Obligation to write a name that was not used at the end of life on the tombstone
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Question
A Jew who is strengthening his observance asked me. His father passed away about two years ago, and on the tombstone they wrote the name that was used at the end of his life, and did not write the name he was given at birth and that was used during part of his life. He was called Yehuda, and at a certain stage in his life the name Chai was added to him, and this was the name by which he was actually called until the end of his days. On the tombstone the name Chai was written without the name Yehuda. Is there an obligation to add the name Yehuda, or is there no such obligation?
Answer
Shalom u’vracha
Our teacher Rabbi Amram Fried shlita ruled as follows:
After the fact, this is acceptable, and there is no obligation to add or change anything.
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