{"id":99232,"date":"2022-11-20T06:13:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T04:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=99232"},"modified":"2022-11-22T22:47:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T20:47:44","slug":"naming-my-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/naming-my-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"Naming My Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Naming My Promise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I was twenty-nine, I visited the grave of the tzaddik, Rabbi Amram Ben-Diwan, zy\u201da, in Morocco. Since I had not yet found my life partner, I offered a prayer from the depths of my heart that Hashem should help me in my quest in the merit of this tzaddik. I vowed that if I would find my <em>zivug<\/em> in the near future, I would name my oldest son after him.<\/p>\n<p>A short time afterward, I merited marrying my wife in an auspicious time, and Heaven granted us a beautiful baby boy. Just around that time, two of my illustrious uncles passed away. They were Father\u2019s brothers, Rabbi Refael Pinto and Rabbi Meir Pinto, zy\u201da. I decided to name my son for both of them, Refael Meir. I also had in mind that he would be named after Rabbi Refael HaKohen and Rabbi Meir Ba\u2019al Haness, zy\u201da.<\/p>\n<p>The night before the <em>brit<\/em>, Rabbi Amram Ben-Diwan appeared to me in a dream. He was sitting in the Beit Hakeneset of my grandfather, the tzaddik Rabbi Chaim Pinto, zy\u201da, in Casablanca.<\/p>\n<p>I awoke from this dream in a cold sweat, suddenly remembering the promise I had made at the gravesite of the tzaddik, Rabbi Amram. The dream\u2019s message rang loudly in my ears.<\/p>\n<p><em>The tzaddik\u2019s image remained with me throughout the brit. When I was asked what name I was calling my child, there was no doubt in my mind. He was called Refael Meir Amram, may Hashem grant him long life<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naming My Promise When I was twenty-nine, I visited the grave of the tzaddik, Rabbi Amram Ben-Diwan, zy\u201da, in Morocco. Since I had not yet found my life partner, I offered a prayer from the depths of my heart that Hashem should help me in my quest in the merit of this tzaddik. I vowed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":99956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-names"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}