What should be done when a heading is identical with a reference? For example, when the proposed heading "Kohen, Mosheh Yehudah." does not conflict with any other *heading*, but is (as it stands) identical to a *reference* in n79-125449 (the record for "Kohn, Murray J.").
In such circumstances, it's desirable to qualify the new heading
in some way, if possible, to distinguish it from the
otherwise
identical ref. In this case, the term of address
preceding the name in the chief source from which it comes can
be used as a delimiter-c qualifier, producing
the heading "Kohen, Mosheh Yehudah,$cha-R."
(We can't use "ha-Rav" or
any other amplification of the abbreviation unless
that actual form is found with the name, per rule
22.19B1.)
In this kind of case, where a heading and a ref conflict, there's an
option if no suitable qualifier can be found (date(s), fuller
forms of name, distinguishing terms, etc.): the
ref can be re-coded as 5xx rather than 4xx, changing
it from a "see" to a
"see also" reference (cf. RI 26.2C).
If two *headings* cannot be distinguished, however, there's no recourse but to create an "undifferentiated" or "non-unique" name per rule 22.20A, putting both names into the same record.
As for the variant "Moshe Yehuda Cohen" found
in another item, this can certainly be added to the NAR as a 400,
with an accompanying 670 for the other
work, which should be cited by title and date as in any 670.