Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!fsks From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: G*D, g%D, G}d, 5od, etc. Message-ID: <455@unc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 16-Jun-85 17:09:05 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.455 Posted: Sun Jun 16 17:09:05 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 17-Jun-85 20:14:54 EDT References: <948@homxa.UUCP> Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 29 Summary: In article schechte@csd2.UUCP (asher schechter) writes: >> >> It happens to be that there is a difference of opinion amongst the later >>rabbinical scholars as to whether one is permitted to erase or otherwise di- >>spose of the Divine Name. >> It is true that both the SHACH, Yoreh De'ah 179:11,and R.Akiva Eger,Yoreh >>De'ah 276:9 state definitively that the Divine Name in any other language be- >>sides Lashon Hakodesh(Hebrew) can be erased. However other authorities (the >>Netivot Ha-Mishpot and Urim VeTumim 27:2, to mention two) disagree. The latt- >>er go as far as saying that the written use of the french word "ad-eu"(the >>root meaning of which is "with %-d") is forbidden since careless disposal >>could lead to halachic problems. In article fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) writes: >Don't forget the Netivot Ha-Mishegas, who says we shouldn't even erase >any English word which MIGHT mean %$#@& in some OTHER language. > >Considering the root meaning of 'g-d', maybe we can't erase that, either. Let me also add that the great Tzaddick Rabbi R. Rosen said that the only sure way to avoid erasing d-G's name was to avoid writing any references (however indirect) to any Supreme Being. :-) Seriously, I am not trying to ridicule the sages, but rather those who would quote a a scholar's decision on a general network WITHOUT including any hint of the reasoning behind the said decision. Frank Silbermann