Ten Tribes Studies. Hebrew Awareness
6 February 2024, 26 Shevat 5784
Contents:
1. New Article.
Each Tribe.
Every One in a Nutshell
2. Reply to AISH HATORAH article about the Lost Ten Tribes.
3. Christian Zionism: What Happened to the Church and the Jews? - Rabbi Tovia Singer
4. Identifications from Scripture and Rabbinical Commentary.
5. New Month of Adar-A. Both Naphtali and Manasseh?
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1. New Article.
Each Tribe.
Every One in a Nutshell
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/tribelist/each.html
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2. Reply to AISH HATORAH article about the Lost Ten Tribes.
Re
The Search for the Ten Lost Tribes
https://aish.com/the-search-for-the-ten-lost-tribes/?src=ac
What happened to the ten tribes and where are they today?
by Avi Abrams
February 4, 2024
(a) Short Reply actually posted.
Yair Davidiy replied:
# The Lost Ten Tribes are to be found among Western peoples especially the British and related ethnicities. The exiled Israelites were to become one of the most numerous and powerful groups of people on earth (Genesis 15:5, 22:17, 24:60, 32:12, Numbers 23:10, Deuteronomy 1:11, Isaiah 10:22, 24:16, 26:15, Hosea 1:10); etc,. Rashi (on Obadiah 1:18) said the Lost Ten Tribes were in France. Ramban (Nachmanides) said they were in Tsrefat meaning, he said, at the far north, The Hatam Sofer said that the areas of Britain and Western Europe were to belong to Israel in the End Times. Numerous other proofs exist. #
This short answer was about all the space we were allowed.
(b) Longer Reply as originally intended:
In the article you identified
The Pashtun tribes of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The Jewish traits you attributed tot hem may not be valid but rather the equivalent of unverified Urban Legends.
Nevertheless it may be that members of the Lost Ten Tribes were once in their area. They have the habit of attributing themselves ancestry from all and sundry including the Tribe of Mohammed.
They also may have absorbed into their federations groups of non-Jews who had once converted to Judaism and then
become Muslimized as well as Jews from Persia who were forced to become Muslim.
The groups in India are all recent claimants who discovered their Hebrew antecedents mostly in our lifetimes
Regarding the Ethiopians ("Beta Yisrael) they are a separate category. They never really claimed to be descended from any of the Ten Tribes.
One authority (the Radbaz 1479-1573 ) voiced his opinion that they descended from the Tribe of Dan but they themselves never claimed that.
They rather said they were descendants of converts. They still say that.
They are part of Judah or at least under the responsibility of Judah.
The Lost Ten Tribes are to be found among Western peoples especially the British and related ethnicities.
This is proven by the Tanach and by Rabbinical Commentaries.
The exiled Israelites were to become one of the most numerous groups of people on earth (Genesis 15:5, 22:17, 24:60, 32:12, Numbers 23:10, Deuteronomy 1:11, Isaiah 10:22, 24:16, 26:15, Hosea 1:10); to be the most powerful (Genesis 27:9, Numbers 24:7, Michah 5:7-9), to be the richest, to possess the most mineral and agricultural resources (Genesis 27:28, 49:25, Deuteronomy 33:13-16, Hosea 2:8), to live in the best places (Isaiah 41:8-9), to be in islands (Isaiah 42:4, 49:1-6 Jeremiah 31:9-10), peninsulas (Jeremiah 31:8), and at continental extremities (Deuteronomy 33:13, Isaiah 24:16, 26:15, 41:8-9, 49:6), to be sea-farers (Isaiah 42:6), to gain control over strategic points regarding their potential adversaries (Genesis 22:16-17, 24:60), to be like a lion, and unicorn (Numbers 24:8-9), and bald-headed eagle (Micah 1:16). They were also to be largely unaware of their Israelite identity and to practice a non--Jewish religion (Hosea 2:8, 2:13, 2:16 11:12). Judah in the End Times would not know who they were (Isaiah 49:21). Scripture gives numerous other identifying characteristics that taken as a whole can only fit THE one group of people that were to be found in Western Europe especially in Britain and its offshoots in North America, etc.
In addition to the Biblical Proofs (and we have many more like the above) the Jewish Sages and Great Rabbis throughout the Ages have also provided us with much evidence confirming the identification of Western Peoples with the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel.
Rashi (on Obadiah 1:18) said the Lost Ten Tribes were in France. Ramban (Nachmanides) said they were in Tsrefat meaning, he said, at the far north, The Hatam Sofer said that the areas of Britain and Western Europe were to belong to Israel in the End Times.
Numerous other proofs exist.
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3. Christian Zionism: What Happened to the Church and the Jews? - Rabbi Tovia Singer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN283LyJlSI
Interesting Historical Rundown.
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4. Identifications from Scripture and Rabbinical Commentary.
The Promised Blessings began with Abraham (Genesis 12:2-3). Isaac the son of Abraham received the blessings given to Abraham. (Genesis 17:19, 21, 21:22)
Isaac begat the twins Esau and Jacob. Jacob was renamed Israel and received the Blessings (Genesis 27:40-41. 28:2-3). All the 12 sons of Israel received the Blessings (Genesis 49:28).
Among the Tribes Judah and Joseph had separate destinies but the blessing was to be more apparent in Joseph.
JUDAH PREVAILED ABOVE HIS BROTHERS, AND OF HIM (COMES) THE CHIEF RULER; BUT THE BIRTHRIGHT WAS JOSEPH'S" (1-Chronicles 5:1-2).
Joseph received a separate blessing even more stronger than that of the other Tribes (Genesis 49:6).
