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i was reading "Keeping Faith" by jodi picoult. it's a nice book btw. :)

gist: a 7 year old non-practicing jewish girl starts seeing and talking to God and performing miracles. later on, she recieves wounds on her hands like those of Jesus Christ's, what priests would call stigmata. it is because of this that a lot of Catholics flock to her home, asking to see her, talk to her and possibly even touch her. but the thing is, the God she sees is female. A rabbi (because she is jewish) and a priest (because of the Catholics) debates on CNN whether a female God is possible.

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'Hey, there's room for a female God in Jewish theology.'
The priest shakes his head. 'Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't Hebrew prayers addressed to "adonai eloheinu" - the Lord our God?'
'Yes,' Rabbi Solomon says. 'But there are many Hebrew names for God. Hashem, for example, which means "the name" - very unisex. There's God's presence, Shekkinah, traditionally considered to be a feminine term. My personal favorite word for God is Shaddai. It's always conjugated in the masculine, and for years rabbis have translated it to mean "the Hill of God" or "the Mountain of God." Yet shaddai is amazingly similat to the word shaddaim... which means "breasts."'
'Oh, for criminy's sake,' Father Mulrooney snorts. 'And "hello" minus the o is "hell."'

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i never thought of "hello" that way. HAHAHA.