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"In a townhouse in #Greenpoint, #Brooklyn, a gathering for #TuBAv was underway. There was chanting and breathwork, singing and ceremony. Several Brooklyn-based #Jewish communities, including Temple of the Stranger and Lab/ #Shul, had come together for the experience.
These vibes are usually associated with Eastern traditions, paganism or indigenous American practices; most Westerners who want that form of spirituality go looking for it at Buddhist meditation centers or ayahuasca retreats, forms of engagement more often associated with the 1960s or ’70s #counterculture movement than with a #synagogue.
But a group of #rabbis, leaders and #spiritual seekers believe drum circles, chanting, #meditation and #mysticism are, in fact, just as core to #Judaism as any #rabbinic text — a sort of lost magic that has impeded vibrant, direct spiritual experience."
https://forward.com/culture/845078/ivri-judaism-jewish-ritual-practice-mysticism-spirituality/
"The story of the #Soviet #Jewish #refusenik movement is often told through the courageous men who challenged the #Communist regime, taught #Torah in secret, and fought for the right to leave for #Israel. Less often told is the story of the Jewish women who bravely sustained their families and communities. Their resistance was often a private matter, but without them, the movement could never have survived.
Among those remarkable women was #IraDashevsky. Born in #Odessa in 1958 and raised near #Moscow before moving to Moscow, Ira grew up in a society where #Judaism was suppressed, religion was mocked, and #antisemitism was part of everyday life. As a child, she watched peers ridicule #Jews and destroy letters her parents had sent her at summer camp.
Yet rather than diminish her identity, those experiences strengthened her determination to understand what it truly meant to be Jewish."
https://aish.com/the-strength-of-jewish-women-behind-the-iron-curtain/
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Shabbat Shalom Friends 🕯️🕯️
This marks the 49th Shabbat in a row that I’ve had the privilege of sharing your beautiful photos and messages in response to my weekly Shabbat greeting. What began as a simple post has grown into something far more meaningful than I ever imagined.
And here is what moves me most about it. Not everyone in this community observes Shabbat. Some of you light candles every Friday night as your family has for generations. Some of you come from a different faith entirely. Some of you are simply here for the language, or the culture, or because something in this corner of the internet feels like a good place to land at the end of a long week. And every single one of you belongs here.
Week after week, you bring light, warmth, and connection into this space. Seeing the images you share, whether candles, tables, family moments, or quiet reflections, has turned this into a truly special tradition for our community.
There's actually a very active frum fitness scene.
"It may be one of the most overlooked #religious obligations of our time.
Not #prayer. Not #charity. Not even #Torahstudy. But #exercise.
That may sound odd, because #Judaism is not a culture of physical vanity. We do not worship the body, glorify muscle, or measure human worth by outward appearance. The #Torah’s ideal is not the #athlete in the stadium, but the #Jew who lives with #faith, discipline, humility, and a sense of higher purpose.
And yet, somewhere along the way, many of us seem to have confused rejecting vanity with neglecting #health.
When it comes to sleep, diet, movement, and basic physical care, too many people treat the body as if it were religiously irrelevant."
#Jewish tradition says otherwise."
These are your images not mine ❤️
Shabbat Shalom Friends 🕯️🕯️
This marks the 48th Shabbat in a row that I’ve had the privilege of sharing your beautiful photos and messages in response to my weekly Shabbat greeting. What began as a simple post has grown into something far more meaningful than I ever imagined.
Week after week, you bring light, warmth, and connection into this space. Seeing the images you share, whether candles, tables, family moments, or quiet reflections has turned this into a truly special tradition for our community.
What started as a collection of lovely photos has become something deeper. Many of you now share glimpses of how Shabbat lives inside your homes and hearts, and it’s incredibly moving to witness those moments. It fills me with gratitude every single week.
Reading your comments has become one of my favorite ways to welcome Shabbat.
Wishing all of you a peaceful and meaningful Shabbat.
