What is the name of the Jewish God?
In Judaism God has several names. The most important name of God is the Tetragrammaton, YHVH. Because Jews considered it sinful to pronounce, the correct pronunciation of this name was forgotten the original Hebrew texts only included consonants. Some conjecture that it was pronounced “Yahweh”. The Hebrew letters are named Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh. Jews also call God Adonai, or “my Lord.” Since pronouncing YHVH is considered sinful, Jews would use Adonai instead in prayers. When the Masoretes added vowel pointings to the text of the Tanach in the first century CE they gave the word YHVH the vowels of Adonai, to remind the reader to say Adonai instead. Many Christian bible translators misinterpreted this to mean that God’s name was Jehovah, which is the result of combining Adonai’s vowels with YHVH’s consonants, written using Latin orthography in which “J” is prnounced as the English “Y.” All denominations of Judaism teach that the four letter name of God, YHVH, is forbidden to be uttered except
