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Names: Sources in Chazal and the World of R’ Chaim
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Introduction Sefer HaYashar and R’ Avraham ben HaGra The Ramban on Sefer HaYashar Torah Shelemah of R’ Menachem Kasher and R’ Chaim R’ Shlomo Buber Why This Topic Matters Names According to R’ Chaim R’ Moshe Feinstein’s Haskamah on Works About Names Tzavaas R’ Yehudah HaChassid The Name Noach Naming After a Rasha Quoting from Problematic Seforim Naming After Figures Mentioned Before Avraham Avinu in the Chumash Naming a Man After a Woman and Vice Versa Pronunciation of the Name Yissachar Naming After One’s Father and Bar Kappara
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Welcome back, Rabbi Dr. Alzer Brat. We
are back for another episode on the gift
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In memory of [snorts] Ben
have an aliyah. Today we're going to be
discussing names. It's under the
category or subject. Then I'm sure will
explain how and why but we all know
we've all heard stories about people who
have gone into Kany and he says that
name no change it whether it's a Tanakh
related issue or something deeper than
that but Kany was known for having
opinions um about what names are
appropriate what names are not
appropriate and Rabbi brought will
enlighten us about some of that. So
without further ado, Rabbi Dr. Leazar
Brat.
>> Okay. So basically [clears throat] in
the past two episodes we've been talking
about Kyki's two wonderful ones
and in the course of the especially in
the last episode I mentioned something
which is pretty much a I was paying back
a of mine throughout the episodes that I
keep on mentioning Kanye has this vast
knowledge of madrashim of unique
madrasim. So I mapped out showing how he
used this vast knowledge in these swaram
a lot. Also, I also traced different
interesting midrussian that Raan Keski
seemed to have had and who published
some of them and today we're going to
recap and go a little bit into that as
introduction for a few minutes and the
re and the importance of this will be
very obvious shortly to understand
greater what used this data in his works
in Kush and elsewhere is for the stoa of
names. Okay.
So one of the uniques besides the
standard mrashim and foreski standard
meant uh a lot more than most people's
even know are aware of. We spoke about
for example the safar yasher
mysteriously appears on the scene in the
early printing press time in the early
um 1500s somewhere
and
mysteriously till today a lot has been
discussed about it and the basic
question that I discussed last week was
last time was could you rely on it so I
I mentioned that lisa at the end of the
day a lot of people use it um great
giants um just to throw out there or the
radal uses it and zakari's turnar's turn
for example I I mentioned then he has a
list where he shows that a lot of he
collects showing different parallels or
other different types of things so he
does not take a stance against it that
that's the key um point so they
publish's notes on this a bunch of years
ago okay so at the time I mentioned
so I I already spoke out uh numerous
times. I'm very fond of Rabba Ramen Agra
and I am working on uh putting out
various writings of his that were never
published and some that were published
all about him. So one of his works was
that we spoke about was Rav Palm which
he collects tons of quotations from of
lost of that today we don't have. So
what does he say about the Yasha? So for
example in page on page 67 in the
standard edition he says he says it's
early. He says it's p but he goes so he
wants to say that it might even be
written from the times it might go back
from the dham midbar
um he brings all different types of
other quotes about it and he's he
definitely is very familiar with the
work and he throughout his work he
brings the safasher also now he was a
tremendous expert in madrashim as
evident from this work ram and he does
not call it he doesn't question it so
much but again Um later on it seems in
especially in recent years more people
are more people do question I'll just
throw out there Kaplan for example in
his living Torah to say there also
brings the safasher as a source um
there's a a yaki work to
so he also brings the safasher it's a
work about a lot and and eventually he
goes I might have quoted this last time
he goes to check he says I'm going to
check I quote so much and I'm going to
check into to see if it's authentic and
he comes to the conclusion it's
authentic Now
what's the point not only the safar yash
what what's the point over here is so in
the in the in the ofayen
because the ram was not printed in the
lifetime of of bengra it's published
much later so gives a beautiful and he
says these um pieces of of kazal are
unbelievably helpful to help understand
all different types of things in the
introduction to the actual work of ramen
says this why is he collecting all these
pieces what's the importance of knowing
all these madrashim so he himself sort
of throws out there one of the reasons
is it could help it helps understand
certain passages in the garra that we
don't have the whole story and all of a
sudden you have another medish that adds
another clue to the story or another
part of the story so to speak and other
times he says it helps us with demon so
these two things when you start looking
through carefully's
work on time
you'll see his usage of the madrash
But for example, again and again he uses
now I the concept of using all these
types of madrash not necessarily but we
could trace it to gr was also seemed to
be in it involved with it rag brings
some discussions he had with his father
one we've discussed in the past about
chevas what they were he had a
discussion with his father about to say
for a zeal the point but the bottom line
is the point I'm trying to make is that
these madrasim served a purpose And why
the bakl were even using them was
because it helps for for a for denim and
b for piecing together stories. Ram
he wrote on the side of his gar and um
in recent years the published it in
volume four or five something like that
and you could see there also how he uses
all these types of madrashim and makayim
to explain different things in the
gumar. Okay.
