Bibbia Ebraica
Bibbia Ebraica

Kabbalah su Esodo 20:7

לֹ֥א תִשָּׂ֛א אֶת־שֵֽׁם־יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ לַשָּׁ֑וְא כִּ֣י לֹ֤א יְנַקֶּה֙ יְהוָ֔ה אֵ֛ת אֲשֶׁר־יִשָּׂ֥א אֶת־שְׁמ֖וֹ לַשָּֽׁוְא׃ (פ)

Non proferire il nome del Signore tuo Dio (giurando) pel falso; poiché il Signore non lascia impunito chi proferisce il suo nome pel falso.

Shaarei Orah

Do you not know? Have you not heard? Hashem is the L-rd of the Universe, before Him tremble all of the upper worlds and lower worlds, from the fear of Him the earth trembles and before His wrath who can stand? (Nahum 1:6) Who shall endure before His anger? He places no trust even in His holy ones, and the heavens hold no merit in his eyes. How much less man who is vile and corrupt and who drinks wickedness like water. (Job 15: 15-16). How may a mortal use the His holy names and make from them an axe to chop with? Who is he who conspired to do so? To snatch the kingly crown for his own personal use? Behold, our sages have said: anyone who utters the name of Hashem according to the way it is written has no share in the world to come. The holy Rabbi Chanina ben Tradion did not utter Hashem's name in a profane manner or for his own use, rather in a manner of respect in order to learn and understand the ways of Hashem blessed be He and he was still punished, we who are (spiritually) impoverished and lacking, how much more so!? Don't you see what Hashem of Blessing wrote in His Torah: "You shall not raise your G'd's Name in vain" (Exodus 20:7)? And even though this verse comes to warn against a false oath, the matter is brought in a language that has the understanding of not bringing G'd's name to your lips for vain purposes, since it could have said 'do not swear with Hashem's name falsely' however since it is written "you shall not raise" you learn two things from it. And Moshe our Teacher, peace be upon him, when he went to the High Place and learned from the angels of service the secret of invocation of Hashem's of Blessing, he warned Israel regarding this, and said: "When I call on the Name of Hashem, give greatness to our G'd" (Deuteronomy 32:3). And if the angels of high are warned regarding the invocations of Hashem of Blessing, all the more so [those whose destiny is] worms and earthworms, and even all the more so those whose minds are influenced to make use of the Crown of their Creator. And an even more serious case is the fact that in this time we do not have experts on invoking Y"VY and making use of it in practical ways. And so the only thing that would raise in the act of one who is warned is simply destruction of His world and emptiness in his hand, and in that way the Sages warned "whoever does not have respect for the honor of the Creator it would have been better if that person did not come into the world." (Chagigah 16a; Kiddushin 40a)
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Shaarei Orah

And after this introduction, here I am going to explain. You should know that the name YHV"H, may the One be blessed, dresses itself and beautifies itself in holy names, and every holy name seizes itself [or. Hebrew is מתאחזין] in the truth of this Name, may it be blessed, and each name teaches a specific issue individually. How? When the Holy Name wants to have compassion on God's world and have pity on them, then God clothes Godself in the clothing of Compassion [Hesed] and Mercy [Hemlah] and then the High Name, which is YHV"V brings out the banner of compassion and mercy, and in that same banner is carved the name E"l, and the sign is "each on its banner by signs" (Bamidbar 2:2). And when the Blessed Name brings this banner out, then God does good and has compassion and bestows grace on human beings and is happy with them, and this is the secret of "May the glory of YHV"H be forever, YHV"H will be happy in His works" (Psalms 104:31), and the secret of "and he [Avraham] called the name YHV"H E-l Olam" (Genesis 21:33), and the secret of "E-l King that sits on the throne of Mercy", and the secret of "Y'Y Y'Y E-l Rahum veHanun (Shemot 34:6) and the secret of "because E-l Rahum Y'Y your God" (Deut. 4:31), and the sign is "because E-l, great, Y'Y and a great king over all E-lohim" (Psalms 95:3) - E-lohim, the aspect of judgment, that is to say that the aspect of Mercy is greater than the aspect of judgment. And from this you will understand "And E-lohim tested Avraham" (Genesis 22:1) - E-lohim, that is, the aspect of Judgment, gave the miracle/nes and the banner in the hands of Avraham, who is the secret of the aspect of E-l, who is the secret of the aspect of Hesed, and this is the expression "tested/nisah Avraham", from the expression "raise a banner/nes over the peoples" (Isaiah 62:10). And this is the secret of "God of Abraham, God of Isaac" (E-lohei Avraham, E-lohei Yitzchak) and we don't say "and God of Yitzchak", since the aspect of Judgment is conquered under the aspect of Compassion, since the banner of Yitzchak, which is the aspect of E-lohim is given over to the hand of Avraham, who is the secret of the aspect of E-l.
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