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07/29/2008

And Me is Who?

God is a "dual-gendered deity," according to one rabbi about to publish an article entitled "Who is He? He is She: The Secret Four-Letter Name of God."

(The Hebrew word for "he" is "hoo" and the Hebrew word for "she" is "hee," hence the puns in the article title. Most of us already came up with that clever bit of wordplay in Hebrew school.)

His argument is as follows:
- The Tetragrammaton (secret, unpronounceable name of God) is spelled yod-hay-vav-hay in Hebrew.
- Backwards, that reads hay-vav-hay-yod.
- Hebrew word for he: הו, or hay-vav; Hebrew word for she: הי, or hay-yod.
- God's name backwards is "He-She"; therefore, God is dual-gendered.

(My name in Hebrew spelled backwards (הרף) means "to leave alone".)

Language: ur doin' it wrong.

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