Your Name Is Your Blessing: Hebrew Names and Their Mystical Meanings

If you research the history and meaning of names AND use Gematria, your results will be exquisitive! You will need this book as an auxilary. Even if "your" name is not listed in this book and you know the gematria (= numeric value) of the name, you will find a blessing of this name by Rabbi Blech. You just look up the gematric index in the back of the book, find out the allegoric name with the same gematria and the blessing there will be yours too. As you notice, I am very enthusiastic about this book!

I would recommend this book to anyone. While reading it with a circle of friends, we realized that many of the descriptions attributed to each name were amazingly accurate, and some of my friends even admited that though certain descriptions came as a shock to us, they personally recognized it as part of their personality. Even if you don't believe in the deep meanings this book has to offer, it's always just fun to read with or without friends. as always, great job Rabbi Blech!

What I love about this book is that it does not just give you the simple meanings. It also gives a pasuk (a verse from the Torah) that applies to the name and give you the deeper meanings of the name and blessings associated with it. I used Your Name Is Your Blessing to help find a name for my second child. I have since lent it out many times. It seems to have disappeared, so now that I am expecting again, please G-d, I am buying it again because I enjoyed it so much last time. This is a very special baby naming book. It is one you will never regret buying. Confession: I even read it way after my child my born and named, simply because I enjoyed it so much.

I found this very interesting both as a baby naming book and as an interesting and enlightening (and even fun!) insight into friends' and family names. In addition to the usual content of Hebrew-English name books, this book adds the additional "spin" of giving insight into such names based on the recognized Jewish mystical concept of "gematria" (which Rabbi Blech explains very well in the preface and which uses the numerical value of Hebrew letters and thus of Hebrew words and names to make linkages between different concepts with like numerical values -- I'm not explaining it well, so you'll have to read it there!).