Daily Signet

The Hebrew name for God is not Yahweh or Jehovah or Adonai or El or Emmanuel. The Hebrew word for God is not a name. The real God has no name. The real God is not a “The." The Hebrew word for God means, “That which is unnamable.” That which is Holy and universal, ineffable and divine. That which cannot be noun-ed or bounded or controlled or propitiated. You’re damned to graven images if you give God a name. The Upanishads point to a Spirit beyond Brahma, Brahman and Atman; beyond the Vedas and tapas and ritual. The creative spirit seeded in all creation. The creative spirit that breathed its life into all creation. Holy and universal, ineffable and divine.

I am home in a world of unbounded, uncontrolled, uncontained, unpropitiated, ineffable God at play, at recreation; a world in which God says, “I Am that I AM.” A world that sparkles and vibrates. In which God says, “Behold,” and sometimes doesn’t even say what to behold.     

Ben Leichtling