"THE BLESSINGS OF YOUR FATHER HAVE PREVAILED ABOVE THE BLESSINGS OF MY PROGENITORS UNTO THE UTMOST BOUND OF THE EVERLASTING HILLS: THEY SHALL BE ON THE HEAD OF JOSEPH, AND ON THE CROWN OF HIM THAT WAS SEPARATED FROM HIS BRETHREN" (Genesis 49:6).
We have here an indication that Joseph beyond merely receiving an extra portion as if he were the firstborn also has an ADDITIONAL TASK AND MERIT and in his own way he will also represent all of Israel..
Scripture proves that the Lost Ten Tribes are NOW to be found among Western Peoples especially the English-speaking ones.
The exiled Israelites were to become one of the most numerous groups of people on earth (Genesis 15:5, 22:17, 24:60, 32:12, Numbers 23:10, Deuteronomy 1:11, Isaiah 10:22, 24:16, 26:15, Hosea 1:10); to be the most powerful (Genesis 27:9, Numbers 24:7, Michah 5:7-9), to be the richest, to possess the most mineral and agricultural resources (Genesis 27:28, 49:25, Deuteronomy 33:13-16, Hosea 2:8), to live in the best places (Isaiah 41:8-9), to be in islands (Isaiah 42:4, 49:1-6 Jeremiah 31:9-10), peninsulas (Jeremiah 31:8), and at continental extremities (Deuteronomy 33:13, Isaiah 24:16, 26:15, 41:8-9, 49:6), to be sea-farers (Isaiah 42:6), to gain control over strategic points regarding their potential adversaries (Genesis 22:16-17, 24:60), to be like a lion, and unicorn (Numbers 24:8-9), and bald-headed eagle (Micah 1:16). They were also to be largely unaware of their Israelite identity and to practice a non--Jewish religion (Hosea 2:8, 2:13, 2:16 11:12). Judah in the End Times would not know who they were (Isaiah 49:21). Scripture gives numerous other identifying characteristics that taken as a whole can only fit THE one group of people that were to be found in Western Europe especially in Britain and its offshoots in North America, etc.
In addition to the Biblical Proofs (and we have many more like the above) the Jewish Sages and Great Rabbis throughout the Ages have also provides us with much evidence confirming the identification of Western Peoples with the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, for example:
Our interpretations of Biblical verses as applying to the Lost Ten Tribes are often confirmed by Rabbinical Sources.
Rashi (1040-1105, commenting on Obadiah 1:20) says that the Lost Ten Tribes went to Tserefat meaning, he says, the Land called France.
Abarbanel (1437-1508) says that by Tserefat both France and England were intended.
Nachamanides (1194-1270) says "Tserefat" means lands of the far north and that is where the Ten Tribes went to.
The Hatam Sofer (1762-1839) said that in the End Times the Britain and areas of Western Europe will become part of Israel.
Rabbi MANASSEH BEN ISRAEL (1604-1657) identified the Continent of America as the place where the Lost Ten Tribes will return from.
Rabbi Moshe David Valli (1697- 1776) says that the Tribes of Joseph (i.e. Ten Tribes) were lost and assimilated in order to reform the Gentile Peoples and uplift humanity from within.
Rabbi Samson Raphael HIRSCH (1808-1888) said that the name of Manasseh (son of Joseph) in Hebrew in effect connotes Responsible representation thus strengthening our identification of the USA as dominated by the Israelite Tribes of Joseph especially Manasseh.
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5. New Month of Adar-A. Both Naphtali and Manasseh?
February 10, 2024, is the fist day of the New Month of Adar-A, 5778.
This year is a leap Year, so there are two months of Adar, i.e.
Adar-Aleph (Adar-A),
and
Adar-Beit (Adar-B).
The Feast of Purim will take place in Adar-B.
Putting the different sources together we may propose that Adar-A and Adar-B are both (like Adar in a non-Leap Year) under the influence of Naphtali BUT Ephraim and Manasseh also play a part.
Conventionally (HaGra and ArizaL) the month of Adar is ascribed to the Tribe of Naphtali.
There are other opinions:
Adar - Pisces [Adar=Joseph = Ephraim and Manasseh]
http://www.livekabbalah.org/index.php/home/gates-in-time/rosh-hodesh/adar-pisces/
The tribe attributed to Adar is Yosef (Josef, linguistic from Me'asef - collector gatherer, in Hebrew). However, it is well known there is no tribe of Yosef and instead there are his two sons, Ephraim and Menashe, which symbolize Adar A and Adar B (A Hebrew leap year has two months of Adar, seven times in a cycle of 19 years). it is also reflected in the blessings of Jacob the patriarch to Ephraim and Menashe: "and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth" (in Hebrew there is a paraphrase of the phrase "grow into a multitude" related to the reproduction of fish = Pisces, which is the zodiac sign of the month).
The Month of Adar According to Sefer Yetzirah
https://www.inner.org/times/adar/adar.htm
Adar divides into two (just as Joseph divides into two) fish (Ephraim and Menasheh).
http://www.dailyhalacha.com/m/halacha.aspx?id=2100
the Kedushat Levi (Rabbi Levi Yishak of Berditchev, Poland, 1740-1810), in a famous passage in Parashat Ki-Tisa, and by Rabbi Sadok Hakohen of Lublin (1823-1900). They note that just as the twelve months correspond to the twelve signs of the zodiac, similarly, the months correspond to the twelve tribes of Israel. The month of Adar, which is under the sign of Pisces, corresponds to Joseph. Joseph was unique ain that his two sons, Menashe and Efrayim,each formed a separate tribe . Accordingly, in a leap year, the two months of Adar correspond to the two sons of Joseph, Menasseh and Ephraim, and, as such, both are represented by the sign of Pisces. It thus emerges, according to this view, that both Adar Rishon and Adar Sheni share the special properties of the month of Adar...
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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.
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