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Jewish Practice Lifecycle Events The Hebrew Name Laws and Customs of Names and Naming

What’s in a Name?

A book on the laws & customs regarding the naming of children and related topics

An authoritative scholarly guide to names and naming, drawing from a broad range of rabbinic responsa.

Introduction
1. Who Has the Right to Name a Child
2. When a Boy Is to Be Named
3. How and When a Girl Is to Be Named
2 Comments
4. Naming After Parents, or After an Event
5. Giving a Boy a Feminine Name, and Vice Versa
4 Comments
6. Names Common to Both Males and Females
7. Names Containing the Name of G‑d
8. Naming Children After Places
9. Naming a Son After One’s Rebbe
10. Naming After a Living Person
7 Comments
11. Giving One Person Two Names
4 Comments
12. Naming After a Former Husband
13. Naming After a Former Wife
14. Mistakes Made While Giving the Name
15. Naming After Someone Who Died Young
2 Comments
16. Naming a Child After Someone Who Died After the Child Was Born
4 Comments
17. Naming After One Who Has Not Yet Been Buried
18. Naming a Child According to the Calendar
19. Naming a Child According to the Circumstances of Birth
20. Someone Whose Son or Daughter Has Died
21. Giving Two Children the Same Name
22. Special Objections Regarding Names
23. Non-Jewish Names
24. Names Predating Abraham
25. “May the Name of Reshaim Decay”
26. Naming an Adopted Child
27. Naming a Child Who Died
3 Comments
28. Changing a Name
8 Comments
29. Mentioning the Patient’s Name, and That of His Mother, When Praying for a Sick Person
30. Calling One’s Father by His Name
31. Calling One’s Rabbi by His Name
32. Whether a Husband and Wife Should Address Each Other by Name
33. If a Second Wife Has the Same Name As the First Wife
34. If a Second Husband Has the Same Name As the First Husband
35. A Daughter-in-Law and Mother-in-Law with the Same Name
36. A Son-in-Law and Father-in-Law with the Same Name
37. Mechutanim with the Same Name
1 Comment
38. Symbolic Reference to the Author’s Name in the Title of His Book
39. Using Titles
40. Calling Up a Person to the Torah by His Name
3 Comments
41. Addressing People Named Shalom and the Like, in the Bathhouse
42. Miscellaneous
44. Reciting a Verse Beginning and Ending With the Same Letters As One’s Name
4 Comments

Birth & Parenting
The Hebrew Name
Jewish Names Basics
Questions and Answers on Jewish Names
Insights on Jewish Names and Naming
The Meanings of Specific Jewish Names
Stories About Jewish Names
Laws and Customs of Names and Naming
Bris: Circumcision
Pidyon Haben
Birthday
The Upsherin
Jewish Education: Chinuch
Bar Mitzvah
Bat Mitzvah
The Jewish Wedding and Marriage
Jewish Divorce: Get
Aging & Retirement
Death & Mourning
Mourner's Kaddish
Programs
Chaplaincy
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