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Legitimate Criticism (Ep. 320)

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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Gartenberg in memory of Elazen Abraham who your site is Roshesh Nissan Pinman Benv Harris who is the second of Nissan and Yahushua Shm Shepsel who is the fifth of Nissan. So, uh, the last one particularly significant because that's my brother. Um, maybe I'll just take a moment. Yeah. Yahosua, uh, is of course the name that they decided was his name, but it's not. [laughter] I don't know, he's going to get into trouble for this, but it's not his name. I know cuz I sat down with my father once and I went through everybody in the family's name and for the most part a lot of the names come from my father's mother's side the dubners and uh Jason's name was Yishayahu Shepsel now they changed it to Yahushua because my father used to say it was Shia so when He started in Hebrew school, they said Shia, well, that must be Yahushua. But it's not. Shia is Yeshua. And uh otherwise, it would be Shui or or if it was if it was Yahushua, it was Yeshua. And it makes sense because my mother's father died when my mother was a teenager. So, it makes sense they would name their first son for him. And his name was Yishayu Nasan. I saw a picture of the mata. I saw my mother's kuva. It was Yishayu Nosan. So his name was Yisha Yahu. And somehow in Hebrew school they changed it to Yahosua. And uh there is no in our family on all four sides. There's no there's a Shepsil. And I remember my father had

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