Parshas Shemos: What's Your Name

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com the parachute begins uh the ailash moist beneath these are the names of the children of Israel who came down to matrium these are their names the Torah makes an emphasis that these were their names and the balaturan points out the balaturim is always able to find the ramazim the secrets the Illusions in the Hamish and the Torah and the balaturan points out that if you take the first letter of the words shamos then a Israel Habbo him it spells out means captivity which means even when the Jewish people went down to Egypt and they were in captivity nevertheless they were ales shamos nevertheless they maintained their Jewish names and this of course is reminiscent of the famous medrish that tells us that in the four Concepts and four practices that the Jewish people kept in the land of Egypt they were redeemed The Meters tells us in mayuko araba if you take a look on your to number three that in the Merit of four things the Jewish people merited being exiled from Egypt so we were to look at these four things we would think that to ourselves you know what are these four things maybe they gave a lot of sadaka maybe they learned a lot of Torah maybe they put on philano says the medrish number one shaloshino ashimam they didn't change their names right Barrel was Barrel everybody had their own special Jewish name they did not change their Jewish names says the medrish vs Le Sonam they didn't change their language they spoke lushina kodesh now in Yeshiva they taught us they didn't change their clothing doesn't say that there is no Source in the meterish that Kalisto mitzrayim were special clothing doesn't say they were a bekasha doesn't say they were a kapata doesn't say they were that is not mentioned in the Madrid and we'll have to see what the source of that is also the um they didn't speak Russian Haram that's right and number four villain you did not have one Jew who was promiscuous who was free in areas of Arias and the mattress goes on to say what does it mean they didn't change their name ruvane shimane went down to matryam Revenge shiman left mitzrayim for instance says amerish they didn't call you Huda rofe they didn't call ruvane LOL Yani and mafashem explained that the word yahudah what does Yehuda mean in Hebrew it could mean a lion how do you say lion in Hebrew in Rome Roman so Lil Yani you would think would be a appropriate translation of Yehuda into Roman says the medrish Yehuda was not called loyoni ruvane the mepharsham say was not called rofe they didn't even transliterate or translate or transfer the Hebrew name into the Egyptian or Roman equivalent they didn't let's say their name was Daniel that's my name they didn't even call themselves Daniel if their name was yaakov they didn't even call themselves Jacob we're not just talking about ruvane didn't call himself Luke or uh Harry Potter or something like that they didn't change their names to a non-jewish name they didn't even transfer the Hebrew name into the English equivalent and in that Merit they were able to leave matrim so you would think if that's the reason they left mitzrayim that has to be a very important Mitzvah to maintain your Jewish name not to transfer it into any English Roman Russian Japanese Italian equivalent so that we see something very amazing from here the importance of a Jewish name also we have a famous remes of that sofa tells us that when yaakov avinu returned to aretz Israel it says he returned shalaim Shin lamid mem stands for shin stands for shamum they didn't change their name lamid stands for lechonum they didn't change their language mem stands for malbusham they didn't change their clothing the only source that there is an Indian not to change your clothing is not from the medrish is from this famous vart of Samsung okay so here's the question we would like to deal with this evening that is there are many Jewish people many Jews who are uranium they're God-fearing people they're observant people and nevertheless when they go out into the business world or they want to conduct certain type of secular um practices they want to have a secular name after all they're gonna you know the God's gonna say what's your name you know you can no Charlie just forget it just Charlie just say right in order to have a normal business dealings with uhm you want to be able to say you know a name they could pronounce a name they could say you don't want them to show classification while they're saying your name you don't want them to you know you have to call hatsala just because you know you're telling them the name so is that permitted is a Jew allowed to have a non-jewish name that's the question that we would like to deal with and Rabbi side the uh one of the first people to deal with this question is the maharam shikh naramshik Rev moisha Sheikh who was the one of the primary Disciples of exam sofa and with mostik was asked the following question is it permitted for a Jew to have a secular name a non-jewish name after all the mattress tells us that why did we leave matrim because we kept our Jewish names so you know a lot