August 15, 2008
- Is God A Hermaphrodite?
Manya Bachear writes:
The journal of Reform rabbis published an article this week proclaiming that if the four-letter Hebrew name of God were spelled backward and pronounced, it would sound like the Hebrew words for "he" and "she."
Held by Jewish tradition to be unpronounceable, the Tetragrammaton is often replaced by "Adonai" or "Lord" when Jews read scripture. (…)