Naming your kid Mazel – The Yeshiva World

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December 11, 2016 3:13 am at 3:13 am #618810

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Isn’t it risky? Unless her/his middle name is Tova/Tov, how do you know it’ll be a good mazel?

December 11, 2016 11:49 am at 11:49 am #1197657

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Great point!!!

A wise person once told me, “The proof is in the pudding.”

Take a look at people with that name and find out how they are doing.

Are people named Mazal better/worse/same than other people?

You could also ask them if people comment about their name…

The same wise person told me a joke about names…

Once there was a man named Chaim Shtinkovitz who hated his name so he changed it to Moshe Shtinkovitz.

December 11, 2016 2:45 pm at 2:45 pm #1197658

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I knew a Mazel when I was a teen. She was an adult though so I didn’t know much about her life.

She was super sweet. May she always have good sweet mazel.

At the same time it’s not like parents have much of a choice in naming, do they? I thought the Ruach HaKodesh sweeps in and tells the mother the name.

***Does the Ruach HaKodesh influence the middle name?

***What about when someone is named after a relative? Does Ruach HaKodesh have a say there?

As for Chaim becoming Moshe, lol… difficult last names can add character and hopefully the person will grow to appreciate it.

I knew a few friends who changed their names when they came of age. Including two young women with Israeli names that sounded like degrading English words.

December 11, 2016 11:24 pm at 11:24 pm #1197659

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Revelation: It does not matter because our neshamot are beyond mazelim.

So Mazel has the potential to go beyond her/his mazel too.

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