Comments on: Jewish Superstition, Babies, and a Baby’s Name

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By: Ruchi Koval

Ruchi Koval — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:42:31 +0000

Well done Nina.
Re: “How is it that regarding God we’re infinitely skeptical, but on fearing the Angel of Death we all agree?”
This sort of jives with my suspicion that there are no real Jewish atheist. The spiritual spark ever lurks and must come forth somewhere: superstition, acts of philanthropy, Israel activism.

By: Rivki

Rivki — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:48:49 +0000

B’sha’ah tovah.

“there’s something cool and uniquely private about forcing ourselves to rise above the fast-paced announce everything on Facebook three minutes after it happens culture.”

I also like this aspect. And there definitely is something special about the name being private until the moment it’s official.

Some other superstitious-type thing about names is that parents have ruach hakodesh (divine inspiration) in naming their kids, and we experienced it with our first. We had one name picked, but then we looked at him, and, well, he was just Moshe. Go figure. I’ve heard a number of stories about how the couple picked one name, and then, at the very very last moment, felt that a different name would be appropriate.