So in in momentarily we're going to this
is the introduction. This is sort of a
recap to tighten what we concluded with
in the last episode. Now is a ram
just to give one very brief example. So
in parish he talks about um
and um
if you look in your handy raan that you
have near you'll see
um we know when you learn parishlah
there was a whole story the whole famous
and what shim and levy end up doing
and yakov's reaction about it but if you
look in Madrashim and most notably it's
called
there's an extensive medish with about a
massive battle that takes place over
here pages a few pages of it and says
the Ramb
[clears throat]
if you believe the story that's there
and then he he mentions briefly what it
says over there and now all this could
be found in our so this goes back with
what I was saying um last time also that
the safer yashar gives a lot of the
backstory to safer bacius especially um
I also mentioned that kids could use it
to impress their or to stump to to stump
their all different data that they could
pull out from the safer assuming it's
true now why um and one and one last
maramakum um and then we'll get into the
main point here um every year a shall pa
come out galora so this year one of the
that came out was um from
now he's famous for writing
on multiple multiple very prolific
writer what they discovered in
manuscript was he collected something
called yalud gullis vitas so he
collected from a vast amount of
materials a madrashim to discuss what is
um the story of of um mitim and it's
appropriate for leed to discuss So again
he also there's also this uses the
searasher as his source. So the point is
that this was used. Now
number two we spoke about um another
unique medish that
used which is found in many many
madrashim is from kasher called so
obviously the tishma really needs its
own series of episodes but the point is
he collected from a vast amount of
madrashim and used it. Oh, of course
it's cute. In one place, um you'll find
what is someone asks,
"How could you use the safer?" Um now,
why wouldn't Keski be allowed to use the
safer? Because um what's well known is
is that the Tyrish Kasher had ties with
um
what we call it. So, one of the kinesi
answers
I'm only bring him. Well, that's one um
letter, but
wrote a lot and spoke a lot over the
many many years. So, a few years ago,
they put out a whole volume devoted to
Kasher and the family got from one of
the Ha people in Raki's Talmid who wrote
a whole thing how always loved the cafer
and he used it a lot. So it gives you a
different tone of what it was. But the
point is he's using this vast data from
such a safe another we spoke not but we
spoke um about is um which he was the he
put out madrashim which uses a ton and
we spoke about his notes about it. So
this interestingly enough kasher was
very weary of the Israel of and and
actually wrote an attack on it early on.
Now one other person which we mentioned
already a few times and we spoke about
him last time is Abber
is he good for the Jews bad for the Jews
so to speak and I spoke all about this
so I wanted to just mention is that I
came across recently is the nativ one of
the madrashim that bubber put out was
the immediately afterwards the the nativ
is already using it in his perushim
onshious
now what's interesting is it comes out
after the nativ publishes his hikavar
literally a year later but he
incorporates it already in the in the
were printed by mayor Barilan. So you
could now if you open up a standard the
new hey mcdaw you wouldn't be able to
know this but if you um but they
basically incorporated all the mayor lan
that was on the sides of the natives. So
the point is he's also using this
and we mentioned already many others.
Okay. Now bottom line is all these
madrashian including the especially the
yasher story. Why is this so important?
So at first you'll say
and how could he use these madrashim
maybe they're problematic. So the is um
um we know really goes with this on some
level that there's a concept called
kabis. Whoever says it, you go, we
listen to him. Two um two letters have
come up on auction in recent years after
material about using shipman's material.
