Bad Names, Bad Mazal 01 23 2026

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

Okay, so we're going to continue talking about names tonight. Um, I actually want to start like this. My my this on my way here, I was talking to my father-in-law who just got back from Israel and he went to Israel Orbach and he was in Israel's apartment and there was a person there who came to ask a shila. There's a young couple who has two children who are um like very very special needs and she's pregnant with her third child and she's concerned that like the child is going to be you know have some sort of problems as well and Israel after they left was telling over Israel after they left was telling over a little bit of the conversation and he said as follows he said that the mother and the mother-in-law of this of this woman of this pregnant woman have the same name and the concern they came to him was do does he think that the reason why they're having children with such special needs is because the mother both mothers have the same names like and if that is the reason maybe he could suggest like a an additional name and one of the either the mother or the mother-in-law could like add on a name and it was real it's not the reason but if you want and

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1. 0:00Okay, so we're going to continue talking about names tonight. Um, I actually want to start…
2. 2:05years to say that in lots of brings up then later on in later on's life…
3. 4:38most Jews who live in the names like names. So the precedent is not like meaning…
4. 7:12particular like uh really strict position on this which is not I guess I would say…
5. 9:44gummoras that we said in previous weeks of kishma and kor and kagaram and etc and…
6. 12:19just dropped dead. He got sick. Alexander was a winner. And he had a very simple…
7. 14:20This is the I see in front of me when I'm out in battle. This is…
8. 16:51the world is is usually violent men. It's not uh you know that that goes with…
9. 19:21Egypt, he made that into a big place. He opened a library and it became extremely…
10. 21:55you know don't come back for money. So again Alexander in this context is not a…

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