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Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

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

So if the name is any common name nowadays, sounds from the simple reading of the Shulchan Aruch that it's going to be a problem to call your spouse by that name.

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

The Drisha is quoted by the Shach and Sivkat and Gimel.

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

He says, no, no, in order to be Asr, it needs to be an unusual name and in front of the father.

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

If either one of those is not present, then it's going to be mutter.

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

So it's the opposite extreme.

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

Khayy Adam writes that in order to be Asr, it needs to be Hashem Pali and also in front of the father.

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

However, Rav Moshe says that things have changed nowadays.

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

Everybody, no one calls their father by the name.

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

who calls their father dad or Abba or Tati or something like that so even the Ramah would say that a regular name can be called even in front of him if you're calling your spouse no one's going to think that you're calling your father by his first name because nobody does that says the says Rav Moshe

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

Your father will think you're calling him and other people will think you're calling him.

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

So if there's no makom litos where no one's going to have that thought so then it's not a problem.

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

So that's what Rav Moshe writes.

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

I think the most common practice is

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

My sister-in-law is a great-granddaughter of Moshe Feinstein.

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

So I asked my brother, what did Rebetzin Tender call Rabbi Tender?

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

because Rabbi Tandler was Rabbi Moshe David Tandler and Moshe Feinstein was Rabbi Moshe Feinstein.

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

So did she call him Moshe in front of... So my brother said by the time he came into the family, Moshe was no longer alive.

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

So I don't know what she called him in front of Moshe.

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

But I can tell you that every time I saw them interact, she always called him Moshe.

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

She didn't call him Moshe, she called him Moshe.