Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz
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It's a reference to just a person.
But another interpretation is that it's a reference to G-d.
that Avraham Avinu was telling Hashem wait a minute, I want to go grab these guests and even though the Pasuk already said that he ran out to greet them so you would imagine he spoke to Hashem first and said just hang on nevertheless Rashi says it's normal for the Torah to be written out of order in that kind of way
So what you see from Narash, the very same word, very same word, depending on what your intention is, could be Kodesh or it could be Chol.
And if it's Chol, it's Chol.
Then you're allowed to say it.
The Gemara in Pesach, the Mandav Kofi Yetzayin, says that if the name Yedidya is two words, then one of them is Kodesh.
But if it's one word, then it's just, then it's Chol.
The Tashbeitz in Chelek Aleph, in Kofi Yetzayin, is Medayek.
that anything we determine to be one word would be Chol and therefore much to erase even if directly named after Hashem like the name Tzri Shaddai and Immanuel where clearly the Kel part and the Shakai part are a reference to HaKadosh Baruch Hu but if it's part of a larger name then that changes it to a Shem Chol and if it's a Shem Chol you're allowed to erase it, you're allowed to say it it's not a problem, I'm reminded when I was
My friend, Rabbi Shimon Shanker's wedding, he's the principal of MTA now, but back then he was just my friend Seth Shanker.
He asked me, I think, to sign his ksuba.
I don't think it was the tenon, I think it was actually the ksuba.
I could ask him to check.
And Rabbi Taitz, Zichron HaLevracha, was the Masar HaKidushin.
So Rabbi Taitz said, what's your name?
I said, Ari Yitzvi ben Chaim Yitzchak.
He said, okay, practice writing it.
So I wrote Aleph, Resh, Yud, Dash, Hey.
When I wrote my first name, Rabbi Tite said, no one is going to confuse you for God.