Shabbat Shalom 💙
"As #StevenPressman makes clear in his new #documentary #film, Dust Bowls and #Jewish Souls: Another Side of #WoodyGuthrie, there was another side to #Guthrie and his #songs. As his son, #ArloGuthrie, explains in the film: “My father studied #Judaism and he knew something about it. He never exchanged his faith for something else; he added to his faith. And that something else he added … was a Jewish identity. He understood what that meant traditionally, historically, culturally. And he knew more about Judaism than my zeyde. And so, my bubbe was thrilled.”
It just so happens that Arlo’s bubbe — his grandmother — was acclaimed #Yiddish #poet and #lyricist #AlizaGreenblatt. When Guthrie married Aliza’s daughter, #MarjorieMazia (née #Greenblatt), the two chose to raise their children in #ConeyIsland..."
These are your images not mine ❤️
Shabbat Shalom Friends 🕯️🕯️
This marks the 47th Shabbat in a row that I’ve had the privilege of sharing your beautiful photos and messages in response to my weekly Shabbat greeting. What began as a simple post has grown into something far more meaningful than I ever imagined.
Week after week, you bring light, warmth, and connection into this space. Seeing the images you share, whether candles, tables, family moments, or quiet reflections has turned this into a truly special tradition for our community.
What started as a collection of lovely photos has become something deeper. Many of you now share glimpses of how Shabbat lives inside your homes and hearts, and it’s incredibly moving to witness those moments. It fills me with gratitude every single week.
Reading your comments has become one of my favorite ways to welcome Shabbat.
Wishing all of you a peaceful and meaningful Shabbat.
Shabbat Shalom 💙
Shabbat Shalom Friends. Read my Shabbat reflection here: https://open.substack.com/pub/hebrewbyinbal/p/the-art-is-in-the-interesting-what?r=2at7n8&utm_medium=ios
#artislife #shabbatshalom #judaism
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#Trump Admin [finally] Drops [illegal] Subpoena Demanding #List of #Jews From #Penn
For more than a year, the Trump admin pressed the #university for records about #antisemitism complaints & a list of campus groups involved with #Judaism.
#law #AcademicFreedom #privacy #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/us/eeoc-subpoena-penn-jewish-list.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
"Why does #Judaism have a #blessing for almost everything? From #AsherYatzar, the famous bathroom blessing, to blessings for rainbows, brilliant scholars, human difference, and even grief, #Jewishtradition turns everyday moments into spiritual awareness. These five surprising #Jewish #blessings reveal how Judaism uses gratitude, #mindfulness, #Torah, and #prayer to find meaning in the ordinary and extraordinary."
https://unpacked.media/the-jewish-secret-to-everyday-happiness/
"On the evening of July 22, we begin #TishaBAv, the day we remember the destruction of the First and Second Temples and the many heartbreaks that have shaped #Jewishhistory. Yet the #Jewish response to destruction has never been simply to mourn. It has always been to ask: What are we being called to rebuild?
The destruction of the Temple transformed #Judaism. Worship that had centered on one sacred place became centered on sacred lives. The Temple was not replaced, it was reimagined."
https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2026/07/19/choosing-repair-over-destruction/
Shabbat Shalom Friends 🕯️🕯️
This marks the 46th Shabbat in a row that I’ve had the privilege of sharing your beautiful photos and messages in response to my weekly Shabbat greeting. What began as a simple post has grown into something far more meaningful than I ever imagined.
Week after week, you bring light, warmth, and connection into this space. Seeing the images you share, whether candles, tables, family moments, or quiet reflections has turned this into a truly special tradition for our community.
What started as a collection of lovely photos has become something deeper. Many of you now share glimpses of how Shabbat lives inside your homes and hearts, and it’s incredibly moving to witness those moments. It fills me with gratitude every single week.
Reading your comments has become one of my favorite ways to welcome Shabbat and I’m wishing all of you a peaceful and meaningful Shabbat.
Shabbat Shalom 💙
"[T]he message sent to the industry was clear: If you work with #Jewish #authors, it will cost you.