He was asked could you use it and he
said yeah you could. So this is
obviously a greater story which we're
not going to go into all that much.
We'll mention a drop about it soon as
we'll see how it plays out with themes.
So the point is okay great you want to
know could you rely on it or not. So it
sound let's say they sayasher or these
things found in madrashim all these
problematic madrashim which we don't
know where they are. Okay but does ever
use it for or I guess and we'll see if
this really called but does he ever use
it for something like that? Now
there's also an issue that we spoke
about many times as a famous thing one
has to be concerned about forgeries
um
and that and and things that people say
in names of madashim that are not. So
you have to be very careful. So now
okay.
So we'll get back to that. Now when one
learns the time of the
and the one sees that has a fascination
with names
and I will give many examples in a few
minutes. Not only that he becomes
legendary
for an address for all types of
questions about names. Is this a good
name? Is this a bad name? and multiple
questions that come up.
So the question is where did he get
where did he pull his data from? So it's
clear from the time as I'm going I'm
going to show a bunch of examples and
from various lists that were published
of from his with him going over it. It
was published based on his knowledge of
obviously
and including he uses the yasher.
Now one safer just to mention it's
quoted is called um sheareds. So this
safer already came out in more than one
edition
in his lifetime and it has it has from
um Rier who wrote all this farki he
wants to print all the letters that he
got from the different about sheim and
nashim what names you should use and um
all different types of questions and he
put it together in order and I'm giving
him a brah about it basically but he
says
I'm scared to rely
Okay. Now, obviously he might have said
that, but basically as we've discussed
already in the past a few different
episodes about became and today also
it's it's it's considered the names. Now
doesn't mean it's like a obviously not
and we'll see where some of these things
are are coming from some of the
conversations about it right now. Now
also in the which we spoke about in the
last episode also the point was he's
trying to mgala times in or where the
name is not open through his usage of
these vast madrasha.
Now everyone knows when one has a child
it could cause lots of stress lots of
problems showing bias not necessarily
showing bias with one's wife it could
cause uh grandparents get involved or
great whatever and what name and how to
say the name is a good name is it a bad
name um two names after two people all
different types of questions come up and
is also the famous uh um thing of let's
say which plays out a lot of times but
it plays out also in um in sometimes in
these names also Now so like everything
else and I am actually not going to list
out all the books about it but there's a
multiple volumes written all about names
and it's interesting when the history
the history of names we actually spoke
about in a in a in a different type of
context which was in the g in the gan
sharum we spoke about there are many
written about names of because you have
to write the correct name for a get so
there's all vast types of literature
about that and we spoke about some of
the important ones and what where the
data that they got Um so that actually
plays a role also in understanding names
but we're not going we're not going to
go fully into all different aspects just
going to discuss certain aspects
literature. Now one of the swarm that
that was published
um way back small countress
um and it it's called
Israel the author's name was Yenheimer
and he gets from different people
amongst them.
So he says, "I I see your and he says
and you show and he says
Um,
beautiful. This comes out in the 70s. So
obviously this is a small little book uh
of beautiful materials, beautiful
sources. It's only 44 pages. But of
course you can only imagine that as time
goes on the the works on names are
getting bigger and bigger especially
because of all the data uh the databases
of books and etc etc. But this is just
one such um shafer and it's important to
see this as what Raisha is bringing out.
Now, so we get to Kyfki and names. So
the the first conversation is about I I
already said it so I'll just go through
it very briefly.
