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DOLMENS.
THE PATHS OF ISRAELITE MIGRATION WESTWARD WERE DEMONSTRATED BY MEGALITHIC MONUMENTS ERECTED BY "DIRECTION" OF THE PROPHET JEREMIAH! THIS IS CONFIRMED BY RABBINICAL SOURCES!
Another way Rabbinical Sources help us is by confirming our allocation of Biblical Passages as referring to the Lost Ten Tribes and by explaining them as doing so.
Examples are to be found in Jeremiah ch. 31. Here, among other things, Jeremiah speaks of a pathway of megalithic monuments tracing the Migratory routes of the Lost Ten Tribes to the West.
Jeremiah (LSV) 31:
21 SET UP SIGNS FOR YOURSELF, MAKE HEAPS FOR YOURSELF,
SET YOUR HEART TO THE HIGHWAY, THE WAY YOU WENT,
TURN BACK, O VIRGIN OF ISRAEL,
TURN BACK TO THESE CITIES OF YOURS.
Concerning the word translated above as “heaps” most other non-Jewish translations render the Hebrew word "tamrurim" as "guideposts," or something similar, e.g.
Jeremiah (NASB) 31:
21 SET UP ROADMARKS FOR YOURSELF,
PLACE GUIDEPOSTS FOR YOURSELF.
Nevertheless, "heaps" (as given here by the LSV, Literal Standard Version) is more consistent with how the Classical Rabbinical Commentators render it:
RADAK (Rabbi David Kimchi, 1157-1236) of Narbonne, France:
"Set Yourself Up Waymarks" (Jeremiah 31) : "THIS WAS DIRECTED TO THE COMMUNITY OF ISRAEL, THAT IN THE GENERATION WHEN THEY WOULD BE EXILED THEY SHOULD SET UP WAYMARKS [i.e. "tsionim"] SUCH AS PILED-UP STONES OR STONE MONUMENTS TO RECOGNIZE THE PATH [OF MIGRATION] MEANING TO SAY THAT EVEN THOUGH YOU WILL BE EXILED HOPE IS NOT LOST AND YOU ARE STILL DESTINED TO RETURN TO THESE YOUR CITIES.
Abarbanel (1437-1508):
# THE PROPHET THEREFORE SPOKE CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL [of the Ten Tribes] SET YOURSELF UP WAYMARKS SAYING THAT WHEN YOU GO INTO EXILE MAKE SIGNS BY THE ROUTES AND WAYMARKS LIKE HEAPS OF ROCKS [i.e. cairns] OR STONE MONUMENTS [Hebrew: Matzavah, i.e. dolmen] SO THAT YOU MAY SET YOUR HEART TO THE ROUTE AND REMEMBER IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY RETURN IN THE WAY YOU WENT IN, RETURN TO YOUR CITY.#
Stone Monuments referred to as "MEGALITHS" dating to ancient times are found in Western Europe, along the Mediterranean coast and in the lands of Greater Israel where the oldest specimens are believed to occur. The "Megalithic" dolmens, cromlechs, etc., in the west of Europe are located chiefly in Celtic areas. DRUIDS were present only in places which had BOTH dolmens and Celts, i.e. Dolmens without Celts or Celts without dolmens meant no druids! These factors indicate that druids, dolmens, and Celts should perhaps all be linked and dated together and the dolmens ascribed a much later dating than that conventionally given them! The Druid religion was a mixture of Canaanite and Ancient Hebrew practices. This was the paganized religion practised by the Lost Ten Tribes before they went into exile as explained in 2-Kings ch.17.
Some salient passages of Jeremiah ch. 31 include:
Jeremiah (NASB) 31:
1 “AT THAT TIME,” DECLARES THE LORD, “I WILL BE THE GOD OF ALL THE FAMILIES OF ISRAEL, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.”
5 AGAIN YOU WILL PLANT VINEYARDS
ON THE HILLS OF SAMARIA;
THE PLANTERS WILL PLANT
AND WILL ENJOY THE FRUIT.
6 FOR THERE WILL BE A DAY WHEN WATCHMEN
ON THE HILLS OF EPHRAIM CALL OUT,
‘ARISE, AND LET’S GO UP TO ZION,
TO THE LORD OUR GOD.’”
... 8 BEHOLD, I AM BRINGING THEM FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY,
AND I WILL GATHER THEM FROM THE REMOTE PARTS OF THE EARTH,...9 THEY WILL COME WITH WEEPING, AND BY PLEADING I WILL BRING THEM;... FOR I AM A FATHER TO ISRAEL,
AND EPHRAIM IS MY FIRSTBORN.”
10 HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD, YOU NATIONS,
AND DECLARE IT IN THE COASTLANDS (Hebrew “eyim” i.e. Isles) FAR AWAY,
AND SAY, “HE WHO SCATTERED ISRAEL WILL GATHER HIM,
AND HE WILL KEEP HIM AS A SHEPHERD KEEPS HIS FLOCK.”
...
18 I HAVE CERTAINLY HEARD EPHRAIM GRIEVING,
‘YOU HAVE DISCIPLINED ME, AND I WAS CORRECTED,
LIKE AN UNTRAINED CALF;
BRING ME BACK THAT I MAY BE RESTORED,
FOR YOU ARE THE LORD MY GOD.
....
20 IS EPHRAIM MY DEAR SON?
IS HE A DELIGHTFUL CHILD?
INDEED, AS OFTEN AS I HAVE SPOKEN AGAINST HIM,
I CERTAINLY STILL REMEMBER HIM;
THEREFORE MY HEART YEARNS FOR HIM;
I WILL CERTAINLY HAVE MERCY ON HIM,” DECLARES THE LORD.
21 “SET UP ROADMARKS FOR YOURSELF,
PLACE GUIDEPOSTS FOR YOURSELF;
DIRECT YOURMIND TO THE HIGHWAY,
THE WAY BY WHICH YOU WENT.
RETURN, O VIRGIN OF ISRAEL,
RETURN TO THESE YOUR CITIES.
This section is clearly talking about the Ten Tribes headed by Ephraim. Ephraim is referred to as LIKE AN UNTRAINED CALF (Jeremiah 31:18). The word translated as “calf” in Hebrew is “aegel” meaning “bull-calf.” The Midrash says that the symbol of Ephraim was a bull. RASHI (1040-1105 CE) comments that “Aegel” was a nickname for Ephraim. In Sephardic and colloquial Hebrew the word “aegel” could be pronounced “angle.” The Angles and Saxons conquered parts of Britain and the name “England” means “Angleland.” The Angles on the Continent were also known as “Aegeloi” (Klabier). Jeremiah continues to speak of, and to, Ephraim in the verses leading up to 31:21 where he speaks of “roadmarks.” The verse in effects links Megalithic Monuments with Ephraim. Among these monuments we find dolmens. Dolmens are large stones set table fashion over others (at a ca. 23 degree incline in Israel and the west. They were often covered by large piles of rocks and stone. Dolmens and other related stone monuments form a connecting link between Israel, Britain, West France, and Scandinavia. More dolmens (over 5000!) have been found in Denmark than in any other country. The oldest dolmens are believed to be those of Israel. More than 20,000 megalithic monuments of all types (including dolmens) have been found in the Land of Israel especially on the eastern "Jordanian" side since for various reasons those on the west were destroyed by local inhabitants. These ancient relics are proof of Israelite Origin and by used as a means to revive a sense of Israelite Identification.
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