Ten Tribes Studies. Ten Tribes Studies (3 November, 2013, Cheshvan 30, 5774)
Contents:
1. Ben Pellom: An Indication that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is Aware of Brit-Am/Hebrew Nations?
2. Yet Another Appeal from Hebrew Nations.
3. YouTube Clip. Hebrews in Scotland
4. New Hebrew Month of Cislev Begins.
5. Weekly Portions. Twin Who NOW Rule the World and the Future Twelve Tribes of Israel.
(a) The Portion for Last Week. Esau and Jacob. Twin Brothers who Rule the World.
(b) The Portion for This Week. The individual Ancestors of the Tribes of Israel Come into the World
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1. Ben Pellom: An Indication that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is Aware of Brit-Am/Hebrew Nations?
Ben Pellom posted on your timeline
See: Hebrew Nations on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hebrew-Nations/114512172040677
"Hi Yair,
You are doing a marvellous work. I am reading one of your books, The Tribes, and plan to purchase some of your other books. Benjamin Netanyahu once made the comment that, "the Americans and Israelis were the same people." That would indicate that he is aware that the Americans and British Commonwealth people, are indeed Israelites. We're you the one that made him aware of our kinship?
My best,
Ben Pellom
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2. Yet Another Appeal from Hebrew Nations.
Shalom,
This is yet another appeal.
We would not make it if we did not have to.
We have important information to reveal and publicize. This information is of value and does have some effect.
Some of this information is in effect unique to ourselves i.e. if we do not reveal it chances are that no-one else will.
It is also potentially to the benefit of others.
It is part of Biblical Revelation in our time.
We believe that whosoever helps us will be rewarded for doing so.
This is part of the Biblical Message.
Please order a publication and/or send an offering by PayPal or Snail Mail.
http://hebrewnations.com/contributions/offerings.html
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In Genesis 14:20 Abraham gave a tithe to Melchizedek.
Also Jacob promised to give a tithe to the Almighty:
Genesis 28:
20Then Jacob made a vow, saying, 'If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, 21so that I come again to my father's house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God, 22and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house; and of all that you give me I will surely give one-tenth to you.'
cf.
Malachi 3:
10Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in my house, and thus put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts; see if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you an overflowing blessing.
Proverbs 3:
9 Honour the Lord with your substance
and with the first fruits of all your produce;
10 then your barns will be filled with plenty,
and your vats will be bursting with wine.
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3. YouTube Clip.
Hebrews in Scotland
Duration 18.43 minutes
A significant portion of the inhabitants of Scotland were descended from Israelites. Amongst other signs of their ancestry they traditionally refused to eat pork.
See: Hebrew Scotland. Ancient Scots Only Ate Kosher Animals!
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4. New Hebrew Month of Cislev Begins.
This is the beginning of the Hebrew Month of Cislev. The sign of this month is the bow. According to the Ari and the Vilna Gaon (whose opinion is the most accepted) this month is that of the Tribe of Benjamin.
Towards the end of Cislev we have the Feast of Chanukah. Chanukah lasts for eight days and overlaps the beginning of the next month which is that of Tevet. Tevet is the month of Dan.
The heroes of Chanukah were the Maccabees from the Hasmonean family. The Hasmoneans were priestly Cohens from the Tribe of Levi. For some reason Chanukah and the Hasmoneans in Jewish thought have come to be considered prototypes of the Messiah son of Joseph.
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5. Weekly Portions. Twin Who NOW Rule the World and the Future Twelve Tribes of Israel.
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(a) The Portion for Last Week. Esau and Jacob. Twin Brothers who Rule the World.
"Toldot": Generations. Genesis chs.25 to 28
http://britam.org/Genesis/Gen25to28Toldot.html
This weeks section is from Genesis 25;19 to Genesis 28;9
It is referred to in Hebrew as Toldot meaning generations which is a key word in the first verse of the section.
s.1Extracts:
The Commentators explain that Isaac looked exactly like Abraham and in his behavior he acted like him. ...Scripture bears witness that in the eyes of the Almighty the "Only" real son of Abraham was Isaac.
"THY SON, THINE ONLY SON ISAAC" (Genesis 22:2).
