[Avodah] Are "Hashem" and "Elokaynu" valid Shaymos?

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

For the purpose of shevu'os, foreign-language Names count as kinuyim.
But they are different from other kinuyim, because when praying in a
foreign language one must use a kinuy that serves as His proper Name
in that language.   If, in our language, "Hashem" is such a Name, then
it would seem to have the same status as "God".  Though perhaps one
could argue that since it's used for the specific purpose of *not* using
an actual Name, it keeps its status as "a placeholder for the Name".



> One of the writers for Kollel Iyun haDaf writes "Hash-m" (or is it
> "HaSh-m"?). Strikes me as "too much". OTOH, I grew up writing "G-d",
> which is actually a name of the Creator that was borrowed from the
> title of the Trinitarian Deity! Whereas RYBS famously held "God" was
> perfectly appropriate. (See personal recollection by R/Dr Josh Backon
> at <http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol06/v06n045.shtml#10>.)

As I have replied many times to this, RJB is making a fundamental error.
The source (AFAIK) for writing "G-d" is the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (or
perhaps his source), who says to do this when writing letters that are
eventually going to be thrown out.  The concern is *not* that "God" or
"adieu" are Names that must not be erased, but that since they *are* His
proper names in that language, and are the proper objects of prayer in
that language, it's a bizayon when they are thrown out on a dung pile.

The story with RYBS was on a blackboard, not a letter.  The blackboard
was not going to be thrown out, at least not with the writing still on
it.  So IMO RYBS's point was to object to the spread of this proper
practise to areas where it was by definition inapplicable.  On the
contrary, if one is about to throw out a letter with one of these
pseudo-Names in it, or a blackboard with one of them written on it,
one should davka erase it first!

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Zev Sero                            Gemar Chasimah Tovah
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