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'''[[Jehoiakim|Elyaqim]] [[Moses|Mosheh]] [[Adam]]''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: אליקים משה אדם), born during both [[Hanukkah|Ḥanukka]] and [[Ramadan|Ramaḍan]] in the [[The Bronx|Bronx]], [[New York]], is an amateur [[Diary|writer]], [[Videography|videographer]], [[Photography|photographer]], list‐maker, [[music]] [[Collecting|collector]], quasi‐[[Linguistics|linguist]] and [[gay]], [[Liberalism|liberal]], [[Secular Jewish culture|secular]] and [[Humanistic Judaism|Humanistic]] [[American Jews|Jewish‐American]] partly of [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazi]] and partly of [[Mizrahi Jews|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 [[Latin_alphabet|Latin]], [[Hebrew_alphabet|Hebraic]] and [[Arabic_alphabet|Arabic]] scripts, and I know numerous words and phrases in Hebrew, [[Arabic_language|Arabic]], [[Turkish_language|Turkish]], [[Persian_language|Persian]] and [[Urdu]], but [[English_language|English]] is the only [[language]] I can speak and read with true fluency. Since moving to a largely [[Bengali people|Bengali]] [[Jackson Heights, Queens|neighborhood]] in 2008, I have begun to learn [[Eastern Nagari script|Bengali script]] as well. I do not immediately recognize all the letters yet, but I at least now have a substantial understanding of how [[Brahmic family of scripts|South Asian scripts]] function.

I have traveled to [[Mexico|México]], [[Canada]], [[Turkey]], [[Morocco]] and [[Egypt]]. (I have contributed substantially to Wikipedia’s article on [[Marrakech]].) See my [[Virtualtourist]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110719171742/members.virtualtourist.com/m/m/42a11/ travel page] for a fairly comprehensive list of whither I have traveled, although their database is curiously missing some places in Turkey I have been ([[Aphrodisias]], [[Aspendos]], [[Perge]], [[Sardis]]).

==My name==
I have been repeatedly asked about the fairly complex [[Jewish name|name]] my parents gave me. It is of Hebrew origin with the name “Mosheh” able to be traced back further to [[Egyptian language|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 [[Atheism|atheist]], [[Humanism|Humanist]] and [[Brights movement|Bright]].) The ''ʼEl‐'' portion is from the Semitic *''ʼ‐l'' [[Semitic root|root]] and the ''‐yāqîm'' portion from the *''q‐w‐m'' root.
*''Mōšeh'' probably just means “child” and was chosen as a masculinization and [[Afro-Asiatic languages|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 “[[Alexander|Alex]],” of [[Greek language|Greek]] origin.
*My tribal name is ''[[Kohen|Kōhēn]]'' (כהן), but I rarely use it because a need to distinguish me from someone else with the same name has not yet occurred.

==External links==
*[http://elyaqim.blogspot.com/ Web log] on [[Blogger (service)|Blogger]]
*[https://plus.google.com/+elyaqim Elyaqim Mosheh Adam] on [[Google+]]
*[http://www.facebook.com/elyaqim Elyaqim Mosheh Adam] on [[Facebook]]
*[http://www.instagram.com/elyaqim Elyaqim Mosheh Adam] on [[Instagram]]
*[http://www.twitter.com/elyaqimnyc Elyaqim Mosheh Adam] on [[Twitter]]
*[https://www.delicious.com/elyaqim Elyaqim Mosheh Adam] on [[Delicious (website)|Delicious]]
*[http://www.youtube.com/elyaqim Elyaqim Mosheh Adam] on [[YouTube]]
*[http://www.librarything.com/profile/elyaqim Elyaqim Mosheh Adam] on [[LibraryThing]]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304063509/members.virtualtourist.com/m/42a11/ Elyaqim Mosheh Adam] on [[Virtualtourist]]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160303221009/people.tribe.net/elyaqim Elyaqim Mosheh Adam] on [[tribe.net]]

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