<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Meir Rabi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:meirabi@gmail.com">meirabi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><br></div><div>Whats the source for calling People for an Aliya to the T by their name ben father's name</div>What is the earliest source and why do we do it?
<div>I believe it is not a universal custom, in some places they just say YaAmod and point</div><br></blockquote></div><br>The Mordechai (Gittin 402), speaking from the late 13th century, makes note of the minhag to call a person by his name rather than merely pointing at him (but does not specify if this includes his father's name), and explains that it is to avoid strife. Darchei Moshe 135:8, citing Or Zaru'a, notes that this was not the minhag during the time of the gemara. The Rema (139:3) notes that in general, the minhag is to call a person up by his father's name.<br>
<br>The Chida (ShuT Chaim Sha'al 1:13) notes, though, that the minhag Yerushalayim is not to call the oleh by his name, so as to give him the opportunity to decline the kavod without being subject to the penalty specified on Brachos 55a for one who is given a sefer torah to read and declines to do so.<br>
<br>Joshua Meisner<br>