[Avodah] Saying Sheimos Aloud

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 02:17:46PM -0500, Ken Bloom via Avodah wrote:
> See
> https://jewishaction.com/religion/jewish-law/whats-the-truth-about-saying-g-ds-name-in-the-course-of-torah-study/
> for a summary of poskim about saying God's name in various contexts
> (learning, berachot, and zemirot). It seems like the consensus of poskim is
> to allow it. Regarding RSGanzfried himself, he writes in Kitzur Shulchan
> Aruch 6:3 ...

Mod hat on: Sorry, I should have inserted something, maybe a
transliteration. So I'll include the translation of R Avrohom Davis
(of the Metzuda set of sefarim):
    Included in the concept of fear is not mentioning His great Name
    except in praise of Him or when reciting a berachah whenever required,
    or when studying Torah.

>           which seems like he permits it.

Indeed.

I was amazed by the latter bit of that se'if, that RSG considers "Gutt"
or "Adieu" to be kinuyim for the Creator, since both are most often
used for the trinity. Adieu isn't even the actual French word for God;
it is conjugated -- "with God" (a+Dieu). And yet he prohibits throwing
out mail that says "Adieu" on it. Would he have a similar problem with
"Goodbye", as people originally were saying it as a slurred up version of
"God be with you?" It's not like French people in his day were thinking
"With God" when they were writing "Adeiu!", the etymology was lost under
generations of usage as "farewell!"

On the other hand, he also calls "HaGadol", "HaGibor", etc... kinuyim,
and they only refer to Hashem within the context of the sentence. (Unless
transliterated as I did, with a capital letter denoting Who I am
speaking of.)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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