adonai" appeared in Scripture /
-the Tetragrammaton "YHWH" appears approximately 6000 times in
the Hebrew Scriptures. To avoid violating the commandment "You shall not
take the name of Yahweh your God [Elohim] in vain" (Exodus 20:7), the
vowels of "Adonay" — "a", "o", "a" —
were inserted between the letters "YHWH" to remind the reader to not
pronounce the name "YHWH", but to say "Adonay" instead. In
fact, the most-current English versions of the Hebrew Scriptures now use
"Adonai" almost exclusively in the place of "YHWH". here
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