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Please Note: On this
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Name” of the Almighty in Ivrit - יָהוָה - YaHVaH, blessed
be His Sanctified Name, which we usually pronounce
as “Adonai” (LORD) or “HaSHEM” (The
NAME). At all times please treat the most blessed Name with Sanctity and when
we even see the Name, יָהוָה, we should say, לְעוֹלָם-שְׁמו- בָּרוּךְ - “Baruch Shmo Le’olam”
- “Blessed be His Name forever”.
The Sacred Name should ONLY be
used during our daily תְּפִלָּה - Te’fee’lah (Prayers) and regular בְּרָכָה - Be’ra’chah (blessings) &
during Torah studies, but never during a general conversation!
“This is My Name
Forever, and this is My Memorial to all Generations.” Shemot
- Exodus 3:15. (JPS).
“I am יָהוָה, that is My Name; and My
glory will I not give to another”. Yeshayahu – Isaiah 42:8.
(JPS)
Throughout this site I may use
any of the following three versions of the TaNaKh: 1.
“Jewish Publication Society” (JPS), 2. “Sefaria.org” (SEF), 3. “Mechon-Mamre.org” (MEC).
Colour coded
details of the - TaNaKh: 1. Torah =
History & Law, 2. Nevi’im =
The Prophets. 3. *Ketuvim = all
other Writings).
*The Ketuvim - Includes, Poetical
books - Psalms, Proverbs, Job, the Megillot, or Scrolls - Song of Solomon, Ruth,
Lamentations of Jeremiah, Ecclesiastes, and Esther, prophecy of
Daniel, and history of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles I & II.
Some
minor alterations have been made relating to Names and Attributes having been
corrected.
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“Who is our Creator”
With Rabbi, Dr. Reuven Ben
Avraham-Goossens, PhD.
*“This is My Name Forever, and this is My Memorial to all Generations.” Shemot - Exodus 3:15. (JPS-1917 version of the Torah).
I am well aware that parts of this study may be tough, but be assured that I dearly love and honour our beloved Heavenly Father, Blessed Be His Holy Name!
When the priests and rabbis removed the Holy Name from the Tanakh, did you know that אֱלֹהִים - Elohim (God) actually CURSED THEM!
“And now, this commandment is for you, O ye priests. If ye will not hearken, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto My Name, saith צְבָאוֹת- יְהוָה(the LORD of hosts), then will I send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I curse them, because ye do not lay it to heart. Behold, I will rebuke the seed for your hurt, and will spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your sacrifices; and ye shall be taken away unto it”. Mal’a’chi - Malachi (JPS-1917). Later Prophets - נְבִיאִים אַחֲרוֹנִים.
Of course a name represents the reputation of
one who is being named, and it is vital that a name should be treated with the
same respect as the reputation of the One it is spoken about. For this reason,
our Heavenly Father’s Attribute and His blessed Name must be treated with
enormous respect and reverence by all
However, I really have to come to a point, where I must clarify something. Let me commence to clear up something and I will be providing the fact’s, directly from the Tanakh!
What
does the English word ‘god’ mean in relation to the Hebrew word
Elohim?
Answer – No it is not. We need to understand that the wonderful word “Elohim” has never been a name for our beloved Creator!
2… Then, what does the word
Elohim mean?
The fact is that the Ivrit - Hebrew word “Elohim” clearly tells us “who and what” our beloved Creator is, thus it is certainly not a name. The truth is that this word is an “Attribute” of Our Blessed Creator, in other words, “Who and What He is, and does!”
3… Thus “Elohim”, בָּרוּךְ
אֱלֹהִים -
bless Elohim, is this the correct word to use as the
“Attribute”, for our beloved Heavenly Father? Yes it
is, but we should never, ever use that pagan name ‘god’! Let me explain ...
Sadly here comes what will be a BIG SHOCK - about the word ‘god’, Sadly, I have to tell you that it is a pagan word and also a name for a pagan deity, which the rabbi’s at a later date glorified by placing a stroke in the middle G-D, and it was substituted and worshipped as a deity, which it is not!
For those who know the Tanakh well, will know that there were countless pagan god’s (deity’s) around in ancient times, including that one who was known as “Gad” also pronounced as “Gaad,” “Gawd” and later whilst we were in diaspora it became “God.” Let me explain who and what this ‘god’ really is!
