[Avodah] HaShem as God's Name

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 11:18:20PM -0400, Moshe Y. Gluck wrote:
:> People today have become averse to using the word "G-d" in normal
:> conversations.

: Because it could be Assur? Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 6:3 (yes, the same
: one I cited before, but earlier in the Se'if).

Personally, I'm not thrilled to call HQBH by a term invented for the
Xian trinity.

On scjm, where I sometimes have no choice, I'll use the hyphen distinguish
between references to "G-d" and their deity, "God".

This is about the point in the converation where someone who went to
Maimonides as a child would remember the class where the teacher was
discussing the problem of erasing the word "God" and therefore the
use of the hyphen. RYBS was walking by, and without a spoken comment,
walked into the room, wrote "God" without the hyphen, erased it, and left.

One Jewish Philosophy web site uses "Gcd", which math majors might
recognize as "Greatest Common Denominator".


Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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