The Missing Name | Shabbat Night Live

this program is brought to you by the partners of a rude awakening international help others find truth support a rude awakening international today if you've been watching this series you know that if a scribe made an error with the name of jehovah he was supposed to cut it out rather than destroy it but has anyone ever left out a vowel or even the complete name of jehovah in an ancient scroll well you're going to find out tonight with nahemia gordon because it's the end of the sixth day the sun is set and this is shabbat night live [Music] as they take this message out into the world [Music] well shabbat shalom torah fans welcome to shabbat night live with michael rood would you believe that the name of god has actually been forgotten in ancient scrolls yes the scribe actually forgot to write it like they wrote the rest left a space for the name of the almighty and simply forgot to come back and fill it in we'll show you the proof of that tonight what nahemia gordon is real first 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tell us about it right and so you've brought out some that you thought were especially poignant that you wanted to bring out and we're actually going to pray for these folks today okay so why don't you bring out a couple that you have sure absolutely let me just say up front that i always post the link on the ambassador facebook page so there's intercessors just waiting uh to pray for your needs so just trust that there are people that are praying for you indeed it's on the bottom of your screen right now just rude awakening doctor v slash prayer and that's where you can go and post your prayer requests you can post our pray or pray that's right that's right because it's not just us praying for those folks if you feel inclined if everything's going great in your life wonderful take that opportunity take that time to go and pray for other folks you can go in there you can check the box to say i prayed for this and what happens is the person who submitted the prayer request gets a notification in their emailing saying hey someone prayed for you it doesn't involve any names or anything it's all anonymous but at least you know people have seen it they've responded and you know that your prayer is being brought before the father by someone other than yourself it's a wonderful thing now they can't put their name if they like or they can choose not to you can be anonymous or you can put your name beautiful so um this one is anonymous please praise my husband and i have told our local area foster care licensing representative we are willing to foster children in crisis we have done all paperwork necessary and have been approved so they're ready to foster children this is from rebecca she's spent the summer with her 13 year old niece who's on hospice care she's she's fought and she's full of life but she has some leukemia and lymphoma and the doctor says there's nothing else they can do so she's just asking for prayer and morgan she said i i love this transparency here 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uh let's pray for all these folks that were just on these prayer requests right now just a reminder james 5 16 says the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much so and it's not that we are righteous we are made righteous in yeshua right that is the thing that that verse i'm glad you brought that up that verse has always spoken to me um since he hasn't always spoken to me since jehovah sort of dropped it on my head going you think you're righteous you are not righteous you're only righteous through yeshua so the only way that your your prayer will avail much is if you are sending it via yeshua amen that is the only way your prayer will be heard that's right so why don't we do that right now why don't you pray with us we want to thank you for this day we want to thank you for your just your faithfulness to this ministry your faithfulness to michael we thank you that he is improving every day and we bring these things up before you today the ones that angie has picked out 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at michaelroo dot [Music] tv the night of the last supper yeshua took our tone our tone leaven bread and he blessed the most high and he broke the bread and said this represents my body which will be broken for you he took the cup and he blessed the most high and said this represents a renewed covenant in my blood the following day the following day on the 14th of the month of the aviv there were two large loaves on the wall of the temple and when they took the first loaf down after that no more bread no more leavened bread was eaten then when they took the second loaf down that's when all of the leavened bread in the city of jerusalem and everywhere else was completely expunged it was burnt in the fire that was the rehearsal that was done the following day just before the passover lambs were sacrificed in preparation for the feast of unleavened bread but yeshua represents in this very thing in the breaking of the bread that we do in the kiddush in the sanctification every shabbat we remember that his body was broken for us by his stripes we were healed and in the taking of this cup as we say this prayer in thanksgiving to almighty god baruch jehovah eleno melaka lam baray prehagophen yeshua said this is the renewed covenant in my blood as often as you do this do this in remembrance of me every meal any time any sabbath any feast any time that you need to remember his broken body and shed blood we do this in remembrance of him [Music] to date there are more than 2400 manuscripts with the full vowel pointings of the name of jehovah how do we know that it's due to the work of nehemiah gordon but nehemiah welcome to shabbat net live there are places where there is a missing