Nov 16, 2011

Selling Baby Naming In Yated Neeman

When someone pointed out to me the classified section of this week's free Yated Neeman, I got a real kick out of it, Who knew that Yated classifieds could be so funny!!?? When I read it I was not sure if I was reading Yated Neeman or eBay! They need to change the name of the newspaper, though I am not sure if eNeeman or Yated Bay is better..


If you can't make out the Hebrew, basically someone is trying to sell the rights to name his baby. It doesn't say  how much it costs, so I am assuming it up for bidding. It says "Respected family interested in giving a name to a baby after a good person for pay".

Nice of them to call themselves "respected", or a more accurate translation might be "important". Unfortunately they restrict to "named after a good person", which gives them a lot of leeway to veto any selection. They are the arbiter of who is considered a "good person".

This is something I expect to see on eBay, not in the Yated.
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15 comments:

  1. yaakNovember 16, 2011 12:01 PM

    Also here

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  2. Wanna SaabNovember 16, 2011 12:17 PM

    I don't see any wrongdoing on the paper's part for printing an ad that someone paid for. Unless it was an inappropriate ad. The one who placed this ad, that's another story.

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  3. Rafi G.November 16, 2011 12:22 PM

    nothing wrong. it just surprised me. it seems like this would be against Jewish values, at least from their perspective.
    Selling the right to name a baby? Seems like there is no mesora for such a thing for the avos ha'kdoshim. I was just surprised that they put it in. Nothing actually wrong with it though.

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  4. Rafi (S)November 16, 2011 12:27 PM

    The wording isn't clear, but I understood it the other way round. They are a mishpaha hashuva and they want to pay someone to name a baby after a good person.

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  5. Shlomo GorenNovember 16, 2011 12:52 PM

    I read it like Rafi S.

    A family with no babies to name after someone "important" are willing to pay someone to name their baby for the "important someone"

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  6. ShalomNovember 16, 2011 1:03 PM

    Agree with Shlomo S and Shlomo. They want to pay someone to name their baby after a relative.

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  7. Rafi G.November 16, 2011 1:09 PM

    I hear you. thats not how I read it, and from the INN article, along with a mynet article someone pointed me to, it was also understood by them like me. Plus in the mynet article they say they spoke to the family.

    http://www.mynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4148710,00.html

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  8. bohr salinoNovember 16, 2011 1:34 PM

    I understood also that they want to name a child after somebody else and get paid for it.
    If so a "good person" would be the one whose family will pay the most.

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  9. Rafi G.November 16, 2011 1:48 PM

    Bechadrei now also has an article on this, http://www.bhol.co.il/article.aspx?id=34304 , and they also say, after having spoken with them, that she is due to give birth next week and they are selling the rights to name the baby in order to be able to cover debts

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  10. RavTzairNovember 16, 2011 2:52 PM

    and see this:
    http://www.kikarhashabat.co.il/%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A4%D7%97%D7%94-%D7%9E%D7%91%D7%A7%D7%A9%D7%AA-%D7%93%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%94-%D7%91%D7%AA%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%94.html

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  11. Rafi G.November 16, 2011 2:54 PM

    I was saving that one for tomorrow.. :-)

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  12. MarcNovember 16, 2011 3:15 PM

    What I expect next: Turn your baby into a revenue vehicle...

    "Don't have your own baby to name after a loved one? Family with newborn now accepting bids. Act fast - bris is just a few days away!"

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  13. shaya gNovember 16, 2011 6:04 PM

    how does this tie in to your post a while back about RCK and the naming issue? is this better or worse?

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  14. Rafi G.November 16, 2011 6:13 PM

    i dont think his requirement of only biblical names is the commonly accepted custom. his own name isnt biblical.
    but even if they were following that, so they would only approve a biblical name. not much of an issue

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  15. AnonymousNovember 17, 2011 6:11 PM

    I posted this in your newest post, but to add it here too - my grandfather was born in Meah Shearim over 90 years ago. This is exactly what his parents did, for the same reason. It is very disheartening that the 'yishuv hayashan' hasn't gotten economically any wiser in 90 years.

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