Ten Tribes Studies. Hebrew Awareness
11 July 2023; 22 Tammuz, 5783.
Contents:
1. Questions from Kitty:
(a) The Nile Rivber or a stream?
(b) MBJ or not MBJ?
2. What is Brit-Am?
Added to Brit-Am Pages.
3. New ZOOM Meeting Tuesday 2200 Israel Time. (EDT 1500 (3 pm).
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1. Questions from Kitty:
(a) The Nile Rivber or a stream?
(b) MBJ or not MBJ?
Yair, I'm re-reading your book, Biblical Truth, and want to question you about a few things therein.
1) On page 21 you reference the Nile River as being the westernmost boundary of the promised land. The Bible, instead, makes reference to 'the River of Egypt,' which is the current SW boundary of Israel, not the Nile.
2) On page 22 you state that the Lost Ten Tribes are not under the Law at present. While it is true that the LTT are not observant of, nor obedient to the Law, why do you say that they are not under the Law at present? Isn't there one law for all? Exodus 12:49
3) On pages 36 - 37 you say that in Jewish thought there will be two future 'Messiahs' and that Messiah Son of Joseph is associated with the Lost Ten Tribes while the Messiah Son of David comes from Judah. You make reference to Numbers 24:17 saying that Messiah Son of Joseph will rebuild the Temple. I'd like to believe that, but there's no such statement in Numbers 24. Where do you get this conclusion?
Thank you in advance for addressing my questions.
Kitty Corbett
Aiken, SC
Brit-Am Replies:
(a) The River of Egypt.
Genesis (NKJV) 15:
18 On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying:
To your descendants I have given this land, from the River of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates. 19 the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
The River of Egypt according to Rashi and other major Commentators is the Nile River. Some say it means Wadi El Arish or some other stream.
Modern day experts especially tend in this direction. These people can be be quite useful but they tend to take a minimalist attitude.
If the options are between the major River of Egypt and a little stream they will take the little stream.
We should note that there may be a difference between "River of Egypt" (Nahor Mitraim= river in Hebrew) as in Genesis 15:18 and "Stream (or "Brook") of Egypt" (Hebrew "Nachal Mitsraim") as in Numbers 34:5.
See the following extract from the researcher H. Ber-Deroma which quite convincingly shows that the Nile is the River is intended, at least in Genesis 15:18.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/peq.1960.92.1.37?journalCode=ypeq20#:~
# In the seven references (or so) to the "River of Egypt" ... that river is described as the south-western frontier of the Land of Israel.
It follows that the "river of Egypt" by its very nature separated the territory of Israel from that of Egypt.... #
(b) Messiah son of Joseph.
Biblical Truth pp. 36-37, we said:
#... one Midrash (Pesikta Zutratha Lekach Tov, Balak, Numbers 24;17) says that the Messiah Son of Joseph will rebuild the Temple. The Messiah Son of Joseph is the future leader of the Lost Ten Tribes just prior to their reunification with Judah. He will assist Judah to rebuild and settle the Land. Other sources repeat this theme and also say that the Return of the Lost Ten Tribes is connected to the rebuilding of the Temple.. #
We did not mean that in Numbers 24:17 it says that MBJ will rebuild the Temple but rather that it says so in Pesikta Zutratha... in its commentary to Numbers 24:17.
We have since found additional sources that say the same thing and more adding depth to it.
In general concerning MBJ we refer to rabbinically-accepted sources that say what we quote them as saying.
This is not something that one has to accept.
A Religious Jew has to believe in God and in the Bible. He should also believe in the Coming of the Messiah son of David.
MBJ is something extra based on hints in Scripture and Tradition. One does not have to believe in MBJ if they wish not to.
Brit-Am tends to believe in MBJ. It fits indications of the Bible, and helps round out our overall understanding. The Rabbis who speak of MBJ are the most respected of them all and no-one seems to expressly deny it.
Biblical passages indicate that in the End Times there will be more than one savior.
cf.
Obadiah 1:21 Then saviors shall come to Mount Zion.
Zechariah 1:
20 Then the Lord showed me four craftsmen. 21 And I said, 'What are these coming to do?'
So he said, 'These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one could lift up his head; but [g]the craftsmen are coming to terrify them, to cast out the horns of the nations that lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.'
cf. Talmud, Sukkah 52b: The Four Craftsmen, "And the LORD showed me four craftsmen (Zechariah 2.3). ... Rav Hana bar Bizna said in the name of Rav Simeon Hasida: 'Messiah ben David, Messiah ben Joseph, Elijah, and the Righteous Priest.'
The Bible also speaks of the Lost Ten Tribes returning and waging wars against Edom and other Gentile Nations.
It stands to reason that they will have a leader.
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2. What is Brit-Am?
Added to Brit-Am Pages.
https://hebrewnations.com/about-us/pages.html
The expression "Brit-Am" appears in the Hebrew Bible twice.
Isaiah (NKJV) 42:
6 I, THE LORD, HAVE CALLED YOU IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND WILL HOLD YOUR HAND; I WILL KEEP YOU AND GIVE YOU AS A COVENANT TO THE PEOPLE (Hebrew: "BRIT-AM"), AS A LIGHT TO THE GENTILES.
Isaiah (NKJV) 49:
8 THUS SAYS THE LORD: IN AN ACCEPTABLE TIME I HAVE HEARD YOU, AND IN THE DAY OF SALVATION I HAVE HELPED YOU; I WILL PRESERVE YOU AND GIVE YOU AS A COVENANT TO THE PEOPLE (Hebrew: "BRIT-AM"), TO RESTORE THE EARTH, TO CAUSE THEM TO INHERIT THE DESOLATE HERITAGES.
In both cases the term 'Covenant of the People' (Hebrew: "Brit-Am") refers to the Lost Ten Tribes in their places of Exile. "Brit-Am" may also be viewed as referring to Britain and America. These two nations represent the nations of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh. They were to become the main protagonists through which the Prophecies about Israel would come to fruition.
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3. New ZOOM Meeting Tuesday 2200 Israel Time. (EDT 1500 (3 pm).
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