vowel you tell me what's the song so in most manuscripts of the hebrew bible when they come to the name yudhi vavav they put in the first vowel and they put in the third vowel and they leave out the second vowel this is in something like 80 of the manuscripts they leave out the vowels in most places and this was something years ago i was studying and researching i've done teaching on this one of the best teachings i've ever done actually is in the open door series that i did with michael and it's an episode called the tower that still stands and i tell the story there i think it's there that i share the incident i'm not going to repeat that but what i discovered is that the aleppo codex was considered the mo the most accurate most authoritative manuscript of the tanakh that exists it was the one that even a thousand years ago scholars would come from all over the jewish world to check their bibles against the aleppo codex back when it was in jerusalem that manuscript in most instances there's a missing vowel that's missing it's not there and every once in a while they put that vowel in and it spells out ye the pronunciation jehovah i'd originally found this in the two key manuscripts that's not the leningrad codex and the aleppo codex and then the challenge came and they said well that's just two manuscripts well it's two of the most important okay but it's just two manuscripts just two scribes who maybe thought that was the vowels or they made a mistake and put that vowel in this is what was argued and they ended up saying okay let's find a third manuscript i found a third and then a fourth and a fifth today we have over 2 400 manuscripts and look there are people who have said to me i don't care if you have ten thousand manuscripts those are the vowels of adonai this is the the standard argument i've done many teachings about this i i don't want to go into that aspect of it um the what's significant is that i i did it teaching a number of years back scott in which i um argued that when the scribe of the aleppo codex put in the full vowels he did it by mistake right that's been essentially my argument why do i think he did it by mistake because in most places he didn't put in the full vowels meaning that tells you what his intention was and his intention was to leave out that middle vowel and when he puts it in it's because it's a slip of the mind where he knows that's the vowel and he puts it in and he always puts that o when he puts in the middle vowel um so i had done a teaching a few years back scott in which i had spoken to a man who got to study the aleppo codex directly he sat with the aleppo codex and studied it and they compiled what i was told was a database and in this database he told me to his recollection they never erased a vowel or accent of god's name and when he told that told me that i'm like wow so that explains why in those places where the scribe put in the o he couldn't go and erase it in order to hide what that vowel was because he wasn't allowed to erase the vowels of god's name this is what i was told by this old man who had studied this in the late 70s and early 80s directly with the aleppo codex and created the database well i remember at the time i did this teaching i said i wish i could see this for myself and verified i wish i could see the database so i got to see the database and i almost immediately saw that that was wrong that not only did they erase the vowels and accents they erased the actual letters of god's name in the aleppo codex i eventually got to study the aleppo codex myself directly i spent nine hours with it i examined it with a microscope with infrared and ultraviolet and there's no question that they erased not only the consonants or sorry not only the accents and vowels of your hair but the actual consonants now this is rare information because i don't know if i've heard of anybody going through the aleppo codex with a microscope as far as an infrared for that as far as i know i'm the only one to do a mic a microscope at 50x infrared and ultraviolet if there is somebody else you know let me know who that is um now the database we're talking about was is this where we're talking about there was a database yeah it was actually a stack of papers it was it was an analog database right meaning like there was a line and it had a what's called a lemma and then it had okay here's what we found right so it was the the you know the rumor of the database was greatly exaggerated it was a database it's not a thumb drive this is you know it was an analog what back then they thought of as a database i guess right yeah so it wouldn't be our modern definition so uh i got an amazing opportunity to go to geneva switzerland where they have one of the six key manuscripts of the bible it's the only one of the six key manuscripts that's in private hands oh all the others belong to institutions and that manuscript is known as sassoon 1053. so soon with this family of merchants of jewish merchants who were in hong kong and iraq and uh england and at one point one of the people in the family who had this key manuscript died and because the british have this death tax right you pay taxes when you're alive but then when you die your estate has to pay taxes and they had to sell off these manuscripts because of the death tax and somebody in geneva switzerland bought the manuscript and uh for years nobody knew exactly where it was they had some idea there was a rumor that it was the guy in switzerland but we didn't know for sure and nobody had studied it and i got to go to switzerland um now why is this manuscript so important it's referred to in a list there's a synagogue that existed in cairo and this was at a time when the aleppo codex before it was called the aleppo codex it was just called the crown altaj or haketer it was called the crown and there's a a