Ten Tribes Studies (11 September 2015, 27 Elul 5775)
Contents:
1. Reactions to Confrontation
2. Question Concerning Tribal Affiliation Only Through the Father in Biblical Terms
3. New Article and Video Clip. Do Your Tribal Best!
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1. Reactions to Confrontation
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Brit-Am Now no. 2504
#2. New Article and Video Clip. Confrontation. Show-Down in the West
(b) Video Clip. Confrontation. End-Time Show-Down
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Whitney
Sir, I thank you for your videos and your books. When I first began to read them, I thought it was too fantastical, but I realized my opposition to them was rooted in fear. You see, the thought that I could be part of Israel was a thought too wonderful for me and I was afraid that if I allowed myself to believe it, and then it turned out not to be true, that I would be crushed beyond imagination....Thank you again. -Whitney
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Manuel Torres
This is indeed a wake up call and the trumpets of truth are sounding and very few are listening and those who listen intentionally chose to ignore....
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Sylvia Halpert
Thank you, Yair, for the brief historical summary, and for outlining the present day threat and need for the reunification of Judah and Israel.
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2. Question Concerning Tribal Affiliation Only Through the Father in Biblical Terms
Margo Moore wrote:
Dear Yair,
Does tribal identity come from the father's side always? Or are there other factors?
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Brit-Am Reply:
Shalom,
According to my understanding:
When marriage between members of 2 different tribes takes place Tribal affiliation always goes after the father.
Nevertheless input from the side of the mother will be mentioned since this too has importance.
e.g.
Huram the artisan from Tyre employed by Solomon:
In one source it says 'He was a widow's son from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze' (1-Kings 7:14).
Elsewhere it says his father belonged to the Tribe of Dan (2-Chronicles 2:14).
We understand this to indicate that his mother came from Naphtali and his father from Dan and that they lived in Tyre.
We have another case concerning Yarcha (Jarha) the emancipated Egyptian slave of Sheshan.
1-Chronicles 2:
34 Now Sheshan had no sons, only daughters, but Sheshan had an Egyptian slave whose name was Jarha. 35 So Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to Jarha his slave, and she bore him Attai.
Sheshan was from the clan of Yerachmiel who were descended from Hetsron, Peretz, and Judah.
According to the simple meaning of the passage Yarcha ("Jarha") was a non-Israelite Egyptian slave who would have had the status of being "a half-Israelite" and the property of Sheshan, his Israelite owner.
As soon as he was freed he would have become a full-fledged Israelite with equal rights to every other Hebrew.
This apparently is what happened.
Sheshan freed him. He then became the equal of an Israelite and permitted to marry an Israelite woman.
He then married the daughter of Sheshan and begat Attai.
It sounds like Attai would have been considered a continuation of Sheshan? And therefore go after his mother?
There are other questions:
The offspring of a Jewish woman and a non-Jew are considered Jewish.
Presumably they belong to the Tribe of the mother.
If the non-Jew is an Israelite from the Ten Tribes then it may be assumed that here too the tribal allocation will go after the father even though the religious obligation follows the mother.
And so on.
God bless you
Yair
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3. New Article and Video Clip. Do Your Tribal Best!
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(a) New Article. Do Your Tribal Best!
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/ten-tribes-and-biblical-philosophy/best.html
Extracts:
We received the following question from
"miryam":
My question was if you have a tribe-by-tribe listing of the judgments as you do of the tribes' characteristics, tribe-by-tribe or it it is just a blanket judgement for Judah following the Torah and the rest of the tribes acting with empathy and kindness in a moral manner.
Thanks!
In reply we drew up the list below showing the positive aspects of each tribe.
Moral experts and Torah thinkers have different attitudes but in general one should concentrate on what one does best.
It therefore may help to understand the peculiar strong points of each tribe.
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(b) New Video Clip. Your Israelite Tribal Best
Duration: 19.23 minutes
Every one should do as well as they can with what they have. The same applies to different Israelite Tribes. Each Tribe had its own specialty. It may help to be aware of this and perhaps direct our lives according to it.
See: Do Your Tribal Best!
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/ten-tribes-and-biblical-philosophy/best.html