This is the week G‑d gives the Torah to the Jewish people. The great revelation on Mt. Sinai when Moses receives the “Ten Commandments” – The Decalogue. It is a story very familiar to us, in detail. An important event date in a belief system, and biblical history. Correlating such events to real time in
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I am | Yaweh
Yahweh. God’s name in Hebrew. Since the Jewish people were forbidden from saying it, the scribes wrote the vowels for adonai, the Hebrew word for Lord, with these consonants so they would remember to say “Lord” instead of calling God by his first name. When German archeologists found the texts, they transliterated the word Jehovah
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