Where Should we go? Part Two
Continued from: Britam & Ephraim 1
Contents:
1. Interim Conclusion: Increase Biblical Awareness
2. Comments Received
3. Some Midrashim on Unification
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1. Interim Conclusion: Increase Biblical Awareness
So far, our impression is that Brit-Am should continue as it has BEEN but increase the Biblical Awareness aspect
while avoiding doctrinal matters as much as possible.
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2. Comments Received
Since our first instalment, Here are comments we received.
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Charlotte Mecklenburg, "Brit-Am is where it has always been!"
Re: Brit-Am Now no. 2999
https://hebrewnations.com/features/17/2999.html
#3. New Article. Brit-Am and Ephraim
Is this a Turning Point? The Situation at Present. Where Should we go? Part One
https://hebrewnations.com/ef/brit-am-and-ephraim.html
Regarding the discussion article on "where are we?" It sounds like Brit-Am is where it has always been. I found my identity and moved on. I think there are many more looking for the next step. I still send Brit-Am articles to those who might be interested. There are only so many people that I can inform. However, anyone who gets info will ask, what do I do about this information. If they can do nothing more than inform someone else and they run out of people to tell, then they are at a point of not knowing what is the point of all of this.
Maybe Brit-Am is waiting for some star to arise who will take these people like this and give them something new to do in order to move on.
Those are some of my thoughts for now.
Charlotte Mecklenburg
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Comment by AR
This is a very interesting feedback (by Charlotte) that I saw.
They are definitely looking for someone to show them the way forward!
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Pat Robbins: Testimony
I first met you by phone call from the US to Israel 25 years ago, after reading THE TRIBES. You have been faithful and true to the calling of GOD upon your life through all these years, and I appreciate your research books more than I can express. I see the prophecies of the first half of Ezekiel 37 happening before our eyes, as the descendants of the Lost Tribes of the Northern Kingdom of Israel are awakening to their identity (the "dry bones arising"), and returning to the only GOD of their Fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. ........There are many voices coming forth in this TIME, but yours has remained steady and sure, and I believe your research must be a standard for us as we awaken and RETURN to our Father. Thank you, Yair.
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3. Some Midrashim on Unification
'Behold thou art fair, my love, yea pleasant, also our bed is green' (Song of Solomon 1;16).
Israel says: Behold thou art fair, my love When you will take retribution from the worshippers of idols. Yea pleasant when you pay the reward of those who fear you. Also our bed: These are the Ten Tribes. [In Hebrew bed is 'eres' while ten is 'eser' and uses the same letters, and 'our bed' (erseynu) sounds like 'our ten' (esereynu).] They are those who were exiled beyond the Sambation River. The exiles of Judah and Benyamin [i.e. the present-day 'Jews'] are destined to go unto them and bring them back in order to merit with them the Messianic Era and life in the World-To-Come. This is as it says, "In those days the house of Judah shall go unto the house of Israel and they shall come together out of the land of the north unto the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers" (Jeremiah 3:18).
-Yalkut Shimeoni, Song of Solomon 905.
# By way of nature, if a person takes a bunch of reeds and tries to brake it in two at one go, he cannot do it. If the reeds are separated one by one even a child can break them. We thus find that Israel and Judah will not be redeemed until they be united in one confederation, as it says,
[Jeremiah 3:18] IN THOSE DAYS THE HOUSE OF JUDAH SHALL WALK WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, AND THEY SHALL COME TOGETHER OUT OF THE LAND OF THE NORTH TO THE LAND THAT I HAVE GIVEN FOR AN INHERITANCE UNTO YOUR FATHERS.
When they are united they will be able to receive the presence of God almighty (Tanchuma, Nizavim, 4).
[Isaiah 11:13] THE ENVY ALSO OF EPHRAIM SHALL DEPART, AND THE ADVERSARIES OF JUDAH SHALL BE CUT OFF: EPHRAIM SHALL NOT ENVY JUDAH, AND JUDAH SHALL NOT VEX EPHRAIM.
# Concerning who did Isaiah pronounce this prophecy. He was speaking only concerning Judah and Joseph. Said Rabbi Shmuel son of Nachman in the name of Rabbi Yonathan, when Joseph and Judah were arguing (Genesis 41:18) the Holy Angels said to each other, Let us go down and see what is happening. Usually when a bull and a lion confront each other the bull retreats before the lion. In this case a bull (Joseph) and a lion (Judah) are arguing and there is a standoff. Jealousy will continue to abide between these two until the Messiah comes, as it says, THE ENVY ALSO OF EPHRAIM SHALL DEPART, AND THE ADVERSARIES OF JUDAH SHALL BE CUT OFF: EPHRAIM SHALL NOT ENVY JUDAH, AND JUDAH SHALL NOT VEX EPHRAIM[Isaiah 11:13], (Midrash Tanchuma, VaYigash, 4).
# In the past Jeroboam the son of Nebat who was from Ephraim hated King Rehoboam who was from Judah. There was a controversy between them. In the future there will be peace between these two anointed leaders. They will not be jealous of each other. Concerning them, it says, THE ENVY ALSO OF EPHRAIM SHALL DEPART, AND THE ADVERSARIES OF JUDAH SHALL BE CUT OFF: EPHRAIM SHALL NOT ENVY JUDAH, AND JUDAH SHALL NOT VEX EPHRAIM [Isaiah 11:13], (Midrash Brayshit Rabati page 147).
# Everywhere you find these two tribes (Judah and Joseph) hating each other and antagonistic to each other, etc. May we infer from this that even the future Anointed Captain of War (who will arise from Joseph) and the Anointed Messiah (who will arise from Judah) will (Heaven forbid) be jealous of each other? No. There will be no antagonism between them, as it says, THE ENVY ALSO OF EPHRAIM SHALL DEPART, AND THE ADVERSARIES OF JUDAH SHALL BE CUT OFF: EPHRAIM SHALL NOT ENVY JUDAH, AND JUDAH SHALL NOT VEX EPHRAIM [Isaiah 11:13], (Midrash Agadat Brayshit 63).
To Be Continued