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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a Jew I’ve never understood this G-d thing. Why don’t we just just write “God”?  Some have told me that it’s because Hebrew has no vowels. Even if this were true, so what?  God is English, not Hebrew. Secondly, Hebrew has vowels. The Alef and the Eyin are vowels. Before Ezra the Scribe recreated  the Hebrew alphabet to look like Aramaic, the Hebrew alphabet looked like other Mediterranean alphabets. “Alpha Bet Gimmel Dalet” is Alpha Beta Gamma Delta.”  It’s merely that as the centuries passed, how words were pronounced changed. Therefore, how an Alef or Eyin was pronounced in one word became different then how they were pronounced in other words. Therefore, it became more convenient to teach that the Alef and Eyin were “silent letters.” But that was not originally the case. [/quote]

It's because you're not supposed to throw away or erase G-d's name. So if you actually write out "God" there is a risk of it being erased or thrown out. So you substitute the dash. (Though personally I always wondered if it really counts in English, haha, but that's how I grew up doing it.)

Like so many other Jewish rules and superstitions, it's kind of crazy when you think about it. I was entertaining myself the other day reading a book my dad got on the laws of Passover, which included gems like you can have a non-Jew cut your hair during Pesach but only if he has fasted. As my family always jokes, there's a reason so many Jews become lawyers ... these nitpicky legalistic formulas are part of our heritage![/quote]

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