Aware that even the staggering evidence I was amassing remained anecdotal, I wanted to find a way to track the impact of what was happening more empirically.
I turned to #PublishersMarketplace, the leading industry database where many #book deals are announced, and reviewed #fiction deals for #books by #Jewishauthors that publicly signaled Jewish or #Israeli content. What I found was grim. Between 2023 and 2024, there was a 76% decline in fiction deal announcements to large presses that mentioned #Jews, #Judaism or #Israel. The numbers improved somewhat in 2025, but they did not recover. Compared with 2023, announced sales of #Jewishbooks were still down 47% at large presses.
And the early 2026 numbers are worse..."
"As #prisons go, #EasternStatePenitentiary in #Philadelphia was unusually luxurious. For one, it had flush toilets — beating out even the #WhiteHouse in making the upgrade, #museum exhibit developer #BethTinker told me on a recent tour.
But if plumbing reflected the #penitentiary’s commitment to #prisoners’ physical well-being, its biggest innovation was more spiritual. Eastern State housed the first #synagogue inside a #US #prison, complete with a #Torah #ark and #nertamid, or eternal light. That restored sanctuary — a short walk from gangster #AlCapone’s former cell — is now newly open to the public in a museum exhibit, Freedom through Faith: #Judaism at #EasternState and Beyond.
“It’s a place really of humanity, when you’re not getting a lot of humanity in this space,” Tinker said.
The synagogue, founded in 1922, hosted holiday celebrations and weekly #Shabbat services."
https://forward.com/culture/838196/eastern-state-penitentiary-synagogue-philadelphia/
"I was delighted to stumble across a #Jewish practice I hadn’t encountered before: blessing the new moon.
I believe one of the most remarkable aspects of #Judaism is the way it encourages us to notice things we might otherwise overlook. #Jewish tradition is filled with #brachot, blessings that invite us to pause and pay attention. There are blessings for bread and wine, blessings for experiencing something new, blessings for seeing a rainbow and even blessings for using the bathroom. The message is simple but profound: Gratitude is not reserved for life’s biggest moments. It belongs in everyday life, too."
https://www.kveller.com/this-jewish-ritual-helps-me-and-my-family-slow-down/
Shabbat Shalom Friends 🕯️🕯️
This marks the 45th Shabbat in a row that I’ve had the privilege of sharing your beautiful photos and messages in response to my weekly Shabbat greeting. What began as a simple post has grown into something far more meaningful than I ever imagined.
Week after week, you bring light, warmth, and connection into this space. Seeing the images you share, whether candles, tables, family moments, or quiet reflections has turned this into a truly special tradition for our community.
What started as a collection of lovely photos has become something deeper. Many of you now share glimpses of how Shabbat lives inside your homes and hearts, and it’s incredibly moving to witness those moments. It fills me with gratitude every single week.
Reading your comments has become one of my favorite ways to welcome Shabbat.
Wishing all of you a peaceful and meaningful Shabbat.
Shabbat Shalom 💙
"Delegates from 25 countries gathered last weekend in #London at the #Liberal #Jewish #Synagogue to mark the centenary of the founding of the #WorldUnion for #ProgressiveJudaism.
At the risk of oversimplifying history, I would summarise the first 100 years of the World Union as asking: can #Progressive #Judaism build institutions strong enough to hold us? And I want to suggest that the question for the next 100 years must be: can Progressive Judaism build ideas strong enough to carry us?
Not idea-building as an afterthought to institutional survival, but idea-building as its prerequisite."
https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/leap-of-faith-imagining-the-next-progressive-century/
Shabbat Shalom Friends 🕯️🕯️
This marks the 44th Shabbat in a row that I’ve had the privilege of sharing the beautiful photos and messages in response to my weekly Shabbat greeting. What began as a simple post has grown into something far more meaningful than I ever imagined.
