What's the longest Jewish name?

amother

Seashell

Mon, Jul 22 2024, 9:36 am

My friends granddaughter is called
Neshama Tehora sheyarda laolam be'erev Shabbat bein hashmashot

amother

Garnet ↓

Mon, Jul 22 2024, 9:44 am

amother Seashell wrote:

My friends granddaughter is called
Neshama Tehora sheyarda laolam be'erev Shabbat bein hashmashot

It should be against the law to do that to a child. Can you imagine when they read her ketuba under the chuppah?
It should be mandatory for parents to go through some kind of screening board before naming a child even though less than one out of a thousand would do such a thing.

amother

↑ Cappuccino

Mon, Jul 22 2024, 9:55 am

Many years ago (before 2005) when I was visiting Israel, a family named their daughter Elisheva and said that it stands for - Ein Lanu Yehuda Shomron Bli Aza.

↑ Ruchel ↓

Mon, Jul 22 2024, 10:35 am

amother Cappuccino wrote:

Many years ago (before 2005) when I was visiting Israel, a family named their daughter Elisheva and said that it stands for - Ein Lanu Yehuda Shomron Bli Aza.

Nili and Charlotte are names like that

amother

Pansy

Mon, Jul 22 2024, 10:49 am

mamaleh wrote:

IIRC it’s Katzenellenbogenstien.

There is a well known Chabad family called Katzenelenbogen, I was in school with them and they were all known informally as K. (as in Esti K, Leah K. etc).

One of their uncles shortened his name to Kazen, not sure why.

↑ Ruchel ↓

Mon, Jul 22 2024, 11:08 am

Katzenellenbogen is a regular surname
Koen tzedak of Ellenbogen
I descend by them
Not Stein

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shachachti

Mon, Jul 22 2024, 11:23 am

mamaleh wrote:

IIRC it’s Katzenellenbogenstien.

The name is Katzenelenbogen- descendants of Rabbi Shmuel Yehuda Katzenelenbogen of Italy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik.....bogen

↑ mamaleh

Mon, Jul 22 2024, 11:28 am

shachachti wrote:

The name is Katzenelenbogen- descendants of Rabbi Shmuel Yehuda Katzenelenbogen of Italy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik.....bogen

I was talking about the name on the Shmuel Kunda tapes. The person I replied to said it was Katzenellenbogen. I know that’s a real name, but it’s not the name Rabbi Kunda used.

amother

DarkCyan

Mon, Jul 22 2024, 11:38 am

Yisroel Mordechai Yehuda Shlomo Zalmen

There’s a family that all have that name…

keym

Mon, Jul 22 2024, 12:08 pm

Maybe it's me.
But I always think that a child with 3 multi syllable names has a longer name and harder than 5 shorter names.

Matisyahu Mordechai Yechezkel
Yosef Dov Chaim Yaakov Shimon

The first name seems harder and more burdensome to the child than the second name.

But that's me.

Chayalle

Mon, Jul 22 2024, 12:12 pm

keym wrote:

I disagree. I think it's easier to remember 3 names than 5, even if they are longer syllables.
Maybe that's just me.

LOL....DH, myself, and each of my 3 DD's have only one name apiece....though DH's name has 4 syllables, come to think of it.

amother

Oatmeal

Mon, Jul 22 2024, 1:47 pm

I remember hearing one of Yankel Miller's tapes where he says "my grandfather's last name was Yachatamjanavitchekaliovzrivitzky Smile

I listened to it over and over to memorize it as a kid Smile

amother

Snowflake ↓

Mon, Jul 22 2024, 1:59 pm

This discussion brings to mind the character interviewed by shluffy bokerveker:
Aryeh Yaakov Berel Shmerel Derel Kelly Eli Jelly Belly Digger Dingle Dangle Dongle Bernstein Von-Knacker-Thrasher Horowitz Grumblemeir Shpelterwasser Shtinkenbroin Glockenspiel Katzenellenbogenbersteinawitzky Cohen

shirachadasha

Mon, Jul 22 2024, 2:04 pm

amother Emerald wrote:

About seven years ago someone named his son about 10 names. (I think to spite his in-laws). He ended up having another ceremony to rename the baby a little later....

Had the baby not been renamed, one wonders what he would have done to spite his parents!

miami85

Mon, Jul 22 2024, 2:06 pm

I have 3 names and one of my daughters has 3 names, so her "full name" comes out to "A, B, C, bas X, Y, Z"--I daven than "no one should have to daven for her"

Mon, Jul 22 2024, 2:09 pm

dena613 wrote:

Pele Yoetz Kel Gibor Avi Ad Sar Shalom.

Supposedly there's some guy walking around today with this name. I know people who know people who know him.

Supposedly he goes by Shalom.

ETA name is part of a passuk in yeshaya, perek tes passuk hey
https://www.chabad.org/library.....9.htm

Someone I know was in yeshiva with a guy called this, his nickname was Pelé LOL

amother

↑ Garnet ↓

Mon, Jul 22 2024, 2:11 pm

amother Snowflake wrote:

Shluffy Bokerveker!
That brings back memories!
Good ones!
He was the greatest ever!
And talking about names…. His name was the best too!

amother

↑ Snowflake

Mon, Jul 22 2024, 3:05 pm

And of course, shluffy bokerveker based his character on the Monty Python sketch about the composer with the longest name:

Johann Gambolputty-de-von-ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knackerthrasher-applebanger-horowitz-ticolensic-granderknotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kürstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-guten-abend-bitte-einen-nürnburger-bratwürstel-gespurten-mit-zweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-schönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittelraucher-von-hauptkopft of Ulm