[Mesorah] Ba'omer vs la'omer.

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:19:15AM +0300, D&E-H Bannett wrote:
: As I've written before, puk chazi mai 'ama dvar:

Assumin `ama in general paid attention to the differtence, it would
carry more weight.

: I will change to la-omer after lag la-omer or after tish'a 
: l-Av or 'asara le-Tevet. Until then I stick to ba-omer 
: because that's the way people talk the language.

La laOmer, naniach.

But Tish'a beAv and Asarah beTeiveis.... A month is definitely a whole,
of which the day is a part. It's not like omer where there is a machloqes
whether the counting is a collection of days, or the day is part of a
single count. If you buy into my sevarah that the variations in nusach
is the same machloqes as the one to whether each day is a mitzvah bifnei
atzmah, be-<Month_Name> doesn't prove anything.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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