list of the books that are in a certain synagogue in cairo and it mentions there that in this list of books they have a manuscript of the bible called the brother of the crown the brother so this is the this so the sassoon 1053 is believed by scholars to be the brother of the crown the brother of the aleppo codex so why they called the brother is it that so the reason they call it the brother is number one it's from that period okay and number two it's the earliest reference to the aleppo codex outside the aleppo codex right it refers to the manuscript of the bible written by aaron benasher which is what the aleppo codex is in the actual manuscript of of the sassoon 1053 itself right okay so the sassoon1053 the brother of the crown i'm studying this in geneva switzerland and i had found some places in the aleppo codex in which i believed and i had argued that not only did they erase the vowels and accents but the actual letters but it's very difficult to prove because how do you prove what they erase they've erased it right so we saw in previous episodes how you can see traces you can see the outline of an olive and the remnants of avav well in these cases with they wrote another word over it in the aleppo codex they wrote adonai over it and in one case a different word over it when it came to the brother of the crown in geneva switzerland in 1st samuel 16 9 i have what is definitive proof by the way here you can see me in geneva sitting i'm like the proverbial cheshire cat standing over the uh the um you know that's the type of smile where i'm actually holding back because there i am holding the brother of the crown sassoon 1553 a manuscript i had searched for for years i had every time i met somebody who i thought might have some connection to this person in switzerland i'd say do you know so and so and then out of the blue i'm invited to come and examine this manuscript i'm assuming that's a very rare opportunity if it's in private hands like so i asked the owner of the manuscript when i met him how many scholars have come before me and the two people who came with me um he said you're the first ones really yeah yeah she is annoying he had purchased the manuscript and he stuck it in a vault and it i don't know it was literally a vault he stuck it somewhere i didn't know where right because we actually met in a third location right in an outside location because we weren't allowed to know where this was kept exactly but it was kept in some secret location um for insurance reasons right i mean it's worth millions of dollars and uh we go there to examine it and we had armed guards outside literally there's armed guards outside as we're examining this manuscript in this warehouse and um i got to spend three days with this codex with this manuscript of the hebrew bible studying it also using the microscope with ultraviolet and infrared and there is one passage though where i found it didn't require ultraviolet infrared it was as clear as day what had happened oh look at that now there's two images here because one is the end of a column in the beginning of the next column and what happened here in the brother of the aleppo codex is in first samuel 16 9. and what happened is the scribe made a mistake we looked at mistakes in torah scrolls this is a mistake in a codex which is the book form right codex is the opposite of a scroll it's like a modern book except it's written by hand on parchment and uh this what the scribe did is he accidentally copied the verse first samuel 16 9 twice and when he realized the mistake instead of erasing the entire verse the first time he kept the second instance for whatever reason instead of erasing just the entire verse he only erased the bottom half of the verse and why did he do that because in hebrew manuscripts if there's a space in the manuscript certain types of spaces have meaning they tell you this is the end of a thought and the beginning of a new thought there are prophecies where those spaces can change the meaning of the prophecy is verse 12 part of verse 11 or does it belong to verse 13 well the space tells you that and so here he didn't want to create a new space in this manuscript this is a scribe a thousand years ago really like 100 years ago me in the 900s in israel he's copying this manuscript he's written first samuel 69 twice and he erases the bottom of the letters why is that important for the name jehovah so i was told they never made mistakes with the name and if they did they would remove it from circulation and you'd never find it and i got news for you guys i could found find things that were removed from circulation they still exist they're just in private hands that's cool in this case it's in private hands because he bought it at auction but this was used by a jewish community for you know hundreds and hundreds of years and it was ju used at one point by the jews of cairo and somehow it ends up in the hands of this um sassoon collector and now in the hands of a jew who lives in geneva jacques safra a very important family of uh who of um philanthropists uh the um campus of the hebrew university of jerusalem is named after his uncle right he's a very important and respected family of philanthropists he now owns this manuscript so here you can see uh that the bottom half of the verse right not the second half the bottom half of the verse the bottom half of each letter was erased and that was to erase the words without creating an extra space so i come along as a reader and i say okay he made a mistake and he erased it but this isn't a space that's meant to be interpreted as the end of a thought what's so important about this is because he wrote the same verse twice i can read what's been erased and because he left the top half i can still read what's been erased right and i know exactly what it's supposed to say because he wrote