Every morning before learning Torah everyone makes a brocho,the same as when one reads from the Torah (Alyah). The nussach is "asher bochar bonu mikol ho'anmim....
In Kiddush,on Yom Tov we say "bochar bonu mikol OM"
WHY NOT <"HO'AMIM"?
OPn Shabbos we say "mikol ho'amim".In the tefillo we say"mi'kol ho'amim"
Why the differences?

ANY ANSWER?
I don't have one. Good Yom Tov

I am no expert, but I think it used to be said by the Levites, who were indeed chosen out of all the nation of Israel by Hashem for defending Torah against those Israelites who had built the Golden Calf...

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Originally posted by Alex:
I am no expert, but I think it used to be said by the Levites, who were indeed chosen out of all the nation of Israel by Hashem for defending Torah against those Israelites who had built the Golden Calf...

JNTERESTING,but do you have a source? And,would it not be "mikol Ho-om: and why would it be said by all Yisroel?

I don't have a source, but I recall that my Rabbi told me that for defending the Torah the Levites were to always be the first to be called to reading Torah (that is, after the Kohanim, who too were from the same Shevet). In conjunction with the original question, it only makes sense.

I think it is most of all for historical reasons that those who are called to read Torah say "MiKol-Am" and not "MiKol-haAmim", even though it is not Hashem anymore choosing them to read Torah on a particular day

If it were for the Leviyim,then a Cohain or Levi would say "mikol 'om'" when he gets an alya
Why in Yom Tov Kiddush does EVERYONE say "om" ?
In Ahava Rabo in Shacharis we say "mikol; 'AM' ve loshon"
There MUST be a reason the Anshei Knesses Hagedola arranged this nussach al pi ruach hakodesh
?מכל עם העמים

I think it has to do with what happened in the Ashkenazi diaspora. All through the Middle Ages, the Jews were universally well educated and knew how to read and converse in Hebrew. In the Central and Eastern Europe, especially after the Exile from Spain, the fate of the Jews was not as simple. In the villages and shtetls, education had to yield to survival. In the cities, Jewish studies had to yield to European education: in order to survive, the Jews had to learn to communicate with the host nations. In order to advance up from the mere survival level, the Jews had to become the best in commerce, finance, medicine, sciences, music, literature, agriculture, etc. There are only 24 hours in a day, even for a Jew. Result - Jewish education started to fall behind. There stared to appear cases when a Cohen or a Levite could not read a text from Tanach. What to do? It had to be whoever was the most educated in the Kehillah. Typically the most educated were those whose parents had accumulated enough wealth that their children could afford going to yeshivoth - or those whose parents could not afford to educate their children in the non-Jewish studies and therefore were educated by the community.

So, there was a strange split occurring in the Jewish society right around the 16-19th century: a reduction in the proportion of the Leviim and Cohanim who were were educated in Jewish subjects, accompanied by an increase in the proportion of educated "common" Jews. So more an more common was a situation when the Cohain or Levite was called for aliyah, all he could read or even memorize was just the brochah.

Such man got very little respect from the congregation. Davening and reading Torah started to become a formality, like in the times of Isaiah. The only way possible to keep the congregation was to allow its most educated members to read Torah, even if they were not a Cohain or Levi. At the early onset of this trend, they would announce the name of the Cohen or Levite in whose stead they were reading. Later even that went away, and today in most shuls it is merely the most respected member of the congregation gets to perform the aliyah.

On the other hand, it may just be as simple as "Kol" in Hebrew means "all" and "every"...

Raphael,

Sorry. I don't have another answer.