[Avodah] Special Case of Name-calling

[Jonathan Baker]

From: "Yisrael Medad" <yisrael.medad at gmail.com>
 
> 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'.
 
They needed to escalate it that high?  My friend named his son after his
father; the grandfather died between the baby's birth and bris.  

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