And today is an especially rare and beautiful one. Shabbat and the 4th of July arriving hand in hand, on America’s 250th birthday no less. As an Israeli who has made her home here this day holds both of my worlds at once, the sacred rest of my heritage and the freedom of my adopted home with the deep bonds between the Jewish and American stories shining through. Two celebrations of light, one very full heart. 🇺🇸🕯️
Week after week, you bring light, warmth, and connection into this space.
Wishing all of you a peaceful and meaningful Shabbat and a very happy 4th of July ☀️🎆
Shabbat Shalom 💙
"The accusation that #Jews can never truly belong to the countries they call home is one of the oldest #antisemitic #tropes in history. In #Spain Jews were forced to convert to #Catholicism or face expulsion; in #France they were asked to #assimilate by practising their #Judaism in private; and in the #SovietUnion Jews were pressured to abandon religious practice and suppress expressions of #Jewish identity.
No matter how long the Jewish community contributed to a society, we were always suspected of serving someone else.
Time has passed and the language has changed but the accusation has not. For the past three years, I have seen this rhetoric become normalised. #Online forums and comment sections have become a cesspool of antisemitic abuse.
Add to that a layer of #misogyny and violent sexualised comments directed at my partner, and even harm wished upon our newborn baby."
"When a study released last year showed enrollment at major seminaries in a decade-long decline, it fueled concerns about a crisis in the #American #rabbinate. As the old guard of #Conservative and #Reform #Judaism aged out of the workforce, who would replace them?
But the #rabbinical #schools affiliated with those movements say reports of their demise were greatly exaggerated — and they have the numbers to prove it.
The #JewishTheologicalSeminary and #HebrewUnionCollege, seminaries of the Conservative and Reform movements respectively, say they have enrolled their largest fall classes in 15 years. Enrollment at #Reconstructionist #RabbinicalCollege holds steady with nine students."
https://forward.com/news/834980/jts-huc-rabbinical-school-enrollment-rises/
Judeo-Christian 
"Among the many #faiths practiced by millions of #Texas #students, a new statewide required #reading list that includes #biblical passages draws from just two traditions: #Protestant #Christianity and #Judaism.
Yet Texas #rabbis say #Jews had no role in shaping how #Judaism appears in the #curriculum, and they disagree with how the lone #Jewish text is presented. Rather than teaching about Judaism on its own terms, they argue, the lessons filter Jewish texts through a #Christian perspective.
The #readinglist, which is expected to go into effect in 2030, will have #publicschool students across the state reading passages from the #NewTestament and mostly Christian #translations of the #Hebrew Bible alongside #literary classics. Of the curriculum’s six #HebrewBible readings, just one uses a Jewish #translation."
"#Sukkot is one of #Judaism’s most communal holidays: a week spent gathering in the #sukkah, welcoming guests, and sharing meals under the open sky. #TheSukkahFoundation, a new national charitable initiative, launched to make sure no #Jewish family, school, or congregation has to sit it out for lack of a sukkah. The Foundation provides free, durable #sukkahs—along with holiday care packages of prayer resources, decorations, and educational materials—to those who cannot afford one, and invites the wider Jewish community to help fund the effort.
The Foundation grew out of #TheSukkahProject, the family-run workshop that has helped thousands of families, schools, and synagogues build their sukkahs over the past three decades."
"The #Samaritans are different. They are a tiny community of around 800 souls, divided between #Holon and #KiryatLuza near #Nablus. They trace their ancestry back to the ancient #Israelites and possess a version of the #Torah that differs only slightly from our own. Their central point of departure from mainstream #Judaism is their belief that #MountGerizim, rather than #Jerusalem, is the divinely chosen place, together with their rejection of the Oral Law and #rabbinic tradition.
As I stood among them, watching ancient rituals performed with immense sincerity, hearing #Hebrew prayers and seeing #Torahscrolls carried with reverence, I could not help feeling that I was encountering not strangers, but long-lost cousins.
Their Torah is, with only relatively minor differences, our Torah. #Abraham, #Isaac, #Jacob, and #Moses are their ancestors no less than ours. Yet somewhere in the distant past, our paths diverged."
