YHVH Energy for improving our own world

Islam has its 99 names of the one and only God. Judaism also has many different names (in the 70’s); but the YHWH: יהוה is not just a name; it is also a description of the one and only God’s energy of material creation and YHVH’s energy of an infinite flow of energy, the ongoing capacity to do physical work, and to cause consciousness in ideological change. YHVH started before the big bang and is a fundamental quantitative property that can be transferred between objects, or transformed from one consciousness ideological view to another. YHVH could make Dark Energy Help Unite Gravity and Quantum Physics.

So YHVH is not JUST a name. It is an infinite flow of energy, the on going capacity to do physical work, and or to cause ideological change. It started before the big bang and is a fundamental quantitative property that can be transferred between objects, or transformed from one ideological view to another, But YHVH cannot be created or destroyed because there is something, and not nothing. Our universe had a beginning, but like infinite numbers, it will not ever have an end and “YHVH energy conducts every affair from heaven to earth, then all ascends to Him on a Day whose length is a Thousand years of reckoning.” (Qur’an 32:5)

The Jewish community sees YHVH (יהוה) not described as a vague New Age “energy”. Instead, it is understood as the essential, unutterable Name of God representing the ultimate source of being, existence, and dynamic potential. The Jewish community views kindness, ”energy” or spiritual reality of YHVH spans biblical, theological, and mystical dimensions. A Qur’an orchestra with 99 players still needs one conductor. The YHVH is linked with the Hebrew verb meaning “to be,” “to become,” or “to cause to become”, famously referenced in Exodus when God speaks to Moses at the burning bush. Scholars commonly translate “Yahweh” (meaning “He brings into existence all that exists” or “The Self-Existent One”).

Prof. Rabbi Jonathan Magonet states: Moses, at the burning bush, requests that God reveal to him the divine name, but God is reluctant. God first responds אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה “ehyeh asher ehyeh” (Exodus 3:14), best translated as “I will be what I need to be”, which is not a name at all, or at least, not the one Moses needs to establish his credentials with the Israelites. Moses does not respond to this answer, so God speaks again (“and he said”). When this second response is met by Moses’ further silence, God speak a third time “and he said further”), when God complies and reveals the name is YHVH who is considered eternal and existing outside of time, meaning YHVH was present before and during the formation of the physical universe rather than arriving on planet earth later.

This pattern of initial divine reluctance to fulfill Moses’ request, followed by a subsequent acceptance, is repeated in the aftermath of the Golden Calf episode, when Moses conducts a delicate negotiation in an attempt to restore God’s relationship with the Jewish people. Moses asks to understand God’s “ways,” presumably to learn how to ensure that God will continue to remain with the Jewish people: Exodus 33:13 “And now, if indeed I have found favor in Your eyes, please teach me Your ways, that I may know You, so that I may continue to find favor in Your eyes, and look, this nation is Your people!”

The four Hebrew letters (Yod, Hey, Vav, Hey) are deeply connected to the Hebrew verb hayah, which means “to be”. In Jewish theology, YHVH is interpreted as a grammatical fusion of past, present, and future: Hayah (He was), Hoveh (He is), and Yihyeh (He will be). “Hasten towards (NHVH energy) forgiveness from your Lord, and a Paradise as vast as heavens and earth, prepared for those mindful ˹of Allah˺. ‘Who spend (YHVH charity) during ease and hardship, and who restrain anger and who pardon the people – and Allah loves the doers of good” (Qur’an 3:133-34)

The God who Becomes: Rather than a static, distant entity, many Jewish theologians view YHVH as a dynamic being, the active force that continuously brings the universe into existence and remains present within it. When God self-reveals to Moses in Exodus, He uses the related phrase Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh (“I Will Be What I Will Be”), signaling infinite potential.

Out of extreme respect for the holiness of the Name, the Jewish community does not pronounce YHVH out loud. Instead of trying to vocalize the letters, Jews substitute the Name with Adonai (“My Lord”) during prayer, or Hashem (“The Name”) in everyday conversation.

Transliterations like “Yahweh” are academic reconstructions mostly used in secular scholarship or Christian theology; they are not used in Jewish communal worship.

Mystical “Energy” in Kabbalah: In Jewish Mysticism (Kabbalah), the Tetragrammaton is viewed as the blueprint of cosmic energy: The Four Letters as Channels: Kabbalists teach that each letter of יהוה corresponds to a different stage of divine energy filtering down into the physical world—from boundless divine wisdom down to physical manifestation (Malchut).

Gematria (Numerology): The numerical value of YHVH is 26. This number heavily influences Jewish rituals. For example, on Shabbat, challah bread is traditionally dipped into salt three times because the combined numerological value of bread (lechem) and salt (melach) can be divided to honor the 26 energy of the Divine Name.

Some ancient Jewish teachings note that the letters of YHVH are all silent, breathing sounds. The “energy” of the YHVH is thus likened to the very act of breathing, meaning every breath a human takes is an unconscious utterance of the Divine. And “Originator of the heavens and the earth. How could He have a son when He does not have a (female) companion and He created all things? And He is, of all things, Knowing.” (Qur’an 6:101)

The name of the Jewish people is intrinsically tied to this divine source. The Hebrew word for a Jew, Yehudi (from tribe of Judah/Yehuda), actually contains all four letters of the (יהוה) with the addition of the letter Dalet (ד), which means “door”. In Jewish thought, this signifies that the core
purpose of the Jewish community is to act as a doorway of kindness, divine consciousness and awareness into the physical world, and into yourself to expand your own spiritual energies.

Non Jews, who discover that they have Jewish ancestors, and are attractive to becoming Jewish, will find that carrying something with the letters YHVH on it, is very uplifting and positive.

Writing as a Reform Rabbi, I argue that the world will not end this century, but will be positively transformed toward a Messianic Age foretold by the Prophets of Israel, with societal redemption catalyzed by the Jewish community and supported by parallel figures in Christianity and Islam.

Realization of this YHVH vision is said to require voluntary moral adherence across three Abrahamic traditions, and is linked to practical steps such as Jewish-Muslim cooperation on the Temple Mount, and reinterpreting “from the river to the sea” as a call for two peaceful states free of hatred and death.