it twice right so and why did he write it twice let me jump over here and show you this this was an example where it was bound to make a mistake our mistake was bound to happen we have three times in a row where in the in the text as it's supposed to appear we have the word and he passed over or he caused the passover this is the scene in first samuel 16 where samuel comes to jesse uh and he wants to he wants to see the one that jehovah's chosen as to be anointed with oil essentially as the messiah of that period and jesse brings his eldest son and he brings the next son and the word there is he caused a past before samuel and we have three times the letters vav you and i in bet resh the first time is and he passed him over and then he passed him over and he caused to pass over and twice you have the exact same words and jesse caused the passover at the beginning of verse 9 and at the beginning of verse 10 and just above it you have and he passed him over right so you have three times the same exact word that begins a clause meaning part of a sentence and then you have three times in the same area where it ends the sentence or part of a sentence did not choose you did not choose you did not choose so why is this important so the scribe is copying and how does the scribe copy he looks at the text at the at the empty page that he's copying and he looks at the one he's copying from and he puts into his temporary memory one word two words three words right and maybe even he says them according to some traditions he pronounces the words perhaps and then he writes down what he has in his memory or what he just pronounced and he looks back and he copies a few more words he looks back and copies a few more words and then every once in a while he looks back and his eye jumps and he looks at the wrong place and why is this the type of thing that would happen as a common error we would expect because if you have the same phrase repeating two phrases that repeat and he caused them to pass and jehovah did not choose right so the beginning and the end have the same phrase and what happened is as he was copying his eye jumped from one of those phrases to the next phrase and he ended up copying the same verse twice he thought he was copying the next verse but he really he saw he was copying verse 10 but he really copied verse nine twice pretty innocent mistake very innocent mistake happens all the time but this is a beautiful example of it right this is the type if i was looking for this type of mistake i would look in 100 manuscripts and i'd probably find five of them where this mr one or two maybe right i'd find manuscripts this is where i would expect the mistake to happen so within this and the important part i guess that i'm assuming is that in the scratched off portion where there's still half the we know what it says you know it says and he scratched off the word of yahuwah he actually scratched off the name of jehovah the name of yahuwah yeah it says and i can read at the bottom where it says the name that is i know from the top half of the letters i'm not speculating that's what was erased i can still read it yeah because he only scratched off the bottom half of it and this is huge scott because up until now i've been able to suggest to argue to present what i think is evidence pointing to the erasure of god's name in the aleppo codex right contrary to what i was taught and contrary to what i taught because i was sharing what i was told and i said i wish i could verify it for myself and i verified that it was wrong that they actually erased god's name not only in the aleppo codex but in the brother of the crown they and this you can't say well he didn't erase he obviously erased so now in the tradition of where you are not absolutely not supposed to do such things you're lay supposed to cut it out as we learned we saw that in taurus scrolls so what so why did the scribe do it yeah so how did they get away with it i mean two possibilities and those that's those are actually two different questions right how do you get away with it so the answer has to be that he was not a rabbinical scribe this had so we looked at deuteronomy 12 3 and 4 and i said well in the context it doesn't mean don't erase god's name but the rabbis interpreted it to mean don't erase god's name even when it's written by mistake but the context of deuteronomy 12 3 and 4 we don't have time to go over it again but in that context the meaning of those of of the commandment there is don't worship god the way the pagans worship their gods the rabbis interpret it to mean don't erase god's name even when it's written by mistake so there's no way any rabbinical scribe did this it's impossible this had to be a carrot scribe we can say 100 definitively two things the scribe was a kerai and then very likely his patron whoever owned the manuscript was a carrot because if the character scribe would erase god's name that would have upset his patron as well right he was working for somebody maybe a community so this had to have belonged at some point to a carotid community um and i think we can suggest a similar thing about the aleppo codex so here is an example where the word adonai lord in ezekiel chapter 6 verse 3 is written over some erasure and i s what else what would they erase what could it possibly be more than likely it's jehovah and i can only say more than likely right i can't read yet one day i will be able to hopefully with technology i can't yet read what was erased to this instance here's a case from another manuscript written by the same scribe who wrote the conscience of the aleppo codex and he here definitively i can say he erased yehovah because i can still make out the letters um here's another case and i'll end with this this is malachi chapter 1 verse 12 in the aleppo codex and what you can see is adonai is