"Many of us probably don’t imagine the #UnitedStates as a nation in which a tradition of #antisemitism reaches back to the original 13 colonies and has emerged in every generation. In her new #book, #historian #PamelaNadell carefully documents the #history of #discrimination, #conspiracytheories, and #violence against #Jews in our republic, as well as the resilience of #Jewish #Americans in resisting and organizing against antisemitism, both at home and abroad. This highly readable book offers an excellent introductory text for undergraduates, theological students, clergy, and adult study groups.
#Nadell defines antisemitism largely with #historical and contemporary examples rather than abstract theories. The term was coined by #WilhelmMarr in 1879 to distinguish the “modern #racial basis of #Jewhatred” from traditional Christian anti-#Judaism. The #author defines it as “#Jew hatred” and cites “many episodes of anti-Jewish animus” in #US history."
https://www.christiancentury.org/books/antisemitism-more-american-we-want-admit
"The newly merged Movement for #Progressive #Judaism (#MPJ) has held its first national conference, bringing together hundreds of members from across the #UK and #Ireland in what leaders described as a landmark moment for Progressive Jewish life.
More than 300 people attended the sold-out four-day gathering, known as #Hineinu, which was held alongside the Shirei Chagigah music and prayer conference. Delegates came from 53 Progressive congregations and included over 50 #rabbis, #cantors and student rabbis.
The event marked the first major conference since the merger of #LiberalJudaism and #ReformJudaism, creating the UK’s largest Progressive Jewish movement."
"One of the gifts of #Jewish #travel is the opportunity to encounter #Jewishlife in unexpected places and forms. We sometimes carry assumptions about what #Judaism looks like, where it belongs, and how it should be expressed. #History tells a more complicated story. Sometimes, only by standing in a particular place do we discover an unexpected connection or stumble upon an insight we did not know we were seeking.
To my mind, some of the most transformative moments in Jewish travel occur when new interpretations and perspectives quietly enter the #journey where #travelers least expect them. A vineyard can become a classroom. A palace can be reimagined as a commentary on Jewish memory. #Peoplehood becomes the main course in a shared meal with a community in #Berlin or #Porto. In such moments, familiar assumptions loosen their grip, making room for a broader understanding of Judaism, #Jewishness, and our place within the larger human story."
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/from-getaway-to-gateway-when-jewish-travel-becomes-a-journey/
Shabbat Shalom, friends 🤍
This marks the 42nd Shabbat in a row that I’ve had the privilege of sharing beautiful photos and images posted in response to my weekly Shabbat greeting on Social Media. What began as a simple post has grown into something far more meaningful than I ever imagined
Week after week, you bring light, warmth, and connection into this space. Seeing the images you share, whether candles, tables, family moments, or quiet reflections has turned this into a truly special tradition for our community
What started as a collection of lovely photos has become something deeper. Many of you now share glimpses of how Shabbat lives inside your homes and hearts, and it’s incredibly moving to witness those moments. It fills me with gratitude every single week
Reading your comments has become one of my favorite ways to welcome Shabbat
Wishing all of you a peaceful & meaningful Shabbat and to all of the FATHERS here, HAPPY FATHER’S DAY ❤️
You're not as alone as this week tried to make you feel.
I know how easy it is to believe otherwise.
When the days run together and it feels like no one really sees you, the mind starts whispering that you're on your own in this.
You're not.
We were never meant to do life alone.
That pull toward other people isn't weakness, and it isn't neediness. It's wired into us, as deep as hunger, as old as breath. When we go too long without each other, something in us starts to ache for it.
That ache isn't a flaw. It's a compass. And finding your way back is often smaller than you'd think.
One word. One greeting. One conversation you weren't sure you belonged in, until suddenly you did. Connection doesn't always arrive as a crowd. Sometimes it's a single door opening, and you walking through it.
So this Shabbat, don't let the week convince you.
There are people who would know you anywhere. There's a table waiting for you.
You belong here.
