Hershel comes up to his rebbe and says he gets a mazel tov.”It’s a baby girl”, he happily reports. The rebbe gives him a warm mazel tov and asks him if he would like to schedule the kiddush for this coming shabbos. Hershel says he would, but can’t figure out what name to give his baby girl. “Maybe you can suggest something.” The rebbe suggests that he look up a girl’s name mentioned in the week’s sedra. “Good idea!”, and Hershel goes home. That shabbos Hershel names his baby ‘Shprintzah’, and the rebbe is taken aback. He asks Hershel why he didn’t choose a name from the parsha, and he says that the only name he found was already taken by his Shvigger. Moments later the Rebbe looks in the chumash and notices it was Parshas Mishpotim. (There are no names of girls in that parsha)! “Hershel, where is your mother-in-law’s name mentioned in the parsha?” Hershel grins and says, “????? ?? ????”
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