The Name Heard Round the World

[Music] this past November the Rosen family from Miami Florida was celebrating the birth of a new baby boy everybody was really excited and all the preparations for the bris were underway there was just one Minor Detail that still had to be taken care of we were trying to choose a name to name our new baby and we didn't have any Clarity any name in particular that we wanted to name so Mrs Rosen decided to pick up a phone and call her father and ask him for a suggestion he told her that naming a child is a very special parental experience parents have this special Divine assistance in knowing what to name their child so he advised her to use her intuition her gut feeling but then he said if you can't come up with any ideas let me just mention that we had a very special grandfather in the family his name was David Kai my father suggested that we sleep on it and the morning of the bris we look at the baby and and see if we have a strong feeling when we look at him knowing what the name should be the morning of the bris Mr and Mrs Rosen finally came up with a right [Music] name Yakov after the bris we get a phone call from my mother-in-law who is on our way back to Savannah she got a call from someone else in Savannah Georgia saying how Blown Away she was that we named after the two victims of the terrorist attack that had just taken place that Friday in Israel there was this Palestinian who came out of nowhere and shot at a car and killed Father and Son natanel 18 years old and yov 44 years old it was Friday right before chabas and our bris was Sunday and at that point we hadn't heard so we had no clue about this attack I was blown away by the first part of that story and then a week later coming home from SCH my wife comes to the front door with this like complete happy emotional reaction that i' had never seen before I was like I'm coming home from SCH like what's going on we started reading up a lot about natano and Yakov and their lives because we started feeling this connection to them I was reading an article in thei magazine which was about the attack and it was going into their lives further and we see that Mel's name was Natan Kai and Yo's name was yako David I read the article I read it again I see yako David Natan Kai DAV the second names was the name of her grandfather that her father initially suggested for her child we were going to name after him I mean that was our other option I I just couldn't believe it I was see I think this story is a powerful reminder of how truly connected we are as a people it doesn't matter where you live where I live we can live on two opposite sides of the world it doesn't matter what background you're from or what background I'm from you can be kidish I can be Lish you can be spari I can be ashkanazi you can be secular I can be Orthodox but we're one people we have to bridge the gap between us and care and love each other despite our differences there's obviously a bond that we have deep down that whether we recognize it or not we're all connected we are one nation We Are One [Music] People