yiri@ucf-cs.UUCP (Yirmiyahu BenDavid) (12/04/84)
First, my opinion is that God is not a name associated with the God of Israel in any meaningful way. Therefore, I do not hyphenate the word 'God' or guard it as I would one of His *real* names. Regarding E----m: That this is in the plural seems consistent to me with Maimonides findings that God has many aspects which are seen by the goyim (defined in earlier articles to be 'non-Torah-observant', not otherwise derogatory) as separate 'gods'. Yet, we have only the One Unique Creator who is all of these gods/aspects to us. Another way of saying this is to say that our One Unique God is E----m. I would especially reiterate what Barukh has already mentioned... that the verbs used with E----m are in the singular. This seems, to me, to wrap the solution quite tightly: these aspects are encom- passed in our One E----m who DOES this or that as opposed to the elohim (gods) of the goyim who (supposedly) DO this or that. The One Unique God of Israel is E----m to us as all of the elohim are to the goyim.