[Genesis 25:23] AND THE LORD SAID UNTO HER, TWO NATIONS ARE IN THY WOMB, AND TWO MANNER OF PEOPLE SHALL BE SEPARATED FROM THY BOWELS; AND THE ONE PEOPLE SHALL BE STRONGER THAN THE OTHER PEOPLE; AND THE ELDER SHALL SERVE THE YOUNGER.
One would be stronger than the other; one would serve the other.
The two were Jacob and Esau. ..
The potential enemies of the Israelite nations are headed or heavily influenced by Edomite elements within them.
Israel (the Ten Tribes) and Judah (the Jews) also contain elements from Edom but these are subservient. When we do the will of God they serve us for the good of us all. When we rebel against God their influence tends to prevail against us and against everybody.
Another point is that Joseph is destined to be the counter to Esau but also in many ways parallels him.
THE ELDER SHALL SERVE THE YOUNGER: ... could ALSO be understood to say "Rav [the elder] ya-avod [shall be served by] Tsair [the younger]". ...
the Commentators said that both interpretations are correct and refer to different periods and different situations. If Israel merits and fulfills its destined tasks Israel will rule over others. If Israel does not do as it should it is liable to be ruled over. This is not necessarily morality but rather reality.
[Genesis 25:25] AND THE FIRST CAME OUT RED, ALL OVER LIKE AN HAIRY GARMENT; AND THEY CALLED HIS NAME ESAU.
He was reddish (Admoni) and so was King David (1-Samuel 16:12, 17;42). They both had the warrior quality of bloodshed but David directed this quality to the service of God.
... On the other hand Red is also the color of Britain and of British officialdom, e.g. red tape, red postboxes, red buses. The British Empire was traditionally represented on world maps by the color red.
[Genesis 25:26] AND AFTER THAT CAME HIS BROTHER OUT, AND HIS HAND TOOK HOLD ON ESAU'S HEEL; AND HIS NAME WAS CALLED JACOB: AND ISAAC WAS THREESCORE YEARS OLD WHEN SHE BARE THEM.
<<JACOB>>: Connected to the root "akeb" meaning heel also connoting overtaking and trickery. In American slang a "heel" is "a worthless or dishonest man". Jacob did have a trickery side to his character despite being described as a "plain man". England is referred to as "Perfidious Albion". "Perfidious" means "breaking trust, treacherous". The name Jacob is often shorted to Jack. The French are sometimes nicknamed "Jacques". The Scots are nicknamed "Jocks" (Jacks), and the Americans are called "Yanks" (a form of Jack) while the flag of Britain is known as the "Union Jack". Another connotation of the name Jacob is Humility and Consequence.
TOOK HOLD ON ESAU'S HEEL he was holding him up; preventing him from taking over.
[Genesis 27:39] AND ISAAC HIS FATHER ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, BEHOLD, THY DWELLING SHALL BE THE FATNESS OF THE EARTH, AND OF THE DEW OF HEAVEN FROM ABOVE;
Esau is here promised a fertile place to dwell in. The Talmud says that at one stage this was Magna Greacia or Southern Italy which was once very fertile. From there the sons of Esau moved on. Some Christian commentaries say the verse should be read: THY DWELLING SHALL BE [far away from] THE FATNESS OF THE EARTH: I do not know the source of this explanation and it does not fit the Hebrew as I understand it. It appears in some translations and is accepted by several Christian exegetes. It may be that the land southeast of Israel that is known as Edom is not regarded as being terribly fertile and the translators were trying to rationalize their translation and adapt the translated meaning according to their own understanding of reality as it was in the past. Against this it can be said that the Land of Edom was once much more fertile than it now is. Also Edom was scattered to several areas. A passage in an inscription from the ancient city of Ugarit on the north Syrian coast speaks of the well-watered land of Edom. There was a region belonging to Edom in the north. A region (usually ruled from Assyria) by the Habor River in Northern Syria was once known as "Idam Araz" meaning "Land of Edom" as noted by the researcher Michael Banyai.
Our impression is that Edomites were prominent in the hierarchies of Babylon, Ugarit, Assyria, and Phoenician Tyre.
