Ah.
Actually, you may be pleased to know the proper roots of "G-d". It does indeed originate in Judaism, but not in the Kabbalah. It originates well before "kabbalah" ever existed.
"YHWH" is actually the original spelling of "Yahweh". Original Hebrew writing doesn't have vowels in it - vowels were added around the 9th century AD. The Hebrew alphabet is a collection of nothing but consonants, and vowels are, instead, little dots and lines under and next to consonant letters.
Before these vowel symbols were added, the way people knew how to pronounce something they read was just out of pure familiarity. They simply knew that those vowels were part of that word, based on context.
Anyways, yes. The name of God is considered too holy to speak. Perfectly fine to write, however. When reading "YHWH", instead of saying "Yahweh", they replaced the vowels with new ones, and the "pronounceable" word was, instead, Jehovah (JHVH, when transliterated differently, would be YHWH, if you know anything about Eurasian languages).
In English, "Jehovah" isn't the everyday word for God, like it was in Hebrew. The everyday word for God is... well, God. They still refrain from speaking "Yahweh", and say the word "God", but then when writing, they censor "God" to be "G-d". I think some of them, actually, do refrain from verbally saying "God" and maybe say "Lord" or something instead, but that's not something I can be certain of.
It's goofy and weird, and I don't fully understand why on earth that makes sense to them. It just had me thinking you may possibly be Jewish.
That's all.
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