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[[File:72 Fold Name of God.png|300px|thumb|The 72-fold name of God written according to the art of grammar]] | [[File:72 Fold Name of God.png|300px|thumb|The 72-fold name of God written according to the art of grammar]] | ||
'''Shem HaMephorash''' (Hebrew: שם המפורש, alternatively '''Shem ha-Mephorash''' or '''Schemhamphoras'''), meaning "the explicit name," is an originally Tannaitic term describing a hidden name of [[Yahweh|God]] in [[Kabbalah]] (including Christian and Hermetic variants), and in some more mainstream Jewish discourses. It is composed of either 4, 12, 22, 42, or 72 letters (or triads of letters), the latter version being the most common. | '''Shem HaMephorash''' (Hebrew: שם המפורש, alternatively '''Shem ha-Mephorash''' or '''Schemhamphoras'''), meaning "the explicit name," is an originally Tannaitic term describing a hidden name of [[Yahweh|God]] in [[Kabbalah]] (including Christian and Hermetic variants), and in some more mainstream Jewish discourses. It is composed of either 4, 12, 22, 42, or 72 letters (or triads of letters), the latter version being the most common. | ||
The phrase "Shem HaMephorash" is shouted alongside "Hail [[Satan]]!" during the [[LaVeyan Satanism|LaVeyan Satanic]] [[Black Mass]]. | |||
==12-, 22-, and 42-letter versions== | ==12-, 22-, and 42-letter versions== | ||
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קרע (kra), which begins the second part of this variant, translates to "tear out," and when combined with שטן ( | קרע (kra), which begins the second part of this variant, translates to "tear out," and when combined with שטן (Satan), the conclusion of the second part, it demonstrates that invoking this Name helps one defend against Satan, or their ''yetzer hara'' (evil/selfish impulse), alongside other divine creative acts that incanting Divine Names can aid kabbalists in joining HaShem with. Perhaps in this self-improvement and mystical apotropaic vein, the 42-letter Name has been turned into the acrostic prayer ''Ana b'Koach'', which begs HaShem, with the power of His Right Hand, for freedom from captivity, sin, and impurity. Since this prayer is an extended incantation of this Name, it has an additional line spoken silently, as the acrostic implies secrecy: "''Barukh shem k'vod malchuto l'olam va'ed''." "Blessed be the name of the glory of the kingdom forever." This prayer has seven lines, which correspond to the seven [[Sefirot]] below the ''Mochin'', also known as the Supernal Triad (those being [[Binah]], [[Chokmah]], and either [[Keter]] or [[Da'at]]). All of the above is why the prayer is part of the liturgy for the Counting of the Omer, the seven-week period between the Jewish holidays of ''Pesach'' (Passover) and ''Shavuot'' (the Feast of Weeks) in which Jews are challenged to count and bless every day in between and ponder a system of Sefirotic permutations (each week has one Sefira, while the other six cycle through it, going from [[Chesed]] to [[Malkuth|Malkut]]. For example, the first day (which begins the second night of Passover) is ''Chesed b'Chesed'', the second is ''[[Gevurah]] b'Chesed'', etc., while the very last day before ''Shavuot'' will be ''Malkut b'Malkut''. These meditations on the Sefirot are meant to improve our personal attributes in this period. Besides particular farming and sacrificing practices, the Omer is meant to represent the first time Bnei Yisrael counted it: leaving ''Mitzraim'' ([[Egyptian religion|Egypt]]) and heading to Canaan. During the journey, they stopped at 42 locations, once more connecting to the importance of this particular Divine Name. Despite his staunch atheism and absurdism, this might be the true kabbalistic reason that Douglas Adams declared that number to be the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything in ''The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. | ||
==72-fold name== | ==72-fold name== | ||
The "72-fold name" is highly important to ''[[Sefer Raziel HaMalakh]]''. It is derived from Exodus 14:19–21, read boustrophedonically to produce 72 names of three letters. This method was explained by Rashi, as well as in ''[[Sefer HaBahir]]'' (c. 1150~1200). Kabbalist legends state that the 72-fold name was used by Moses to cross the Red Sea, and that it could grant later holy men the power to cast out demons, heal the sick, prevent natural disasters, and even kill enemies. | The "72-fold name" is highly important to ''[[Sefer Raziel HaMalakh]]''. It is derived from Exodus 14:19–21, read boustrophedonically to produce 72 names of three letters. This method was explained by Rashi, as well as in ''[[Sefer HaBahir]]'' (c. 1150~1200). Kabbalist legends state that the 72-fold name was used by Moses to cross the Red Sea, and that it could grant later holy men the power to cast out demons, heal the sick, prevent natural disasters, and even kill enemies. | ||