BY THY SWORD SHALT THOU LIVE, AND SHALT SERVE THY BROTHER: Esau was a military man. The Talmud says that every war requires the presence of Esau in order to achieve victory.
<<THAT THOU SHALT BREAK HIS YOKE FROM OFF THY NECK>>:
Onkelos translates this to say that when Jacob sins then Esau is asserting his independence or even acquiring domination.
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(b) The Portion for This Week. The individual Ancestors of the Tribes of Israel Come into the World
"Vayetsei". AND HE WENT OUT . Genesis chapters 28:10 to 32
Extracts:
Midrash Braeshit Raba (VaYatsei): 68.1.4:
## Rabbi Yehudah Bar Sim began, GOD SETTS THE SOLITARY IN FAMILIES [Psalms 68:6].
A Matrona [ i.e. important woman of the Roman Aristocracy] asked Rabbi Yossi Bar Chalafta,
"How many days did God take to create the world?"
"Six days", he answered, "as it says, FOR IN SIX DAYS THE LORD MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH [Exodus 20:11]."
She replied: "And what has he been doing since?"
He answered: "HE sits and brings couples together, the daughter of so-and-so to so-and-so, the wife of so-and-so to so-and-so,
the money of so-and-so to so-and-so."
She said: "That is his practice? I can do the same."
He said: "If it is easy in your eyes it is as difficult for the Almighty as the Cleaving of the Red Sea".
Rabbi Chalafta left.
What did the Matrona do?
She took a thousand male slaves and a thousand serving-maids, lined them up in rows, and announced, So-and-so will marry so-and-so, and so-and-so will be married to so-and-so, etc.
She coupled them together in one night.
The next day they came to her. This one had his brains poking out of his head [injured], that one lacked an eye, another a broken leg.
She asked them: "What happened to you?"
The female said, "I do not want him".
The male said, "I do not want her".
She immediately sent and called Rabbi Yossi Bar Chalafta to her.
"There is not God like your God. HE is true and HIS Torah is pleasant and praiseworthy. You spoke well", she said.
"So I told you, if it is easy in your eyes [to bring couples together] it is as difficult for HIM as the Cleaving of the Red Sea".
The Midrash continues and relates that even though the Almighty brings couples together this is not necessarily what they would want.
[Genesis 28:12] AND HE DREAMED, AND BEHOLD A LADDER SET UP ON THE EARTH, AND THE TOP OF IT REACHED TO HEAVEN: AND BEHOLD THE ANGELS OF GOD ASCENDING AND DESCENDING ON IT.
A lot of explanations have been given as to what the angels going up and down represent. One explanation is that since each nation has its own representative (cf. Daniel, Zechariah) guardian angel then the angels represent the ups and downs of the kingdoms of the earth.
[Genesis 28:13] AND, BEHOLD, THE LORD STOOD ABOVE IT, AND SAID, I AM THE LORD GOD OF ABRAHAM THY FATHER, AND THE GOD OF ISAAC: THE LAND WHEREON THOU LIEST, TO THEE WILL I GIVE IT, AND TO THY SEED;
[Genesis 28:14] AND THY SEED SHALL BE AS THE DUST OF THE EARTH, AND THOU SHALT SPREAD ABROAD TO THE WEST, AND TO THE EAST, AND TO THE NORTH, AND TO THE SOUTH: AND IN THEE AND IN THY SEED SHALL ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH BE BLESSED.
All the families in the earth were to be blessed in the seed of Jacob. This was a repetition of the blessing to Abraham. At first Jacob took the blessing by deceiving Isaac, then Isaac consciously repeated and emphasized the blessings. Now God Himself is affirming the blessings that Jacob is to inherit.
[Genesis 28:15] AND, BEHOLD, I AM WITH THEE, AND WILL KEEP THEE IN ALL PLACES WHITHER THOU GOEST, AND WILL BRING THEE AGAIN INTO THIS LAND; FOR I WILL NOT LEAVE THEE, UNTIL I HAVE DONE THAT WHICH I HAVE SPOKEN TO THEE OF.
IN ALL PLACES WHITHER THOU GOEST: Midrash Tanchuma says that this meant the Exiles to Spain and Gaul and their neighbors. One section of The Celts before arriving in Britain and Ireland sojourned for several hundred years in Spain. In Lost Israelite Identity this was described in detail.
