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In the Torah, there is a commandment not to take God's name in vain. One simple way to keep such a commandment is to avoid pronouncing the name at all. This can be seen as an example of "making a fence around the Torah," that is, avoiding doing things that are permitted in order to make the decision about what is and is not permitted easy and eliminate the risk of accidentally violating some commandment. When the second Temple still stood in Jerusalem, the Talmud relates that the only person who ever pronounced God's name was the High Priest, who pronounced it only once per year, on Yom Kippur.

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