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Chutzpod!

Should You Give Your Kid a Super Jewy Name?

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Chutzpod!

Judaism, Religion & Spirituality

5.0531 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Rabbi Shira Stutman and Hanna Rosin are back with new episodes for Season 5 of Chutzpod. They kick things off by answering a question from a listener named Moshe. His mother insisted he receive a “super Jewy name,” but what does Judaism say about this? What makes a name Jewish? And can we just name our kids Tom, Dick or Harry?

Read about Sarah naming Isaac

Read about Leah naming her children

Read about the Jewish concept of three names

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0:00.0

Hey, chutzkwad. We know you love thoughtful Jewish conversation. So there's another podcast we think you should check out. It's called Being Jewish with Jonah Platt.

0:09.6

Jonah has the kind of conversations that don't feel reactive or hysterical or trapped in hot takes. He makes space for complexity instead of trying to win an argument.

0:19.1

Jonah talks to artist, public figures, thinkers, Jewish and not, including Seinfeld's

0:24.3

Jason Alexander, former hostage Eli Shurabi, comedian Modi Rosenfeld, CNN's Jake Tapper, and Cindy

0:32.1

Crawford.

0:33.0

The podcast is about the beautiful and complicated parts of Jewish life.

0:37.2

So if you want something smart, expansive, and grounded, check out Being Jewish with Jonah Platt on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:46.8

Or visit being Jewishpodcast.com.

1:04.1

Hello! Hello! Hello, and welcome back to chutzpah, real life lived better, where each week we apply Jewish tradition and a little bit of the euvular fricative, chah, to talk about something that is live in our lives.

1:13.0

I'm Rabbi Shira Stutman.

1:14.7

And I'm Khana Rosen.

1:18.3

All right.

1:19.2

First of all, everyone, welcome back to season five.

1:22.3

Hannah, I just love seeing your beautiful face.

1:26.3

I am so grateful that we get to dive in for another season

1:29.8

of really extraordinary questions. Me too. I feel like I've been ethically wandering without you

1:38.4

for months. For months, I've had no moral compass at all. So I'm really glad to be here.

1:45.0

First of all, that's a great opening question. I want to know what are some of the

1:47.8

terrible things you've done while we haven't been interacting. But that's not my real question.

1:51.7

Here's my real question. Your name is Hana. I assume that throughout your life in America,

1:58.0

at least, people have mispronounced your names. So what are,

2:01.3

what are some of the things that you're called? Oh, I mean, you know, every single day up until

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