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==Specific Names== | ==Specific Names== | ||
# It is the minhag Yisrael to name even after angels such as Refael, Michael, Gavriel, Azriel or Uriel.<ref>Shemot Baaretz (Rav Chaim Kanievsky, p. 39)</ref> | # It is the minhag Yisrael to name even after angels such as Refael, Michael, Gavriel, Azriel or Uriel.<ref>Shemot Baaretz (Rav Chaim Kanievsky, p. 39)</ref> | ||
# Although Rabbi Yehuda Hachasid advised that people shouldn't call their children by the names Yehuda and Shmuel the practice of the world is to use those names and assume that Rabbi Yehuda Hachasid only meant this stricture for his descendants.<Ref>Shemot Baaretz (Rav Chaim Kanievsky, p. 34)</ref> | |||
=Further Reading= | =Further Reading= | ||
# Shalmei Simcha chapter 67 | # Shalmei Simcha chapter 67 | ||
