ABSTRACT
Who is G-d? When Moses asks for His name, He identifies Himself as “I Am Who I Am” or “I Shall Be As I Shall Be”: hy<h]a≤ rç≤a} hy<h]a≤ (Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh). Therefore, Moses is to tell the children of Israel that I Shall Be has sent him (Exodus 3:14). But what sort of name is I Shall Be? How is such a name to be understood, especially when the tradition reveals many, many names of the One called I Shall Be? In the previous chapter it was suggested that the divine I Shall Be pertains to a future-oriented meaning in life that instills life with a sense of mission: G-d reveals Himself to Moses as I Shall Be and sends him to liberate the Israelites. With the revelation of the hy<h]a≤ the yet that instills existence with meaning comes into being. Open-ended and replete with possibility, the Divine hy<h]a≤ reveals G-d as the One who has no limit, who is confined to no horizon of being.
