[Avodah] changing names
Zev Sero
zev at sero.name
Tue May 1 14:10:59 PDT 2012
On 1/05/2012 3:33 PM, Eli Turkel wrote:
> As an aside Herzl is a last name.
Not really. He had it as a last name, but be'etzem it's a first name,
presumably that of his grandfather or great-grandfather when German Jews
took surnames; and some people today give it as a first name to honour him.
--
Zev Sero "Natural resources are not finite in any meaningful
zev at sero.name economic sense, mind-boggling though this assertion
may be. The stocks of them are not fixed but rather
are expanding through human ingenuity."
- Julian Simon
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