[Avodah] Parshas Behar (Bahar?)

[Arie Folger]

RZL wrote:
> Hypothesis: The names of the parshios Be'har, Sh'mos and B'midbar were
> always (and still are) pronounced in their possesive form. The spelling
> "Bamidbar" with an "a" is a recent American or English rendition, the
> origin of which should be researched. (Any texts available by which to
> check this ?)

Sure: I was instructed in Yiddish, both in elementary school and throughout my 
high school age (I didn't finish HS, as at 14 I went to what we Europeans 
call a yeshivoh, a beis midrosh). I never heard anyone say bemidbor. It was 
pronounced bamidbor.

Since during those years I was educated in Europe, and didn't even know 
English for much of that time, I conclude that the inaccurate pronounciation 
has nothing to do with either English or America.

KT
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