'Elohim' Means "Over the Flames" -- For God is the One Concealed OVER the Stars of the Universe

(Edit 9/20/21. Note: I do not ask the universe for anything. I believe God is the consciousness of the Ineffable above, beyond, and over the universe, is the Master of it, and is the Source of all beneficence.)

In Jewish Meditation: A Practical Guide, Aryeh Kaplan repeatedly refers to the Chasidic leader Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (1772-1811). Nachman's mantra was Ribbono shel Olam (pronounced Ribboinoi shel Oylawm), Hebrew for "Master of the Universe." It was a mantra, and also a petition to open a conversation with God (see Kaplan p. 57). Ignorance may be master of this world, but we call upon the Master of the Universe.

Olam, universe, comes from the root alam, to conceal. "The universe is seen as that which conceals the Divine" (Kaplan p. 67). The Zohar suggests a meditation involving contemplation of the stars. "Lift your eyes on high, and see Who created These, the One Who brings out their host by number, He calls them all by name" (Isaiah 40:26). The two Hebrew words for Who and These happen to combine into Elohim, the name of God, and this in the context of the stars.

This reminded me of Victor Alexander's translation of this compound word, Elohim: "Over the Flames." What was meant by Over the Flames (of Glory)? The pictograph of this was Ashur, the Creator God of the Assyrians (remember, please, that Abraham was an Assyrian): the Son working from the sun disc surrounded by flames proceeding from Him "in ordered series of waves" (Alexander). This is Al-lo-hiem: "(The One) Over the flames."

What clicked all of a sudden was that all these words started with the Hebrew letter alef. This, and the proximity of the pronunciations of shel Oylawm and Al-lo-hiem -- the Universe, the Stars, and the Flames. God is He Who is Over the Flames, Over the Stars, Over the Universe. THAT One, the Master of the Universe, is also Eil Shaddai Who is conscious of me, Who blesses me, and Who enters into conversation with me. And you. In mantra meditation petition Him, contemplate Him, speak to Him, and listen to Him.