#ShabbatShalom #Judaism #YouBelongHere
Shabbat Shalom, friends 🤍
This marks the 41st Shabbat in a row that I’ve had the privilege of sharing beautiful photos and messages that are sent in response to my weekly Shabbat greeting on FB. What began as a simple post has grown into something far more meaningful than I ever imagined.
Week after week, you bring light, warmth, and connection into this space. Seeing the images you share, whether candles, tables, family moments, or quiet reflections has turned this into a truly special tradition for our community.
What started as a collection of lovely photos has become something deeper. Many of you now share glimpses of how Shabbat lives inside your homes and hearts, and it’s incredibly moving to witness those moments. It fills me with gratitude every single week.
Reading your comments has become one of my favorite ways to welcome Shabbat.
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In the linked paper, Carl D. Franklin digs deep into the history of the tetragrammaton and debunks some of the myths commonly accepted as fact. The paper is part of a series and well worth the read for anyone interested in textual criticism or translation.
PDF: https://www.cbcg.org/franklin/debunking2.pdf
"Is it true that the name Jehovah borrowed its vowels from Adonai?"Spoiler: No, it is not true. It is a fabrication of a false history. The pronunciation, JEHOVAH was used centuries before Galatinus, so it is impossible for him to have invented it. Moreover, there is exactly zero historical evidence that medieval scholars before Galatinus accepted any pronunciation other than JEHOVAH. They all appear to have unanimously supported this one widely known pronunciation of the tetragrammaton.
A lot of religious and textual myths have resulting in mass misconceptions about biblical textual history and meaning. Some of the myths misrepresent the tetragrammaton, or the name of God. This eventually led to the creation of the artificial name, Yahweh, which is not a Hebrew word, and is in fact a cleverly disguised classical Latin name for Jove. The author defrocks the Galatinus origin myth, proving the name JEHOVAH was in use long before Galatinus.
The sacred name mythos is popular in some Christian and Jewish sects as well as among the Hebrew Roots movement. This paper exposes some of the false history and baseless assertions about the pronunciation of the tetragrammaton. As it turns out, the early Masoretes and the Reformers as well as some early Catholics had gotten it right - JEHOVAH is the correctly preserved pronunciation of the name of God. The name was never 'lost' and it has been known all through recorded history, if even only by a few.
#Bible #MasoreticText #Translation #Theology #History #Philology #Myths #SacredNames #NominaSacra #Judaism #Christianity #Hebrew #TiberianHebrew
ARTICLE: https://x.com/TovRose/article/1844473294503989605
SYNOPSIS
There is no historical or textual evidence that the tetragrammaton was pointed as a 'qere' in the ancient biblical manuscripts. The claim that JHWH is a qere for Adonai is ahistorical and there are only conjectures and not proofs for the qere claim.
Moreover, the structure of the Hebrew grammar proves the tetragrammaton cannot be two syllables, as in the modern neologism, 'yahweh'. The tetragrammaton has to be three syllables, JE-HO-VAH and its shortened form is two syllables: JEHO. Its poetic form is one syllable: YAH and JAH. And there is no support for YAHWEH.
Today we are told that the tetragrammaton or 'sacred name of God' was not pronounced out of 'reverence' for the divine name. This is a Hellenist myth and wasn't even started by Hebrew-speaking people. The tetragrammaton was spoken often inside and outside of the temple, with certain rules about when and where and why it was to be spoken. But there was no actual rule or custom against speaking it--Just rules about making sure to not speak it amiss.
NOTES
Upon reading this article some things stand out to me.
Many claim that the divine name was not spoken and was substituted with 'qere' to avoid speaking it out of reverence for the name. And this is a lie.
Anyone who reveres a name actually wants to speak it and does so with respect and pride, rather than substituting a nickname. It is when we hate someone that we refuse to speak their name or prohibit others from speaking it. For example, most of the world hates the mustache man, and invoking his name is discouraged in polite conversation.