“And Zilpah Leah’s handmaid bore Ya’akov - Jacob a son. And Leah said: dg - Gad (fortune) is come!’ And she called his name dg - Gad”. Shemot - Exodus 30; 11 (JPS).
Leah named her baby boy after a pagan deity
and it even became a tribe. We can read about this pagan deity in Yeshayahu -
Isaiah chapter 65, where Elohim warns His people
“But you are those who forsake יְהוָה (the LORD), who forget My Holy Mountain, Who prepare a table for גַּד - Gad (being the Syrio-Babylonian god of fortune), and who furnish a drink offering for מְנִי Meni (the goddess of destiny)” Yeshayahu - Isaiah 65:11.
I will now use the ‘Jewish Publication Society’ (JPS-1917) version of the Tanakh. Strangely the (JPS) version translates it rather in weirdly and in error, as it is completely different and wrong! But the question is why?
“But ye
that forsake יְהוָה,
that forget My holy mountain, that prepare a table for
Fortune (in Ivrit - Hebrew word for Fortune is written as, guess what: גַּד
- Gad), and that offer mingled wine
in full measure unto Destiny (again in Ivrit it is also written as מְנִי Meni”. Yeshayahu -
Isaiah 65:11 (
However, it is very strange that in the JPS version the name of גַּד “Gad” or “Fortune” is suddenly spelled with a capital ‘F’ and מְנִי “Meni” or “Destiny” with a capital ‘D’ like they are highly honoured?
The words of the prophet Yeshayahu - Isaiah
demonstrate the widespread worship of this false deity whose name was גַּד “Gad,”
which
Then also in our Tanakh is the evil name of בַּ֫עַל
גָּד “Baal-gad”
who is also mentioned in Yahushua - Joshua 11:17
In due course most of us ended up in eastern and western Europe where countless changes took place and as the German language was very popular, and Yiddish came into play, the word גַּד “Gad” was rapidly introduced, which later became known as “God” in English.
“Apart from Gad, the son of Ya'aqov, there was another “Gad”. The astrologers of Babel called Jupiter by the name “Gad”. He was also well known among the Canaanites (Kena'anites) where his name was often coupled with Ba'al, also known as “Ba’al-Gad”, which according to Massoretic vowel pointing in the Book of Yehoshua - Joshua he is pronounced Ba’al-God. This same name is discovered in the ancient Germanic languages as Gad, Gott, Goda, Gode”.
Thus the way rabbis decided on “God’s because, the English word "god" comes from Germanic etymological roots stemming from the ancient worship of “superhuman beings of heathen myth” among the Germanic people and “Baal God”.
Thus remember every time you say GOD, God or G-D you are blaspheming the
Holy Name of יְהוָה
אֱלֹהִים (Y-H-V-H) The LORD Elohim) and eventually “Gad to Gawd became “God” and it was the rabbis who
accepted that pagan word “God! Instead of using “El”
or Elohim”, etc, therefore those cursed priests in the ancient days and that
rabbi who wrote the evil ‘Zohar’, which a long time later became
the occultic ‘Kabbalah’ and then the ‘Talmud’ had got
their way and they slowly destroyed many things of the blessed Torah and the
“Tanakh”. And now they use words such as “the LORD” in
capitals, instead of using the four letter blessed “Memorial Name”
in Ivrit יְהוָה - the Tetragrammaton. The Ivrit (Hebrew)
word “Elohim” literally means, “Mightiest of the
Mighty”. I do use it in the correct way instead of replacing it with אֱלֹהִים
in my studies, as it has been done in Tehillim - Psalm 53.
The question arises, why do we as Hebrew’s, and I do mean all Twelve Tribes for we are all still here, using this hideous pagan word “god”, and Christians and other faith also use it. In the Tanakh, the attribute of our Heavenly Father, blessed be He, is mostly “Elohim”, Elohei, or “El”, thus, we should ONLY use this word, being the attribute that distinguishes our Elohim, the Creator of the Heaven and the Earth from all those pagan gad’s and god’s of the pagan world!
