Tribal Report (May 12, 2020, 18 Iyar 5780)
Contents:
1. Why did Moses add part of the tribe of Menashe to join Re'uvean and Gad on the east of the Jordan?
2. Natural Blessing of the USA by Miguel Romero
3. Rabbinical Sources Concerning the Tribes
4. Norway - Physical Types
5. Wikipedia on Norwegians
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1. Why did Moses add part of the tribe of Menashe to join Re'uvean and Gad on the east of the Jordan?
https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/61579/why-did-moses-add-part-of-the-tribe-of-menashe-to-join-reuvean-and-gad-on-the-e?rq=1
Answer brought to our attention by N. Schreiber
Half of Menashe
Masay (Numbers 33-36) by Rabbi Ari Kahn
https://www.aish.com/tp/i/moha/97763584.html
The Netziv (10) suggested that the tribe of Menashe was not interested in staying outside Israel. Rather, Moshe asked them to do so because he knew that the other tribes would need Torah leadership. Menashe's inheritance east of the Jordan was not allotted to them in response to their own request. Moshe initiated the move in an attempt to insure the integrity and continuity of the other two tribes.
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2. Natural Blessing of the USA
by Miguel Romero
Why didn't Mexico become another USA, given their relatively early independence from Europeans?
https://www.quora.com/Why-didnt-Mexico-become-another-USA-given-their-relatively-early-independence-from-Europeans
There are two reasons of why Mexico isn't a U.S. The main one is geography the other is politics.
Extracts:
The United States has the Mississippi River that cuts America in half and allowed easy transportation of goods due to its navigability in the early years of its history.
Mexico doesn't have a river with those characteristics and dimensions
Mexico's hydrography
The good weather of U.S allows her to have a proper development of agriculture. No wonder that by 2012, 40% of the national territory was farmland.
Although Mexico also has the same percentage of land as the U.S dedicated to farming, we have to take into account that America is 4 times bigger than Mexico and the weather down here (Mexico) isn't that good. You need a steady supply of food to raise an Empire. Most of Mexico is dry.
The U.S has had throughout it's history moments of division but given their high republican values that Mexico lacked they have been able to resolve their issues (most of the time) and use resources to spent into science, technology and economic development with no threat of a foreign invader.
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3. Rabbinical Sources Concerning the Tribes
May 12, 2020.
So far, thanks to additional sources supplied to Brit-Am by Rabbi Dovid Feldman together with our own findings
we have recently written articles (accompanied by YouTube Videos) with Rabbinical Analysis concerning the following individual Tribes:
Asher ~
Benjamin ~
Dan ~
Gad ~
Issachar ~
Tribes we still need to write about in this new series include:
Ephraim
Manasseh
Zebulon
Naphtali
Simeon
Yehudah
Levi
Previous articles have dealt with most of these Tribes in some depth.
Nevertheless, new sources are available and others are being searched for
so relevant articles by Brit-Am may soon be forthcoming.
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4. Norway - Physical Types
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(a) A.H.Strand
https://www.quora.com/What-are-Norwegian-physical-features
Extracts:
A lot of men have light brown or blonde hair, quite skinny. Fairly tall, dark beards. Women in the older days had a heavy bone structure due to heavy farm work. It's normal to have light brown hair, although a lot of Norwegian women bleach their hair.
The Norwegian male average height is 180 cm, for women it's 167 cm, so the women are not very tall, though taller than a lot of other countries.
The Swedes have high cheekbones, don't feel like that's the case for Norwegians though, unless they have family up north where they have Eurasian heritage.
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(b) Aleksander Stromseth Asklund
https://www.quora.com/What-are-Norwegian-physical-features '
...just based on what I've observed all my life as a Norwegian.
Men:
Norwegian men have very defined facial features. Especially the cheekbones and eyes
Muscular, not necessarily defined muscles, but in mass
Big feet
Norwegian men are hairy, not the hairiest in the world, but definitely hairy
Tall. Norwegian men are tall. Compared to many places in the world. Norway have a high percentage of men over 190cm (6ft 2)
Woman:
Tall. The same with Norwegian girls. Norway have a high percentage of tall girls
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5. Wikipedia on Norwegians
Norwegians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegians
Extracts:
Norwegian or Norse Vikings travelled north and west and founded vibrant communities in the Faroe Islands, Shetland, Orkney, Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, and northern England. ... in Ireland .. founded the cities of Cork, Dublin, and Limerick. In 947, a new wave of Norwegian Vikings appeared in England when Erik Bloodaxe captured York. In the 8th century and onwards, Norwegian and Danish Vikings also settled in Normandy, most famously those led by Rollo, and thus began the tradition of the Normans (also meaning 'men from the north'), who expanded to England, Sicily, and other Mediterranean islands.
Apart from Britain and Ireland, Norwegian Vikings established settlements in largely uninhabited regions.... Iceland... In the year 874 he settled in Reykjavik.
After his expulsion from Iceland Erik the Red discovered Greenland... Erik's relative Leif Eriksson later discovered North America.
During the 17th and 18th centuries, many Norwegians emigrated to the Netherlands, particularly Amsterdam. The Netherlands was the second most popular destination for Norwegian emigrants after Denmark.
Loosely estimated, some 10% of the population may have emigrated, in a period when the entire Norwegian population consisted of some 800,000 people.
.... Large parts of the Dutch merchant fleet and navy came to consist of Norwegians and Danes. They took Dutch names, so no trace of Norwegian names can be found in the Dutch population of today.
... Increasingly, Dutchmen who search their genealogical roots turn to Norway. Many Norwegians who emigrated to the Netherlands, and often were employed in the Dutch merchant fleet, emigrated further to the many Dutch colonies such as New Amsterdam (New York)..
Norwegian Americans represent 2-3% of the non-Hispanic Euro-American population in the U.S. They mostly live in both the Upper Midwest and Pacific Northwest.
According to the 2011 Census, 452,705 Canadians reported Norwegian ancestry (Norwegian-Canadians). Norwegians make up 2% of the White Canadian population. However, the actual figure may be higher.
According to recent genetic analysis, both mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA) and Y chromosome polymorphisms showed a noticeable genetic affinity between the Norwegian population and other ethnic groups in Northern and Central Europe, particularly with the Germans. This is due to a history of at least a thousand years of large-scale migration both in and out of Norway.
The Norwegian population is typical of the Northern European population with Haplogroup I1 being most common. Norwegians also show the characteristic R1a genes of the paternal ancestorship at 17.9%[29] to 30.8%.[30] Such large frequencies of R1a have been found only in East Europe and India.[31] R1b gene showing paternal descent is also widespread at 25.9%[29] to 30.8%.[30