of Jews think as long as you have a Hebrew name when you get called up to the Torah as long as when you get called up to the Torah you you know it's Abraham Benitez that's good enough even if all your friends call you Tony or Steve or Todd or whatever they call you as long as you say the Hebrew name you know when you get called up for not Leah that's good enough Madame chick says it's a big mistake for somebody not to have a Hebrew name not to use their Hebrew name not only is it improper not only is it an Issa durabanon says maram shik it's an Israel it's a Biblical prohibition not to use your Hebrew name does it say you have to use your Hebrew name foreign so certainly and if you look in the rambam in number seven the rambam says we always have to be separate from the gallium you can't dress like them you can't talk like them you can't act like them you can't get a non-jewish type of haircut you can't look like them so says if you can't dress like them certainly you can't adopt a non-jewish name and therefore since the Torah says you're not a walk in the ways of the game and the Torah says you have to be separate from the goyam that requires us on a Biblical level not to have a non-jewish name I'll tell you a little story in the year 1838 the maram Sheikh became the Rev in the city of yagan that was near preschberg and he got the job based on the recommendation of the Sam Cipher so he's going into the uh passport office and the guy in charge of what he calls matrical matriculation the person in charge of registration says listen Rabbi what is it with these Jews for thousands of years Tony Ben Pete bentoni Ben Pete bentoni right they're very proud of the fact that a thousand years ago in Italy their great-great-grandfather invented pizza and forever and ever it's Tony van Pete then Tony venti and in Budapest and Hungary the Jews maintain their Hungarian names for hundreds and 500 years 600 years in Paul in Paul Island the Jews the non-jews keep their Polish names for hundreds of years and the Jewish people they're ashamed of their names and they're every two in the world what's your name William William the guys langopez his name is William so they asked the momshik what is it with these Jews that they're so embarrassed of their Jewish names was very embarrassed he didn't have a good answer so he says he just pushed him up by saying you know it's the gullus it's the Exile you know we're subject to the gallium the game harass us and they torture us and they kill us and we're you know we're scared for our lives so that's how we go by our non-jewish names but then asks himself privately is that really true in the times of the Crusades when they beat Jews to death the Jews all maintain their Jewish names and now in preschberg when Jews are able to enter every Echelon of society without embarrassment without shame and they're in the highest position now we should be embarrassed of our Hebrew names says America it is an Issa di Raisa to use your English name under any circumstance not only that says momshek I will bring you a proof from tysus that there is a Biblical prohibition to use your English name says mom chick listen to this proof and I'll let you take a look for yourselves this is a number eight this is Tyson assess the gettin that flaming base right so it comes out according to the maram shik I'm not going to use anyone else's name I'll use my own name you know you go to um they ask you you know you go so what's your name they can't pronounce they say Daniel no ma'am chick says we're embarrassed about your name is Daniel that's you gotta say your name that is the opinion and in fact tomorrow I'm sick writes look what he writeshik writes based on toe system was I raise the following question ravino town was asked let's say you have a nice yid a Jew he decides he's going to convert to Christianity and he used to be called Fievel and now he calls himself Matthew yeah so now Matthew wakes up one morning and he says you know I used to like chillant when I was a Jew I like chill now that I'm a Christian it doesn't taste good anymore and he decides he's going to give his wife a gift so the Rabino town was asked what name should you put in the get after all the is when you write a get you have to write every name that you have so we would think how logically he should ride well what was the guy's Hebrew name again Matthew you have to write down and get says to write Matthew in the get Rabino tampaskens for someone to use a non-jewish name in a get based on this maram shik says it is prohibited to use a non-jewish name not just a non-jewish name if you if your name is avraham you can't use Abraham according to maram Sheikh if your name is yitzclock your name is yak you can use the English equivalent and then that's the that is the maram shiks final decision based on Thai system to which he says I'll tell you he says I warn my children and my grandchildren and my entire family that they better listen to me and they better all use their Hebrew names and they shouldn't deviate from my warning and this is what every God-fearing loyal Jew needs to do you need to use your Hebrew names we're not dealing with