written over in erasure and um are we going to have another segment after this of 20 minutes or so yes okay so i'm going to continue i'm going to save i'm going to save the next thing because it's really exciting but um but here let me just uh set this up malachi chapter 1 verse 12. it says when you say the um uh you it says in you desecrate i love the context here because it's so beautiful you and you desecrate it when you say the uh the table of the lord is defiled right and the word for lord there in hebrews i don't know it's not jehovah but it's written over an erasure in the aleppo codex it's a written over over an erasure and it seems that what the scribe originally wrote was some other word that would fit there what could that word be probably jehovah now here's the beautiful thing the scribe who wrote the consonants of the aleppo codex wrote another manuscript and this is that other manuscript and here we can actually make out the letters you'd have hey so i'm not speculating here that the scribe wrote the aleppo codex she was named bambooyah uh he was one who wrote the consonants he wrote otto now he's sorry he wrote jehovah and the scribe who wrote the accents and the vowels came along and said that's a mistake and scratched it out and wrote aruna in its place wow and i want to pick that up when we when we come back okay because i talked in a previous program about christian david ginsburg about how he argued that the 134 places where it says adonai that originally it said yehovah and this is one of those places and now it's not speculation i mean ginsburg to some extent was speculating he was saying originally it it said jehovah and they changed it to adonai here i can see originally it said yova i can actually make out the letters in this manuscript and in the aleppo codex i can see something was erased in the same exact verse in the same exact place i can only imagine your reaction when you first found these but i was like oh no this is not supposed to exist but here it is i have the truth now all right more truth coming up right after this we're going to give you a couple minutes to uh support shabbat night live we want to thank you in advance because you brought nehemiah here and you provide the opportunity for others to see this program so we thank you again in advance for supporting this program we'll give you a couple minutes see you then [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you for supporting shabbat night live where no tradition is sacred not even that of erasing the name of jehovah and the aleppo codex nehemiah gordon we've seen that this is now true thanks to your work well and look i have to say when i found this i i was i was kind of it i said oh no i'm i i was i was told that this was not the case and it was kind of like th this isn't i'm wrong this can't be i must did i misunderstand something here um and that's why i shared about the brother of the crown the sassoon 1053 manuscript there's no two ways about it it's definitive there you can still see it says it's playing this day and it's been erased right you see the tops of the letters um so i it was kind of a shock to me because i had been teaching for years something that wasn't true i was taught that they looked at every hebrew manuscript in the world and they found there were only five or six differences between them and they were listed in the back of our bibles in the hebrew and you know it was it may whatever or the the years if so and so were or the years and so and so was that's actually one of them in in one of the begat lists like who cares right yeah and it was verses were um it's one letter in hebrew and or is the word daka spelled with an allah for a hay in deuteronomy 23. but here we have in the aleppo codex itself right and i struggle for words to describe this because scholars will also often talk about how well the masoretic text says this meaning the official jewish version and then here's something that differs from the masoretic text this is the aleppo codex this is when we say masoretic text what we really mean is the version preserved in the aleppo codex and it has both one that was originally written and then the version that was then erased and replaced with a different word so originally in malachi 112 it said yehovah in the aleppo codex and that was erased and replaced with adonai so first of all it tells you this was not a rabbinical scribe or if it was a rabbinical scribe which is still possible i don't rule it out that maybe he erased the name because he said look i'm making the master text of the bible i can't i can't have a word written above the line or in the margins and they didn't do that in the aleppo codex there's no above line in the margin because they knew people would be coming to copy this as their source so maybe for that purpose he allowed himself to erase the name right it's possible it could have been a rabbinical scribe it's entirely possible so but the point is originally it said yehovan it was replaced with adonai which means lord as opposed to the actual name of god now there's 134 places where it says i don't know there's another about 300 where it says let's leave that aside right it's lord jehovah or jehovah lord there it's a title but what about 134 places where it says i don't know by itself so ginsburg in the 19th century this this scholar jewish scholar had who converted to christianity had argued that the 134 places originally said jehovah well i don't know if he's right or not about 134 places but in malachi 112 i found another piece of evidence which is really cool so in the jerusalem talmud there's a discussion between two rabbis okay and they're talking about how many times it has god's name and it doesn't use the word name it says which means mentions how many mentions of a divine name or title are there in the books of haggai