![]() ![]() The Jewish prayer book, the Siddur, teaches, “Nishmat kol chai tivarekh et-shimcha, YHWH elohenu” - “The breathing of all life, praises your Name, YHWH our Elohim.” Many rabbis know the importance of the Tetragrammaton YHWH in relation to breath. The final heh in Yah contains a mappiq dot indicating the heh is to be pronounced as a full aspirated consonant “YaH,” rather than just the qamets vowel “Ya,” adding the breathy “h” sound to Yahh. ![]() It is vowel pointed to “Yah” (yod, qamets, heh) twice in the text. HalleluYah.” Psalm 150:6 retains the short form Yah in the Masoretic text. In Psalm 150:6 Scripture says: “Let every thing that hath breath praise Yah. Yahweh’s very breath filled life into the lungs of man, Genesis 2:7 7:22. Ruach literally means breath, wind or spirit. Yahweh’s Holy Spirit is called the Ruach HaKodesh in Hebrew. Maybe this is why David wrote: “I will bless Yahweh at all times His praise shall continually be in my mouth.” Psalms 34:1. Our very sustenance is the air we breathe. ![]() Yahweh told Moses in response to his question, what shall I call You, in Exodus 3:14 said: “I Am that I Am.” I Am is from the verb of existence HaYah in Hebrew, which means to become, come to pass, as well as sustain. It is no accident that the Tetragrammaton is made up of semi-vowel letters. Vowels are spoken with the open mouth and to inhale and exhale air you must open your mouth. I am also convinced they considered yod, heh, and waw as matres lectionis and I believe the Hebrew tells the story. Could Josephus be indicating the name is an onomatopoeia (formation of a word from the sound associated with it)? I’m pretty convinced he is. In Biblical Hebrew they are used for the unchangeable vowel combinations in Masoretic vowel pointing.Īncient Jewish historian Flavius Josephus backs this up in his description of the inscription on the miter of the high priest: “A mitre also of fine linen encompassed his head, which was tied by a blue ribbon, about which there was another golden crown, in which was engraven the sacred name: it consists of four vowels,” The Wars of the Jews, 5.235. The yod, heh, and waw (which make up the Tetragrammaton) are semivowel letters in Hebrew, commonly called matres lectionis, from the Latin “mothers of reading” and are consonants that are used as vowels. Inhale “Yah” and exhale “weh,” or you can exhale Yah and inhale weh. The uniqueness of this two syllable form YaH-WeH can indeed be breathed, try it. Is it possible that with every breath you take you are breathing the name Yahweh? It has been said the Jewish sages associated the name with breath. ![]()
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