Jewish Festal Names: Exploring their Origins and Significance

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] e [Music] oh [Music] what [Music] welcome everybody my name is Sarah buan benor and I'm the director of the huc jir Jewish language project we're so glad that you've joined us today for glad that you've joined us today for this wonderful webinar by Rabbi ruven Kim kleene he's going to be talking about Jewish names that are based on the names of holidays and uh Rabbi ruen kimim Klein is an israel-based educator and freelance researcher who holds an MA in Jewish Education from middle sex University his internationally syndicated weekly column about synonyms in the Hebrew language and his other scholarly articles and lectures are available for free online available for free online and I'll turn it over to you Ren K kin go for it hi thank you um so the topic of tonight's uh lecture is Jew the the topic is Jewish fesal names which are names of uh proper names that come from names of festivals of holidays so it's to me it's an interesting concept because it represents the intersection of of represents the intersection of of different interests that I find interesting like uh history Linguistics ethology uh even reading tanak things like that all come together in the in the in the concept of U of names that are related to holidays so I wanted to talk specifically about that topic it personally I find um what we call first names or personal names given names more interesting because they're usually more

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