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Aug 27, 2016 10 min

Interlude Dalet: N-Grammata

from UNSONG Audiobook Version Hosted by Scott Alexander, Matt Arnold

"The shortest effective Name of God is the Tetragrammaton. This was the Name recorded in the Bible, the one the High Priests of Israel would speak in the Temple of Solomon. The rabbis said it was so holy that God would smite any impure person who said it. Some of them went on wild flights of raptures about the holiness of this Name, said it was the Shem haMephorash, the holiest Name of all. In these more enlightened times, we know better. We call it the Mortal Name, and it just so happens to be a Name whose power is to kill the speaker." A serialized story narrated by Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, Scott Alexander. Here is the website on which he is publishing the text: http://unsongbook.com/interlude-%D7%93-n-grammata/ Episode 19 Duration 10:10 Tip jar: https://cash.me/$MattArnold

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