Ten Tribes Studies (25 June, 2013, Tammuz 17, 5773)
Contents:
1. New Article and YouTube Clip. Enemy Harlotry
2. New Article and YouTube Clip. Clans of Reuben
3. New Article and YouTube Clip. Clans of Gad
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1. New Article and YouTube Clip. Enemy Harlotry
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(a) New Article. Enemy Harlots. Sexual Sin Endangers the Hebrew People!
(Weekly Portion, Pinchas, Numbers ch. 25)
Extract:
Numbers 25:
16 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 17 Harass [Hebrew "Tsror" i.e. be an enemy towards] the Midianites, and attack them; 18 for they harassed you with their schemes by which they seduced you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a leader of Midian, their sister, who was killed in the day of the plague because of Peor.
Someone who deliberately causes another to sin does a worse thing than physically attacking them and should be treated accordingly.
In regard to the plague and Phinchas (Numbers ch.25): The Israelites had been fornicating with heathen women and worshipping idols. They were punished and then saved from disaster by the zealotry of Phinchas the son of Eliezer son of Aharon. The Commentary, Nativot Shalom (Rabbi Sholom Noach Berezovsky 1911 - 2000) comments on the above incident. Phinchas according to tradition was descended on the maternal side from both Joseph and Jethro. Pinchas was a forerunner for the Messiah son of Joseph who will head the Ten Tribes. Nativot Shalom points out that the Messiah son of David will rectify the matter of correct Faith amongst all ISRAEL. Before the Messiah son of David comes there will appear the Messiah son of Joseph [who will be from Ephraim]. We see that the Israelites were both fornicating and worshipping the idol Peor.
Pinchas ends the matter and stops the plague by stopping the fornication. Sexual intercourse with non-Israelites in Biblical Times was forbidden. To what degree of severity this prohibition existed is debated. At all events everyone agrees that it was never considered as serious as idolatry. Why then in the incident of Pinchas does it seem that fornication with non-Israelite women was the main offence? One explanation could be based on the Talmudic opinion that all idolatry was motivated by sexual lust and a want to find allowance for sex that was otherwise prohibited. Nativot Shalom gives another explanation that is not contradictory but rather explanatory. He says that sexual impurity precedes deviations in belief. The Messiah son of Joseph will heal the Israelites of their sexual immorality. This will be necessary to prepare them to receive correct knowledge and true belief that shall be given them by the Messiah son of David.Â
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(b) YouTube Clip: Enemy Harlotry
Duration 18.10 minutes
Moabite and Midianite women fornicated with Israelites and then induced them to worship false gods. They were punished. A plague broke out which was stopped when Pinchas with a lance ran through the lower parts of their bodies two major offenders in the act of copulation. They who cause us to sin must be treated as our physical enemies.
See: Enemy Harlots. Sexual Sin Endangers the Hebrew People!
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2. New Article and YouTube Clip. Clans of Reuben
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(a) New Article. Clans of Reuben. The Tribe of Reuben and sub-groups within the Tribe equated with historical and modern entities
Extract:
We see from the above that most clans of Reuben were to be identifiable with the Franks who settled in France and gave France its name. Before the Franks the area of France had been known as Gaul, in Hebrew Gallia. Gaul had been settled by peoples of Celtic Culture especially the Galatae. The Galatae (Galatians) were also known as Galadi. This is another form of the Hebrew name Gilead. Gilead was both the name of a clan of Manasseh as well as of an area east of the Jordan in which elements of Manasseh and Reuben dwelt. [The Tribe of Reuben had settled in both the regions of Bashan and Gilead east of the Jordan.] Since additional factors indicate strongly that the Israelites in France were to be predominantly from Reuben we may suppose that the Galatae (Galadi) in Gaul were also from Reuben and had been so named after the region their forefathers had dwelt in.Â
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(b) YouTube Clip: Clans of Reuben
Duration: 12.01 minutes
Clans within the Tribe of Reuben are listed by the Bible. We find these clans later on in the history of Western Europe.
See:
Clans of Reuben. The Tribe of Reuben and sub-groups within the Tribe equated with historical and modern entities
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3. New Article and YouTube Clip. Clans of Gad
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(a) New Article. Clans of Gad.
Genesis 46 and Numbers 26 list clans amongst the Israelite Tribes including those of Gad which clans became historical entities
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(b) YouTube Clip. Clans of Gad.
 Duration 22.4 minutes
Clans of Gad are listed in the Bible. After the Ten Tribes were exiled these clans often became important peoples in their own right, kept the same or similar names, and preserved similar tribal alliances and group formations. This was despite the fact that they had lost most conscious awareness of their Hebrew ancestry.
See: Clans of Gad. Genesis 46 and Numbers 26 list clans amongst the Israelite Tribes including those of Gad which clans became historical entities.