The Name

rules: tetragramaton =4

Elokim = E

Elokenu = Eu

Elokeichem = Em

combination = 4E

The prohibition of a Baal Keri:

1. to study Torah
2. recite the shema
3. say Birchat hamazon
4. recite a blessing before eating
   1. and thus to eat!

These Prohibitions have in common the invocation of the holy (ineffable) name

This realization leads to the idea that perhaps, in the days of the Talmud, the name (especially 4) was pronounced during these ( or some of these activities.

A weakened conception is that these activities require a concentration that includes the imaging of the name ( Hirhur?)

This has impacted on my davening as I try to image the holy name during the shema, tefillah and birchath hamazon.

It is an impingement of autodidact Kaballah, a Kabbala- like sensibility that derives directly from the Talmud. This is a very special thing.

From this I have noticed:

1. The combination name appears in all of these.
2. In contrast, the combination name rarely appears, as such, in the (preparatory) Tehillim.
   1. although the individual elements are often contrasted here
3. The repetition of the NAME in shema is unusual
4. note that the mention of the NAME is acknowledged by the baruch SHEM that follows the Shema
   1. the baruch shem was the response to the pronounciation of the name by the Kohen Gaddol as we have it in the Yom Kippur liturgy.
      1. I take this as evidence for the specialness of the mention of the NAME in the shema
5. the end of the three parsh shema is a verse that mentions the combination name (4Em) twice
   1. a closure to the shema that begins with the 4 twice ( 4Eu4)
6. the double name appears in the Tefillah only as the beginning of 2 bakashoth ( 1.e. excluding the first and last 3 brochoth)
   1. birchath hashanim
      1. the prayer for material sustenance
   2. shema kolanu
      1. the general summation of requests.