Research Sources from Brit-Am Now nos. 1501-1623 (30 July, 2015, 14 Av, 5775)
Contents:
1. North Eastern Africa as part of Israel in the future?
2. The Greatness of the USA and Britain
3. Each Tribe has "its own manner of serving the Almighty which for it becomes a Fundamental Principle".
4. Phoenicians in Britain
5. Orjan Svensson: Theo Vennemann and Semitic Europa
6. The Name Wales comes from the name Baal!
7. Semnones were Israelites!
8. Rechabites Shall Return with Israel
9. Various Celtic Traditions
10. 1613. 3. The Midrash on Unity Between Judah and Joseph
11. Gomer as Israel in a Rabbinical Source
12. Winston Churchill: Germany as the Anakim (Giants) ?
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1. North Eastern Africa as part of Israel in the future?
1504. 7. Thomas Malloy: A New Map of the Promised Land?
I went to a meeting of an organization that's raising money to build a heavy duty bike so that African farmers can transport their produce to market. One of their graphics showed a map of Tanzania with the southern shore of Lake Victoria.
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2. The Greatness of the USA and Britain
1506.4 New Article
The Prophet Balaam and Barak Hussein.
Obama, Fareed, and the Promises to Israel.
http://britam.org/fareed.html
Excerpts:
"At the turn of the twentieth century, despite robust growth in demand, wheat prices declined by 20 to 35 per cent in Europe, thanks to America's granaries." 19
BA Comment:
The USA and other Israelite Nations were blessing to all the world in the humanitarian and economic spheres.
"With 5 per cent of the world's population, the United States has generated between 20 to 30 per cent of world output for 125 years". 41
BA Comment:
The USA and other Israelite Nations wereto be blessed with great economic prosperity on a world-wide, historically-significant scale.
The British Empire at its height covered a quarter of the globe and a quarter of its population.
# During the Diamond Jubilee [June 22, 1897], 165 ships carrying forty thousand seamen and three thousand guns were on display in Portsmouth, the largest fleet ever assembled. # 169
#...the British Empire created the first truly global market. # 170
The New York Times (1897) on behalf of the USA said:
# "We are a part, and a great part, of the greater Britain which seems so plainly destined to dominate this planet". # 171
Britain (1845-1870) had 2% per cent of the world's population, 30 % of global GDP, 20% of world trade, 40% of world manufacturing trade.
The USA equaled Britain in most fields by 1870 and surpassed it in the 1880s.
In 1860 Britain produced 53% of world's iron (# then a sign of supreme industrial strength #); in 1914 less than 10%.
In 1914 Britain however was the world financial capital. Returns from overseas investments masked its economic decline.
# As a result, Britain remained the master of the seas, controlling its lanes and pathways with "five keys" that were said to lock up the world, Singapore, the Cape of Africa, Alexandria, Gibraltar, and Dover. # 178
BA Comment:
The points above reflect the blessing. Israel was to rule the waves and be the foremost military power with ports and bases in vital international strategic areas:
# The US economy has been the world's largest since the middle of the 1880s, and it remains so today. # 180
#The American military, in contrast, dominates at every level, land, air, space, and spends more than the next fourteen countries put together, accounting for almost 50 per cent of global defense spending. # 181
# The United States spends more on defense research and development than the rest of the world put together. And, crucially, it does all this without breaking the bank. # 181
BA Comment:
The USA in many ways is a continuation of the British Empire but with characteristics typical of Machir of Manasseh rather than the aristocratic-oriented Tribe of Ephraim. The USA is big and emphasizes size. The Commentators noted that Manasseh was greater than Ephraim is size and wealth
even when Ephraim was predominant.
Part of the American lead over other nations is due to its research capabilities and innovations. The Jewish population both in the USA and in Israel contributes greatly to this. The Jewish intellectual and innovative influence comes not only from the Jews themselves but also from their Gentile co-workers who are influenced by them. This phenomenon was remarked upon by John Hulley ("Comets Jews and Christians" ,1996).
