{"id":8131,"date":"2015-04-14T15:10:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T12:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noahideworldcenter.org\/ask\/?p=8131"},"modified":"2020-03-01T23:56:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T20:56:24","slug":"a-change-somebodys-name-for-a-name-taken-from-tanakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/a-change-somebodys-name-for-a-name-taken-from-tanakh\/","title":{"rendered":"A change somebody&#8217;s name for a name taken from Tanakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Does something change is Ben Noah life if he changes his name for a name taken from Tanakh?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer of Rav Cherki:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a very nice deed which influence on a person. But it is not obligation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer of Rav Hollander:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maimonides writes that sincerely repenting person (baal-tshuva) becomes another individual. A person has his own self-identity and his name is its part. That\u2019s why, when he repentance in his sins, there will be a positive sense to change a name as a part of such personality change and the name change can help in such change. More over, the change his name for a name from Tanakh &#8212; in such a cases if this name is significant for a person, can strength him in his new life, that\u2019s why it deserves encouragement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Does something change is Ben Noah life if he changes his name for a name taken from Tanakh? Answer of Rav Cherki: This is a very nice deed which influence on a person. But it is not obligation. Answer of Rav Hollander: Maimonides writes that sincerely repenting person (baal-tshuva) becomes another individual. A person&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8138,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131\/revisions\/8138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}