something which is not so nice we're not feeling is we're dealing with according to Mom check something which is and Isa by the way if you want to know where the mountain got this from you could just look at his last name maram shik's grandfather when last names were being distributed throughout Europe he was afraid to get a last name what's he gonna call himself you know Maisha moisha you know what's he gonna call himself so he decided he's gonna adopt the name shik shikh stands for shame Israel Kadesh Jewish name is Holy that was the only last name he would agree to accept and that is the final sack of the maram Sheikh and by the way I want you to know this is the sack of the maharshag the student of the maram shik and this is a sack of the rugby that there is an Issa Dai Raisa to use a non-jewish name by the way the safer hasidum we pointed out last week one of the great we shine them and he finds a remiss in Parish aspirations that a Jew masseuse his Hebrew name because the plastic says like this and paragdale it says the words the shame Hashem the name of God and the next words are safe Adam we learn from here what kind of name should an Adam have a Godly Divine Jewish name from here this says make sure when you name your kid don't give him an English name this is a sock of maram shikh mahershag ER maharsham sofa in Evernote a Jew must use his Hebrew name finished he says not so fast a Jewish name come on give me a break wasn't there a Tana in the times of the gemara named Ishmael you know any you know any uh he smells like you're the no man it's a Jewish name was you know he was a you know progener of the Arabs yeah right he smells not wasn't a Jew and he smells a Russia especially if you want to say Ishmael never did chuba they're two opinions in the gemara you smells like says the shadows for some him right you're allowed to use a gaiah name as long as it means something nice for instance the word Ishmael means god should listen to you so it's a beautiful message God should listen to your prayer so we don't care if the guy was a Jew a guy he is Italian Polish Russian we don't care what he is as long as the name means something nice you could use it the problem is as pointed out by the safe from pointed by the way of Usher wise one of the uh preeminent postgame today very um a very major polysacchanized Israel so in a very broad shoulders and a very sought after halach deciser he says to try to demonstrate from the fact that they were tanam who used the word the name Ishmael that you could use non-jewish names we have a tradition from the medrish who gave you smile his name God himself named Ishmael so you know what any non-jewish name that God himself gives somebody you could use Frank and Steve and Paul and all these other names you can't use unless God came down and said you know I reviewed you're Steve I didn't do that you can use it so basically we have some pretty strong and Heavy Hitters saying that a Jew must use his Hebrew name foreign who passed away in the year 1546. who is a student of raviosef tajik who he mentioned in pashiram and the maharashtam was posed with the following question it's the year 1500. and you have Jews that escaped from Portugal when they were in Spain when they're in Portugal they were called anusem what are anusim moranos and they secretly clandestinely kept the Shabbos kept kosher but outside in the streets they took off their yamaka they didn't wear sitsis and they walked around like proud Christians and the question is under when they were Muranos they all took Christian names they all took non-jewish names and now they're escaping from Portugal and they're moving to Eastern Europe and now they bought hashema going back to their original Hebrew names but they have to write back home and they have to write to some old business acquaintances and they have to write to the old you know passport office and they only recognize their non-jeushians is it permitted for them to use their non-jewish name says the child I'm not talking casidos here you know what that means I'm not talking saintly practices says it is a saintly practice it is what we call it is a Pious practice to use your Hebrew name but to say you're hilacically obligated to use your Hebrew name it's not true says a Jew is permitted to use a gayish name says Marsh down not only are you allowed to use a golish name not only could use a guy's name that Jews and goyam use like you want to call yourself uh Daniel you want to call yourself Abraham Isaac Jacob not only is that not a problem but you can even call yourself Luke and Matthew you even only Jew is allowed to use a name that only goyum use what's my proof what's the proof says maharashtam the proof is and he quotes an open gamara take a look at his camera nigamara tells us on the days take a look on your sheets and number 15. the gamar is talking about the following case you have a girl a woman who is married and she separates from her husband she moves to the land of Israel meanwhile her husband is back in uh turkey her husband is back in some other country and she's in aguna she can't get married because she's still married to her original