Donald Trump and the Ten Tribes? (1 February 2017, 5 Shevet, 5777)
Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Tim Shweaty: "Trump is Like Trumpet!"
3. What is a Trumpet?
4. The Shofar
5. The Darker Side of Donald Trump
6. The More Positive Side of Donald Trump
7. The USA and the Ten Tribes
8. A Rabbinical Source. The Ten Tribes and the Shofar
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1. Introduction
Is Donald Trump a kind of Anointed Leader or "Messiah" of Biblical Proportions?
Is he destined to play a role in revealing the Lost Ten Tribes and help the Israelites and Jews?
The following article will not answer these questions but it will provide food for thought along those lines.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
2. Tim Shweaty: "Trump is Like Trumpet!"
Tim Shweaty posted in the Comments section reacting to our YouTube Video the following message.
Is Donald Trump a Hebrew?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR00wGtNFOg&t=107s
Tim Shweaty
Trump is like trumpet. Many Hebrews play the trumpet. Trump likes Trumpet players. Trump is most likely Hebrew. There you have it.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
3. What is a Trumpet?
One of the possible meanings of the name Trump is trumpet! This may have been the origin of the name.
A trumpet is defined as "a brass musical instrument.." in a certain shape or anything resembling one.
From the Hebrew Bible two words are translated as "trumpet", i.e. "chastostra" and "shofar."
The "chastostra" was more like the trumpet we are familiar with, e.g.
Numbers 10:
2 Make yourself two trumpets of silver, of hammered work you shall make them; and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for having the camps set out.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
4. The Shofar
The shofar on the other hand was the horn of a male sheep, i.e. a ram.
Shofar
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shofar
The shofar was used to announce holidays (Ps. 81:3 (4)), and the Jubilee year (Lev. 25:9). The first day of the seventh month (Tishrei) is termed "a memorial of blowing" (Lev. 23:24), or "a day of blowing" (Num. 29:1), the shofar. They were for signifying the start of a war (Josh. 6:4; Judges 3:27; 7:16, 20; I Sam. 8:3). Later, it was also employed in processions (II Sam. 6:15; I Chron. 15:28), as musical accompaniment (Ps. 98:6; comp. ib. 47:5) and eventually it was inserted into the temple orchestra by David (Ps. 150:3).
Shofars and trumpets to our way of thinking may be quite different from each other.
Nevertheless, in Medieval Europe the two instruments were considered of the same type. That is why the Hebrew word "shofar" in most English translations of the Bible is rendered as "trumpet".
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
5. The Darker Side of Donald Trump
We are about to suggest a connection between the word "shofar" translated as trumpet and Donald Trump and its Biblical significance.
We are optimistic about Donald Trump and the USA. We have often been right in our prognostications but not always.
We hope this time we shall not be disappointed.
For the sake of balance, here is something about the Darker Side of Donald Trump:
Donald Trump about 11 years ago spoke inappropriately of his attitude to women. Unbeknown to him he was recorded at the time.
The ladies he spoke about were not exactly modestly dressed sequestered virgins.
Nevertheless the words were offensive.
Trump deals in Real Estate.
He also in the past made money from gambling and casinoes and questionable deals.
In addition he built several casinoes, declared himself bankrupt (as he was legally entitled to), and left many who had labored for him unremunerated for their labor.
There may be other issues as well.
The alternative to Trump was Hillary Clinton who seemed to represent abortion, aggressively assertive Gay Rights, ambivalence to terrorism, and Third World Aspirations at the expense of the USA.
Incidentally the attitude of Hillary and her husband to women and respect for them seems to have been much worse than that of Donald. They were also not necessarily more honest in financial matters. On the contrary.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
6. A More Positive Side of Donald Trump
On the other hand Donald Trump has had a positive image in the Jewish Orthodox Community in America for quite a while now, from long before he stood for President.
A story has been going around the Jewish Orthodox Community in the USA for DECADES. It has several variations but all are basically along the same lines.
It says that a Collel student [i.e. full-time married Rabbinical scholar] was driving to his place of learning when he noticed someone in distress at the side of road. He stopped and helped the person fix his vehicle. This took quite a while and some effort but was succesful. The person offered to pay the student but he refused. He did however say that since he had used up so much of his time he was running late and would not be able, as he had planned, to send flowers to his house before the Shabat. He asked if the driver by way of payment would send the flowers in his stead and left his address.
The evening when he returned home he asked his wife if anything had been delivered to the house. She said it had not.
A day or so later he received a bouquet (or a truckload, the accounts vary) of roses with an attached note.
It went something like this.
# Sorry for the delay. Here are the roses you asked for.
I checked up on you. I know you are a Collel student and not wealthy.
It may interest you to know that the entire mortgage on your house has been paid for.
Donald Trump. #
Even if the story is not correct, and I believe that basically it is, it does show that for a good time now Donald Trump has had a good name in certain quarters.
[A version of this story has been repeated by Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi and probably others on the Web.]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
7. The USA and the Ten Tribes
Donald Trump (b. 1946) is now (2017) the 45th President of the United States.
The inhabitants of the USA came from all over the world. Many of the earlier settlers arrived from Western Europe. Wherever they came from indications are that many of them descend from the Tribes of Israel.
