Ten Tribes Studies. Hebrew Awareness 21 March 2024, 11Adar-B, 5784
Contents:
1. New Video.
Are you from Joseph? Altruism and You.
2. Psalm 9.
3. Quora Query.
Are Ultra Orthodox Jews offended when Messianic Torah followers wear tzittzit with a blue cord in the threads?
See Also:
Observance or Not?
Should "Ephraimites" Keep their own version of the Torah?
https://hebrewnations.com/ef/observance.html
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1. New Video.
Are you from Joseph? Altruism and You.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSaxIG4-hng
Duration: 20.23 minutes.
CC edited sub-titles. Joseph had characteristics that were passed onto his descendants. Do you have these? Some of them? This may help you (along with other factors) deduce whether you descend from Joseph or not. At all events this study may well help you understand to a greater depth who and what the Patriarch Joseph really was.
See:
Are you from Joseph?-3. Joseph in Egypt as Ruler
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/tribelist/what/joseph3.html
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2. Psalm 9.
Psalm (NLT) 8:
For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by a stringed instrument.
1 O LORD, OUR LORD, YOUR MAJESTIC NAME FILLS THE EARTH!
YOUR GLORY IS HIGHER THAN THE HEAVENS.
2 YOU HAVE TAUGHT CHILDREN AND INFANTS
TO TELL OF YOUR STRENGTH,
SILENCING YOUR ENEMIES
AND ALL WHO OPPOSE YOU.
3 WHEN I LOOK AT THE NIGHT SKY AND SEE THE WORK OF YOUR FINGERS
THE MOON AND THE STARS YOU SET IN PLACE
4 WHAT ARE MERE MORTALS THAT YOU SHOULD THINK ABOUT THEM,
HUMAN BEINGS THAT YOU SHOULD CARE FOR THEM?
5 YET YOU MADE THEM ONLY A LITTLE LOWER THAN GOD
AND CROWNED THEM WITH GLORY AND HONOR.
6 YOU GAVE THEM CHARGE OF EVERYTHING YOU MADE,
PUTTING ALL THINGS UNDER THEIR AUTHORITY
7 THE FLOCKS AND THE HERDS
AND ALL THE WILD ANIMALS,
8 THE BIRDS IN THE SKY, THE FISH IN THE SEA,
AND EVERYTHING THAT SWIMS THE OCEAN CURRENTS.
9 O LORD, OUR LORD, YOUR MAJESTIC NAME FILLS THE EARTH!
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3. Quora Query.
Are Ultra Orthodox Jews offended when Messianic Torah followers wear tzittzit with a blue cord in the threads?
https://www.quora.com/Are-Ultra-Orthodox-Jews-offended-when-Messianic-Torah-followers-wear-tzittzit-with-a-blue-cord-in-the-threads/answer/Yair-Davidiy
"Irritated" rather than "offended" may be a more appropriate description.
Tzitzit (some times translated as "tassels") are specially knotted ritual fringes attached to the four corners of specially designed garments.
Numbers 15:37-41, Sefaria Community Translation.
HASHEM SAID TO MOSES AS FOLLOWS: SPEAK TO THE SONS OF ISRAEL AND SAY TO THEM [THAT THEY MUST] MAKE FOR THEMSELVES TZITZIT UPON THE CORNERS OF THE CLOTHES FOR GENERATIONS, AND ON THE TZITZIT GIVE A STRING OF TECHELET (BLUE COLOR). AND THEY SHALL HAVE FOR THEMSELVES TZITZIT AND THEY WILL SEE THEM AND THEY WILL REMEMBER ALL OF THE COMMANDMENTS OF HASHEM AND THEY WILL DO THEM, AND THEY WILL NOT STRAY AFTER THEIR HEARTS AND EYES SO THAT THEY SHALL NOT PURSUE AFTER THEM. SO THAT THEY WILL REMEMBER AND ADHERE TO ALL OF MY COMMANDMENTS AND WILL REMAIN HOLY TO THEIR GOD. I AM HASHEM YOUR GOD WHO TOOK YOU OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT TO BE FOR YOU A GOD. I AM HASHEM YOUR GOD.
cf.
Numbers (NLT) 15:
37 THEN THE LORD SAID TO MOSES, 38 GIVE THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL: THROUGHOUT THE GENERATIONS TO COME YOU MUST MAKE TASSELS FOR THE HEMS OF YOUR CLOTHING AND ATTACH THEM WITH A BLUE CORD. 39 WHEN YOU SEE THE TASSELS, YOU WILL REMEMBER AND OBEY ALL THE COMMANDS OF THE LORD INSTEAD OF FOLLOWING YOUR OWN DESIRES AND DEFILING YOURSELVES, AS YOU ARE PRONE TO DO. 40 THE TASSELS WILL HELP YOU REMEMBER THAT YOU MUST OBEY ALL MY COMMANDS AND BE HOLY TO YOUR GOD. 41 I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD WHO BROUGHT YOU OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT THAT I MIGHT BE YOUR GOD. I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD!
