Why Weren't Any Of The Shevatim Named Sfter Avraham Avinu?

Hi, this is David Olowski with our question and answer program. Anonymous asks, "Why weren't any of the named after Abraham Vinu?" I'm not sure I understand the basic question. How many people in the Tanakh do you find who is named after anybody ever? Now, uh I I can I can think of an exception. Terra named the son for his father Nahur. Okay, that's one I can think of. But for the most part, you don't find that people gave names over that was a a latter kind of thing. But when you go through most of Tanakh, you don't find too many people named for anybody. You don't find a Dove beforehand or afterwards or an Abraham or a Yakov. Don't find anybody called Yakov and Tanakh after Yakov. So I don't know why you picked on a mavenino. The idea of naming people came later to give somebody a name over. The reason for this I think I think and again I didn't see this anywhere. This is just Rabowski speculating is because when you give somebody a name a name is a person's essence. It uh it captures the essence of the person both in the meaning of the word, the gamatri of the word, the letters that go into the word by David, they darian the daled and the v and the dalid yehuda is yud v with a dal in it. They darian that I mean a raham of ham and his name because 248. I mean there's there's aspects to everybody's name and the people in Tanakh were powerful enough that their names uh would capture their essence and what they were doing in the world. And then uh when I suppose people reached a point where um they weren't necessarily being a and of themselves. So they gave them names based on people from before. So in the family of uh Hillel, he had a son Gamo. Gamlo had a son Shim. Shimon had a son Gamlo. Gumlio had a son Shim. [laughter] Gamlo. You get the idea, you know, and that name was given to be able to capture whatever they were passing on from their father and their grandfather. Some names came into fashion and went out of fashion. It's unusual to find anybody to name named Abay or Rava. Although in the Gomorrah there are many different people with the name Rava. Seem to have been very popular. But you won't find anybody in the Gmorra named Abraham. >> [laughter] >> it wasn't quite in vogue. I guess it's like uh chastity and prudence and uh you know certain names that you don't quite find in use today. I remember in the 1990s I was in my in-laws house in Queens. I don't remember what newspaper they had, but it was a map of New York City with the most popular name in each neighborhood. And the most popular name in Williamsburg was Joel. [laughter] They were all naming it for Voy the Satarba. I heard at one point they made a taka. You can't name anybody yo anymore because no one could get married because everybody's, you know, the kid had the same name as the father-in-law. There were too many yells running around. So the bit came on to come up with uh with naming for somebody afterwards but you don't really find that in Tanakh anywhere. This is David Olowski with our question and answer program.