husband one day Ashley comes a messenger comes hands the woman again and on the get who signed on the get two gayisha names uh Luke Skywalker and Harry Potter are signed on the get yes and they're looking at the get the best is looking at the get you got to be kidding me these are not Jewish names so the chefs again I went to the Ada hakaradist of turkey and they gave me the two from his Jews in the city their names are Luke Skywalker and Harry Potter is it a good get says the gamara it's a good guess why listen to this says the gamara get in her boy Medina if you have documents of divorce that come from overseas with Adam sign on it even though they're non-jewish names on the get kasharin it's kosher why listen to this yes most Jews in the diaspora do not have a Jewish name most Jews in Galos outside of the land of Israel have non-jewish names says if you have a gift and you don't know are these Jewish people signed on it if the schliach says they are Jews you're allowed to assume the Jews most Jews don't use their Jewish name so it's just people outside of the land of Israel have goyish names says America so maybe you'll say that in the land of Israel they have Hebrew names just saying names and an artist Israel not most of them have garish names but at least half of them are a very large percentage of Jews living in Israel have non-jewish names says maharashtam you're gonna tell me that it's inappropriate or wrong to use the guy's name the gemara says this is not talking about in the year 1500 this is not talking about the year a thousand this is talking about in the times of the gemara in the times of the gemara says maharashtam most Jews had got you names this is an open proof he says a Jew may use a non-jewish name under all conditions okay that is the conclusion of the maharashtam and he says that which the rabbis are trying to scare people you have to use your Hebrew names they just don't want you mingling with the guardian but if you want to know halachically speaking to letter of the law it is permitted to use a non-jewish name so what's our problem now problem is what do we do with tysis that says heaven forbid to put a non-jewish name on a get so the answer to that it's very simple as explained by the Taz and as explained by the Yeshua and as explained by the pistachuva you know what tysus is talking about tysus is talking about a Jewish person who converted to another religion so to memorialize the non-jewish name that this Jew took upon himself when he converted to another religion has the Shalom to write that in a document of divorce but if you have a Jew who was a loyal to his whole life and when he gets called up to the Torah he's avraham and when he's in the Yeshiva he's avraham and when he's talking to his Jewish friends he's Abraham and when he signs his passport he's Abraham so he's allowed to use his non-jewish name the fact that Tyson says to use his name that's talking about a Jew who converted a Jew who converted we don't want to memorialize the conversion to the point where the pistachuva says listen to this if you have a Jew who was born as Luke and then he said now that I'm converting to Christianity look call me fivo you hear the case you have a Jew he was born as Luke and now when he converts to Christianity he says the karishmai be Christianity fivo Tysons would still say you're not allowed to ride Fievel in the gate because that is memorializing the name he took upon himself when he converted so has nothing to do with the guyish name and it has everything to do with the name that a person took upon himself when they converted so basically if I were to ask you is a Jew allowed to use his non-jewish name what would you answer thank you you should know that by now it's immaculaikus it's a dispute the maharam shikh would say it's an Israel it's a Biblical prohibition the Maharashtra Dam would say it's permitted even in the first instance comes along a very interesting chuva this is the chuvas shout outs mishna halachos from ravanasha climb the Menasha Klein was a piece in Borough Park you ever heard Bar Park yeah it's in the United States of America and he passed away only a few years ago and he comes into this sugya in a breathtaking way we love everything he says to say that if a Jew uses his non-jewish name he's violating the love of following the ways of the gayam that's not holacically correct you know why because what things this is very important what things is it good what things that goyam do are you not allowed to do let's say goyam wear shoes so we have to work around barefoot drive cars so we have to you know go by horse what things that goyam do are we not allowed to do so there are more based on the maharic says there are two types of things that goyam do that we're now to do friends number one if they do something as a hike means they do something for no reason go ahead and say yeah if um don't open up an umbrella in your house why not let's always open umbrella on your house well it's bad luck why is it bad luck when I go into my house I purposely open my umbrella right why can't you open up your umbrella in your house that you're now to open up um a