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God in the Kof

שו”תCategory: HalachaGod in the Kof
asked 7 years ago

Why does the Rabbi make a point of writing on the Elokim website in the Kof?

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מיכי Staff answered 7 years ago

First, habit. The point is that this should be discussed. I write with אואו, so it is not a holy name (at least in my opinion). In the books (the later ones, after I understood this) I write this way because God in the book sounds bad and also sounds vulgar and jarring to a secular eye. In regular writing I hesitate, since on the one hand there is no prohibition and no reason not to write what you intend. On the other hand, it seems to me that habit is good to be careful in the name of God. There is another thing to be careful about when writing on a computer, whether it is a heshiva to write the name of God, and in erasing it, whether you violate “You shall not do this to the Lord.”

שיקו replied 7 years ago

Interesting, thanks.

יואל replied 7 years ago

And perhaps there is also room to discuss a forgotten perspective on this matter.
Among rabbis in the past from the Eastern denominations, a problem was raised with accepting the custom of writing with a kof for fear of pronouncing a name (and if it is forbidden to use the combination K”V for K”H) and also from the sound of the name that makes the root L.K.H.
As I think, Rabbi Kapach advocated such a method and Rabbi Uri Sharki addressed this several times.

מיכי Staff replied 7 years ago

That sounds a bit strange to me.

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