and malachi and the one rabbi comes along and says i counted them there's 93 and the other rabbi comes along and says no i counted them there's 103. and we know the difference between the 93 and 103. the second rabbi was including elohim which is a title as the mentions right meaning he's defining uh a title or name differently right i don't have a word for it in english right i could use the word appellation right that's a fancy word for name right but an appellation could also be a title gotcha so when he writes this word that can mean both right so either 93 appellations or 103 appellations it depends if you include elohim or not we all agree it includes yehovah what about elohim here's the beautiful thing look in your bible software people today there aren't 93 instances of yehovah and there aren't 103 if you include elohim there's 91 and 101. so what's the two difference the two different is two verses in malachi where it says adonai so when these rabbis had this discussion in the around the third or fourth century in their bibles in malachi 112 and when their place in malachi it didn't say adonai it said jehovah so it's not just the because you could say well the aleppo codex the scribe made a mistake and he fixed the mistake what's the big deal and then the second manuscript written by the same scribe he made a mistake and he corrected the same mistake well now we have evidence that hundreds of years before the aleppo codex in the bible of the rabbis who are recorded in the jerusalem talmud in the third or fourth century they had jehovah in malachi 112 so i don't know about the other 132 places out of the 134 but in those two i think we have a strong case to make that it originally said yehovah and malachi 112 and the other verse of malachi that has yehovah that originally it was yehovah not arunai and i have to say this blew away my paradigm this completely i shouldn't say completely right because it's the same fundamental paradigm i trust the word of god but if somebody came comes along to change something it leaves traces behind you can't get away with changing god's word without leaving behind the smoking gun and yehovah's blessed me with the ability to go look for those smoking guns and find them right i mean we can still see what it said i could even read it in one of the manuscripts right the remains of the letters are there and we have enough evidence that we can it's kind of like the john 6 4 study that that we did right the manuscripts are still there where you can point to evidence right and this is really important because you know ginsberg can make a guess and say well i think originally it said this but that's your opinion i want to see the evidence right now you might say well no in our bibles today that were printed and in the aleppo codex as it was corrected it says i don't know okay fine doesn't change the fundamental message but i want to get as close to the original as i can now i want to show you something else in the aleppo codex scott and this is a beautiful thing here um if it lets me go forward hold on um okay so this is ezekiel 28 22 this is one of the two places i originally found the full vowels and there is no question whatsoever that in this instance the scribe made a mistake by putting in the full vowels what do i mean by that so whenever yudhei vavhe is attached to the phrase to a phrase that connects it to adonai in other words if it's lord you'd have hey or you'd have a lord which appears approximately 300 times and it's interesting why i say approximately um we don't have time to get into it but it could be 300 301 whatever it is meaning lord jehovah jehovah lord whenever it's part of that phrase the tradition says don't read it as adonai which you normally read read it as elohim so that means that this should have the second and third vowel here and the first foul is a different discussion though i'll get into a different time but the second and third vowel here is connected to the pronunciation or should be connected to the pronunciation elohim particularly the third vowel right should be it should be something like yehov and it normally is yahovi in the 300 places that's connected to aronai and in this place it's not it's yehovah even though by tradition it was red elohim it had the vowels jehovah now you can't say these are the vowels of elohim because elohim has an e in it not an r right right and so everybody agrees this is a mistake so this whole thing the chem yeah they never made a mistake with the name if they did they'd remove it and they'd put it away and burn it and destroy it and you never see it well i mean everybody agrees this is a mistake and it's i call it the mistake that got it right in other words the scribe as he's copying knows god's name is yeah so he puts those vowels in he doesn't put other vowels in this case he puts in those vowels even though he pronounces it as elohim and reads it as elohim he knows yehovah the vows of the actual name okay so this isn't new i mean this is something i've talked about before here's a new thing i discovered when i was studying the aleppo codex with a microscope i found in isaiah chapter 50 verse 7 that underneath the vav of jehovah the scribe erased what was an ah and turned it into an e remember we said what is connected to adonai it's read as yehovi so it currently says yahoo v but you can see under the vav something's been erased yep and originally it said yeah right because the nakuda are above the bob is right so actually belongs to the hay and the vowel underneath the vav is e but originally there was something it was an ah which is a line with a dot under it in this type of uh writing right by the way for those who had a problem with what you did with the uh the cup and they said well that's not what a hay looks like well that's what a hay looks like in the aleppo codex