umbrella house we're going to say don't oh if a black cat crosses your path don't go there why not well because it's a black cat or a polka dot cat who cares the blackout passes my path I'm going straight ahead right anything the goyam do believe time without a reason you're not allowed to emulate because why are you emulating it the only reason to emulate is you want to be like the guyim oh you want to be like the guy that you can't do go and say don't walk under a ladder what's wrong with looking on the ladder unless you know your fair glass gonna fall down on your head but if it's a normal ladder or if there's something wrong with walking under a ladder so go ahead and make up certain superstitious practices that you're now to do or the other type of thing you're now to do is if gaiam have certain Customs that are as a result of treats us promiscuity a certain callousness for human decency or dignity let's say uh going to have a certain style of dress that's not dignified that's what we call a modest so to emulate the the goyam you know they wear certain explicit type of t-shirts to do that isn't it but just because have the name Luke why do they have the name Luke because what do you want to call them the ghost should call himself Barrel what do you want the guy to call himself he's call himself Yanko he calls himself Luke that's you know he likes the name Luke so for a Jew to call himself Luke a he's not copying something goyam do for no reason and B the game don't have those names out of immodesty says revenasha Klein for the maram shiks to say that a person is over an Issa di rise of copying the no halachically speaking a person is not over Ernesto di Raisa oh so maybe what the maram shik means to say is that you know which prohibition you're violating you're violating the prohibition of you have to be separate from the goyam says an amazing thing tomorrow we'll accept what he says but here's the problem there is a chuva from the maharashtraum Rabbi said does anybody know who the maharashtam was one of the all-time greatest Sephardic on him right says that whatever the Maharashtra Dam tells us we listen to like he would be the rambam that's what writes so if the maharashtam writes based on the gomorran ghetto that the Gomorrah tells us throughout history the Jewish people always had gayisha names and if the maharashtam says you can have an unjewish name then we have to take the words of the maharashtam over the maharamshik because maharashtam was hundreds of years earlier so then you'll ask says Klein but can't the maram shikt argue on the maharashtam right because we have a principal a later Godzilla a later Sage is allowed to argue on an earlier stage there's no halacha that someone was born in the year 1800 can argue on someone who's born in the year 1550 says ramanasha Klein if the godal who lived in the year 1850 didn't see what the god of who we have lived in the year 1550 wrote then we have to assume that had he seen it he would have retracted in other words and he would have learned it and rejected it we would follow the best throw we would follow them Sheikh we would follow the later Authority but here we have a later Authority who didn't see the maharashtam he didn't see that you he didn't see it we have to follow the earlier Authority and therefore says ramanasha Klein that the maharashtam was like one of the reshining he was like a cedar tree and hello even though the rugged shover and the Sam Cipher and the mar sham and the marshag and the maram Sheikh all say it's an Israel to have a non-jewish name we follow the earlier authority of the maharashtam however he says I'll tell you why it's also to have a guy's name for a different reason a person is not allowed to have a name after a Russia after a wicked person so which guy are you going to be named after exactly so you'll have to say oh you want to use a non-jewish I'll name myself after a righteous guy how does one be a righteous guy okay let's say a person doesn't steal doesn't kill doesn't curse Hashem does it has courts and fulfills all the Zion mitsos if a guy fulfills the Zion are they righteous n o no are they Pius no in order for a guy to be considered righteous they need to accept the seven myself not because they think it's logical not because they think God gave it to them but because God gave the Torah to the Jewish people and then we are commanded to teach the guy in design so any guy any non-jew that's ethical and moral and decent but doesn't keep the seven Mythos because God told us to tell them to keep it we can consider them sadikan but we can consider them something else the opposite and therefore for a Jew to be named after a guy which guy says ramanasha Klein to find the righteous guy well just so we'll say very politically correct it's very difficult to find a righteous guy so since it's very very difficult to find the righteous guy and you're now to be named after somebody who the gamara calls race right you can only be named after someone who's at Sadiq and not the opposite therefore practically speaking it would be forbidden for anyone to use a non-jewish name so you know remember Nasha Klein is giving us