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A Person Is His Name

A teaching ofRav Menachem Mendel Schneersonהרב מנחם מנדל שניאורסון

Rav Rafoel Nachman Kahn told the story of the child Tzemach Tzedek and his Zeidy, and then added a lesson from it: when someone answers to his name being called, that is his essence, that is who he is.

Source: Rav Rafoel Nachman Kahn, in Shemuos Vesippurim, Vol. 1, p. 53

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