Page 128 - Attractive Deception - The False Hope of the Hebrew Roots Movement

Genesis 9:26
And he said, “Blessed be Yahweh...”

Abraham also built an altar to Yahweh, and with the name of Yahweh he prayed to his God.

Genesis 12:7-8
Then Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." And there he
built an altar to Yahweh, who had appeared to him. And he moved from there to the mountain east
of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar
to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh.

Abraham Calling on the Name of Yahweh

As has happened time and again in the apostasy of the Jewish people, the rabbis turned aside from
the pure worship of Yahweh and devised doctrines and traditions which led the people away from
truth. They removed the name of their God from before the faces of Yahweh’s people. Not only did
the rabbis substitute titles for the divine name, making it part of Halakha (Jewish Law) that the letters
Yod-He-Waw-He should be pronounced as Adonai (meaning “Lord”), but they even declared that
Adonai was only to be uttered in prayer. Whenever the Jewish people make reference to their God
in conversation they are commanded to use the phrase “HaShem.” HaShem is a Hebrew phrase
meaning “the name.”

The absurdity of this is staggering. What the rabbis have done is create a form of idolatry where they
worship a name, rather than the Being to whom the name refers. The complete folly of this practice
is that the actual name is NEVER spoken by the Jews. The Talmud, which is revered more highly
than the Scriptures themselves, insures that this is so by declaring that any who utter the name of