Ten Tribes Studies. Hebrew Awareness
Contents:
1. Brit-Am Answer to Quora Question:
As a Jew, do you believe that the only people that can be saved are the Jews?
2. Brit-Am Answer to Quora Question:
How could a regular Jew learn how to slaughter animals in a kosher manner?
3. Annual Day of Tribal Re-unification.
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1. Brit-Am Answer to Quora Question:
As a Jew, do you believe that the only people that can be saved are the Jews?
https://www.quora.com/As-a-Jew-do-you-believe-that-the-only-people-that-can-be-saved-are-the-Jews/answer/Yair-Davidiy
Reply:
My impression is that these kind of assumptions are foreign to Judaism.
Judaism seems to concentrate on getting close to God, doing the wil of the Almighty.
In return the Almighty hopefully makes HIMSELF available.
Judaism is the way of life, the method, through which a Jew can achieve this.
It is made for Jews.
Others may do the same through the same or a similar method.
Salvation or receiving a reward is a secondary consideration and this too is valued more as a means to keep fulfilling the main one of doing HIS will.
Midrash Tanna DeVei Eliyahu: # "I call upon heaven and earth to witness that whether it be a man or a woman, a servant or a maidservant, the holy spirit will come to rest on each of them according to his or her deeds." Every human being, according to his deeds, can merit to attain a level at which the holy spirit rests upon him. # (Midrash Seder Eliyahu Rabah, 10, ca. 1000 CE).
On the other hand only the People of Israel have a direct collective linkage with God.
# Amos (KJV) 3:
2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. #
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2. Brit-Am Answer to Quora Question:
How could a regular Jew learn how to slaughter animals in a kosher manner?
https://www.quora.com/How-could-a-regular-Jew-learn-how-to-slaughter-animals-in-a-kosher-manner/answer/Yair-Davidiy
From what I understand one has to learn the laws and then undergo a kind of apprenticeship. Then you have to pass an examination. One of the difficult points is learning how to keep a knife sharp enough to pass ritual inspection. The sharper the knife the less pain experienced by the animal. You could probably find articles and video clips on this matter on the web.
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3. Annual Day of Tribal Re-unification.
Tu B'Av means 15th of AV, i.e. 15th day of the Month of AB. It is not a Holy Day but rather a Day Of festivity. Among other things this day has come to represent the future re-unification of the Tribes of Israel. This year it begins on Tuesday August 1, 2023, and continues to sundown the next day, August 2. 2023.
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Here are extracts from different articles concerning it.
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"The Greatest Festival of the Year"
https://www.jewishpress.com/addendum/sponsored-posts/what-does-tu-bav-have-to-do-with-fruit-trees/2023/07/30/
Tu B�Av the 15th of Av is one of the two greatest festivals of the year, yet they ordained no special observances or celebrations for it. Many years ago the daughters of Jerusalem would go dance in the vineyards on the 15th of Av, and whoever did not have a wife would go there to find himself a bride. The Talmud considers this the greatest festival of the year, with Yom Kippur a close second! As the 'full moon' of the month of Av, it is the festival of the future Redemption, marking the end of the tragedy that marred the first part of the month.
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Te Day on which Marriage with the tribe of Bnejamin was Allowed, and the Tribes were permitted to make Yearly Pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
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Following the case of the daughters of Zelophehad (see Numbers, chapter 36), daughters who inherited from their father when there were no sons were forbidden to marry someone from a different tribe, so that land would not pass from one tribe to another. Generations later, after the story of the "Concubine of Giv'ah" (see Judges, chapters 19-21), the Children of Israel swore not to allow their daughters to marry anyone from the tribe of Benjamin. This posed a threat of annihilation to the tribe of Benjamin.
Each of these prohibitions were lifted on Tu B'Av. The people realized that if they kept to their prohibition, one of the 12 tribes might totally disappear. As to the oath that had been sworn, they pointed out that it only affected the generation that had taken the oath, and not subsequent generations. The same was applied to the prohibition of heiresses marrying outside their own tribe: this rule was applied only to the generation that had conquered and divided up the land under Joshua, but not future generations. This was the first expression of the merging of all the tribes, and was a cause for rejoicing. In the Book of Judges it is referred to as "a festival to the Lord."
Over the generations, this day was described in Tractate Ta'anit as a day devoted to betrothals, so that new Jewish families would emerge.
After Jeroboam split off the kingdom of Israel with its ten tribes from the kingdom of Judea, he posted guards along all the roads leading to Jerusalem, to prevent his people from going up to the Holy City for the pilgrimage festivals, for he feared that such pilgrimages might undermine his authority. As a "substitute," he set up places of worship which were purely idolatrous, in Dan and Beth-el. Thus the division between the two kingdoms became a fait accompli and lasted for generations.
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Joshua and Caleb, from the tribes of Joseph and Judah prototypes for the Messiah from Joseph, and the Messiah from David (Judah),
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The last king of the kingdom of Israel, Hosea ben Elah, wished to heal the breach, and removed all the guards from the roads leading to Jerusalem, thus allowing his people to make the pilgrimage again. This act took place on Tu B'Av.
On the 9th of Av the tribes of Joseph and Judah were united: When the spies returned only Joshua and Caleb, from the tribes of Joseph and Judah respectively, remained steadfast in their desire to enter Israel. They serve as the prototypes for the Messiah from Joseph, and the Messiah from David (Judah), who usher in the Messianic Era.
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