When and How Should a Name be Added for a Sick Person

Okay, so the very famous Gemara in Rosh Hashanah, on the last day of the day, is the Gemara says, There are four things that rip up a Zahideen of a person.

Eluheim Tzedaka, Geli Tzedaka, Tza'aka Damani, Shimei Ashei, changing his name to Shimei Maisel, and changing your actions.

Well, changing reactions we're not doing, so we've got to fight some of the other ones.

And one of them is, versus, how do you know? It says, don't call your wife anymore.

And the next person says, Because Baruch Hu tells Avraham Avinu, you're going to change your name, and now you're going to have a child.

So we see from the Gemara that this is our Qayakh, when a person changes his name, it gives him a certain Qayakh to be able to go into the different state.

And therefore, if he's not happy where he is now, there is an avenue to go down to change the name.

That's the Kharuah, what we see from the Gemara.

Now the Rosh in Semen Hey brings this Gemara to Halacha.

that there is a way for a person to change his name based on changing his name.

In Medrash Rablo actually, this is in Bereshit Shem Dalet Yud Beis, they bring, the Medrash brings the same thing, but the Raya that the Medrash brings is not from Sarah but rather from Avram Avi.

But the bottom line is, it's the same idea that a person is Zaycheh Tu, Bracha is by changing his name.

He says, Why do we change the name of a choyle? Now, one of the things that grips up the identity of a person is changing the name.

This is not Yankel anymore.

This is now somebody else.

And therefore, if this is our dinner on Yankel, and we change his name, so we're accomplishing something.

When you have a very sick person, we change his name.

Now, he goes on to explain over there how to do it.

He says he brings 10 people.

He brings an Adam Gadol.

The Gadol Shebekulam holds the Sefer Terah.

And as a kind of solution, he goes on to say how to do this.

We give blessings to the So besides the idea of giving him a new name, the brother once slain the very Madam Shul, the guy that called it the disabledless.

So besides reading down the disabledless, you could also change his name.

Why? This changing of the name rips up the exalted.