SEGULAH NIFLAH

 

Segulah Niflah is an ancient Jewish commentary on Psalm 20.  No one knows who wrote it or when it was written, but it uses 7 different pronunciations for the Divine Name, including the most common Masoretic pronunciation.  It was published in Shulcan Aruch, and contains a lot of fascinating information.

 

It tells us several things.  First it tells us there is more than one way to say the Divine Name.  It also tells us that there are Hebrew manuscripts of at least parts of Scripture that had the Divine Name recorded with a variety of vowel combinations.  It tells us that the scribes QUIT annotating 60 of the Psalms, but tells us that the rest continued to be annotated with vowels and it provides the vowels for Psalm 20. 

 

It was written during a time when it was permissible to pray using the Divine Name, since it encourages you to do so.  That's not the case today, but it was when it was written, which is why the commentary says that when someone is in trouble, he should pray Psalms 20, and say it using the exact vowels he provides for the Divine Name - a different set of vowels for each time the Name appears in the Psalm. The author also specifically says that the vowels he records are what he recieved as a matter of tradition, and was in those non-Masoret copies of the Psalms that were still floating around at the time the commentary was written.

 

Segulah Niflah also answers several questions scholars have debated over the Divine Name, such as a complex debate on the use of gender.  It's a fascinating reading from Jewish history.  I have provided a complete copy of the Hebrew text and an English translation of Segulah Niflah at my web site at http://www.messiahalive.com/thename.htm where I sift through the pages of Jewish history showing you what has been recorded about the Divine Name over the years.  Yes, it will tell you that much of what you have been taught is wrong - but that is because what you have been taught disagrees with ancient Jewish tradition.  And just in case you might be wondering if what you have been taught is right and Segulah Niflah is wrong, well......this is not a rogue document because it was published as part of Shulcan Aruch in 1550 AD - a document so important to Judaism that the end of the Rishonim period of Jewish history is defined by the publication of Shulcan Aruch .

 

If you go to http://www.messiahalive.com/thename.htm , you will find a copy of Segulah Niflah in the PDF I provided entitled "The Complex Name of the Almighty" along with 2 video lessons on the Divine Name, the second of which goes into more detail on this ancient commentary.

 

 

 

Shalom, Joe

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