The Name Debate Rav Moshe Feinstein and the Maharam Schick 01 09 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.

Um, okay, I'm going to talk something about about names because of pressure schmize. Some fine gentleman pointed out that I may have spoken about this last year. Um, in which case there'll be a fajr afterwards and you'll tell me what what I said last year, what I said different this year. Yeah, we'll see. In any case, the the is the counter measure in the beginning of this week's parsha that says "There are four reasons why we were redeemed from mitzrayim." There are four reasons why we were redeemed from mitzrayim. Four like things that they did, things that they didn't change. Um, the famous one is the uh the famous one is they didn't change their modality of dress, they didn't change their names. And then the other two are they didn't change their language and they didn't change their names. They didn't talk language and they weren't you know in the Now the one of the famous one is they didn't change their language. That one is not actually in this it's a little bit sketchy where that comes from. That's the whole discussion and whatever but that's we're going to leave that aside for now. In any case, one of the clearest that they brought to bear so to

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1. 0:00Um, okay, I'm going to talk something about about names because of pressure schmize. Some fine…
2. 2:06know, Sugya that that's about it and and the back and forth. Now, there's an interesting…
3. 4:40Midrashim and the Sifrei in this week's parsha that say that goyishe names was like a…
4. 7:15look in the the Yerushalmi the Bavli there's ameroim who had a Rav Avidrumos Rav Pitik…
5. 9:17Taisefis is is pulling a teshuvah that Eina Tam wrote about a specific circumstance about a…
6. 11:53family, who's like a high society woman, a prominent woman, says, "It's a bizayon for us…
7. 14:28Aviyam K'mikodem. V'hineni L'horis B'heter Gamur. He tells you right away what he's going to do.…
8. 16:35l'shem Yehudis. Khain ma'asim b'khayavim. In this tshu in Sefer HaYashar in the full context that…
9. 19:11relevant to what he's saying, even if it's not exactly what he's saying. Now, I want…
10. 21:44door they had goyish names also. They just you gave a name still even though they…

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