So you start learning timera
and early on
um
in parishes already he has a few pieces
relating to names. So he says over there
in the pik talks about
She's the daughter of okay and she is
the wife of
this is rashi and kineski says the makar
rashi is the medish rabba over here now
and as I already mentioned in the past
a lot of times will just throw you a
bonus oh rashi where's the makar is
medish for him it was nothing now says
like this comes out according to this
the shame of the father of and his
father-in-law were the same because they
were both
now everyone knows of one of them is
that the shame of the can um or the
cannot be the statement. So what's going
on over here now? So obviously we're not
talking is that we're not going to go
into all the and the numerous things
about others
and then what about and all that. Okay,
this is the point is just trying to take
as a springboard to discuss it and then
he what he does is
he brings a bunch he deals with three
four of the passages of
names and he shows problematic gar that
are not like this. Okay. Now is not the
first that was mayor of this many many
people were and there are numerous works
on which we're not going to list out
most notably is margles
in he published a work where he go where
he collects tons of data on the and heal
bringing tons of about it but today the
martial one person put out like a 7 800
page work on it a few years back now and
we'll get back to margles in one second
um
but here he actually quotes remove from
our goals by name. So I've quoted some
of these things in the past, but I
recently came across a full quote about
it. It seems that someone asked him
should they quote him when they were
putting out this work and he said the
one of the editors and he said of course
he should and then he quotes here one of
the closest people to Rahim Kyki is a
yidra
garitz. So he says that Tanya met him in
the cifyat Rambam in Tel a Viv and he
will lend him and he says that Khaz was
very impressed by him and he said
um that Ruven himself doesn't know how
great he is. This is what he brings down
over here and um
they made a joke actually one of the
farmer that Mago put out was about Malim
all the data that he collected from
everywhere about Malim. So someone so
one of the jokes was he didn't put out
with the the the
pictures of the malos he collected so
much about him. Okay. And it seems
laughed or he's about to laugh or
something like that. Bottom line is that
quotes him over here.
I'm referring to his work on it now. And
he brings down the Yehuda asks also from
various that the is against various
we'll get back to in a moment. Now this
is a fascinating thing because this is
you have to understand what I'm about to
say. This is coming from Raki Bashan
and this is a I would call them more
literature approach but this is what
they say
like all the garus that I just threw out
there says a bunch to have questions on
that they're against
he says
this is what said
not only that some of them for a mitzvah
to marry which is against
however
he saw with his great
they will not be successful.
So that so
this is
those that went against
were not and then he says
were powerful powerful things. So here
we have which is very very fascinating
because
normally we don't find such a concept at
least this sounds if I would tell you
a great such a thing you'd say yeah it
makes sense but that the said such a
thing is is is to my mind is mish not uh
typical and obviously as I said the suga
of isangus I'm only going to mention
very briefly a few different things one
is that again in the saferness which we
devoted a whole episode more than one
episode about
and oral he also brings was concerned
similar to what he brings here in time
[snorts]
some people ask what about so they bring
down the disciples that even should be
on it okay so quote number one is like
this there's a salant brings down that
he heard that not
which we'll get to, says not. And
then he brings down
um
this is Salant coming from Bish. Okay.
Another maramakum
about this is found in one of these
works that comes out um
before World War I a whole fascinating
story but basically they wanted to take
like a they wanted to take um figure out
all different menhagen what people do.
So they sent out questionnaers all over
Europe and and the idea was to figure
out different from hugim what people are
from all different types of Jews. So one
of the things they said they they wanted
to know was do people observe
um to see what what it was. Sadly we
don't have the answer. We have all these
questions which show a it gives us a
glimpse a little bit of a glimpse into
what was going on to various manhaga.
Okay. Now
lamashel in 1869 the great stern wrote
in the in a massive article where he
deals with the showing that it's imamish
against dozens of gumar and hisra also
seems to be [snorts] not like this okay
obviously
in general very very sensitive topic and
you have to ask your rv every rv um has
different approaches with this now I'm
just going to mention about four Yadas
about it and then we'll move on. Number
one is I've quoted in the past a few
times that Vital we discovered we got a
manuscript of vital um of a safer of his
and in there he has certain stuff from
the and and others and there he talks
about one of the and it's clear from the
passage there that we're not for
so here we see a already way back
um not being Okay,
is famous in his cha about this
where he says we should listen to
he says like this
they're not
but but these things people mish go
crazy about and it's it's you do um I
myself a lot of times people always ask
you what what do you say about
and this and that it's something for
some reason it was tough with some
people that they're very very concerned
about. Rebel Flecklas in a passage also
was fond of quoting over this passage of
the of um in a joking manner of what his
mhuda said.
But interestingly enough, just one last
marmakum about this is professor Simra
Emanuel who has done incredible work
with some uh incredible discovery of a
drussia of Pes of the Rayak from Savan
which has tons of hus in this.
