A Jew's view from the capital of Israel and the future site of the Third Temple, may it speedily be rebuilt.
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007
God With An "o"
That is to say, "God" and not "G-d" or "Gd". The reason is:
The common rabbinic opinion is that "God" written in any language other than Hebrew, has no holiness and can be erased. (see Shach Y.D. 179:11, and Mishneh Brura 85:10)
3 comments:
My G-d! Is that true?
Wow.. how cool it that?
Thanks for the heads up.
So can we also stop using L-rd and
H-shem too?
LLM,
Absolutely!
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