this is the aleppo codex right it almost looks like he took the bottom half of that nuku and just left it there and took the line that's exactly what he did it's not almost that's exactly what he did he turned to kamats into a herik he turned it on to an e that's literally what he did he took a razor and scratched it off now i had done a teaching saying he never erased the scribe of the lip of codex aaron beneshare not the one wrote the consonants the one who wrote the vowels aaron beneshare never erased the vowels or accents of upper codex this is what i was told and i said i wish i could verify it and this proves definitively that it's wrong because here he erased the the the what's called the kamats the ah of jehovah and turned it into yov so that's pretty cool so i'm happy that i was wrong because now we have the truth yeah right and i and i and i said at the time i would you know to defend myself here i said i wish i could verify for myself and did i actually think i'd ever be able to verify it for myself i didn't and jehovah's that amazing that he gave me that opportunity it's amazing i want to jump to another topic scott if we have time go for it we haven't maybe you know we talked about doing a bonus episode maybe i'll save some of this for the bonus episode but i want to get started so i showed you this on my computer before scott oh yeah this is that from that 13th century torah scroll we talked about in a previous episode and you were immediately able to tell me what was different about uh something on this page something here that jumps off the page in the torah scroll this is in genesis uh it says and a mist came up from the earth and a water all the face of the earth fashioned the man dust from the earth and you immediately saw what was wrong it's not wrong what's different about this page about certain words on the page i don't think everybody can see it it's it's the different ink color for the name of jehovah so it's brown the ink and then all of a sudden yehovah and elohim meaning jehovah and god are written in a different shade of ink i first thought it was black but when i actually saw the original i thought so it's just a very dark shade of brown it might not come across on on the screen but in the original it's actually a different shade of brown and when i saw that i said what's going on here it looks as if the scribe left blank spaces for the name of god and the title elohim and then came back later and added it that's what it looks like and what really points to that that is that there's a space on the second line it says you'd have hey yehovah and then elohim and hey you had mem and then there's a space now in this torah scroll we've looked at this torah scroll in previous studies in previous sec sessions and we saw he puts a space after verses right there's a space between verses but this is the middle of a phrase not just a verse and you have elohim formed the man right it's the middle of a clause why would there be a space in the middle of a thought in the middle of a clause that's not the end of a verse and what happened here apparently is the scribe left the space for yehovah elohim yehovah god and miscalculated how much space he would need so he left extra space and there's an extra space after the meme of elohim so i find this in one taurus scroll who knows what's going on right you never know from one piece of evidence you need lots of evidence so here's an uh another torah scroll from another scribe actually it's the same torah scroll but it's a sheet that was replaced about a hundred years later and this scribe left a blank space for yehovah which was filled in not by the same scribe but by a different scribe who had different handwriting he wrote it really small even when he had enough space he actually wrote it even in a different orientation you can see the top doesn't line up with the with the original he happened to match the ink pretty good though maybe he was using from the same inkwell maybe it was a master and his disciple we don't know right we'll get to some of the reasons i don't think we'll have maybe in the bonus episode are we going to do a bonus episode sure why not in the bonus episode we might get to some of the reasons why this was done but here you can see he left blank's places for the name yehovah and then he came and a different scribe came and filled them in in a second phase in the in the original part that we just saw um from the 13th century it was the same scribe before that and here it's a different scribe here's another one from the 14th century where a second scribe filled in the name this was actually found in a book a binding of a christian book what the christians had done is they cut up a torah scroll and used that letter to reinforce a book and now scholars are going around europe into these uh archives and they're finding hebrew books in the bindings of other books and they actually it's actually the greatest discovery of of our times is what's called the european geneza the original genizah was a room in the in a synagogue and some spaces in a cemetery in cairo where they found all these ancient books uh well now we have the new geniza it's called the european geniza there are thousands of pages that have already been recovered from from the bindings of books here's another one this one's in the vatican i got to hold this for myself and i went to the vatican and you can see in the last line it says elohim and he said yahuwah elohim and yahuwah is squeezed in now this is really interesting because in the first example i showed you the scribe wrote both yehovah and elohim in the second phase right he left blank spaces and he came and he or a different scribe came and filled them in here he only did it with jehovah how do i know he only did it with jehovah well first of all in the in the original which you can't