a lot of breathing room because he's already pushed away the maram shik and he says you're not over in this or die rights of walking in the ways of the game but he sort of created a new reason why you can't be can use a non-jewish name so right now if I were to ask you yes or no could you use the Jewish name or not says and you have on the other side the Maharashtra Dam comes along with Maisha Feinstein who was the preeminent deciser of the 20th century and ramosia starts off by saying an amazing thing this is on page number four okay page number four number eighteen wants to know can you use a non-jewish name he starts off by saying it is a Dover maguna Governor maguna means it's not proper it's not proper but then he turns the changes a little bit and history not just that the names of Jewish people throughout history let's look at the names of our Godzilla Israel and he cites first of all the Magid mishnah whose name was Rabino Vidal navidal if you want to see the name Vidal you have to look at your shampoo yeah a Jewish name right rather magnet mishna his name was rabenu Vidal yeah he didn't get that from the ghetto that's not a Jewish name not a hamisha name what was the rambam's father's name my man I think my man's a Jewish name is your name Feinstein many of our reshine him had goyish names you know one of the ballet tices rabbinu Peter yeah Peter is also not a Jewish name thank you so Moshe says if they didn't have a problem with it so we're gonna say it's another it's also for a Jew to have a non-jewish name the reason I have non-jewish names and therefore somebody asked to have Maisha I'll tell you interesting thing someone asked for Moshe his mother's name was ghetto drazel now you could you know people think drazel said it's not a it's not a Jewish name treasure says a Jew is allowed to have a geisha name so you want to name your after your mother get those drizzle name her ghetto drazel the only thing is so much she says there is no such name drazel the name is razel and somebody stuck in a dollar because they got a little famished you know they got a little confused there is no name drizzle even though there are a lot of Jews with that name there's no such name and ramesha says forget the razor just forget that name just go with the ghetto you know it makes you give me some good advice just go with the ghetto and remember she says if it's up to me add the name of it she says you know what just make it though okay and then when she goes on to say by the way hey you know he does a lot of uh he he he um debunks a lot of Yiddish names for example the name um sipora even right people in the name sipara as a bird no I said surprise nothing to do with the bird it comes down the word it's he said maybe it's a reminisce to a bird but it has nothing to do with the c bar and then ramesha says you know people say you think fago comes from Faygo ramesha says Fagan have nothing to do with each other and even and figure he says I don't even know where that comes from that name anyway debunks ramasha debunks a lot of these a lot of these names however ramosha says that it could be that for the first generation to give the name Peter Vidal that's inappropriate but it could be that once the first person did it inappropriately so now now it's a Jewish name so now the next generation is authorized to use that name and then with Moshe says what I think is the key point of this year there's nothing wrong with it oh didn't we just start the sheer by saying that one of the main reasons the Jewish people merited to leave Egypt is because they maintained their Jewish names it's a big deal with maintaining your Jewish names remember I just said is permitted to have a non-jewish name tremendous you ready you know when it's important to use your Jewish name that's before the Torah was given so if you don't have a Torah and you don't have Talus and you don't have to fill in and you don't have Shabbos then you have to be a high machine you know what a high machine means you have to have the trappings you have to have the externalities you have to make sure you have a yeah man you have to have a Jewish name and you have to have a Jewish language and you have to look Jewish and feel Jewish and eat Jewish and talk Jewish that's the important what else do you have you don't have Torah mitzvos Cesar unless you're finest thing once the Torah was given do we find in any plastic in the Hamish or any gemara a Jew has to have a Jewish name what do you need a Jewish name for you're walking in the street with your tsis you need a Jewish name if you tell your boss sorry sir it's three o'clock Friday afternoon I gotta go home for Shabbos right you need a Jewish name if you tell the Messiah I can't eat that food it's not Kosher or I can't drink that wine you picked it up you don't need a Jewish name you have to keep you apart from from the goyam says ramasha the Indian of having a Jewish name and a Jewish language and Jewish clothing that was only important before the Torah was given but once we have the Torah don't get caught up in the externalities the icker the primary focus is shulkarnara is Tyran Mitzvahs nowadays people