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Help[Opinions] Re: Sarai
in reply to a message by Anneza
yes. I'd preface this and say that Avraham and Sarah weren't popular names in Talmudic times at all, but one sage said "whoever calls Abraham (the biblical patriarch) Abram is tragressing an active commandment", as God says "your name shall not be called Abram anymore".
As such, jewish communities only used Abram as a nickname for Abraham, or in rare cases when one grandfather named Abraham died and the other grandfather was also named Abraham and he was alive (Ashkenazi jews don't name after the living), then they'd name the son Abram after the dead one.
As such, jewish communities only used Abram as a nickname for Abraham, or in rare cases when one grandfather named Abraham died and the other grandfather was also named Abraham and he was alive (Ashkenazi jews don't name after the living), then they'd name the son Abram after the dead one.