# The United States has been and can be the world's most important, continuing source of new ideas, big and small, technical and creative, economic and political.. # 210
#American tentacles and interests are spread as widely today as were Britain's at the height of its empire. For those who believe that America's place in the world is wholly different from that of the British Empire it is instructive to read the "Base Structure Report" for fiscal year 2006. In it, the Department of Defense boasts of being 'one of the world's largest landlords'! The report lists a sprawling network of 766 bases in forty foreign countries from Antigua to the United Kingdom. These overseas bases were worth at least $2127 billion in 2005, housed 197,000 uniformed personnel and an equal number of dependents and civilian officials, and employed an additional 81,000 local foreign hires'# 238
BA Comment:
This emphasizes the point made above that Britain and the USA fulfilled the blessing to Israel that they would have bases all over the world and rule the waves.
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3. Each Tribe has "its own manner of serving the Almighty which for it becomes a Fundamental Principle".
1514. 3. Rabbinical Source:
Numbers 7:12-83 tells us how at the dedication of the Altar in the Sanctuary (while Israel were in the Wilderness) the Prince of each Tribe brought his own offering on behalf of the Tribe. The details of each offering is given at length.
The Commentary "Nativot [also pronounced as "Nativos"] Shalom" (Rabbi Shalom Noach Berezovsky of Slonim 1911-2000) offered the following observation:
# The section where the Princes of each Tribe each bring their own sacrifice is most nonplussing. Why does the holy Torah employ such lengthy apparently superfluous repetition?...Each Prince offered up the same sacrifice. Why does the Torah go back and repeat twelve times, in the same language, the sacrifice of each and every one of the Princes?...The Almighty divided the whole of Israel into twelve tribes. This may be difficult to understand. Superficially it could appear that the Almighty wants the Unity of Israel...Each Tribe has its own unique sanctity...each Tribe has its own special existence and its own manner of serving the Almighty which for it becomes a Fundamental Principle... The Midrash tells us what the intention of each Prince was in offering up his sacrifice...Judah was Royalty...Joseph, the Kingdom...Issachar the Torah...Zebulon his partnership with Issachar and support of the Torah...... #
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4. Phoenicians in Britain
1592.7 Britain and the Phoenicians: Interesting Extract
Britain, Phoenicia's Secret Treasure
http://phoenicia.org/britmines.html
Extract:
The fact that tin trade existed is too well attested to need proof. Herodotus as early as 445 BC speaks of the British Isles as the Tin Islands or Cassiterides. Pytheas (352-323 BC) mentions the tin trade, as does also Polybius (circa 160). Diodorus Siculus gives a detailed description of the trade. He tells us that the tin was mined, beaten into squares, and carried to an island called Ictis, joined to the mainland at low tide, which is generally held to be Mount St. Michael in Cornwall, although some have identified it with Falmouth. Thence it was shipped to Morlais, and transported across France on pack horses to Marseilles. From Marseilles it was again shipped to Phoenicia. Innumerable ancient workings in Cornwall still attest the trade, and tin is still mined there today. Lord Avebury and Sir John Evans held the opinion that the trade existed as early as 1500 BC, and Sir Edward Creasy writes: "The British mines mainly suppled the glorious adornment of Solomon's Temple". This matter ties in very well with the involvement of Phoenician builders with construction of Solomon's Temple.
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5. 1598.1. Orjan Svensson: Theo Vennemann and Semitic Europa
Shalom,
Are you aware of the work "Europa Vasconica, Europa Semitica"? I recently stumbled on it on the Internet.
