[Avodah] Names of Months

[Brent Kaufman]

Now that the ancient pantheons of gods have been brought up, can anyone
give an explanation for why the we name our months after Babylonian gods?

Why does Megilas Esther change the Hebrew names of the 2 heroes of the
story to those of Babylonian gods? (marduch and ishtar) And why did the
Torah choose, for our greatest Navi and teacher, an Egyptian name shared by
Paro himself- Ra Musa or Ra mes; the noun ‘ms’ meaning born, the first
syllable being the name of their sun god, or born of ra.
I mean, Moshe Rabbeinu had ten fine Yidishe names, yet HKBH wants him to be
known through his Egyptian name. Why?
The Torah has taught us to be a very insular people, using the names of
avodos zaros is even prohibited by Halacha.

While I understand that these things bring tikunim to certain aspects of
the world, I am asking on a more pshat level.


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