The Hebrew bible text itself repeatedly commands Israel to proclaim the divine name, not to hide it behind nicknames. Any reverence for God and his commandments would prohibit the use of 'qere' substitutions. Thus those who invented these customs were not revering God--they were dishonoring him deceitfully.
So the claim that the name was not to be spoken is nonsensical religious dogma of certain mystical sects, and not historical practice of either the temple priests or the Christians who inherited the Levitical tradition after the destruction of the temple. We must remember true history: When the temple was destroyed, the surviving Jews in Jerusalem were carried off into captivity into other parts of the world by Rome. The Jews who had converted to following Jesus before the destruction of the temple had already escaped Jerusalem before the Roman siege, and carried the traditions with them, and preserved them in early Christianity. These first Christians, most of whom were Jews, had no such custom or injunction against saying the divine name, and it shows in their writings, and in their predecessors copious transliteration of the name. Their tradition was the foundation of European Christianity, which joined forces with the Sephardim to preserve the Old Testament and Hebrew language for over a millennium of years. The Masoretes properly pointed all the words, including the divine name, to preserve their pronunciations.
The entire purpose of the Masoretic vowel pointings was specifically to preserve the correct pronunciation of every Hebrew word in the text, not to hide the pronunciation. There would have been a worldwide uproar in the scholarly community over such a practice as wrongly writing the divine name or mispronouncing it. The historical record is silent on such a thing ever occurring.
The name Jehovah with the 'J' sound is correct ancient Hebrew pronunciation of the divine name. Just as the Sephardim scribes have preserved it all these centuries, the Christian scribes took over their tradition and continued to preserve it from the time of the reformation onward. When Tyndale rendered the name as IEHOUA, he was using the pronunciation taught by the Masoretic scribes and their Christian cohorts. It was not an 'invention' but rather a transliteration into English characters of the day.
We are now at a new crossroads in history where many occultists, kabbalists, pagans, and sectarians are once again attacking the divine name and trying to cloud it with confusion and false myths. This is what liars have always done--invent stories to support their delusions. Perhaps in the coming centuries we should expect another vanguard to come and take of the tradition of preserving the name against this army of confusion.
#Bible #MasoreticText #Translation #Theology #History #Philology #Myths #SacredNames #NominaSacra #Judaism #Christianity #Hebrew #TiberianHebrew
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In the linked paper, Carl D. Franklin digs deep into the history of the tetragrammaton and debunks some of the myths commonly accepted as fact. The paper is part of a series and well worth the read for anyone interested in textual criticism or translation.
PDF: https://www.cbcg.org/franklin/debunking2.pdf
SYNOPSIS
"Is it true that the name Jehovah borrowed its vowels from Adonai?"
Spoiler: No, it is not true. It is a fabrication of a false history. The pronunciation, JEHOVAH was used centuries before Galatinus, so it is impossible for him to have invented it. Moreover, there is a lack of historical evidence that medieval scholars before Galatinus accepted any pronunciation other than JEHOVAH. They all appear to have unanimously supported this one widely known pronunciation of the tetragrammaton.
A lot of religious and textual myths have resulting in mass misconceptions about biblical textual history and meaning. Some of the myths misrepresent the tetragrammaton, or the name of God. This eventually led to the creation of the artificial name, Yahweh, which is not a Hebrew word, and is in fact a cleverly disguised classical Latin name for Jove. The author defrocks the Galatinus origin myth, proving the name JEHOVAH was in use long before Galatinus.
The sacred name mythos is popular in some Christian and Jewish sects as well as among the Hebrew Roots movement. This paper exposes some of the false history and baseless assertions about the pronunciation of the tetragrammaton. As it turns out, the early Masoretes and some early Catholics and the later Reformers had gotten it right - JEHOVAH is the correctly preserved pronunciation of the name of God. The name was never 'lost' and it has been known all through recorded history, if even only by a few.
#Bible #MasoreticText #Translation #Theology #History #Philology #Myths #SacredNames #NominaSacra #Judaism #Christianity #Hebrew #TiberianHebrew #Language #Linguistics
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