Ten Tribes Studies (21 January, 2015, 1 Shevet, 5775)
Warning: This Message is Coming to you from over the Green Line!
If you want to Boycott the settlements you should not read it.
Not only is our location a settlement it is also a whole city, Beitar-Ilit, and all in Liberated Territory!
We seem to be the second largest (after Modein which is also Ultra-Orthodox) Jewish City in Judah and Samaria and growing all the time.
This is the Living Bible.
Contents:
1. The Differences Between Modern and Biblical Hebrew
2. Cecil Davis on the Temple Mount and Place of the Temple
3. Nelson Thall: Resettlement should be the policy towards Ishmael.
4. New Month of Shevet - The Israelite Tribe of Asher
5. Proverbs 22:1-3Â Goodness Has Much Value!
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1. The Differences Between Modern and Biblical Hebrew
Trevor Barnes <trevorb@magnetgroup.co.za> wrote:
Hello Yair,
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I am not sure if anybody has posed a question like this to you before. Is the modern day Hebrew anything like the Ancient Hebrew spoken or written in the Bible?
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I did a small research and noticed that some say it is vastly different. Here is a comment from one such a person on Girlyswot and his name is Ted Smiling,well that is what he calls himself.
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Biblical and modern Hebrew share quite a lot of vocabulary but the grammar and syntax structures are completely different. When I learned biblical Hebrew, there was a woman in my class who was fluent in modern Hebrew. She could generally make a good guess at the gist of the biblical Hebrew but found it hard to grasp some of the nuances of the grammar. The verb system, for example, is very complex in biblical Hebrew and has been much simplified in the modern system.
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What is your stance on this or is too much to explain in one of your emails you send out ?
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Thank you and God Bless
trevor
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Brit-Am Reply:
Shalom,
Modern Hebrew basically may be considered a development of Torah Hebrew but not that of the Prophets. Let me explain:
The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)Â is called Tanakh. This is an acronym for Torah (Pentatuech), Neviim (Prophets), Ketuvim (Hagiographa).
The term Torah means teaching or doctrine. It is often used as a generic name for all religious teaching.
It is also the name given to the First Five Books of the Bible that were authored by Moses. These are also known as the Chumash (literally "Five") and in English as the Pentateuch.
This may sound confusing but you get used to it.
Many Religious Jews know the Torah by heart since an excerpt is read out every Sabbath in the Synagogue until in the course of a year it has all been read.
It is read in a special chant of its own which at times can be very beautiful and enchanting. This makes it easier to remember.
 It is also the subject of intensive study, sermons, homilies, etc.
See:
THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE
http://britam.org/genesis.html
The Hebrew in other books of the Bible is similar to that of the Torah but not the same.
Religious Jews will more or less be acquainted with the other books, some more, others less.
Nevertheless they definitely will not have studied them with the same intensity as that applied to the Torah.
It is worth remembering that the writing of the Bible extends from the time of Moses (ca. 1450) till that of Ezra (ca.440 BCE?) give or take 50 years here or there.
A language can change a lot in a thousand years.
And what has all this to do with your question?
Modern Hebrew is a development of that most familiar to Religious Jews at the popular non-scholarly level i.e. mainly of the Torah.
It also has some changes, numerous new words, words borrowed from other Biblical Books, from the Sages, religious writings, foreign words, idiomatic singularities, etc.
Consequently a speaker of Modern Hebrew, especially a non-traditional one, may have a little initial difficulty in understanding some of the Prophets.
God bless you
Yair
ps. A linguistic scholar, Meshullam Klarberg, once told me that Modern Hebrew in the Land of Israel was initially based almost entirely on the Torah, the Siddur (prayer book), and the short Mishnaic tractate, Pirkei Avot.
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2. Cecil Davis on the Temple Mount and Place of the Temple
Dear Yair,
In 1995 my wife and I toured (alone) Mount Moria [the present Temple Mount]; we went first to where I believed the Holy of Holies to be and found a Gazebo.
I have not been there since and do not know if the Gazebo still exists.
This Gazebo is north and west of the so-called "dome of the rock". It rests over the location of the Holy of Holies which lines up perfectly with the Eastern Gate (or East, or King's, or Golden Gate) and the Mount of Olives.
Around the Gazebo are man made, large tile covering the ground; inside the Gazebo is natural earth. The Holy of Holies is only 30 feet square.
The Holy of Holies was first a "Threshingfloor" purchased by King David from Oraunah the Jibusite (2nd Samuel 24:24 and 25) . A threshingfloor in Hebrew means "To smooth or to make even" not some big bolder as in the "dome of the rock" where the Moslems say was where Ishmael was to be sacrificed, not Isaac. They also claim the boulders in the "dome of the rock" make up the alter that Abraham built.
Years ago the Gazebo had a sign on it in Arabic reading "Spirit of the Winds".
Directly underneath the Gazebo are large basins used to hold water. There is enough clear land around the Gazebo to build the Third Temple and have plenty of space left over.
Regarding The Messiah's coming; Zachariah 14: 1 "Behold, the day of the Lord cometh---". Verse 4 "And his feet shall stand in that day on the Mount of Olives--", 9 "And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one".
The Lord's feet will touch the Mount of Olives splitting it from east to west (Zachariah 14:4), He will cross the Kidron Valley go through the sealed King's Gate and enter into the Holy of Holies of the rebuilt Third Temple.
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I also looked closely at a model someone built of the Temple on Mount Moria that had the same location as I saw where the Gazebo stood. This model was (or is) inside the Orthodox prayer room, located where a northern wall runs west to east making a corner with the northern part of the Wall where most people pray.
Your friend,   Cecil
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3. Nelson Thall: Resettlement should be the policy towards Ishmael.
<nelson.thall@gmail.com>
 Re: Brit-Am Now no. 2397. Lost Ten Tribes Studies
http://hebrewnations.com/features/9/2397.html
#3. Question Concerning the Temple Mount and where the Temple REALLY was.
Take over the whole land grant of Abraham. Resettlement should be the policy towards Ishmael. Send them out of Abrahams Land to their own lands. They are occupiers. March them Home.
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4. New Month of Shevet - The Israelite Tribe of Asher
21 January, 2015 is 1Â Shevet, 5775
This is the First day of the Hebrew month of Shevet. Its Zodiacal sign is a bucket. The tribe for this month according to most accepted opinions ( Arizal, HaGra, Rabad) is the Tribe of Asher. Another opinion (Midrash Peliah) attributes it to the Tribe of Benjamin.
Source: Fishel Mael, "Sefer HaShevatim".
The name Asher connotes happiness. Subsidiary implications of the name include wealth, and surety.
One of the meanings of the Hebrew word "asher" is to confirm, cf. the English assure.
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5. Proverbs 22:1-3Â Goodness Has Much Value!
Proverbs 22:
1 A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches,
  and favour is better than silver or gold.
We need to live with other people. We need them. What they think of us influences our moods and self-esteem. This really is more important than money.
2 The rich and the poor have this in common:
  the Lord is the maker of them all.
God made the rich and HE made us and those poorer than us.
There is a reason for everything.
God can take away from us what we have or add onto it.
3 The clever see danger and hide;
  but the simple go on, and suffer for it.
One does not have to live in fear all the time. Nevertheless it is best to keep your eyes open and take care.