The top line shows God's name yhwh.
               The bottom line shows the Hebrew word Yehudi ("Jew").

Too incredible to accept?  Torah itself confirms this great secret when Moses instructs each individual Jew (Yehudi) "[if you are righteous,] all the peoples of the earth will see that the name yhwh is proclaimed on you, and they will revere you." (Deuteronomy 28:10, italics added; see also Numbers 6:27; Isaiah 43:7; Jeremiah 14:9, 2 Chronicles 7:14.)

That secret is awesome enough, but the next is revolutionary:  God's hidden name yehudi (i.e., yhwh) actually refers to the Egyptian god djyehudi (a.k.a. Thoth, the author of the Egyptian Book of the Dead).

Again, too incredible to accept? Well, Hebrew scripture confirms this great secret, too. Through the mouth of the prophet Hosea, yhwh says: "I am yhwh, your god from the land of Egypt . . . ."  (Hosea 13:4, italics added; see also Hosea 12:10.) In short, the Torah is fundamentally a syncretistic text, aimed at harmonizing Egypt's venerable Thoth cult with Canaan's rival El cult.

The two leading religious systems of Moses' world were the Egyptian religion and the Canaanite religion, and they were in competition with one another.  Torah's beautiful message is that the two rival gods (Egypt's Thoth and Canaan's El) are really One, and therefore the two rival peoples can also be One, living together in peace and harmony.  Moses led two groups up from Egypt, but he was able to unite those groups as One, by showing them that their gods (Thoth and El) were really the same. Moses insisted:  "You will know that yhwh (Thoth), your God, He is . . . the faithful El . . . ."  (Deuteronomy 7:9.)  Similarly, in the Book of Psalms we read:  "For yhwh (Thoth) is El the Great and great king over all the gods (Elohim)"  (Psalms 95:3.)

But, more relevant for our own time, yhwh (Thoth) is also One with Allah.  The word Allah is a contraction of El-Ilah, which is Arabic for "El-God" and which derives directly from Canaan's El cult.  Thus, when Torah tells us that yhwh is the faithful El (Deuteronomy 7:9), it is saying that yhwh is One with Allah, and therefore Jews and Muslims can be One, living together in peace and harmony.

And Torah's universalism extends even further. . . .

According to the Rig Veda (the earliest Hindu scripture), God is not different from the act of sacrifice. The Rig Veda states: "With the sacrifice the gods sacrificed to the Sacrifice." (Rig Veda 10.90, v. 16.) This enigmatic verse is explained in the Veda's most ancient and revered commentaries. According to these commentaries, God created the universe by an act of self-sacrifice, and the first uttered word that initiated the creative process was "djuhudhi" (which is Sanskrit for "Give thou the sacrifice!"). Recall, however, that God's name yhwh is really a reference to the Egyptian god Thoth, which is more properly transliterated as "djyehudi."  Thus, God's name yhwh corresponds to a Sanskrit verb that urges you to give of yourself in a selfless act of sacrifice.  Moreover, this Sanskrit verb constitutes an all-important mantra in the Hindu religion, and according to Hindu scripture, it was the utterance of this mantra (i.e., God's name yhwh) that brought the universe into being.

Hence, the message of Torah is not just that Judaism and Islam are One, but also that Judaism and Hinduism are One. In fact, all gods are One, and therefore all nations can be One, living together in peace and harmony.

That, my brothers and sisters, is real Torah observance. The rest is just preparation.