See for example:
http://www.amazon.com/Vasconica-Europa
-Semitica-Linguistics-Studies-
Monographs/dp/311017054X
Extract:
The Atlantic people, a branch of the Semitidic, or Hamito-Semitic, or Afro-Asiatic, or simply Semitic family explored and settled along the West coast of Europe and particularly in the Solent, Ireland, Scotland, Denmark. In Ireland, according to Vennemann they caused the shift from SVO [Subject-Verb-Object] word order to VSO [Verb-Subject-Object] word order and in the Germanic area they introduced a lot of super-structural [added on, additional?] words. He proves it again by showing that many words having to do with the sea, or military activities can be traced to a Semitic origin. His etymology of the Solent [strait separating the Isle of Wight from the mainland of England] is convincing, but the rest is less convincing. He says these Semitidic or Atlantic people brought megalithic constructions.
Regards,
Orjan
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6. The Name Wales comes from the name Baal!
1600. 1. New Article:
Origin of the Name "Wales".
A New Appreciation
http://www.britam.org/WalesName.html
Extract:
The name "Wales" derives from Bile. The term at first was applied to that portion of the Welsh identified with Cymru and the Cymry.
Later the name was applied to Wales itself. The Anglo-Saxons identified the native British and Welsh as foreigners and assimilated the existing term to a similar sound ("Walas") in their own tongue. This term also had significance to the Anglo-Saxons in the English language of that time.
Such linguistic adoptions and adaptations and revised interpretations by outsiders of existing names are quite frequent.
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7. Semnones were Israelites!
1603. 1. New Articles:
(a) Israelite Tribes Amongst Germanic Linguistic Groups
Foreword and List of Contents:
http://www.britam.org/Germania.html
Extract:
In summation, our understanding is that on the whole those "Germanic" groups who left Germany were to some degree of Israeltie origin. Those who did not leave were of other stock.
The following series of articles is intended to discuss these issues from a historical perspective..
(b) Germania and Tacitus: Israelite Origins
http://www.britam.org/Germania2Tacitus.html
Extracts:
The various tribes of the Semnones also gathered themselves together once a year in a place where they believed their nation had its birth. They came to worship in this place where,
"God, the supreme Governor of the world, resides, and that all things else whatsoever are subject to him, and bound to obey him."
So too a cord was tied around the waist of whosoever entered the sacred precint. If they had a heart attack they would be pulled out by the cord as was the practice in the Holy Temple at Jerusalem.
We therefore see a combination of Israelite and Canaanite type customs amongst the Ancient Germanic Peoples.
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8. Rechabites Shall Return with Israel
1603. 2. Fulp van der Velden: The Rechabites Will Return with Israel
Dear Yair, Shalom!
About the Rechabites I like to mention a remark in the old translation of Bemidbar [Numbers] in Dutch (Staten Vertaling).
In a remark on chapter 24 vers 22 is written: a possible translation could be: "as long as Assur keeps you in prison".
So it seems me that the Kenites will become free with the great Aliyah of Juda and Efraim from the land of the North.
God bless you and your work,
Greetings,
Fulp van der Velden
Foundation Aliyah
The Netherlands
Brit-Am Commentary:
According to Tradition the Kenites spoken of here are the descendants of Jethro and his family who became an Israelite yet retained some degree of ethnic separation.
They included (as you also indicate) the Rechabites.
See:
Balak-2
Blessings to Israel. Proofs concerning the Lost Ten Tribes
Numbers 24:22
http://britam.org/numbers/7balak2.html
See also:
Brit-Am Now no. 1411
http://britam.org/now2/1411Now.html#Rechabites
#7. Rechabites: A New and Unexpected Source?
Jewish Traditions Placed the Lost Ten Tribes in the British Isles!!
