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From: keesan@bbncca.ARPA (Morris Keesan)
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Subject: Re: "G-d" and destroying holy names - reposting of the rules
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Date: Wed, 4-Jan-84 19:09:15 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  4 19:09:15 1984
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>Also, Elohim was not a substitute for the tetragramaton, but a name
>of God in its own right (ITS substitution is Elokim), along with
>Shaddai, Ael (Kael), Addonai (Adoshem), the Shechina, and many others. 
>
>Ariel Shattan

    But both Elohim and Adonai ARE substitutes for the tetragrammaton, as well
as being names for God in their own right.  They are the two
"pronunciations" of the tetragrammaton, or actually the words that one says in
place of the tetragrammaton (because it's unpronouncable) when reading aloud,
e.g. from the Torah.

    Incidentally, I was struck recently by the similarity between typing "G-D"
to protect holiness and typing "UN*X" to protect trademark.
-- 
					Morris M. Keesan
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