Yankel Mottell Serlin - How two brothers came to have the same name

Started by Stanley E. Serlin on Wednesday, April 25, 2012
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4/25/2012 at 2:16 PM

I have been troubled by the acceptance of two brothers being called the same or equivalent names , because Yankel is the Yiddish form of Yaakov . It always seemed more logical that they were cousins named after the same ancester.

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