Deuteronomy 22:12, Sefaria Community Translation.
YOU SHALL MAKE TASSELS ON THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE GARMENT WITH WHICH YOU COVER YOURSELF.
The Sages decided when and where, of what and how, the fringes should made and worn. They did this according to the authority invested in them.
Deuteronomy (NLT) 17:
8 SUPPOSE A CASE ARISES IN A LOCAL COURT THAT IS TOO HARD FOR YOU TO DECIDE FOR INSTANCE, WHETHER SOMEONE IS GUILTY OF MURDER OR ONLY OF MANSLAUGHTER, OR A DIFFICULT LAWSUIT, OR A CASE INVOLVING DIFFERENT KINDS OF ASSAULT. TAKE SUCH LEGAL CASES TO THE PLACE THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL CHOOSE, 9 AND PRESENT THEM TO THE LEVITICAL PRIESTS OR THE JUDGE ON DUTY AT THAT TIME. THEY WILL HEAR THE CASE AND DECLARE THE VERDICT. 10 YOU MUST CARRY OUT THE VERDICT THEY ANNOUNCE AND THE SENTENCE THEY PRESCRIBE AT THE PLACE THE LORD CHOOSES. YOU MUST DO EXACTLY WHAT THEY SAY. 11 AFTER THEY HAVE INTERPRETED THE LAW AND DECLARED THEIR VERDICT, THE SENTENCE THEY IMPOSE MUST BE FULLY EXECUTED; DO NOT MODIFY IT IN ANY WAY. 12 ANYONE ARROGANT ENOUGH TO REJECT THE VERDICT OF THE JUDGE OR OF THE PRIEST WHO REPRESENTS THE LORD YOUR GOD MUST DIE. IN THIS WAY YOU WILL PURGE THE EVIL FROM ISRAEL. 13 THEN EVERYONE ELSE WILL HEAR ABOUT IT AND BE AFRAID TO ACT SO ARROGANTLY.
The "blue thread" had to be made out of a special dye extracted from a sea slug. The method of producing this coloring and its exact provenance was lost. It was therefore left in abeyance and only white threads employed. Recently claims to have rediscovered the blue thread have resulted in some Jews wearing their own version.
Some Rabbinical authorities may be reserved about this but most accept it for those who want it.
Some "Messianic Torah followers" and their ilk also wear their own version of "Tsitsitt." Usually these are rough imitations of the Rabbinical Jewish Prototype.
Why do they do this?
A few may be simply attracted by the idea, see others doing it, and copy them.
Others have ideological motivations.
In principle the Ancient Hebrews received the Torah at Mount Sinai. The Torah was given to Israelites not to Gentiles.
A Gentile could become an Israelite by going through a set process and thereby being also obligated to keep the Law.
Then came Christianity. They said their Messiah was God Himself and therefore enabled them to replace Torah Authority. They could either do away with the Law or modify it as they wished.
By wearing their own brand of tsitits non-Jewish enthusiasts may be suspected of wishing to replacing Rabbinical rulings with their own interpretations.
This brings us to those who believe they descend from the Lost Ten Tribes.
Instead of saying that they have come to replace the Jews (as some other Christians claim) they say they are of Hebrew Origin and therefore have a place alongside of Judah. This is correct according to Scripture but needs to be considered with reservations.
There are those among the "Identity" groups who take the Christian Replacement Doctrine and refine it. They may also be anti-Jewish but most are not.
On the other hand,
Brit-Am/Hebrew Awareness is a Jewish and non-Jewish movement that also believes the Lost Ten Tribes are to be found among Western Peoples. Brit-Am has much to say on this matter.
The exiled Israelites from the Lost Ten Tribes 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 the future the Lost Ten Tribes will renew the Covenant and indeed accept the Torah. According to the sources they will do this under the leadership of the Messiah son of Joseph or of the Messiah son of David who will come after him.
Meanwhile they are not obliged to do so.
Even though they are not at present obliged by the Torah they should not re-interpret it in ways contrary to that of mainstream Judaism.
Attempts to do so are counter-productive and against the Torah.
The above article has been expanded upon and posted to the Brit-Am/Hebrew nations web-site, see:
Observance or Not?
Should "Ephraimites" Keep their onw version of the Torah?
https://hebrewnations.com/ef/observance.html
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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 FATHERS HOUSEHOLD, THEN THE LORD WILL BE MY GOD
22 AND THIS STONE THAT I HAVE SET UP AS A PILLAR WILL BE GODS 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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