Ten Tribes Studies
(20 January, 2019, 14 Shevat, 5778)
Contents:
1. New Article. Progress Report 2019. Brit-Am in Numbers
2. Tomorrow. "TOO Be-Shevat," New Year's Day for Planting Trees
3. Charlotte Mecklenburg: "The USA and the Wall of "Joseph"
4. New Illustrations by "Contributor"
Is the USA a Rebellious House?
Was Zechariah 6 intended for our time?
5. New Article. Afro-Americans
Population: Replies to Edward Jones no.1
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1. New Article.
Progress Report 2019
Brit-Am in Numbers
http://hebrewnations.com/hebrewn/progress2019.html
Contents:
1. Web-Sites
2. E-Mail List
3. YouTube Video Clips
4. Facebook Sites
5. Quora
6. Overall
7. Need for More Support
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2. Tomorrow. "TOO Be-Shevat," New Year's Day for Planting Trees
Tu BiShvat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_BiShvat
Extracts:
Tu BiShvat (Hebrew:Â ) is a Jewish holiday occurring on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat (in the current year, Tu BiShvat begins at sunset on January 20 and ends in the evening of January 21). It is also called "Rosh HaShanah La'Ilanot" (Hebrew:Â ), literally "New Year of the Trees." In contemporary Israel, secular Jews celebrate the day as an ecological awareness day, and trees are planted in celebration.
The name Tu BiShvat is derived from the Hebrew date of the holiday, which occurs on the fifteenth day of Shevat. "Tu" stands for the Hebrew letters Tet and Vav, which together have the numerical value of 9 and 6, adding up to 15.[2] Tu BiShvat is a relatively recent name; the date was originally called " amisha Asar BiShvat" ( - ), which means "Fifteenth of Shevat".[3]
Talmud
Tu BiShvat appears in the Mishnah in Tractate Rosh Hashanah as one of the four new years in the Jewish calendar. The discussion of when the New Year occurs was a source of debate among the rabbis: "And there are four new year dates: The first of Nisan - new year for kings and festivals, The first of Elul - new year for animal tithes. Rabbi Elazar and Rabbi Shimon say: " The first of Tishrei" new year for calculation of the calendar, sabbatical years and jubilees, for planting and sowing; The first of Shevat, according to the school of Shamai; The school of Hillel says: the fifteenth of Shevat" (Rosh Hashana:2a).[4]
The rabbis of the Talmud ruled in favor of Hillel on this issue. Thus the 15th of Shevat became the date for calculating the beginning of the agricultural cycle for the purpose of biblical tithes.
Kabbalistic and Hassidic customs
In the Middle Ages, Tu BiShvat was celebrated with a feast of fruits in keeping with the Mishnaic description of the holiday as a "New Year." In the 16th century, the kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Luria of Safed and his disciples instituted a Tu BiShvat seder in which the fruits and trees of the Land of Israel were given symbolic meaning. The main idea was that eating ten specific fruits and drinking four cups of wine in a specific order while reciting the appropriate blessings would bring human beings, and the world, closer to spiritual perfection.
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3. Charlotte Mecklenburg: "The USA and the Wall of "Joseph"
Dear Yair,
I have not written for a long time. However, I read the article
submitted by someone about the Wall. I was unable to discern what the
author was trying to tell us with all those scriptures about the wall.
There are many scriptures that point to Joseph in these later times and
how what we see happening relate to what G-d is doing through Joseph. I
believe there is enough of Ephraim in the US even though Manasshe may
predominate and certainly since it is a melting pot of many peoples all
of the tribes are represented in this G-d ordained country. However, the
following scripture shows what Joseph will be like in the latter days.
'Joseph is a wild ass, A wild ass by a spring', Wild colts on a
hillside. Archers bitterly assailed him; THEY SHOT AT HIM AND HARRIED
HIM. YET HIS BOW STAYED TAUT, AND HIS ARMS WERE MADE FIRM BY THE HANDS
OF THE MIGHTY ONE OF JACOB, There, the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,
The God of your father who helps you, And Shaddai who blesses you With
blessings of heaven above, Blessings of the deep that couches below,
Blessings of the breast and womb. The blessings of your father Surpass
the blessings of my ancestors, To the utmost bounds of the eternal
hills. May they rest on the head of Joseph, On the brow of the elect of
his brothers..
(Genesis 49:22-26 JPS)
Certainly, all the blessings mention in the above scripture is totally
fulfilled by the land of the USA. My take on the wall is this. If the
people would have given Trump the House and the Senate again it would be
a sign that they had repentant hearts to establish the rule of law in
the land and accept the constitution that was written in line with the
laws of G-d and in which it states that the people have the freedoms of
G-d which they so much sought when they acknowledge they are ruled under
G-d. As it is we have no idea what is going to happen. G-d knows and he
will do what he wants with the situation and the people.
An alternative translation for the first verse in the above verses reads
as follows: 'Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine near a
spring, whose branches climb over a wall.'
(Genesis 49:22 NIV)
This wall that Joseph went over is the wall around the land of Israel.
But he found a spring in his wilderness and that is the G-d of all
mankind. Out in this other place he is shot at and badgered. He is not
liked for all the same reasons Jews everywhere are hated in the world.
But Jacob gives hope in the verses that follow.
All the other countries that you Yair, mention are tribes of Joseph are
the vines that shot out from the vine of Joseph that went over the wall.
Many of them have been bolstered because of the USA. pouring help of
monetary and other goods into these countries. They have not always
appreciated it but they don't want it to stop either.
The Torah speaks of boundaries and as some of the scriptures indicated a
wall around Jerusalem even if it is a spiritual wall that protects the
people. Walls on this earth are ordained by G-d so that we know how to
respect other people and their areas of responsibility.
Submitted by Charlotte Mecklenburg
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4. New Illustrations by "Contributor"
http://www.britam.org/Contributor/USASalem.html
Is the USA a Rebellious House?
Was Zechariah 6 intended for our time?
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5. New Article. Afro-Americans
Population: Replies to Edward Jones no.1
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/polemics/jones1.html
Polemics.
Contents:
1. Introduction.
2. Argument by Edward Jones
3. Contents of Brit-Am ReplyÂ
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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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