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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friends say it is bad luck in Jewish tradition to actually use the name of the dead relative. [/quote] Interesting. My parents used the initial for me, but the same name of a great grandfather for my brother. We are just told it's bad luck to name someone after the living in Judaism. [/quote] yeah, that sounds like a really specific tradition. I know a ton of people who have used the actual name and that is pretty standard. Now, if the relative had a bad life or died young, that is different, there's a bit of a superstition around that. We named our son after my husband's grandfather (same name) with middle name after my aunt (male version of her name). My aunt had a very unhappy life, and my husband was a little nervous about naming for her, especially same name. But at the end of the day we are rational people and it's a superstition, and anyway it's just the middle name, so he was persuaded.[/quote]
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