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I remember learning a gemarah (midrash?) that one of the tanaim (possibly R' Chanina [ben Dosa]) said the shem hameforash explicitly. Can you source this story and explain why the shem hameforash was used?

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    It's in one or both of the piyutim we say about the ten martyrs.
    – msh210 ♦
    Nov 8, 2012 at 15:58
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    @msh210, in Eleh Ezkera, it is R' Yishmael haKohen haGadol.
    – Noach MiFrankfurt
    Jul 15, 2014 at 0:28

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The Talmud (Avodah Zarah 17B-18A) tells us that heaven decreed Chanania ben Teradion's death for using G-d's 42 letter name.

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