<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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)?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Akiva Miller via Mesorah <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mesorah@lists.aishdas.org" target="_blank">mesorah@lists.aishdas.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">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.?</p>
<p dir="ltr">The answer of course, is as RRW wrote: there are no rules, just natural evolution.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Akiva Miller<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Jun 19, 2016 12:05 PM, "Richard Wolpoe via Mesorah" <<a href="mailto:mesorah@lists.aishdas.org" target="_blank">mesorah@lists.aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div lang="en-US" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:initial"> <div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">We tend ot assume or presume </div><div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">That the way we call it NOW</div><div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Is the way it's always been called</div><div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Yet we see EG Hag Hamatzos morphed into Pesach.</div><div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Hard to say a "moving target" is fixed. And how to fix it.</div></div>
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