[net.religion.jewish] E----m

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.