[Mesorah] Bemidbar or Bamidbar?

Sun Jun 5 16:45:15 PDT 2016

 Cute discussion with little halachic significance. (I am on the side of not needing to keep the way we refer to the Parasha consistent with how it's actually read when we read it in Shul.)

Where it can make a difference is in bentching. If we say that HKBH builds Y'rushalayim "b'rachamav," than it's "boneh b'rachachamav," whereas if we leave it out, it's "bonay Y'rushalayim." Yet most Siddurim and Bentchers keep the "bonay" while also including "b'rachamav"!

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From: Zev Sero via Mesorah <mesorah at lists.aishdas.org>
To: dovbbb <dovbbb at gmail.com>; Akiva Miller <akivagmiller at gmail.com>
Cc: mesorah <mesorah at aishdas.org>
Sent: Sun, Jun 5, 2016 12:33 pm
Subject: Re: [Mesorah] Bemidbar or Bamidbar?

On 06/05/2016 12:12 PM, Dov Bloom via Mesorah wrote:
> Of course, Bemidbar is correct.  Art Scroll is not.  In the circles I
> run in,  saying the name correctly is a sign a some erudition,  and
> awareness of how words in the tanach are written/punctuated.

Artscroll is correct, and the circles you run in are not.  The fifth word
of the sedra is "b'midbar", but the short title of the sedra and of the sefer,
is "Bamidbor", with a patoch on the first beis and a komatz on the second.
In older sources you will find a slightly longer title, "Bemidbar Sinai",
which is of course pronounced as it appears.

-- 
Zev Sero Meaningless combinations of words do not acquire
zev at sero.name          meaning merely by appending them to the two other
                        words `God can'.  Nonsense remains nonsense, even
                        when we talk it about God.   -- C S Lewis
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