[Avodah] HaShem as God's Name

David Riceman driceman at att.net
Wed Sep 17 06:21:26 PDT 2008


SBA wrote:
> This thread reminded me of us as youngsters saying (when not davvening or
> making a brocho) "Adoshem" rather than "Hashem".
> I thought that this may have been a Hungarian thing (and the KSA 6:3 says
> not to use that term). Our Rav at the time, Rav Betzalel Stern zt'l, also
> used that word. 
> But in later years I noticed that so did the rav of Chabad, Rav Groner zt'l.
> So there must have been a far greater useage in earlier times.
>   
I had a friend from Worcester (Massachusetts, not England), also 
affiliated with old-school Habad, who said that.

David Riceman



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