R. David Kasher on Parashat Va'Era: Divine Disclosure
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Many theories have been offered to explain the Torah’s use of multiple names for God.  Medieval kabbalists understood the names to be expressing different aspects in the manifold nature of the Divine.  Early modern biblical scholars took the same phenomenon as evidence of the composite nature of the Torah.  In Parashat Va’Era, the Torah itself addresses the issue, and suggests that the critical question may not be what God’s name is, but who’s asking.  
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