you know say it's more important that someone is you know Hamish or someone has the externalities or the trappings you know then if they are actually observant of the halacha no hamishness and all these cultural trappings are not important anymore cultural trappings are important when you're living you know in some kind of um civilization where you can't keep Torah Mitzvah but if you can keep Torah Mitzvahs every emphasis is a de-emphasis if someone's gonna emphasize the importance of external trappings they are by definition de-emphasizing what is truly important says ramasha Feinstein even though I'm afraid to say this but motion says I'm not so uh I'm not so comfortable saying this I'm not I'm not so uh at ease making light of that which because I'll tell us that the Jewish people left Egypt in the Merit of their Jewish names ramasha says before he says it definitively he wants to be able to find very um important proofs but nevertheless what we're deriving from here is that a person has to be very careful when they evaluate their own level of service of Hashem the questions they need to ask themselves are not you know am I am I eating the right Jewish foods am I you know doing the right Jewish things the right Jewish things are am I careful what I speak am I careful what I look at am I careful about my Shabbos observance am I careful about my cash rules the exact way to celebrate a certain simply you know people think ah you know the most important thing in Judaism is when you have a simcha you do it the way we used to do it in the Old Country who cares how they did in the old country that is I don't want to say who cares it's important but relatively speaking it is a minor significance to what we call what is the shock say so this is a very important lesson that we derive from the parasha that Israel yes I'll tell us that we exited mitzrayim in the Merit that we didn't change our names we have to understand the role of externalities the role of externalities is when we don't have Torah mitzos but now that we have torremitsos the focus the focus of our attention is but let me end with the following let me in with that what's wrong is that you allowed to use a non-jewish name so we have the ruling of ramesha Feinstein it is permitted for a Jew two use a non-jewish name but again if there's a reason to but if you're living in America and you're among Jews and you're among Jewish people and you're in a shul I recommend try using your Jewish name nothing will happen it's and in fact we find something very interesting yeah I'm gonna I'm gonna get to you okay the uh just to conclude what we're dealing with so far is in the halachic sense if you want to know the main stream of Maisha Feinstein says a Jew is permitted to use a non-jewish name however we have to understand a name has a tremendous influence on a person we find that as soon as Yosef comes down to the Triumph what's the first thing pyro does he changes his name come down to Bubba what's the first thing does Daniel your name is what are these Kings so interested in changing the names for says a name has a powerful influence on a person when a person uses his Hebrew name it reflects a certain degree of kadusha upon them okay we're not talking we're speaking alpi Jewish thought and Jewish idea conceptually a person's Hebrew name exerts a certain influence on them and that is why Paro through his power of the kakatama he detected some kadusha and Yosef the first thing he does to Joseph is Yosef that's why Yosef says the following Yosef says after Peril says your name is what does Yosef says Joseph says very nice you're calling me I don't accept that name says never one time did Yosef ever go by the name is said I'm not accepting it whenever Yosef signed any documents whenever Yosef referred himself and that is why in the beginning of this week's Powershell the first thing pyro does to the Jewish midwives is shifra and Pua we've got to change your names because so long as you go by the name there's no way you're going to kill a Jewish child the beginning of the influence of how you're going to be influenced by Egyptian culture is you're now shifra you're now Pua says how are they able to overcome that vatarena the only way they're able to overcome the influence of their name was because they had special fear of God so although we're saying the Jew needs to he is permitted to use his non-jewish name is even writes even the maram shik who says there's an Israel to use your non-jewish name that's only if your intention is to try to mingle and assimilate with gayam but if your attention is specifically practical you just want to keep things simple you don't want to confuse them you want to give them a name they could pronounce even perhapsik would agree is permanent we're saying it's okay however there is a concept that a person's Hebrew name exerts an influence on them and I would recommend that those who have Hebrew names try using it sometimes it can't hurt you know maybe we'll add a little bit of extra kadusha we could use all we could get again I thank everyone for coming the nesham you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com