A longstanding peeve of mine was reinforced today as I was listening to a shiur. The person giving the shiur said, "I was walking on Shmuel Ha'Navi ..."
Shmuel Ha'Navi is the name of a street in Yerushalayim. There is a section of Yerushalayim where the streets are named for the prophets: Rechov Shmuel Ha'Navi, Rechov Yechezkel, Rechov Eli Ha'Cohen etc.
I have long thought it is wrong to name streets for great people because what ends up happening is, it is not an honor to them, but a dishonor. Like, "Let's meet for pizza on Shmuel Ha'Navi," or as the person giving the shiur said (though didn't mean it as it sounded), he walked on the prophet.
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