Ten Tribes Studies. Hebrew Awareness
21 May 2023; 1 Sivan, 5783.
Contents:
1. New Article.
Locusts.
The Prophecy of Joel and the Superman-Type Grasshopper.
2. Answer to Quora Question.
I am 4% Ashkenazi DNA from my maternal line. My Jewish ancestry is up through my mother's mother's mother's mother. But my ancestors fled Germany and stopped practicing Judaism in America. I practice, but am I considered halachically Jewish?
3. Answer to Quora Question.
What happened to the ten tribes of Israel that were exiled by Assyria? Did they leave and go back home or just disappear?
4. Answer to Quora Question.
How has Judaism survived for so long without a founder or central authority?
5. What is your opinion on Israel giving back the West Bank and Gaza Strip to Palestinians?
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1. New Article.
Locusts.
The Prophecy of Joel and the Superman-Type Grasshopper.
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/bible/joel/locusts.html
Contents:
1. Locusts as Symbols in the Prophecy of Joel.
2. What are Locusts?
3. Quotations of Interest.
4. The Bible and Locusts.
5. Locusts as One of the Ten Plagues.
6. Joel Describes the Locusts as an Overwhelming Horde of Invading Alien Troops!
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2. Answer to Quora Question.
I am 4% Ashkenazi DNA from my maternal line. My Jewish ancestry is up through my mother's mother's mother's mother. But my ancestors fled Germany and stopped practicing Judaism in America. I practice, but am I considered halachically Jewish?
https://www.quora.com/I-am-4-Ashkenazi-DNA-from-my-maternal-line-My-Jewish-ancestry-is-up-through-my-mother-s-mother-s-mother-s-mother-But-my-ancestors-fled-Germany-and-stopped-practicing-Judaism-in-America-I-practice-but-am-I-considered/answer/Yair-Davidiy
Answer:
You would need to ask a qualified recognized Orthodox Rabbi.
You may or may not be legally Jewish BUT even if you are you may need to renew the Covenant by Conversion. Let me explain: If one of your female ancestors beyond the 2nd or 3rd generation changed their religion before you were born your de facto status may have become that of someone who is not Jewish. That is also the reason why the Lost Ten Tribes even if they can prove their ancestry would still be considered technically non-Jews. This is based on verses in the Bible and clarified in Talmud and Commentaries to Codes of Jewish Law. Even all that is not necessarily so straightforward.
Sources in English on this matter may be hard to come by. There is however an exception. Ben-Tsion Netanyahu (father of Benjamin) in an Appendix to his History of the Jews in Spain has an exhaustive and reliable historical analysis of the subject.
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3. Answer to Quora Question.
What happened to the ten tribes of Israel that were exiled by Assyria? Did they leave and go back home or just disappear?
https://www.quora.com/What-happened-to-the-ten-tribes-of-Israel-that-were-exiled-by-Assyria-Did-they-leave-and-go-back-home-or-just-disappear/answer/Yair-Davidiy
The Ten Tribes when they were exiled were already virtually pagans. According to tradition they had ceased to keep the rite of circumcision. In their places of exile they assimilated to the ways of the peoples around them but more or less remained together albeit in about three different areas.
A good portion of them federated with a non-Israelite group identified with Gomer. They moved to southern Russia and its neighborhood and then northward and to the west. Others were taken to the west via the Sea by Phoenicians and Philistine Minoans. They all converged in Western Europe and eventually gave rise to a good portion of the Western Peoples. That is where their descendants are to be found in our time as well as in areas that were colonized by them such as North America. This is what the Bible (as confirmed by Rabbinical and other sources) said would happen, and it dfid.
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4. Answer to Quora Question.
How has Judaism survived for so long without a founder or central authority?
https://hebrewisraelite.quora.com/https-www-quora-com-How-has-Judaism-survived-for-so-long-without-a-founder-or-central-authority-answer-Yair-Davidiy
JUDAISM HAS SURVIVED BECAUSE OF THE JEWISH RELIGION! The Bible set in practice a system of decision making, outline in Deuteronomy ch. 17, that works. This results in a basic unanimity of what the Law requires,
Generation after generation the same system existed and its determinations were preserved at first by word of mouth and later in writing. This is the system of Jewish jurisprudence in effect today. It is adhered to be all religious Jews all over the world without the need for any central authority to preside over it.
This is what Judaism is and there is none like it. It is the closest we can get in our limited frames to understanding the Will of God!
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5. What is your opinion on Israel giving back the West Bank and Gaza Strip to Palestinians?
https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-opinion-on-Israel-giving-back-the-West-Bank-and-Gaza-Strip-to-Palestinians/answer/Yair-Davidiy
Why does Egypt not return areas of the Nile Delta and the Sinai Peninsula promised to Israel? Why do Jordan and Syria not give us back the areas of Jordan and Syria? Turkey and Iraq also illegally occupy areas belong to the Hebrew Peoples. They need to be returned. Compensation for illegal possession should also be made. And apologies are in order. The day will come.
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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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