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Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

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Ten Minute Halacha
Marrying Somebody With The Same Name As Your Parent

an ayin harat, that if ever there's a gzardin against one of the people, it's going to go on the wrong person, it's going to land in the wrong spot in the family, and it's not a good thing.

Ten Minute Halacha
Marrying Somebody With The Same Name As Your Parent

Okay, second possibility, he says, no, the problem is, they're going to be living in the same house, and the husband's going to be Tovea's wife for Tashmish or something like that, he's going to call her name, and the wrong woman's going to show up, it's going to be his mother, and they're going to get confused,

Ten Minute Halacha
Marrying Somebody With The Same Name As Your Parent

And that would be tragic, obviously.

Ten Minute Halacha
Marrying Somebody With The Same Name As Your Parent

A third explanation is the Chivas Tavar Elio in Simmon Laman Beis.

Ten Minute Halacha
Marrying Somebody With The Same Name As Your Parent

He says, very simply, it's a lack of covenant.

Ten Minute Halacha
Marrying Somebody With The Same Name As Your Parent

Meaning you're going to be calling someone by the same name that your parent has.

Ten Minute Halacha
Marrying Somebody With The Same Name As Your Parent

That's the most pashut reason, right?

Ten Minute Halacha
Marrying Somebody With The Same Name As Your Parent

Meaning that if you're calling someone that has the same name,

Ten Minute Halacha
Marrying Somebody With The Same Name As Your Parent

as your parents all the time.

Ten Minute Halacha
Marrying Somebody With The Same Name As Your Parent

So you're always using your parents' name and a lot of times probably in front of them.

Ten Minute Halacha
Marrying Somebody With The Same Name As Your Parent

So that would be the most obvious reason not to marry someone.

Ten Minute Halacha
Marrying Somebody With The Same Name As Your Parent

Why Rabbi Ta'al Chassid would have been upset about this.

Ten Minute Halacha
Marrying Somebody With The Same Name As Your Parent

There is a fourth reason suggested by Rabbi Ruben Margolios in the Makar Chassid on the Sefer Chassidim.

Ten Minute Halacha
Marrying Somebody With The Same Name As Your Parent

where he suggests that the concern is that a lot of times people like that their grandchildren or great-grandchildren should be named after them after they die.

Ten Minute Halacha
Marrying Somebody With The Same Name As Your Parent

But if the mother's still alive, they can't name after the puppy because, you know, the Ashkenazim don't name after the living, and it's going to cause a problem.

Ten Minute Halacha
Marrying Somebody With The Same Name As Your Parent

I actually have a Talmud whose mother will not let him go out with any girl that has the same name as his grandmother who's deceased, because then it's guaranteed that your children aren't going to be named after my mother.

Ten Minute Halacha
Marrying Somebody With The Same Name As Your Parent

It's a

Ten Minute Halacha
Marrying Somebody With The Same Name As Your Parent

short-sighted.

Ten Minute Halacha
Marrying Somebody With The Same Name As Your Parent

It's guaranteed that that name is going to stay in the family for a while.

Ten Minute Halacha
Marrying Somebody With The Same Name As Your Parent

If not that generation, then the next generation.