Meaning of Shem HaMephorash | Babel Free

Definitions

One of the esoteric names of God within Kabbalah, corresponding to the Tetragrammaton, often referring to a 72-worded variant in particular.

Judaism

Examples

“Neither the divine name⟳ composed of twelve letters, nor the one of forty-two letters, ever obtained the title of Shem HaMephorash—this being the designation of the particular name⟳, or the Tetragrammaton, as we have⟳ already propounded.”

“The death penalty was inflicted only upon the blasphemer who used the Ineffable Name⟳, the Shem HaMephorash, YHWH, or its equivalent Adonai (“Our Lord”).”

“And one time only he disobeyed the Rabbi Low, and Rabbi Low erased the Shem HaMephorash from the golem's forehead and the golem fell down like⟳ a dead one.”

“Shaah - To lay⟳ waste⟳, devastate; 28th name⟳ of Shem HaMephorash”

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