So over there it basically the research
that he shows um in that book he was
able to show that the raak was the tal
of
so what's his name his wasar so already
the talman muvak was a nizer in what his
rebi held okay so some people could say
it depends it wasn't necessarily
accepted right away it could be it was
later on
um it could be before he's the Talmud,
but it sounds like he was a Talmud
already earlier. Anyway, the point is a
vast vast amount of literature about it
and this is one right away you're
beginning your time your sedra which I
hope you're beginning or you're already
in middle of and we have what says
approach is a very very strong approach
to be very concerned
about being
okay. We go further in the cafer
and then we come across another passage
and this passage is
so the question is really his name
should be
looking over there. So it brings down
here in
which it seems might have had it and the
real name was
just told him not to for whatever reason
he brings down over here.
So number one we have another. So first
we see him using a here we see that
possibly no's name was something else.
Okay was originally something else.
Okay. Now
it's interesting says we find that some
tan they um are named manim
and the only time we have a manim in
that's mentioned is a Russia and we're
going to see momentarily that to call
someone after a Russia is problematic
but according to this
was really name so you would have what
to rely on. So it's a cool again what's
the data back to now obviously the story
of the Russia we we're going to discuss
in a second because
has yet another piece which is what
about calling people after the nim okay
they took part in the story with kak
so again you go further in your mus in
your timera parishes kak he has all
discussion and he says what do we find
that they're
[snorts]
we wouldn't we wouldn't we wouldn't find
their names in the in the so what does
he say not all the took part in the
story of okay fascinating thing because
of this how far he's willing to go and
obviously you have to look at the and
the to see if all the nim took part or
almost all took part. But this is also
because of this question. Now again in
time now I mentioned already then the
time is not only on it also goes through
so
the has a massive
about Russia calling someone after name
of Russia
and he says
um based on theim in shame.
So you should not.
So first asking us a question. We don't
find the place can bring this down. So
it's cute over here. He says we don't
even find that the
brings this down. What does it mean? It
calls this and the brings down a bunch
of different huggers from all different
places. people are I think there's even
[cough] one safer written about it but
it's own story what's going on the he
brings from a vast different oh all
different types of hagus and he doesn't
bring it down over there we say he's
like where should someone bring it down
that
and even he doesn't he says yeah there's
a there's a that says based on
so he says that everyone held it's only
it's not and why is that so so over here
has a whole about this
and he throws out a bunch of fascinating
things it seems he had a whole
conversation about this letters back and
forth with schleser and um they're
published here the the letters are
published here now one of the names that
is the discussion is about yhudis is it
a good name for a good for a Jewish girl
to have such a name so he said so asking
answers what do you mean the mice of
Kaneka
this is involved but it seems
she's the shame of the wife of Asov
and he goes through
with a vast amount of different names of
and how could this be and he deals with
it. So he says one of the things he says
um
it's he thiser reminded him about that
he had forgotten about that he says yeah
thanks for returning my I forgot about
it and um bottom line is comes to the
following conclusion
sir he's very against it now so what's
the name of Arasha so then they start
asking ask you all different names and
there's a whole section in one of the
shame is and this far of the names of
asham they would say is this name and
would say look in this p it's a rash
this or look in a safe for example once
again so the point is yet another
question that keeps on coming up so
kyfki um throws you to um using the
safeash. Now part of this conversation I
I mentioned earlier which relates to
using these madrashim from questionable
people [snorts]
and then Ira
also another concept.
So this is this has been a debate
throughout centuries. Imam one day will
give a long share about this but is
which is follows. If we find sometimes
quotes something from a problem what we
would call a problematic source from a
person that's not necessarily kosher
vio. So sometimes you could say very
simple the gle didn't know but many
times it's clear the gut didn't know. So
how does he do it? So what's interesting
is and Spiegel professor Spiegel in one
of his
deals with it coming out from the of
this
co quoting bringing a whole about it is
if you could quote Rashe or name after
Rashe so this has this it's mish has a
played out in how
quoting certain sources um and the
various people talk about now just to
mention one time this happened. This
happened many times at the one time
in in the early the first volume
published in 1891. He quotes he's he's
discussing certain things and he brings
a whole long letter from Zakar
in that letter quotes in his long list
of Moses men in okay fast forward the
gets a hold of themed writes a letter to
him a few years later says how could you
quote Moses Mendelson so doesn't even
know what to do now the truth is had no
idea who Moses Mendelson most likely was
he's from.
