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From: teitz@aecom.UUCP (Eliyahu Teitz)
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Subject: Re: Re: Why is AVROM or ABRAM not an allowed name?
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Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 12:03:06 EST
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> 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

   The Torah specifically states when changing Avraham's "V'lo yikareh
 shimcha Avram ki i'm Avraham ..." ( I think that's the exact wording )
 And you shall not be called Avram, but rather Avraham ... When the Torah
 relates the story of Yaakov and Yisrael, this doesn't appear. There was
 no prohibition set down against either name. In fact the commentaries in
 many places point out the the names refer to the different attributes of the
 Jewish nation ( because at times we are called B'nei Yisrael and others
 Beis Yaakov ).

				Eliyahu Teitz