Your Name Was a Prophecy - Rabbi YY Jacobson

The name that parents give a child when he or she is born according to the Arizal is considered a form of prophecy. It's well-known that in Judaism the name of something or somebody is extremely significant. The Talmud tells us about the great sage of Mayor who used to derive from a person's name a lot of meaning relevant to this person. The Kabbalah and the Hasidic masters teach that the name of something, the letters of the name are the actual channels through which its spiritual energy is communicated to this person or to this object.