There were originally 12 Tribes. The 12 Tribes had divided into two separate sections. The majority (ten of the 12) were in the north. These were all taken into exile by the Assyrians. They became the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel. Eventually they migrated to Europe especially to the west. Wherever they went it was indicated by the Bible and Rabbinical sources that they would stay together and eventually re-congregate in specific areas.
Very often migrants to the USA, wherever they came from, have been descended from Israelites who had remained somehow or other separate from their neighbors!
The USA is one of the areas, apparently the main one, in which the Ten Tribes have now re-assembled.
Many of the inhabitants of North America are now descended from Israelites even though most of them are not aware of it!
The USA is often referred to as simply "America".
Machir was the first-born son of Manasseh son of Joseph (Genesis 50:23, Numbers 26:29, Numbers 32:39-40, Numbers 36:1, Judges 5:40, 1-Chronicles 7:14, etc). America is named after "Ha-Macheri" meaning literally the "Sons of Machir" or "Pertaining to Machir."
The Nicknames "Yank" and "G.I. Joe."
Overseas all Americans are nicknamed Yanks. In Biblical Hebrew, in Yiddish, and in other dialects "Yank" is the equivalent of "Jack" i.e. a shortened from of the name Yaacov (Jacob). Jacob is another name for Israel (Genesis 32:28, 35:10).
"G.I. Joe" is a nickname for a US infantry man later extended to any US soldier. Joe is short for Joseph.
Joseph was one of the Tribes of Israel.
Joseph and the USA
The two sons of Joseph (Ephraim and Manasseh) are the prevalent Tribes in the USA.
North America today contains members of all the 12 Tribes. Manasseh is the most dominant. Ephraim, Judah, and others are also important.
Most Israelites may in fact be the physical descendants of Ephraim. Nevertheless Manasseh sets the tone and determines the national character of the USA.
The Great Seal of the USA depicts a pyramid which immediately brings Egypt to mind. A picture of Egypt was on the Standard of Joseph (Midrash Numbers Rabah 2;5) when the two tribes (Ephrasim and Manasseh) were considered together.
Manasseh means Representative Government!
The name Manasseh in Hebrew means "Responsible Representation" (as explained by Rabbi Shimshon Rafael Hirsch) and this is the type of government expounded by the USA.
The USA in general fits many Biblical Proofs showing that it is an Israelite Nation according to the Bible.
See:
Anglo-Hebrews. Britain, and its Offshoots and the USA as Israelites. Biblical Proofs
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/tribes/anglohebrews.html
This is confirmed by Secular Sources:
See:
Secular (Non-Biblical) Proof of Israelite Ancestry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UDxPKTWj5Y&t=77s
America is Israelite
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/tribes/america.html
USA is Manasseh!
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/tribes/usmn.html
The USA as Israelite and as Manasseh
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/tribes/usmns.html
Is Donald Trump a Hebrew?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR00wGtNFOg
President-elect Donald J. Trump is descended from German and Scottish ancestors. A closer look at his antecedents, sentiments, and actions indicates the strong possibility of both Hebrew and Jewish ancestry.
See: "Is Trump Hebrew?"
"Can Donald be a Jew/Israelite?"
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/ca/dtrump.html
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
8. A Rabbinical Source. The Ten Tribes and the Shofar
Rabbi Zadok ha-Kohen Rabinowitz of Lublin, 1823-1900, [Pri-Tsadik, Shavuot, 16] discussesthe significance of the Shofar and the Ten Tribes:
He says that a special property of the shofar helps the ingathering of they who were once Israelites but were outcast, like the Ten Tribes were. The shofar was also sounded when the Torah was given at Sinai (Exodus 29: 16, 19) and therefore its sounding is connected to a return to Torah values.
Exodus 19:
16 So it came about on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunder and lightning flashes and a thick cloud upon the mountain and a very loud trumpet [i.e. SHOFAR] sound, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled...
19 When the sound of the trumpet [i.e. SHOFAR] grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him with thunder.
Rabbi Zadok says that all the peoples of the earth are referred to under the headings of Assyria and Egypt (Midrash VaYikra Rabah 13:5) which nations were associated with the Exile of the Ten Tribes.
# They who were lost are they who were assimilated among the Peoples of the World. They do not know at all that they are of Israel. They are the Ten Tribes. Great Shofar will arouse them.
They shall not leave behind any of the Seed of Jacob. None shall be lost, God forbid. #
We see from the above, that the shofar is connected with the Ten Tribes.
The word for shofar in English translations is Trumpet and this may indicate the name Trump.
We shall live and see.
Isaiah 27:
13 AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THAT DAY, THAT THE GREAT TRUMPET [in Hebrew "Shofar" i.e. ram's horn] SHALL BE BLOWN, AND THEY SHALL COME WHICH WERE READY TO PERISH (Hebrew: "Ovdim" also translatable as they who were lost?) IN THE LAND OF ASSYRIA (i.e. Lost Ten Tribes), AND THE OUTCASTS (i.e. Jewish Captives) IN THE LAND OF EGYPT, AND SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD IN THE HOLY MOUNT AT JERUSALEM [