- Family and Society
- Names and Name Changing
Naming of a Child
Question
Does the name of a child predestine his/her destiny?
Answer
It is written that when parents name a child they receive a wind of prophacy, and a name indicates certain things about the person. That is why a child shouldn't be given a name of an evil person etc.
Rabbi Ro'i Margalit

Hebrew name
Rabbi David Sperling | Tammuz 8, 5777

Yiddish names
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky | 12 Tishrei 5766

Naming children
Rabbi David Samson | 9 Av 5763
Giving the name Nimrod
Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | Sivan 28, 5770

Various Rabbis
Various Rabbis including those of of Yeshivat Bet El, such as Rabbi Chaim Katz, Rabbi Binyamin Bamberger and Rabbi Yitzchak Greenblat and others.

A Convert Who Does Not Keep Shabbat
23 Cheshvan 5763

Becoming a Ger
1 Kislev 5763

Potential wedding date
9 Kislev 5763

Non-Kosher wine for cooking
7 Kislev 5763

Eating in Shiurim
Rabbi David Sperling | Tishrei 7, 5775

Taking advil on Yom Kippur
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky | 10 Tishrei 5768

Jewelry on Yom Kippur
Various Rabbis | 21 Tevet 5764

25 hour fast
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Elul 26, 5773

chelev oblation
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Elul 25, 5783

Tefillos Rosh Hashanah
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Tishrei 3, 5784
converting to Jewaism
Rabbi Gideon Weitzman | Elul 25, 5783
