Introducing....Bruria Yunger!!!

Today we named our little girl Bruria...after the Bruria in the Gemara, the wife of R' Meir Ba'al Haness. May she be zoche to grow up to be a great woman, like her namesake.

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Now you are probably wondering...how in the WORLD did we ever dream up such a name? I'll admit that it IS quite original...here's how Bruria got her name:

When we were expecting Yisrael, we were discussing names- we knew that if it was a boy, we'd name him Yisrael, after Bentzi's grandfather, but we needed a girl name. We thought it would be so nice to name a daughter after an אישה חשובה but the אמהות were taken by Bentzi's mothers and sisters....anyway, Bentzi mentioned the name Bruria but I vetoed it right away. In the end we never agreed on anything, which was fine because Yisrael was a boy!

Then, this time around, we didn't have a boy name or a girl name. We talked about names a few times, but finally I said, "Lets at least wait until the baby is born so that we know what it is! That way we at least narrow down the possiblities!" So we did.

Once Bruria was born, I was sitting in the hospital, and I started thinking of what we should name her. Every time I tried to think of a name, "Bruria" kept popping into my head. I kept trying to push it out of my mind, but no other name that I thought of felt "right". Later on, when Bentzi came to visit, I asked him if he had thougth at all about names yet. "Actually, there's a certain name I keep thinking of, but you're not going to like it!" I've heard that when parents name a child, they are given רוח הקודש....

Mazal Tov! Its a girl!

At 6:50 this morning, our little girl made her entrance into the world. Born 11 days late, she weighed in at 3.985 kilo (almost 9 pounds!) She's got dimples in both cheeks- the midwife noticed that right away! May we all have much nachas from her!

Here she is, sucking her thumb, only a few hours after she was born!