With our first encounter with Rashi as second graders in a haredi heder, we are taught that God’s two names יהו-ה (ADONAI) and אלהים (ELOHIM) refer to the Almighty’s alternating manifestations as a ...
The words El, Elah, Elohei and Elohim are pre Abrahamic west Semitic generic terms for a God or for many Gods. In these various forms they appear almost 3,000 times in the Hebrew Bible. But for Jews ...