This is one of several different names for God which appear in the original ancient Hebrew Torah - what you call the Old Testament or Five Books of Moses. This one is considered the most holy, and is not even supposed to be pronounced.

What was one of my own greatest epiphanies was discovering that this word was not a noun in ancient Hebrew, but a verb. This is not only consistent with the concept of the Tao, or Way, but also modern science, We know that nothing is static, but that all moves and interacts with everything else in time and space. As Einstein said, "true religion has been ennobled and made more profound by scientific knowledge."

So viewing God, not as a noun, external to us like the "watchmaker" of Christian apologists (what Einstein called a "personal God interfering with natural events") but a verb like the Tao, means that it is an action we are part of. It is not an act of faith, but an act of science to realize that we are part of a larger verb, resulting in "a profound reverence for the rationality made manifest in existence."

What requires a leap of faith is believing that we have the free will to choose our own actions within the overall verb of the universe. I believe in free will, but I cannot prove it. That is my act of faith.