Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site spuxll.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!spuxll!mis From: mis@spuxll.UUCP (Meyer Steinberg) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Why is AVROM or ABRAM not an allowed name? Message-ID: <587@spuxll.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 13:00:13 EST Article-I.D.: spuxll.587 Posted: Tue Dec 11 13:00:13 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Dec-84 06:15:34 EST References: <170@dreacad.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems, South Plainfield NJ Lines: 7 I think whoever told you this thing is making a mistake. Jacob also was told that he wont be called Jacob but "Israel" instead. (Genesis 35:10). Shall we say Jacob is an Illegal name? The phrase you quoted means specifically to Abraham the Patriarch. I know a few people with the name Avrom. If people can have a name like Beryl or Zundel or other yiddish names you certainly can have a name from the Bible. Meyer Steinberg.