Parashat Balak - The power of names - Rabbi Alon Anava

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

[Music] we are in a shot Barack and we want to ask a big question how can it be that such a wicked individual gets a power shot portion named after his name so obviously there's already a hint here that something deep in the name of an individual and we know that in Judaism the name makes a very very big difference when I personally even converts they're wondering what should i how should I be called what should be the name I should take one myself when parents give birth to kids there's always the the whole dialogue and the debate what should be the name so we know that names are very very powerful very significant in Judaism and there are and we see that the name is mash has an effect on the lack of the of the baby of the person now luck is not the right word in English luck is what you need when you go to Vegas and we're talking in Hebrew luck is masala and masala is not the luck when you throw the dice rather it's much more deeper but we do see that the name really affects the person in many different ways and we know the hospital when somebody's sick then they add a name of they had a letter to the name so we want to understand where what's what's more the significance of the names here glad we know so many people are so interested when it comes to names what does the main name mean and why the name and she's outside I know your honor we do find in Judaism that the names have a very deep significance and the name affects the individual and we see that in the

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