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Book Title What's in a Name?
By Zushe Wilhelm
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16. Naming a Child After Someone who Died After the Child was Born

1) One may name a child after someone who died after the child was born.

2) An orphan who is born after his father has died, should be named after his father.


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Rabbi Zushe Wilhelm is the author of many compilations on Jewish law. This book with its extensive footnotes can be purchased here.

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What's in a Name?
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17. Naming After One Who Has Not Yet Been Buried
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19. Naming According to the circumstances of Birth
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What's In A Name
  Among the Jewish life cycle events, naming a child is uniquely important, for throughout his life, his Jewish name defines his identity at every waking and sleeping moment. It is by his Jewish name that a person is remembered and memorialized after a hundred and twenty years.