User:Elyaqim

Elyaqim Mosheh Adam (Hebrew: אליקים משה אדם), born during both Ḥanukka and Ramaḍan in the Bronx, New York, is an amateur writer, videographer, photographer, list‐maker, music collector, quasi‐linguist and gay, liberal, secular and Humanistic Jewish‐American partly of Ashkenazi and partly of Mizraḥi origin. He regrets his being unable to maintain writing in the third person for the remainder of this article. ☹

I am able to read the

South Asian scripts

function.

I have traveled to

Perge, Sardis

My name

I have been repeatedly asked about the fairly complex name my parents gave me. It is of Hebrew origin with the name “Mosheh” able to be traced back further to Egyptian.

ʼElyāqîm means “(he whom) God set up” or “(he whom) God established” and was also my mother’s father’s name. I find it a particularly beautiful name, although I acknowledge it to be enough of a mouthful that no one calls me that. (It’s theistic nature also belies the fact I am an atheist, Humanist and Bright.) The ʼEl‐ portion is from the Semitic *ʼ‐l root and the ‐yāqîm portion from the *q‐w‐m root.
Mōšeh probably just means “child” and was chosen as a masculinization and
Afro‐Asiaticization
of my mother’s mother’s mother’s name Masi (מאַסי).
ʼĀdām means “human” and was chosen as a counterpart to my mother’s father’s Western name “Alex,” of Greek origin.
My tribal name is Kōhēn (כהן), but I rarely use it because a need to distinguish me from someone else with the same name has not yet occurred.

This user is a humanist.

This user is a Humanistic Jew.

CF	This user is childfree .