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Are the Names Amit and Ilai Recommended?
Question
Hello, the expected due date is June 15, 2015.
We like the name Amit and the name Ilai. We would like to know whether these names have a positive connotation in the Torah and whether they are recommended. I should add that we are planning to give the child an additional, clearly biblical name as well (Avraham, Yosef, and the like).
Thank you in advance.
Answer
Hello,
The name Amit is not recommended for a boy (so wrote in Sefer Minhagei HaRishon LeTzion, part 1, page 296, in the name of Rav Ovadia Yosef zt"l. However, if he has already been given this name, it should not be changed), but the name Ilai is recommended.
May it be with good fortune, Hillel Meirs
