The Truth Concerning the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel
Ten Tribes Studies. Hebrew Awareness
16 March 2023; 22Adar, 5783.
Contents:
1. Query on Lemba (South Africa) and other claimants to be descended from Israel. 7 Israelite- Ephraimite Identification Markers.
2. New Article.
Destined Greatness. The US was made to fulfill the Promises!
3. New Month of Nissan Coming up. Pesach - Passover. Tribe of Yehudah.
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1. Query on Lemba (South Africa) and other claimants to be descended from Israel. 7 Israelite- Ephraimite Identification Markers.
From Sylvia Halpert.:
Shalom Yair,
I frequently hear that a new lost Israelite Tribe has been found. An example is this video where an Israeli rabbi says the lost tribes are returning and the Redemption is near.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7_-KrEcH-g
I know you have addressed this before, but I wonder if people need to hear it clarified again. I have heard of 25 Million Pashtun in Afghanistan, Manashe in India, 40 million Igbo in Nigeria, the Lemba in Zimbabwe, the Gogodola in Papua New Guinea and the others in Ethiopia and Sudan.
I personally think the truth of the Tribes in the Western Bible Nations is so great that it is not really considered as an option. So Israeli leadership tries to help underprivileged nations that may or may not even be Israelites...or may be Jewish converts. Your comments?
Thank you and God bless you,
Sylvia
Brit-Am Reply:
Jews were scattered all over the world. Usually they stayed together and kept Jewish faith. Sometimes they did not but intermarried with the natives and kept only a few of the commandments and traditions. They were also non-Jewish groups such as the Samaritans, Karaites, Nestorian Christians, etc, who kept some Jewish customs, and believed they were of Israelites descent, and in some cases may have pertly been so. These however are not the Lost Ten Tribes but rather offshoots of Judah or pagans who adopted some Jewish customs.
We looked at the video on the Lemba. The "Rabbi" claimed genetic evidence so we looked at articles on the subject.
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1914832/pdf/ajhg00024-0161.pdf
The Lema speak a Bantu-Language as found in southern Africa.
DNA studies indicate about 50% Negroid ancestry and maybe 40% European, Indian, or Semitic.
It is claimed some of their food laws are similar to Jewish ones.Their traditions raise the possibility that a small portion of their priestly caste descend from a group of Jewish traders from Yemen who married Gentile women.
Regarding the other claimants we have various articles on our web-sites.
Afghanistan
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/quora/tentribes/afghan.html
Ephraimite Criteria
How do we know whether or not a nation is of Israelite origin to a Significant degree?
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/biblical-proof/criteria.html
The Criteria are:
1. Blessings: Economic and Physical Blessings as promised to Israel in Scripture.
2. Indications of Scripture.
3. Groundwork: Historical, Archaeological, and Related Proofs showing paths of migration.
4. Judah: Affinity with the Jews.
5. Originality: Innovation and Intellect.
6. Bravery, Military Prowess.
7. Empathy: The Doing of Social Justice.
8. Israelite Self-Identification. Important groups and individuals who in some way or other identified themselves as Israelites whether physically or ideologically, e.g. the Founders of the USA, the Puritans of England, certain Mythologies, etc.
9. Family Connection. One group identified is linked to another so that points applying to one are pertinent to the other.
10. Tribal Affiliation. Additional Proofs showing not only Israelite origins in general but also that of specific Tribes within Israel.
Brit-Am ("Ephraimite") Criteria
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/biblical-proof/criteria.html
The 10 Criteria listed have now been reduced to Seven!
Criteria Defined! The Seven Wondrous Yardsticks of Israel
https://hebrewnations.com/hebrewn/7wonders.html
The Present 7 Criteria are:
1. Blessings: Economic and Physical Blessings as promised to Israel in Scripture.
2. Other Indications of Scripture in addition to the Blessings.
3. Groundwork: Historical, Archaeological, and Related Proofs showing paths of migration.
4. Judah: Affinity with the Jews.
5. Civilized and Civilizing.
6. Family Connection.
7. Tribal Affiliation.
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2. New Article.
Destined Greatness. The US was made to fulfill the Promises!
Destined Greatness.
The US was made to fulfill the Promises!
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/biblical-proof/blessings/action/greatness.html
Extracts:
Rough notes taken from:
How Geography Made The US Ridiculously OP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BubAF7KSs64
The US is the most powerful Empire that has ever existed in human history.
No other Empire has ever been so incredibly capable of enforcing its will across the rest of the planet.
Economically the USA has continuously remained the world's largest economy since the 1890s.
The only country that has ended every decade with a larger economy that it started with for the past 150 years.
The US dollar is the primary reserve currency for most of the world's nations.
USA has ca. 5% or world's population but ca. 30% of its wealth.
US produces 20% of all global manufacturing.
Unprecedented military strength.
US alone accounts 40% of all world military spending.
US Navy 50% of all naval fleets in the world.
US possess es more than 750 overseas bases. This enables America to face any threat anywhere in the world in less that 48 hours.
A major source of US might: Geography and Geology of America.
Especially important is the Mississippi River and the basin around it.
Longest navigable river in the world.
Best navigational possibilities along all the US coast than anywhere in the world
The land where the United States is placed in is the most suitable location in the entire world for civilization to develop into a colossally capable maritime empire.
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3. New Month of Nissan Coming up. Pesach - Passover. Tribe of Yehudah.
March 22 at sundown and th following day, of March 24, 2023, marks the Newonth Day of Nissan, 5783.
This is the month of Yehudah according to mainstream opinion (HaGra and Arizal). One opinion (Rabad) attributes it to Reuben.
On the 15 th of Nissan is the Feast of Pesach (Passover).
Nissan is the beginning of Spring. It is the first month of the year for numbering the months though not the years. It was the first regnal month of the Kings of Israel, i.e. the number of years of a king's reign would be counted from one Nissan to another regardless of which month he first began ruling in. Nissan is considered a time of renewal, of new opportunity.
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Jacob (aka Israel) Kept the Law of Tithing: Jacob linked his tithing to a Return to the House of his Father. We can do the same.
Genesis (NIV) 28:
18 Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had placed under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it.
19 He called that place Bethel, though the city used to be called Luz.
20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying, 'If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear
21 so that I return safely to my father's household, then the LORD will be my God
22 and this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God's House, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth.'
Malachi 3:
10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse,
That there may be food in My house,
And try Me now in this,
Says the LORD of hosts,
'If I will not open for you the windows of heaven
And pour out for you such blessing
That there will not be room enough to receive it.
Proverbs 3:
9 Honor the LORD with your wealth
and with the first of all your produce,
10 so your barns will be filled with abundance,
and your vats will burst open with new wine.
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