On 5/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike Miller</b> <<a href="mailto:avodah@mikeage.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">avodah@mikeage.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote">
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Does anyone know the name of this week's Sedra is not changed from<br>Behar to Bahar, for the same reasons that Bemidbar becomes Bamidbar?<br></blockquote></div><br>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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