Rebbetzin names | Imamother

PinkFridge

Sun, Jul 01 2018, 6:12 pm

Long time no see! Welcome back and b'shaa tova!
What a lovely list.
I only read p. 1. Can I ask if you or your husband have any connection whatsoever to anyone on the list, either through having learned from/met them, learned their seforim, read biographies and were touched? Without going through your list, there is something about Rav Chaim Shmulevitz, zt"l that so inspires me. (And when I saw his daughters on a video one fast day, I was moved to tears by their incredible hadras panim.) Rav Simcha Wasserman and his wife had beautiful sholom bayis.

If, however, you choose a name of someone who died young or tragically, you might want to ask a rav if it's advisable to add a name. Just MHO. I never tell my kids who to name after, just make sure it's a normal name the kid can live with. This is the kind of advice I might offer them too, so please understand where it's coming from.

PinkFridge

Sun, Jul 01 2018, 6:14 pm

amother wrote:

Sometimes this is true, but sometimes a talmid chochom was just married off to the daughter of a rich man. Prestige for her, money for him, and the deal was done.

There were virtuous women who were married to water carriers. I can understand wanting to connect with someone special, but if all you know is who she married, then you don't know much at all.

True. But there were also great men from way back, I.e not 1900s and beyond, whose beautiful hespedim for their wives are in print.

amother

Aqua

Sun, Jul 01 2018, 8:25 pm

Nobody's perfect, even me, but capitalization and formatting drive me batty. Wink

So the list reformatted a bit:

Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach: Chaya Rivka

Rav Shmuel Auerbach: Rochel

Rav Yisroel Belsky: Miriam, shetichye

Rav Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin (the Netziv): first wife Rayna Basya; second wife Basya Miriam

Rav Yosef Breuer: Rika

Rav Eliyahu Eiezer Dessler: Bluma

Rav Yehoshua Leib Diskin: first wife Sarah; second wife Hinda Rochel

Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv: Shaina Chaya

Rav Moshe Feinstein: Shima

Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel (the Alter of Slabodka): Gittel

Rav Chaim Ozer Grodzinski: first wife Leah; second wife Yacha

Rav Yaakov Yosef Herman: first wife Aidel; second wife Mirel

Rav Shamshon Refael Hirsch: Chana

Rav Yosef Yoizel Horowitz (the Alter of Novardok): first wife Gittel; second wife Chaya

Rav Yeshaya Horowitz (the Shaloh): Chaya

Rav Yitzchak Hutner: Masha

Rav Mordechai Gifter: Shoshana

Rav Yisroel Meir Hakohein Kagan (the Chofetz Chaim): first wife Freida; second wife Miriam Freida

Rav Yaakov Kamenetzky: first wife Ita Ettel; second wife Chana

Rav Chaim Kanievsky: Batsheva Esther

Rav Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky (the Steipler Gaon): Miriam

Rav Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz (the Chazon Ish): Basha Bei

Rav Aharon Kotler: Rivka Chana Perel

Rav Shneur Kotler: Rischel

Rav Boruch Ber Leibowitz: Feige

Rav Dovid Leibowitz: Rivka Leah

Rav Henoch Leibowitz: Pesha

Rav Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz: Chava Esther

Rav Yechezkel Levenshtein: Chaya

Rav Elya Lopian: Sarah Leah

Rav Yehuda Ben Betzalel Loew (the Maharal): Perel

Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer: Baila Hinda

Rav Shraga Feivel Mendelowitz: Bluma Rochel

Rav Avigdor Miller: Ettel

Rav Avraham Yaakov Pam: Sarah

Rav Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman: Feige Golda

Rav Yisroel Salant: Esther Faiga

Rav Elozor Menachem Mann Shach: Guttel

Rav Shimon Shkop: Leah

Rav Moshe Schreiber (the Chasam Sofer): first wife Sara Malka; second wife Sorel

Rav Shmuel Binyamin Schreiber (the Ksav Sofer): Chava Leah

Rav Shimon Schwab: Recha

Rav Shalom Schwadron (the Maggid of Yerushalayim): Leah

Rav Meir Shapiro: Malka Toba

Rav Chaim Pinchas Sheinberg: Basha

Rav Chaim Shmulevitz: Miriam

Rav Matisyahu Solomon: Miriam

Rav Yitzchak Zev Soloveitchik (the Brisker Rav): Alta Hendel

Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld: first wife Sarah; second wife Cheila

Rav Yitzchak Elchonon Spektor: first wife Chana; second wife Sarah Raizel

Rav Aharon Leib Steinman: Tamar

Rav Elya Svei: Devora, shetichye

Rav Naftoli Trop: Pesya Leah

The Vilna Gaon (Rav Eliyahu): first wife Chana; second wife Gittel

Rav Chaim of Volozhin: Sara

Rav Nosson Meir Wachtfogel: Chava

Rav Yaakov Weinberg: Chana

Rav Shlomo Wolbe: Rivka, shetichye