[Avodah] german custom

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 07:03:31PM +0300, Shlomo Pick wrote:
: There is a German custom of Chol Kreiss, i.e. verses of the Torah read by
: youth by a male child before giving a secular (chol) name....
: The term has a combination of Hebrew (chol) and German? (Kreiss).  I doubt
: it's an original Jewish minhag or perhaps it is to give sanctity (?) to a
: non Jewish name.

I was thinking the reverse -- it's to remind the child (and his parents)
that he's a Jew, despite being about to get a German name.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha