[Mesorah] Bemidbar or Bamidbar? Or something else? in the midrashim

[Nehemiah Klein via Mesorah]

​Actually, why is Bamidbar referred to as ​"chumash hapekudim" if a very
small part of it involves counting (basically parshios Bamidbar and part of
Pinchas)?

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Akiva Miller via Mesorah <
mesorah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:

> Here's what I find surprising about the titles as cited by R Dov Bloom:
> Why is it that all of the first ones are the initial words, and then the
> very last is based on the subject matter. If the last is going to be
> "Mishne Torah" and not "Ayleh Hadvarim", then why don't we also have Sefer
> Hapkudim, and Toras Kohanim, etc.?
>
> The answer of course, is as RRW wrote: there are no rules, just natural
> evolution.
>
> Akiva Miller
> On Jun 19, 2016 12:05 PM, "Richard Wolpoe via Mesorah" <
> mesorah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> We tend ot assume or presume
>> That the way we call it NOW
>> Is the way it's always been called
>>
>> Yet we see EG Hag Hamatzos morphed into Pesach.
>>
>> Hard to say a "moving target" is fixed. And how to fix it.
>>
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