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Jul 22, 2008, 11:14AM

God's Secret Identity Revealed

Mark Sameth, a rabbi and spiritual leader, recently made a discovery regarding the unpronouncable Hebrew four-letter word for "god." Sameth claims that the word should be read in reverse and when one does so, one reads the Hebrew words for "he" and "she." Images of the hermaphroditic God should create a stir once Sameth's article on his findings is published.

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The tradition-bound Western image of a he-man, masculine God may already be thousands of years out of date, says a Westchester rabbi who believes he has unlocked the secret to God's name and androgynous nature.

Rabbi Mark Sameth contends in a soon-to-be-published article that the four-letter Hebrew name for God - held by Jewish tradition to be unpronounceable since the year 70 - should actually be read in reverse. When the four letters are flipped, he says, the new name makes the sounds of the Hebrew words for "he" and "she."

God thus becomes a dual-gendered deity, bringing together all the male and female energy in the universe, the yin and the yang that have divided the sexes from Adam and Eve to Homer and Marge.

"This is the kind of God I believe in, the kind of God that makes sense to me, in a language that speaks very, very deeply to human aspirations and striving," Sameth said. "How could God be male and not female?"

Discussion
  • That's one hell of a superstition if I do say so myself. Here's a thought: You are your own god. You are the only one who can create the reality that you experience, and only you can experience that one. In that sense, sure god can be both, but you don't need to go back to the beginning of the aeon to make theories that have relevance.

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