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moish: i would never give my kid an englsh name, due to in mitzrayim the great thing was they never changed their names!!!!! a Yiddish one is from the old country, a hebrew name, even not biblical is still a hebrew name!!!!
In the midbar, did the Jews use Mitzri names to be like the old country? Yiddish might be the language of our ancestors in Europe but Lashon HaKodesh (Hebrew) is the language of our forefathers. If you don’t want to use English names, so use Hebrew, a holy language, not Yiddish.
Joseph said:
Yiddish is used by the Gedolim and has a holyness to it (certainly less than Loshon HaKodesh) since it was used by Yidden for 1,000+ years to learn Torah.
Hebrew has been used to learn Torah for longer. English is used by thousands around the world to learn Torah through Artscroll.
tentwenty30 said:
I don’t know whether it is holy or not, but i do know this … some of the phrases that are commonly used in yiddish (heilege abbaye, heilege rava) would sound very funny in any other language, but in yiddish retain an authentic meaning
That’s because it is what you are used to. A Sephardi might say “abbaye hakadosh” instead. If you people would use it then it would become common.