Source (b) Lost Israelite Tribes Information
# There is mention of "isles" or "islands" where the Blessed Ones dwell #
# record of Jewish reflections on the legend of the lost tribes and the marvelous characteristics of the terrestrial paradise and its inhabitants, the Blessed Ones, the Rechabites. #
# The History of the Sons of Jonadab, the Son of Rechab, who are in the Midst of the Ocean, the Great Sea... #
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9. Various Celtic Traditions
1605. 2. Articles Updated, Some Information Added
Various Celtic Traditions
(14. Irish Mythology: Semiramus, Bartholomew, and Partholon.
http://www.britam.org/traditions14.html
(15. The Ladder of Jacob and the Stone of Scone
http://www.britam.org/traditions15.html
(16. Early Hebrew Practices of the Celtic Peoples.
http://www.britam.org/traditions16.html
(17. The Chronicles of Eri
http://www.britam.org/traditions17.html
(18. Morgan-Pelagius.
The Mosaic Faith as a Legitimate Alternative!
http://www.britam.org/traditions18.html
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10. 1613. 3. The Midrash on Unity Between Judah and Joseph
Midrash HaGadol
# There will not be complete peace in the world until the lion (symbol of Judah, Genesis 49:9) is allied with the bull (symbol of Joseph, Deuteronomy 33:17). It is good for Israel when Joseph and Judah are united. #
Source:
Midrash Hagadol (VaYigash), translated from a French Translation. The Hebrew original will be checked by us as soon as possible. Note that the Midrash HaGadol is NOT the same as Midrash Rabah.
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11. Gomer as Israel in a Rabbinical Source
1614. 1. New Article:
More Rabbinical Affirmation of Brit-Am Findings.
The Rabbi Said: GOMER is a Name of Israelites!
http://www.britam.org/GOMER2.html
Extracts:
# Joseph made the Israelites promise to take the bones of his body with them when they returned to the Land of Canaan. In Hebrew this connotes retaining something of the essence of Joseph. Jacob gave life and vitality even when in Egypt. The qualities of Jacob and Joseph where to be needed by the Israelites in their Places of Exile. The Israelites were to carry out the tasks required of them. They were to be known as GOMER and as Gomerites [i.e. Cimmerians]. They were to fulfill their destiny.# - Commentary to Genesis 47:28.
....In the above passage the Rabbi emphasizes that the Israelites as associated with Joseph were to be known as Gomer and Gomerites.
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12. Winston Churchill: Germany as the Anakim (Giants) ?
1623. 1. Winston Churchill, the Threat from Germany (1911), and a Biblical Message.
In July, 1911, the Germans sent a gunboat, the "Panther", to Agadir a port in Morocco considered the sphere of France.
The Moroccans were in rebellion and the German action was viewed as a move on their behalf and against both France and Britain who together dominated the Mediterranean Sea. The Germans backed down on Agadir but continued their arms race and naval armament against the British Empire. It seemed obvious that War was almost inevitable as indeed it broke out in 1914.
Wikipedia (Agadir Crisis) tells us:
# Daniel Yergin, in his book, The Prize[5] had argued that it was this incident that led Winston Churchill, then Britain's Home Secretary, to the conclusion that the Royal Navy must convert its power source from coal to oil in order to preserve its supremacy. Until then, the locally abundant coal was favoured over riskier overseas oil (which came mostly from Persia), but the speed and efficiency offered by oil convinced him that "Mastery itself was the prize of the venture". Subsequently, Churchill was asked by Prime Minister Asquith to become First Lord of the Admiralty, which he accepted. #
Churchill was awed by the task laid upon him.
# In "The World Crisis" he has described the end of this great day:
'That night when I went to bed I saw a large Bible lying on a table in my bedroom. My mind was dominated by the news I had received of the complete change in my station and of the task entrusted to me. I thought of the peril of Britain, peace-loving, unthinking, little prepared, of her power and virtue, and of her mission of good sense and fair play. I thought of mighty Germany, towering up in the
splendour of her Imperial State and delving down in her profound, cold, patient, ruthless calculations...I opened the book at random and in the 9th Chapter of Deuteronomy I read:
1 Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!
3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.
It seemed a message of reassurance. #
"The World Crisis" pp.130-131.
quoted in "Winston Churchill, An Intimate Portrait" by Violet Bonham Carter, 1965, p.190.