Does Beit Shofarot advocate the use of the “unspoken” Name of G-d?
No, we do not for various reasons. One being that in the Jewish community the Name of G-d is not used out of respect for G-d. Another reason for our not using the unspoken Name of G-d is that the actual pronunciation of the Name is not truly known. YHVH or YHWH is what is called a tetragrammaton signifying the unspoken Name of G-d, but due to the fact that there are no vowel marks in the text there is no accurate transliteration. Understand that without the transliteration we cannot know the correct pronunciation. Further more, in the days of the second Temple, the Name of G-d was only whispered one time a year at Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) and that by the High Priest. The only other time that the name could have been used was when someone was being tried for using the Name in an evil way. At that point the accuser was allowed to utter the Name thus condemning the accused. To further state our concerns over use of the Name let us take into consideration the fact that no where in the
