VilnaGaon
Puritan Board Sophomore
Most Reformed folk have little patience with Jewish or Rabbinic fables. However they continue to translate the Tetragrammaton in the OT as LORD rather than YHVH or Yahveh or Yahweh. This is giving heed to the silly Rabbinic superstition regarding the pronounciation of the Tetragrammaton. The Tetragrammaton occurs more than 6000 times in the OT and most Christian Translations render it LORD or GOD. We almost never pronounce it in daily or corporate worship and almost never use it in our daily converse or religious publications. There is no Biblical Prohibition against pronouncing the Tetragrammton in sacred discourse(reverentially of course). It is a Rabbinic Prohibition but interestingly one in which the Kabbalists worm their way out of by pronouncing the Tetragrammaton backwards as HAVAYAH (Siddur Yavetz by Rabbi Yaakov Emden)
Would appreciate any thoughts on this.
Would appreciate any thoughts on this.