Ashkenazi Jews Generally Dont Name Their Children After The Living. I Dont Know How Or Why That Tradition

Ashkenazi jews generally don’t name their children after the living. I don’t know how or why that tradition was established- but it is considered very bad luck.

I think the idea is that having two people in the same family/vicinity with the same name might lead the angel of death to get confused and take the wrong one.

What you might not know is that Ashkenazim don’t just avoid certain names to make things easier for the angel of death, we also pick certain names specifically to confuse him.

For example, you might name a baby that is born very sick “Alter” (lit. Old) in the hopes that the angel of death will pass over the child until they grow old.

After a near death experience, Ashkenazim sometimes change their first (Hebrew or Yiddish) names to entirely new ones. That way, if the angel of death checks back to see if he has succeeded, he won’t find anyone by the name he’s looking for alive, so he’ll move on.

I’ve never met a Jew who believes in the angel of death literally- but I enjoy the idea of an angel of death that is actually just swamped in paperwork and very easily confused.

Guys, the emotionless character obviously has no emotion. Insane amounts of sass aren’t emotions.

started reading the Star Trek Motion Picture novel.

some how its even gayer than i thought it would be

It's wild to me how much furry art I was marinated in as a child and yet I am still not a furry. "You can be!" No, I can't. I've tried so many times. It's never taken. I'm like those cis+ people but for furries.

the slayification of copia

why is this the Universal Jewish Experience lmao

if I had a nickel for every time someone pretended to be my friend while knowing I am jewish and made antisemitic jokes ranging from actually role-playing as an SS officer in an actual SS uniform to making jokes about gassing the jews then id have 3 nickels. which isn't a lot but its weird it happened 3 times.