So he writes, "Look what happened. You
got me in trouble over here. The marshas
are going after me. How could I do?" So
writes a massive chuva which and there's
different there's a few different
versions of this chuva. Um but point is
dealing with if you could quote
Mendelson and he says I meantra
vikra is naali wiselle. Naftali is not
is not problematic. Um
and anyway anyway you're allowed to
quote from sources that are not
problematic because and then he goes
with a whole which a lot of people deal
with is there's a difference if you be
if you're hearing a shar from a Russia
or aus or you're reading something from
an apicy
assuming men is even aus you go um the
is going even worst case scenario the
way the galatiana felt but this is
obviously a massive conversation
about the different approaches of
Mendelson quoting Mendelson
Stern his now just to be clear Stern was
not a person pro- Masculum as a matter
of fact we devoted a whole episode to
show the mascul attacking him and in a
unpublished paper professor Yud Golinsky
documents that he was very anti masculum
he read all their stuff
and itaka did fight it out in numerous
newspaper issues um a different time I
think I might have mentioned There was
he was attacking this was a evil masquly
attacking
and dozens of newspaper issu articles
and who was one of the people that
fought it was
so just if he quoted it he knew what he
was doing and it's it's an approach that
until today literally a few weeks ago
without getting into it this has come up
again in a battle between um two
um karedi I guess for lack of a for this
thing historians this has played out
just to throw out their names not um
Rishua Munchshine and Ra Kamki have had
it out about this and recently some
materials about this topic has come to
light from Munchshine even though it's
10 years after he died 11 years after he
died now [snorts]
going further on okay names so is
anything else with names in the safer
yes there's plenty more and and these
two pieces are um these are like
legendary pieces Kanye I whenever
whenever you want to just like show
someone ravki's knowledge okay so he
knows kakula gamar kazal big deal what
else does he know so I'm very fascinated
by these two pieces and there's as
there's a troub that talks about if one
can name someone when you learn [snorts]
especially so we know there's names are
all over in the so before you get to
there's still there's dozens of names
mentioned so let's Say someone finds a
name there that they like. Could they
use it? They don't even know anything
about that person necessarily. They
didn't learn to say the mash. They come
and they write. Could I use it? Okay. So
the mid actually has a chuva where he
comes to the conclusion you should not
use names from before.
So the chuva and they handle this chis
and there's a lot written about it. So
they asked Kyki about it. I'm positive
just always kept this in the back of his
head and he collected data about it to
have fun. Ganski says like this. Let's
go through 33 different names found
before of Ramu and I'm going to give you
my to show that it was used. Now the
difference over here is normally can ask
you do this. He shows you his vast
knowledge of I said madashim. So no here
let's say so he brings you
safer
and then he say and then he says look of
the
you'll see the same safer is used look
in the encyclopedia now this is printed
just to be clear before in before search
engines
he asks he look in the chis ra
okay and then mkitzer he goes through
various names showing again his
knowledge inimus
[snorts]
some of the things okay he does use for
he does show that to that they that they
used this name these names in one place
he talks about if you look in the
over there you'll see this name is being
used but kiter bottom line is over here
you get to see kfki in his glory in his
with names of um
to answer this question showing 33 cases
with with vast materials about it. Okay.
Now then there's another one. This is
also very famous. Um this one I'm just
had fun. He probably started this out
when he was very young and that is as
follows.
Everyone knows one of the
and vice versa. So the question asked is
could a man could you call a and a woman
with a woman's name or vice versa. Okay.
says
and he says
and he brings down which is interesting
that he brings it down but not for now
says what do I think about this topic
and he brings you 79 pieces of material
through his vast pakus showing names of
men that will given women's names and
vice versa. Mindboggling from Madrasim
and the [snorts] like. Yeah. He quotes
Mary also and different names. One of
more famous name is Sima for example. Um
Tamar seems also there's certain makers.
Okay. So they bring down that
>> [snorts]
>> um this I guess the one of the early
times that this contress was published.
So
saw it.
So maybe they were more with it. But
today it sounds like you should be more.
