[Avodah] Special Case of Name-Calling

[Zev Sero]

Yisrael Medad wrote:
> I was just informed that at a brit today in Israel, the family 
> received a psak from Rav Mordechai Eliahu @ 11 pm last night on whether 
> you can name the infant for someone who was alive when the baby was born 
> and saw him. Said 'yes'.

What's the hava amina otherwise?   It seems to me that when something
like this happens it's *especially* common to name the baby after the
recent niftar.   (Extreme example: my mother's cousin Yidel was named
after his mother, Eidel, who didn't live to see his bris.)

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