EPISODE · Jan 10, 2024 · 10 MIN
R. David Kasher on Parashat Va'Era: Divine Disclosure
from Ta Shma · host Hadar Institute
Many theories have been offered to explain the Torah’s use of multiple names for God. Medieval kabbalists understood the names to be expressing different aspects in the manifold nature of the Divine. Early modern biblical scholars took the same phenomenon as evidence of the composite nature of the Torah. In Parashat Va’Era, the Torah itself addresses the issue, and suggests that the critical question may not be what God’s name is, but who’s asking.
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Many theories have been offered to explain the Torah’s use of multiple names for God. Medieval kabbalists understood the names to be expressing different aspects in the manifold nature of the Divine. Early modern biblical scholars took the same phenomenon as evidence of the composite nature of the Torah. In Parashat Va’Era, the Torah itself addresses the issue, and suggests that the critical question may not be what God’s name is, but who’s asking.
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