8. On Naming the Newborn

Part One – Life | 100 Corinaldi, Jerusalem 2005, pp . 27 - 38, article entitled “Perakim be - toldot - ha - Moed le - Matan ha - Shem la - Ben ve - la - Bat” . 1 In addition, it should be noted that there were certain names that it was inadvisable to give the child, such as names of wicked people or people who had come to a bad end . thus, for example, the talmud in Baba Batra 68 a quotes a certain explanation in the name of r . Shimon ben avtolmos . Rashbam r . Shmuel b . r . Meir ) comments on this : “thus explained rabbenu Hananel”, ( surely a puzzling comment that seems not to elucidate anything . the author of Torat Hayyim ( r . abraham Hayyim b . r . tzvi Hirsch Schorr ) ad loc . ( Lublin explains that apparently Rashbam had a different version in his talmud , ) 1624 edition which read Shimon ben avshalom, and this is the reading in Ramah ( r . Meir ha - Levi Abulafia ) and Ritba ibid . Since avshalom was a wicked person who came to a bad end, and according to r . Meir, in Sanhed...  אל הספר
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