Ten Tribes Studies (3 December 2015, 21 Kislev, 5776)
Contents:
1. New Article. Levi and Oral Law. Levitical Cohans and Great Teachers
2. What to do when Brit-Am Links Stop Linking?
3. Tartan Scottish Design is an indication of Joseph
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1. New Article. Levi and Oral Law
Levitical Cohans and Great Teachers
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/tribes/levirabbi.html
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2. What to do when Brit-Am Links Stop Linking?
"Cristian Sildan" wrote:
Peace Yair,
For some reason in your last 2 messages your links didn't work. Could you take a look? Thank you.
All the best,
Cristian
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Brit-Am Reply:
We have two active web-sites
http://www.britam.org
http://hebrewnations.com
Each one works on a different system and is supplied by a different server.
They are both useful but each one has its own idiosyncrasies.
The links to
http://hebrewnations.com
sometimes need to be pressed twice OR they do not work for a few minutes.
My advice is to use the Refresher button and if that does not work to come back after a short while and try them again.
If it still does not work PLEASE CONTACT ME. Do this ASAP so that we may deal with the matter while it is still a problem and attempt to take steps to prevent the problem in the future.
So too:
http://www.britam.org
Sometimes links need to be pressed twice, or use the Refresh button.
It also happens that this site is active in the USA but not elsewhere.
Alternately it might work in one area and not in another.
It could be active in the USA and Israel but not in Europe.
When this happens it is good that we know about it so that a complaint may be made in real time.
Thank you for alerting us to this matter.
This is what we exist for, to get the word out.
If we put things on the web but people cannot see them we are failing in our purpose.
May the God of Israel bless you
Yair Davidiy
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3. Tartan Scottish Design is an indication of Joseph
In the weekly Torah Portion for this week we find the story of Joseph and his coat of many colors.
Genesis 37:3] NOW ISRAEL LOVED JOSEPH MORE THAN ALL HIS CHILDREN, BECAUSE HE WAS THE SON OF HIS OLD AGE: AND HE MADE HIM A COAT OF MANYÂ COLOURS.
In a series of very detailed and well documented articles we have shown that this cloak was actually one of Scottish tartan type design.
Our work on this subject may well be the most thorough and comprehensive that is so far available.
See:
The Scottish Tartan Cloak of Joseph
http://www.britam.org/tartan.html
Extracts:
Genesis 37 (New King James Version)
37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age. Also he made him a tunic of many colors.
37:4 But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.
Ralbag (Gersonides) translates "passim" as "mishbatsot" i.e. squares.
HaNatziv (Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, 1816-1893, Russia)
HaNatziv also adopted a synthetic approach saying that Cotonet Pasim connoted both a long-sleeved garment and one decorated with a tartan type design of interlocking squares.
HaNatziv (Genesis 37:3):
##Cotonet Pasim. That reached up to the end [Hebrew: pas] of his hand. Alternately it defines a specific weaving as for stripes [pasim] [i.e. to create a pattern involving lines or stripes]. And so wrote Ramban [Nachmanides]. ..[Exodus 23]...like a garment design involving squares [tashbets] and so too would it appear from Rashi on [Talmud] Shabat 10 ...all men of rank wore such garments only that of Joseph was especially distinguished ##
We thus find that the Natziv interprets "cotonet pasim" in a way that encompasses all of the discussed possibilities: reaching to arms length, square [tartan-type] design, denoting rank and status. #
Therefore one of the meanings of Cotonet Pasim would be a checkered coat!
In the light of the sources taken as a complementary whole the suggestion that a "cotonet pasim" was a cloak of several colors in a tartan type pattern should be accepted as a first choice. It is the answer that fits the different sources more than any other.
The "cotonet passim" given by Jacob to Joseph was also a mark of rank and status.