really see in this image the ink is a slightly different color and i only know that because i held it in my hand but also you see elohim isn't squeezed in only a hova squeezed in now you can't always tell right two lines from the bottom uh it has jehovah at the end of the line and it's not squeezed in because he had enough space but every once in a while he needs to squeeze it in because he didn't leave enough space and you can see it here i mean it almost looks comical how small it's written right it is yeah so why would the scribe leave a space and then fill it in during second phase i'm afraid we're only going to get to this during the the um the the bonus episode i'm gonna try to get to it and then do some other stuff in the bonus episode i'm really excited about this in the bonus episode can we talk about esther and the secret name written in esther yes i wanted to do that we wanted to and we didn't get to it ironically that was supposed to be like the second episode we did i think in our outline and we never got to it so here's another scroll now all the ones i showed you up until now are from europe they're ashkenazic scrolls the jews of europe and they're real they're from the 12th 13th 14th century this one is written either in israel or cairo meaning it's what's called oriental meaning from the middle east um from the mid 10th to 11th century meaning this is roughly the time of the aleppo codex and the leningrad codex maybe a little bit older than the the leningrad codex and you can see yehovah is written by a second scribe not even the original scribe i mean it just jumps off the page right you don't have to read hebrew to see this one word that's repeatedly written that looks different than all the other words now up until now i've been speculating or i've been inferring that what they did is they left blank spaces because how else do i explain this right how do i know for sure that's what they did so i found the smoking gun here we have a scroll where the name yehovah looks different i put it in uh surrounded it with red and you can see he the name jobal looks different it looks like it was added in and then we get to genesis chapter 18 verse 1 in the second column and the scribe comes to fill in the name jehovah and he never fills it in he leaves the blank space and the blank space is there until this very day in the fragment that survives in the this is from the cairo ganesa wow um then you see in a second place three or four lines from the bottom he did the same thing he wrote the name uh or he left the space for yahuwah and we know you appears there in the text right because we know these verses right they're known for the bible and it's supposed to be yehovah and he left a blank space that never got filled in and you think well this is a one-off it's one one time this ever happened here's another one this is a sephardic scroll written um somewhere probably uh maybe in spain or north africa it could have been italy too uh sephardic doesn't always mean spain itself um and here uh one two three four five six seven eight times the scribe left a blank space for the name jehovah and he didn't fill it in now question for you why did they stop and leave a space and come back so that we will get to in the bonus okay there's no way i can do it in the next minute and 40 seconds but here's something i want to show you that's really really cool so let me read you what it says at the end of that line and we're going to see some really cool stuff i'm going to show you the dead sea scrolls where they they did a similar thing with the dead sea scrolls and in other ancient hebrew man or ancient manuscripts i should say one of them is greek so here it says uh and the second line it says most holy kodesh it is most holy la tu and then yehovas is what we expect to come next right and in hebrew the word two is what's sometimes called the inseparable preposition right that's the term that scholars of some have come up with uh the inseparable preposition that's actually attached to the following word and uh meaning the word two doesn't appear by itself it's it's glued onto the word after it in this case to yehovah so that word that's glued onto yehovah was written but not the name yehovah itself so he left the blank space but wrote the inseparable preposition he did it again on the one two there's a blank line and then the fifth line he did it again uh the fourth written line of text at the end is supposed to say um he uh atoned his soul and yehovah isn't written there and again it happened a few lines down so there's no question that this was the practice to write the name to write the name in a second phase after leaving blank spaces and i can't wait to the bonus episode to explain why this was done we know why it was done i have definitive proof that i've discovered and i'm gonna share it with the audience it's very exciting stuff scott excellent all right well thank you to hemia so we mentioned a bonus episode but we have another episode after this we're gonna take a little break and come back uh next week with keith johnson and we're gonna speak to keith johnson and nehemiah gordon next week and then we'll get into the bonus episode uh on the michaelrood.tv app so if you don't have the app get it now you'll be able to see this bonus episode uh nehemiah thank you again for sharing what you've shared thus far and i can't wait to see in the bonus episode with more information so stay tuned for that until then we'll see you next week on shabbat night live with nehemiah gordon and keith johnson shabu ato shalom torah fans give this video a thumbs up and share it with a friend tap the subscription button and the bell icon and i promise to update weekly with in-depth biblical research be sure to download the new michaelrood.tvf for both 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