[Avodah] Parshas Behar (Bahar?)

[Simon Montagu]

On 5/6/07, Mike Miller <avodah at mikeage.net> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know the name of this week's Sedra is not changed from
> Behar to Bahar, for the same reasons that Bemidbar becomes Bamidbar?
>

Probably because it's not the name of a whole book, therefore used less
often, therefore under less pressure to become corrupted by amhaaratzim. I
have no answer to why Sh'mot doesn't become Shemot, though.
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