[Genesis 28:18] AND JACOB ROSE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING, AND TOOK THE STONE THAT HE HAD PUT FOR HIS PILLOWS, AND SET IT UP FOR A PILLAR, AND POURED OIL UPON THE TOP OF IT.
This stone according to tradition became the Stone of Scone upon which British monarchs are coronated. Whatever ones conclusions about this tradition the fact that it exists is significant.
[Genesis 28:19] AND HE CALLED THE NAME OF THAT PLACE BETHEL: BUT THE NAME OF THAT CITY WAS CALLED LUZ AT THE FIRST.
[Genesis 28:20] AND JACOB VOWED A VOW, SAYING, IF GOD WILL BE WITH ME, AND WILL KEEP ME IN THIS WAY THAT I GO, AND WILL GIVE ME BREAD TO EAT, AND RAIMENT TO PUT ON,
He worried about the basic necessities.
[Genesis 28:21] SO THAT I COME AGAIN TO MY FATHER'S HOUSE IN PEACE; THEN SHALL THE LORD BE MY GOD:
Jacob symbolizes Israel. The deeds of the forefathers symbolize the fate of their descendants. He is going out into Exile. He was praying for Gods protection and that God look after him and his family and bring him back:
THEN SHALL THE LORD BE MY GOD.
[Genesis 28:22] AND THIS STONE, WHICH I HAVE SET FOR A PILLAR, SHALL BE GOD'S HOUSE: AND OF ALL THAT THOU SHALT GIVE ME I WILL SURELY GIVE THE TENTH UNTO THEE.
He promised to give a tithe. If one gives tithes one receives a blessing.
[Genesis 30:20] AND LEAH SAID, GOD HATH ENDUED ME WITH A GOOD DOWRY; NOW WILL MY HUSBAND DWELL WITH ME, BECAUSE I HAVE BORN HIM SIX SONS: AND SHE CALLED HIS NAME ZEBULUN.
Zebulon became the Dutch. Ptolemy recorded the presence of the Sabalingoi (People of Zebulon) in the region bordering on Northern Holland.
[Genesis 30:25] AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN RACHEL HAD BORN JOSEPH, THAT JACOB SAID UNTO LABAN, SEND ME AWAY, THAT I MAY GO UNTO MINE OWN PLACE, AND TO MY COUNTRY.
Concerning the above verse the Sages asked:
`What difference did the birth of Joseph make?'
Rabbi Shmuel ben Nachmani replied,
~Jacob our forefather foresaw that the seed of Esau is not destined to be delivered into the hands of anyone, save Joseph, as it says (Obadiah 1;18),
~`And the house of Jacob shall be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame and the house of Esau for stubble~'.."
(Talmud, Baba Batra 123;b).
Regarding the Lost Ten Tribes and their identification with the West European peoples and equating especially the English speaking British descended section with the Tribes (Ephraim and Menasseh) of Joseph the following remark should be made:
Esau today is represented primarily by the forces of Rome, Germany, perhaps also Russia, the rest of Europe, and maybe Japan. If there is a war and these forces must be beaten, then there are not many nations in existence today who are capable of doing so. The so-called "Anglo-Saxon" British descended nations have however defeated Germany together with her allies in the past. They are still the only peoples today who would be capable of countering a revived European Empire or Russia or any other similar great power. This phenomenon in an indirect way may also be taken as an additional affirmation that the Anglo-Saxon nations are descended from the Tribes of Joseph.
[Genesis 31:48] AND LABAN SAID, THIS HEAP IS A WITNESS BETWEEN ME AND THEE THIS DAY. THEREFORE WAS THE NAME OF IT CALLED GALEED;
They set up a pile of stones otherwise known as a cairn. The forefathers used to set up cairns and dolmens to commemorate covenants and significant events. The Hebrew version of Jeremiah 31:12 according to the Commentators says that the Israelites in exile were commanded to set up a trail of dolmens and cairns leading from the Land of Israel to their places of exile. Such a trail exists connecting the Land of Israel to Western Europe. This is explained in detail in Ephraim chapter six. This is a very important point and is additional proof for the Brit-Am case.