(March 18, 2013 at 11:18 pm)jstrodel Wrote: Before anything existed, there was God in H'shem. God looked over everything and saw in H'Shem's nature that H'shem would make out of all of H'shem's joy a holy, holy creation.
Actualy it is pronounced "HaShem" with a patach, not a sh'va under the first letter. The initial heh as an article always has a "ah" sound, and never an "eh" sound.
On behalf of Hebrew speakers everywhere, please don't fake it if you don't know it.
Thanks!
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