Okay. It's unclear if that's if
accepted this um um or he kept on I
think he did allow names of women
because of all this vast of his. It
sounds like from the various books on
names that have all his but just to give
um two other marakimus about it besides
Kowski these are kim that he does not
bring. So as as quoted numerous numerous
times one of my great heroes is deris.
So that wrote a fascinating
autobiography called sedio. So over
there he talks about the name of one of
his children. He says as follows.
He says that I named this child y Ruv Y
was after Y Risen the author of the YF
and pirates Yf who was someone I liked a
lot and I got to know him when he was in
tells and then he says Ruin what's the
name Ruain
Rifka fascinating that he's naming his
son after his sister Rifka
now interestingly enough
this Rifka was very learned. Um that's a
different story again to a different
time. But just once talking about
Taderas in his autobiography, we also
see um in it seems certain people were
concerned with
in a whole story with Chuva um that he
records over here a meaning of his and
then he gives you some more data about
it in an article of his published in
Yagd under his a pen name of his
that the that it came out that it sounds
like the chuvo was concerned about
and he was not necessarily or his father
was not necessarily But bottom line is
from this from um this kineski and this
sounds like they were not so concerned
that it's not a problem of of of okay
there's another truafer from another
great uh unbelievable baky rev lighter
so lighter
lighter has a tray
he also has a
where he also shows cases of women that
with that have men names so it's clear
that it's not a um it would sound like
that throughout the generations they
were very make about
just to throw out there once we're
talking about names so
something that he's very fond of I I
claimed way way back that this has to do
with his fascination with the maybe
influenced him what about an andreanist
what name do you give an andreist does
he get a male name a female name then he
has a about it over here found in the
time of the in parish key sat Now
another name um which is always famous
and then the people um ins probably in
more recent years people are much more
into it how do you say it
if you pronounce both shin sins all
these different things a lot of
different materials about it so he has
he brings down of the about that also in
this time [snorts]
now
there are
multiple other issues of names which I
will mention some of them uh briefly but
one thing that I found very um
fascinating was he's asked about these
names Cassad I don't even I I'm sure
that in this they're working on the set
of the chuis of of his in all different
years it's going to come out like a
massive like
thousands of pages of of all the names
he was asked not only just like these
small little swarm that have come out up
till now but in what's interesting is
like this Um he says where does he have
this kayak? You know he's asked all
these questions about names. So where
does he um how does he answer it?
So
we say how does so I'm telling you is
that in a lot of these cases it's
through his vast knowledge in all these
madrasha. But he says
in one of the people asked him he says
like this
I answer [snorts] say he's giving a
tremendous insight that there was some
type of he felt that there was some type
of thing from upstairs a direct call it
like a tomb type of thing and that's
what you see is um accepted and in one
of the versions of the safe they even
write on like a fancy in the cover they
indent
they write to page and it's not true
it's in because there was updates but
anyway
Fine. That's a typo. Now, um, one other
discussion of names I'll mention in this
episode and the rest we'll keep for the
la for the last episode is as follows.
Naming a child after his father. Now,
it's interesting is that there's there's
a lot about this also. It seems to name
after fathers or people that are alive
at least. So asking a different safer of
his that we spoke all the way back about
which is the safer on the Rambam sagd.
So he wrote this incredible safer way
back in his early years. Shamelik. So
over there he has a whole piece about
barapara. Barapara was from the bisdon
of rebi says that's what the ram says.
Over here the ra the has a whole field
day about bak karp. All different pieces
of information again from a crazy amount
of yada kazal. And one of the points is
it sounds like really his he was named
after the same name of his father. So
then he brings some other passible that
they were also named after their father
and he says
all them
okay and he says also we find certain
that they were called after their names
of the father um um and he brings you
some about that. Okay. Anyway, so you
see also way back in that safer about
names and that's the conclusion for
today. These are some of the aspects of
names.
[snorts] In the next episode, we'll just
discuss very very briefly some other
aspects of names and we'll conclude with
what's the story with the timera some
other aspects.
>> Thank you Rabbi Dr. Alazar Brat. What a
great episode to close out the secular
year of 2025.
Um it's that's when it was recorded or
probably uploaded either today or the
next day or two as soon as the green
light to get it out. Looking forward.
Thank you.