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The words God and Lord are written by some Jews as G-d and L-rd as a way of avoiding writing any name of God out in full. The hyphenated version of the English name ( G-d ) can be destroyed, so by writing that form, religious Jews prevent documents in their possession with the unhyphenated form from being destroyed later.
Asking for God to rescue the Jewish people from our travails. On fast days during the repetition of the Amida, Aneinu is said here. Refua רפואה Asking for good health. Birkat Hashanim ברכת השנים Asking for a blessing for the produce of the earth. We also ask for the rain needed to sustain life. Broadly also asking for income.
The main text of medieval Kabbalah, the Zohar, describes the first verse of the Shema ("Hear O Israel, the Lord is God, the Lord is One") as the "Upper level Unity", and the second line ("Blessed be the Name of the Glory of His Kingdom forever") as the limited "Lower level Unity". Schneur Zalman gives the Chabad explanation of this.
The name of the national god of the kingdoms of Israel (Samaria) and Judah is written in the Hebrew Bible as יהוה (), which modern scholars often render as Yahweh. [6] The short form Jah/Yah, appears in Exodus 15:2 and 17:16, Psalm 89:9, (arguably, by emendation) [citation needed] Song of Songs 8:6, [4] as well as in the phrase Hallelujah.
the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water. The mountains quaked at Yahweh's presence, even Sinai at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel.... From the sky the stars fought. From their courses, they fought against Sisera. (Book of Judges 5:4–5, 20, WEB World English Bible, the Song of Deborah.)
Traditionally, Jews believe that God is the creator of the universe. Different sects of Jews view this in different ways. For example, some strictly-Orthodox groups reject the concept of evolution and believe the earth to be only a few thousands years old.
The first occurrence of the name comes in Genesis 17:1, "When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, 'I am El Shaddai; walk before me, and be blameless,' [11] Similarly, in Genesis 35:11 God says to Jacob, "I am El Shaddai: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and ...
Jews traditionally do not pronounce it, and instead refer to God as HaShem, literally "the Name". [8] In prayer, the Tetragrammaton is substituted with the pronunciation Adonai, meaning "My Lord". [10] This is referred to primarily in the Torah: "Hear O Israel: the LORD is our God, the LORD is One" (Deuteronomy 6:4). [5]