Rabbi unveils a secret of God
By Gary Stern
The Journal News • July 21, 2008
http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008807210344 or
http://www.irreligion.org/2008/07/21/rabbi-unveils-a-secret-of-god/The tradition-bound Western image of a he-man, masculine God may already be thousands of years out of date, says a Westchester rabbi who believes he has unlocked the secret to God's name and androgynous nature.
Rabbi Mark Sameth contends in a soon-to-be-published article that the four-letter Hebrew name for God - held by Jewish tradition to be unpronounceable since the year 70 - should actually be read in reverse. When the four letters are flipped, he says, the new name makes the sounds of the Hebrew words for "he" and "she."
God thus becomes a dual-gendered deity, bringing together all the male and female energy in the universe, the yin and the yang that have divided the sexes from Adam and Eve to Homer and Marge.
