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

[R Davidovich via Mesorah]

The Netziv explains that point very convincingly (IMO) in his hakdama to
Ha'emek Davar. Ayin Sham.

RD

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 5:17 AM, Nehemiah Klein via Mesorah <
mesorah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:

> ​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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