[Avodah] My Current Futile Life Project

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 09:43:43PM +0300, Michael Mirsky via Avodah wrote:
> I have another subscription. How about getting people to say "shiluach
> haken".

Or restoring the rest of the names of parshiyos whose names are also
detatched semichot.

Why is the parashah Shemos, "Names of", but the other is changed
from "BeMidbar", "In the Wilderness of", to "Bamidbar"?

Because the actual name of the parashah was "Shemos BY". Similarly
Parashas "Behar Sinai".

We should choose to either restore the full parashah names, which I am
advoxating, or at least reconjugate the newer shortened names to make
Parashas Sheimos parallel Bamidbar.

(Then there is Parashas Bereishis... It's "Bereishis" but not "Barishonah".
But even in the full text there is no clear object for the semichut to
connect to -- "In the beginning of G-d created the heaven and the earth.")


Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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