Theophoric Names in Judaism and Idolatry

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

uh before I begin I wanted to thank Benji Eisenberg from the pesach program and Mr yaakov Kessler from the Ramada hotel for inviting me to come speak into hosting this event and special thanks to nasano for slapping out here on Hollow mode to record this lecture sheer drasha whatever you want to call it um let me introduce you to the wonderful field of Jewish animastics okay onomastics is the study of names onomastics is the study of names looking into things about like where do names come from what language it comes from you know where and when the name came about where and when the name was popular what does the name literally mean different famous people that bore that name in particular so Jewish onomastics is the study of Jewish names and all of these types of questions regarding Jewish names I particularly find it an interesting topic to think about because it represents the intersection of a lot it represents the intersection of a lot of different interesting fields that I find interesting because they're interesting right for example you know it's the intersection of History archeology Linguistics etymology and then of course on the other hand and things like that as well you know halaka talks about things like how to spell names forget when you give a name there's different in hug him you know for a boy you give a name by Brits for a girl you give a name when the

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2. 5:38moment what exactly the than they might mean but it's the same thing it seems to…
3. 11:48know it might be a problem of writing hashem's name so they you know they put…
4. 18:03it has some sort of meaning he wrote me back no there's no such thing there's…
5. 24:25that's the tragic story of yeshiah so after yes dies in this battle comes along Paro…
6. 30:32part so half of his name remained and half of his name is new so the…
7. 36:44but okay well we'll let the camera keep running yeah okay let's say that I'll make…
8. 43:20convention from then from the time of energy and onwards they started calling people with with…
9. 49:36Canaanite Colony his name was Hannibal Hannibal is like he gives Grace Grace reference the ball…
10. 55:46is goddess is star which is another name for the Canaanite ashderes ashtaris which is um…

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