Extracts from Selected Articles from Previous Brit-Am Now Postings
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1. Answer to Question on Esoteric Literature and Ten Tribes Sources
2. Answers to Questions About Adoption and Tribal Affiliation; Dutch People in Canada
3. Question About the Philistines and Crete
4. The non-Jewish Status of the Ten Tribes in Rabbinical Law.
5. Germany and the Amorites?
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1. Answer to Question on Esoteric Literature and Ten Tribes Sources
http://www.britam.org/now2/1546Now.html
#7. Answer to Question on Esoteric Literature and Ten Tribes Sources
See our articles:
Aed and the Lost Tribes in Britain
The Lost Ten Tribes in Celtic and Arabic Lore
http://www.britam.org/aed.html
Brit-Am Now no. 1411
http://britam.org/now2/1411Now.html#Rechabites
#7. Rechabites: A New and Unexpected Source?
Extract:
Jewish Traditions Placed the Lost Ten Tribes in the British Isles!!
The above article describes how:
The Rechabites are associated with the Ten Lost Tribes and assumed to be located in the same areas as they are.
In Christian-Jewish sources derived from Jewish originals the Rechabites were described as located in the "Islands of the Blessed Ones" (Ireland and Britain) which were in "the Ocean, the Great Sea" meaning the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean.
Syriac MS B "The History of the Sons of Jonadab, the Son of Rechab, who are in the Midst of the Ocean, the Great Sea, When God Showed Them to Zosimus, the Virtuous Hermit"
Jewish Folklore linked the Rechabites with the Lost Ten Tribes. The Rechabites are praised by the Almighty in the Bible.
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2. Answers to Questions About Adoption and Tribal Affiliation; Dutch People in Canada
Brit-Am Now no. 1547
http://www.britam.org/now2/1547Now.html
#2. Answers to Questions About Adoption and Tribal Affiliation; Dutch People in Canada
Extract:
We also have the spiritual-mystical side. It may be that one has a family of souls parallel to biological family. Most of the time the two families will more or less reflect each other but sometimes they will not. Divine Providence may bring about adoptions etc in order to reconcile the family of souls with the family
in physical reality. This is not our field and we are speculating. It is known however that people who group together often have something in common far beyond that which the laws of statistical chance would require. This is most obvious with married couples but it also applies with other familial associations.
Non-Israelites who identify with Israelites will be accepted as Israelites.
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3. Question About the Philistines and Crete
Brit-Am Now no. 1551
http://www.britam.org/now2/1551Now.html
#5. Question About the Philistines and Crete
Extract:
The word translated in Ezekiel 25:16 as "Cherethites" in Modern Hebrew is "Craetim" pronounced in Biblical Times as "Craythim" and means "People of Crete" i.e. the expression "Cretan" (from Crete) could be used interchangeably with Philistine.
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4. The non-Jewish Status of the Ten Tribes in Rabbinical Law.
Brit-Am Now no. 1553
http://www.britam.org/now2/1553Now.html
#6. The non-Jewish Status of the Ten Tribes in Rabbinical Law.
Extracts:
The Commentary "Keren Orah" (R. Yitzchak of Karlin, 1780s) sums up the case quite succinctly:
# From their understanding of Scripture (Hosea 5:7 ) the Sages declared the Ten Tribes to have the same status as Gentiles for all intents and purposes. They made this decision through the authority of the Prophets and the Divine Inspiration they [i.e. the Sages] had...all others [i.e. Jews] who were assimilated amongst the Gentiles are assumed to have the same status [as the Ten Tribes, i.e. as Gentiles, but being destined to return. ]#
See also:
The Two House Doctrine and Ephraimites
http://britam.org/TwoHouse.html
Extract:
In the Last days the Lost Ten Tribes will return and re-unite with Judah (Ezekiel 37). They will return as a result of Judah gong out to them and bringing them back (Jeremiah 3:18 31:8). They will return as a body. The return of the Lost Ten Tribes will include the occupation of Syria, Jordan (Micah 7:14) and Lebanon (Zechariah 10:10). This will precede the coming back to the Land of Ephraim which nevertheless will take place (Jeremiah 31:5). Ephraim is in fact called upon to return to his cities (Jeremiah 31:19-20). This however can only be done with the agreement of Judah and in coordination with Judah. Judah needs the return of the Lost Ten Tribes (Ezekiel 37:19-28). Not all the Lost Ten Tribes will necessarily return physically to the Greater Land of Israel but rather representative portions (Jeremiah 3:14). The Holiness of the land of Israel will spread to all the world. The other peoples who come to acknowledge the Almighty will do so through the God of Israel and the Almighty will be recognized as such (Isaiah 45:14). Judah and Joseph are the chosen people of God (Psalms 60:9). Judah will lead the way and prepare the path for the others (Hosea 6:11). If at present individuals wish to come and live in the Land of Israel they do so as guests of Judah who is going before the other tribes.
...Just as one can open up an encyclopedia and read about geographical and scientific discoveries that are acknowledged to be factual and true and that every rational person would agree with so would we want that the truths of Brit-Am be related to.
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5. Germany and the Amorites?
Brit-Am Now no. 1566
http://www.britam.org/now2/1566Now.html
#3. Germany and the Amorites?
Extracts:
Lotte writes, in _Wise One Of The Mountain_,
# We may note furthermore, a special set of laws, extant in two tenth-century manuscripts... The code itself does not name the tribe... but directs itself to the 'Franks who live in the country of Amor, who appear as neighbors of the Frisians and the Saxons. ....
Brit-Am Comment:
Note the expression "Franks who live in the country of Amor". This is similar to the term "Land of Amor" and "Land of the Amorites" find in the Bible and Middle East Literature. The Amorites were a leading Canaanite nation. Other sources indicate the presence of Canaanites in Germany.