[Avodah] Falk [was: R' Ovadiah Yosef re candle-lighting]

[Zev Sero]

On 8/6/07, T613K at aol.com <T613K at aol.com> wrote:

>>> Yup.  At least if you are related the the Falks of Prisha U'Drisha fame,
>>> I would guess (dates anyone?).

>> Just parachuting in to say that Falk was not the Drisha's family name, it
>> was his Yiddish name.  Yehoshua-Falk is a paired name, just like Yehuda-
>> Leib or Tzvi-Hirsh.  If his family had a name at all, I don't think we know
>> what it was.

> Leib is a lion, the symbol of the tribe of Yehuda.  Hirsch is a deer, same
> as Tzvi.  What is "falk"?

A falcon.  Its connection to Yehoshua is a matter for speculation.

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Zev Sero
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