But long after the Second Temple rabbis had sadly had lost the plot, just like in the days of Yirmyahu – Jeremiah, and they decided to enter sorcery as they were so involved into that evil Kabbalah, which was based on the Zohar, and fell for and accepted “Gad” thereafter the word “God” would be used rather than our beautiful Tarah based “Elohim”, the Almighty, and because of their error all of Judaism is using a pagan name along with every other faith, being so evil. These evil ones feel that we are supposed to show respect to this pagan word ‘god’, but let us show only show respect for our יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים (the LORD Elohim), בָּרוּךְ שֵׁם קָדוֹשׁוֹ - ‘Baruch Shem Kadosho’ - ‘Blessed be His Holy Name’!
Below are
several Powerful Messages from the Torah!
You Change My Torah and be damned!
It is vital that we remember what we are told in Devarim - Deuteronomy chapter 4, verse 2 as well as chapter 5, verses 28-29.
“Ye shall not add unto the Word which
I Command you, neither shall ye Diminish from it, that ye may
keep the commandments of
At times I feel that I am given a similar job to Yirmyahu, and I am well aware that rabbi’s dislike me for telling the actual truth! Remember how they desired to murder Yirmyahu, but truth is the truth, and Elohim always had a Name and he desired it to be known to all Generations and Forever by His actual Name being, יְהוָה - YaHVaH, בָּרוּךְ שֵׁם קָדוֹשׁוֹ - ‘Baruch Shem Kadosho’ - ‘Blessed be His Holy Name’!
Tragically Elohim knew that man would interfere with what He had given them, and thus on various occasions clearly stated
“Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish from it”.
Tragically, Israel still did just that, and in
due course the priests and rabbis had audacity to alter His Sacred Name, and
further changes were made after the Second Temple was destroyed, and the rabbis
continued to alter our blessed Tanakh and added so many man-made laws, and
created a completely new faith which was more like an “Rabbinic Judaism”, which now completely seem to
override the blessed Torah of יְהוָה
אֱלֹהִים, blessed be His Holy Name, He had so lovingly had given to us!
And always remember our motto seen on the logo above: “The More Torah, the More Life”,
for יְהוָה
אֱלֹהִים, blessed be His Holy Name, is the one who gave
us Life!”
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In Conclusion, a Question to Deepen the Conversation:
Which part of this Tanach study or possibly a particular line or
statement within it has touched you the most? And how do you feel
about spending more time studying our beloved Tanakh? I pray that you are doing
well as a faithful Hebrew, and אֱלֹהִים - Elohim willing you are upholding as many as
possible of our blessed Mitzvoth’s?
I am well aware that the modern world sadly contains too many
deviations as well as problems that seem to get in the way of
our Hebrew lifestyle. Yet worse than that, these days there are far too many
enticements, which can so easily throw many off track,
and I know that has happened far too much. Thus, if there are struggles
that are taking place in your life, be it at this or at any time, I am well
aware that sadly it can often have a terrible and a cruel effect upon your
life?
Dear reader, please remember this, pray for peace and solitude in
your life, and then work on keeping as calm as possible and learn to improve
your life, for אֱלֹהִים - בָּרוּךְ
אֱלֹהִים - Bless Elohim, He is always there
and ready to help and guide you!
This site was originally set up for those who needed to return to our
blessed and wonderful faith, thus be wise and work on your faith and pray at
least three times a day, and always seek אֱלֹהִים - Elohim’s guidance!
Remember what אֱלֹהִים - Elohim, blessed be He, said the following via a
number of our prophets...
“Return unto Me,
and I will return unto you, saith צְבָאוֹת- יְהוָה- the LORD of hosts”. Mal’a’chi - Malachi 3:7. MEC).
And Remember ...
Enjoy your Sabbath Rest, Shabbat
Shalom!
אֲנִי
יְהוָה
אֱלֹהֵיכֶם, בְּחֻקּוֹתַי
לֵכוּ; וְאֶת-מִשְׁפָּטַי
שִׁמְרוּ, וַעֲשׂוּ
אוֹתָם
וְאֶת-שַׁבְּתוֹתַי, קַדֵּשׁוּ; וְהָיוּ
לְאוֹת, בֵּינִי
וּבֵינֵיכֶם-לָדַעַת, כִּי
אֲנִי יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם
“I am אֱלֹהֵיכֶם יְהוָה
(the LORD your Elo’hey’chem);
walk in My statutes, and keep Mine
ordinances, and do them; and hallow My Sabbaths, and they shall be a sign
between Me and you, that ye may know that I am אֱלֹהֵיכֶם יְהוָה - YaHVaH
Elohim”. Yechezkel - Ezekiel 20:19-20. (JPS).
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