[Avodah] Calling people up to the Torah

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 04:32:46PM +0000, shalomyitz at comcast.net wrote:
: In the Torah, aren't people generally called by this formula (Yehoshua
: ben Nun, etc)...

If you used a name at all. Many Sepharadi qehillos just say "Yaamod
Kohein", etc... And I think there are Chassidim who call up shevi'i
this way.

And more people in Tanakh are simply called by their name without the
"ben ...", so in theory the minhag could have evolved to do that instead.
Or go two generations back, as when HQBH "called up" Betzalel ben Uri
ben Chur (as opposed to Oholiav ben Achisamackh).

But really I took this question as asking in contrast to the qehillos
that don't use names altogether.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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