Why Weren't Any Of The Shevatim Named Sfter Avraham Avinu?

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

Hi, this is David Olowski with our question and answer program. Anonymous asks, "Why weren't any of the named after Abraham Vinu?" I'm not sure I understand the basic question. How many people in the Tanakh do you find who is named after anybody ever? Now, uh I I can I can think of an exception. Terra named the son for his father Nahur. Okay, that's one I can think of. But for the most part, you don't find that people gave names over that was a a latter kind of thing. But when you go through most of Tanakh, you don't find too many people named for anybody. You don't find a Dove beforehand or afterwards or an Abraham or a Yakov. Don't find anybody called Yakov and Tanakh after Yakov. So I don't know why you picked on a mavenino. The idea of naming people came later to give somebody a name over. The reason for this I think I think and again I didn't see this anywhere. This is just Rabowski speculating is because when you give somebody a name a name is a person's essence. It uh it captures the essence of the person both in the meaning of the word, the gamatri of the word, the letters that go into the word by David, they darian the daled and the v and the dalid yehuda is yud v with a dal in it.

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1. 0:00Hi, this is David Olowski with our question and answer program. Anonymous asks, "Why weren't any…
2. 0:30Okay, that's one I can think of. But for the most part, you don't find that…
3. 1:00somebody a name over. The reason for this I think I think and again I didn't…
4. 1:33They darian that I mean a raham of ham and his name because 248. I mean…
5. 2:05themselves. So they gave them names based on people from before. So in the family of…
6. 2:35came into fashion and went out of fashion. It's unusual to find anybody to name named…
7. 3:081990s I was in my in-laws house in Queens. I don't remember what newspaper they had,…
8. 3:38because everybody's, you know, the kid had the same name as the father-in-law. There were too…

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