Messages and Comments accompanying Now no.2668 and 2669 (20 September 2016, 17 Elul, 5776)
Contents:
1. Comments and Answers to Questions Re the Clip on Hebrew Color
2. Cherie Koch: Great Article by Bert Otten!
3. Gavin Finley: Spreading the Message
4. Question re the Samaritans
5. More Comments on Brit-Am Video Clips
6. Negative Comments to Video on the Defense of Israel
7. Question about the Khazars and Ashkenazi Jews,
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1. Comments and Answers to Questions Re the Clip on Hebrew Color
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqWrMMTBbtE
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nitajo
Joseph's face was pink like a rose like his father.. I am having trouble understanding your voice... can you tell me exactly where to find this information...? thanks
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Reply:
 Joseph's face was pink like a rose (The Talmud Sota 36) and Joseph in physical appearance resembled his father (Rashi on Genesis 37:2, probably quoting an older source).
See Also:
THE PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE HEBREW PEOPLES
http://www.britam.org/anthropology.html
Also "The Tribes" chapter 2.
http://www.britam.org/the-Tribes.html
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evadidio
Show us the picture, without photoshop.
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Reply:
Pictures exist but are hard to come by. Some are copyright. There are not that many available on the web but they do exist. If you come across any please let us know.
Nevertheless we do have some pictures, see:
Hebrew Pictures
http://www.britam.org/HebrewTypes.html
Look through ALL 9 pictures, some of the best are on the last (and most recent) page. More are NOW being processed!
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John Murphy (Replying to evadidio who seemed to imply that the pictures we used had been doctored with prejudicial intent):
... as far as you know they are not manipulated. ..... like I said anything can and is manipulated today ..... there is an agenda to prove we are related to bananas and to discredit the bible..... older history ..pre Darwinism paid ts a very different picture..... THE Scottish Declaration of Independence from 1320 clearly states that the king and Queen can trace their bloodlines to King David of Israel .....older Irish Annals tell of coming to Ireland, and confirm they were one called Scythians. .... The Parthians were Hebrews and Co mingled with the Scythians .... There is a history out there completely hidden by the Vatican. ...... world trade was common place at 1000 BC , but history tries to deny this but the remnants of this global trade are everywhere ......
You know what's funny ..... I just took the time to read my morning paper ...The Boston Globe and it had a front page article how scientists manipulated data on coronary disease and sugar .... getting payoffs from big business with vested interests ..... that was the early 1960's when the moral character if people was much higher than today's evil generations .lol
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2. Cherie Koch: Great Article by Bert Otten!
RE: Brit-Am Now no. 2667
http://hebrewnations.com/features/now14/2667.html
#3. Guest Article. "The Israelites Were White!" by Bert Otten
http://www.britam.org/WHITEBO.pdf
Greetings Yair!
That was a great article by Bert Otten! I wish he would have included Adam, which has the connotation of being red (red earth?) and more discussion of Esau to expand about the word Edom meaning red. I have heard Africans say that Adam came from the earth, which is black, therefore Adam was black. However, earth that is black is that color because of decayed organic matter. Earth has a reddish color to it.
If it was indeed the truth, we'd be happy to report it. But, there isn't support for the idea that Adam was black from Africa. The scientists so badly want to place our origins in Africa, but it ain't so!Â
Shalom,
Cherie Koch
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3. Gavin Finley: Spreading the Message
And blessings to you too, Yair. ... I am using the website and YouTube and social media to share the wonderful work you are doing. I think of you often and the interview we had some years back at the Hyatt. My prayers go up to Hashem for you, that He will preserve you and provide for you as you share the message of the westwards migrations of the ten tribes. I do believe that a time is coming when this info will be so very valuable as a guidance for many, and to help facilitate the glorious future restoration that the prophets spoke about.
Grace and shalom,
Gavin Finley
https://youtu.be/TqRijHyh4iE
http://endtimepilgrim.org
http://YouTube.com/user/GavinFinley
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4. Question re the Samaritans
Michael wrote:
Yair during the time of the 2nd temple period, which people occupied Samria?Â
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Brit-Am Reply:
In the early 2nd Temple Times the Hsamonean (Maccabee) Jews of Judah ruled for much of the time over Samaria BUT the Samaritan people themselves were not Jewish and NOT Israelite.
The Samaritans were a mixture of mainly non-Israelite Gentile peoples from different parts of the Babylonian Empire
See:
The Samaritans from a Brit-Am Lost Ten Tribes Perspective
http://www.britam.org/samaritans.html
2-Kings 17:
24 Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Ava, Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they took possession of Samaria and dwelt in its cities
Samaritans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q4L5j8YKms
Some of the Samaritans intermarried with some few of those northern Israelites whom the Assyrians had not exiled (Midrash Eliyahu Zuta 2;1).
A few Jews from Judah also to some degree later intermixed with them.Â
See:
The Samaritans by Alan David Crown, 1989, p.215.
Note the interesting quote from Crown that many of the Samaritans became Christians and settled in Sicily.
cf.
Mills (1864) writes:
           "There was a tradition amongst them which has yet hardly died out that large numbers of their brethren were dwelling in various parts of the world in England, France, India, and elsewhere".
Bonne p.33, Ernest L. MARTIN, p.38 brings the same quotation in the name of a Dr. Mimpriss, 1865.
A few more items of interest include:
A majority of the inhabitants of Damascus may well be of Samaritan descent.
Could that be why, though now Sunni Muslims, many of them support Assad even though Assad is an Alawi pagan?
Samaritans were also to be found in Africa which may help explain why some African tribes have customs vaguely similar to Hebrew ones.
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5. More Comments on Brit-Am Video Clips
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Edomites in British Israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awQdiN-BLUI
Kenny and Robyn Martin
Cepher Devarim (Deuteronomy 23 7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land. 8 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.
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Your videos are really great. Thanks for your wisdom and your great presentation.
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6. Negative Comments to Video
Re
Defense of Israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4TsnaBM1YA
Comment from Yair:
This talk in our opinion was correct in the points it made and was delivered quite well.
The reactions so far were mainly abusive.
It should have received more appreciation than it evidently did.
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7. Question about the Khazars and Ashkenazi Jews,
Michael Asked:
"Ashkenazi Jews†are they essentially the Khazars? Or are the Khazars part of the lost tribes and are the Ashkenazi Jews essentially part of the Diaspora of the of the Tribe of Judah after the Babylonian Captivity? Any insight will be appreciated. Thx a ton
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Brit-Am Reply:
The Khazars were part of the Lost Tribes as well as including very many who were Jews from Judah. Some of them in Russia converted to Judaism. Others settled in Scotland and Scandinavia. Those who converted to Judaism
do not seem to have been numerous since there is no real trace of them among the Jews as far as we can tell.
For a list of Brit-Am articles concerning the Khazars,
See:
http://www.britam.org/KhazarIndex.html
For Brit-Am Video Clips about the Khazars, see:
Khazars - Israelites
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD954B3895CCA094B
European Jews are called Ashkenazim since in the beginning many of them came from Germany and had a German type culture. In Hebrew the term "Ashkenaz" means Germany.
The Ahskenazim do not appreatr to be descended from the Khazars though some of them may be.
HaShem be with you
Yair