Ten Tribes Studies (5 April, 2013, Nisan 25, 5773)
Contents:
1. New YouTube Clip. Asher the Fighting Tribe
2. When a Page does not work or we have made a mistake, Please Let us Know!
3. Answer to Question Concerning the Ashkenazic Jews, Khazars, and the Ten Tribes.
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1. New YouTube Clip. Asher the Fighting Tribe
Duration: 14 minutes
The Tribe of Asher through its fighting qualities was to become the cause of glory for all Israel. When the Hebrew original is correctly understood it says:
Deuteronomy 33: 29 [The Tribe of] Asher is yours, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the ALMIGHTY, The shield of your help And as for Asher, [his] sword [is the source of] your pride [uplifting]!
See:
Asher and the Sword
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2. When a Page does not work or we have made a mistake, Please Let us Know!
re Brit-Am Now no. 2038: Ten Tribes Studies
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3. Answer to Question Concerning the Ashkenazic Jews, Khazars, and the Ten Tribes.
Amnon Goldberg wrote:
What is your opinion of this from the "End of Days" blog?
http://yearsofawe.blogspot.co.il/2005/12/koreas-in-twilight-zone.html
How Russian Jewry is a big part of the Lost from the Land of Ashur is a blog unto itself. It has to do with many from this segment of Northern Kingdom remnant were absorbed by the Khazars. Khazar was one of the ten sons of Togarmah, the Turks. In the 8th century the entire Khazar kingdom converted to Judaism because of the convincing arguments of Rav Yehudah Almangari as described by R. Yehudah HaLevi about 400 years later in the "Kuzari". For the Jews in that kingdom it was a massive rediscovery of their ancient faith 13 centuries after Senchariv destroyed the Northern Kingdom. In the 13th century the Khazar kingdom was destroyed by the expanding Russian Empire, causing the Jewish Khazars to travel north and meet up with a large population of Jews migrating east from Ashkenaz. Together they formed the bulk of what is now called Eastern European Ashkenazic Jewry. This would mean that a significant segment of Ashkenazic Jewry are descendents of the 9 1/2 Tribes Lost in the land of Ashur who recodiscovered who they actually were when they reconverted back to Judaism in the 8th century!
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Brit-Am Reply:
The extract you quoted from looks impressive but it is not really saying anything that is substantiated. The idea that the Lost Ten Tribes are amongst the Ashkenazic Jews exists. The Natziv may have thought along such lines. Nevertheless it does not accord with most of the sources cf. Nachmanides: Sefer Ha-Geulah; Maharal: Netzach Yisrael; etc. It is also very difficult from a Biblical Studies perspective and from a simple reading of history. It may be that here and there offshoots from the Ten Tribes did join themselves to Judah and that in some areas they were of significance. We do not think however that they were anywhere really predominant. Most of the Lost Ten Tribes remained that way, i.e. lost.
We have a book on the Khazars,
"The Khazars. Tribe 13" by Yair Davidiy.
This work contains much serious research but has of yet gone largely unappreciated.
The Khazars were indeed from both Judah and from the Ten Tribes. Many of them did become Jewish. Exactly what proportion of Jews actually descend from them however is problematic. A few isolated villages in Hungary and Romania had traditions that may, or may not, have been genuine. There are place-names in Poland that might indicate something or might not. Apart from that there seems to be no real unequivocal indications of Khazar ancestry.
At all events, it is quite clear that most of the Ten Tribes remained in Exile. They were either unconscious of their ancestry or only hazily aware of it.