Using Non-Jewish Names | Weekly Shiur by Rav Asher Weiss Shlit"a | 5783

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

foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] it is the safer of Exile and Redemption and usually when I start from a shemais I make a comment is all about individuals the Giants of is all about individuals the Giants of yore starting with they were The General sadikim before Claudius Saul before Israel was born and then we go over to the other signation of ramiyanka and that is when our Story begins Our Story begins and passes and the climax and culmination of the safer is yankovino and his twelve sons and yankov benches his 12 children and yankov benches his 12 children so it is the story about individuals is the story of a people we were transformed from individuals to a nation the posix says and then the ultimate stage of becoming a people is Muhammad arsena when we all stood at the foot of Mount Sinai so the topic we will be discussing today is not a very lambdish topic but I think the beauty of our share is the variety of different suggests and different styles so this year today is not a very long distance year like the ones we had in the past few weeks but it is an extremely important year for Jews and from Jews in the world over is it legitimate to use non-jewish names so my most dear friend Kai malinski is sitting at my right many people listening to the Shia know him as Henry since day number one I made it clear to me between me and you I'm crying and to me is crying I know some amazing people primarily my good friends and hot sauce that use non-jewish names I know a Ralph and a Brian

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