Ten Tribes (28 September 2016, 25 Elul, 5776)
Contents:
1. New Month. Tishrei, Tribe of Ephraim
2. Rosh HaShanah, the Hebrew New Year.
3. Brit-Am Meeting with Senior British Israel Official
4. New Article and YouTube Video Clip. Joseph Today.
5. New Article and YouTube Video Clip. Joseph Identified
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1. New Month. Tishrei, Tribe of Ephraim
The Hebrew month of Tishrei begins October 3 and October 4, 2016. This is also the Hebrew New Year. In this month we also have Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)
and the feast of Succot (Tabernacles).
The most accepted opinions (Arizal and HaGra) attribute Tishrei to the tribe of Ephraim.
Other opinions say Manasseh (Midrash Peliah) or Benjamin (Rabad).
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2. Rosh HaShanah, the Hebrew New Year.
Next Week (October 3 and October 4, 2016) is Rosh HaShanah or the Hebrew New Year for the year 5777.
This is a time of judgment, repentance, self-reform, and introspection.
Leviticus 23:
24 Speak to the children of Israel, saying: In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial [Hebrew: Shabaton-Zicaron] of blowing of trumpets [Hebrew: Truah], a holy convocation. 25 You shall do no customary work on it; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.
From previous years:
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Video Clips on this matter include:
Happy New Year
Joseph Remembered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auNzClgv0xI
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Excerpts from articles concerning this day in past years include the following:
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Rosh HaShana for You. Hebrew New Year
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/rs.html
Each and every one of us is more important than we may realize. We can all make a change. God watches over us and wants our betterment and the better good of us and for us.
The God of Israel is our God.
In this period try not to argue with members of your family or with others, at least not overduly.
This may not be easy but it can usually be done.
Just as you (like everyone else) have probably thought or said things you would prefer the Almighty ignore so too do the same for what others may have said about or to you.
cf. Ecclesiastes 7:
20 For there is not a just man on earth who does good
And does not sin.
21 Also do not take to heart everything people say,
Lest you hear your servant cursing you.
22 For many times, also, your own heart has known
That even you have cursed others.
Concerning the Land of Israel we are told that it is,
Deuteronomy 11:
12 a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year.
We thus have a beginning of the year and an end of the year.
This is connected with the overseeing of the Land by the Almighty. By implication this involves the whole of creation except that the Land of Israel, as if to say, is to receive special attention.
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Warning and Blessing
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/rosh.html
Tishrei is associated with the Tribe of Ephraim.
Rosh HaShana means the head or Beginning (Rosh) of the Year (HaShanah).
The Jewish Prayer service on this day is quite long. The Ten Tribes and Ephraim are spoken of several times.
The shofar (horn of a ram) will be blown. The shofar has three (or four, depending on how the count is made) different sounds. During the Prayer Service the shofar will be blown in the three different ways several times over so that the participants will usually hear it blown about 100 times.
The word "shofar" is linked to the Hebrew "ShaPeR" meaning to improve. This (via the Latin) is where the English word "super" (i.e. elevated, best) comes from.
On Rosh HaShana we should improve our actions.
The word for Year is "shana". It connotes both repetition (ShayNeH) and change (ShoNeh).
On the one hand things could continue as they are. On the other it may all change.
The present is the child of the past. The future will be the offspring of what there is now.
We may change everything for the better and should endeavor to do so.
The Almighty is always close to those who call unto HIM (Psalm 145:18)
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Joseph Released!
A Short Message for the Biblical New Year
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/release.html
We are also judged on this day. Everyone is judged according to what they are and the task they have in life.
Ephraim and the Ten Tribes are mentioned several times over in the Prayer Service.
The Ten Tribes need to be remembered. They need to be released.
We identify the Ten Tribes with Western Nations.
These peoples are not in captivity, neither are they suffering.
On the contrary, they are still statistically the most wealthy and most powerful nations on earth.
Nevertheless, they are also blocked out concerning Remembrance of their Israelite Ancestry.
This psychologically constricts their ability to fulfill the duties they have as Israelites and as Descendants of Joseph.
They are lacking the knowledge of their Israelite Origins.
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3. Brit-Am Meeting with Senior British Israel Official
We held a meeting over a pleasant meal in Jerusalem with Martin and Sue Lightfoot.
Martin and Sue were in Jerusalem to participate in the
Temple Mount Sifting Project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Mount_Sifting_Project
Quotation:
# The Temple Mount Sifting Project (formerly known as the Temple Mount Salvage Operation) is an Israeli archaeological project begun in 2005 dedicated to recovering archaeological artifacts from 400 truckloads of topsoil removed from the Temple Mount by the Waqf during the construction of the underground el-Marwani Mosque from 1996 to 1999. The project is sponsored by Bar Ilan University with funding from the Ir David Foundation and Israel Exploration Society. #
This is only one of several archaeological projects in Israel in which the Lightfoots have participated.
Martin is a senior officer in the BIWF.
Martin Lightfoot.
Programme Coordinator
The National Bible College
BIWF
The BIWF is an umbrella type organization of groups and individuals who believe the Lost Ten Tribes are in the west especially among English-speaking peoples.
In the past unsavory elements have made their impression on part of this group. This in turn has led to fiction between us and them.
There were however periods  when we worked together and our relationship was amiable.
The discussion with Martin and Sue included an exchange of information and viewpoints.
We agreed to remove points of fiction between us, to find common ground, and perhaps in the future to consider increased cooperation.
Martin is very interested in DNA and follows developments in its findings. He believes that if and when DNA is understood correctly it will confirm the Ancestry of Western Peoples as deriving from Israel.
Martin does not reject specific Tribal identification but is not drawn to it. Apart from that he tends more towards the approach of Stephen Collins and would include additional peoples and groups as descended from Israel.
Brit-Am however uses the Ephraimite Criteria as a discerning factor.
http://www.britam.org/criteria.html
These however are relatively minor points and should not confuse the main issue which is establishing the truth of Israelite Ancestry in the west.
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4. New Article and YouTube Video Clip. Joseph Today.
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(a) New Article.
Joseph Today. Cheat Sheet
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/tribes/josephtoday.html
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(b) New Video Clip.
Joseph Today
https://youtu.be/qL_4mwOdXmI
Duration:Â 19.10 minutes
Descendants of Joseph (both Ephraim and Manasseh) are now to be found mainly among the English-speaking peoples, see:
Joseph Today. Cheat Sheet
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/tribes/josephtoday.html
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5. New Article and YouTube Video Clip. Joseph Identified
(a) New Article. Joseph Identified. A Summary
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/tribes/josephidentified.html
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(b) New Video Clip. Joseph Identified
https://youtu.be/iPMa05xm1lQ
Duration: 13.54Â minutes
A summary of points identifying Joseph with the English-speaking peoples,
see:
Joseph Identified. A Summary
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/tribes/josephidentified.html