Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!dave From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Why is AVROM or ABRAM not an allowed name? Message-ID: <587@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 03:45:37 EST Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.587 Posted: Tue Dec 11 03:45:37 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Dec-84 05:32:16 EST References: <170@dreacad.UUCP> Reply-To: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) Distribution: net Organization: The Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 10 An interesting question. One would think that, if Avram is not a legal name, Yaakov (Jacob) should not be legal either, yet obviously it is. Does it perhaps depend on the specific wording of the pasuk? Dave Sherman Toronto -- { allegra cornell decvax ihnp4 linus utzoo }!utcsrgv!dave