Ten Tribes Studies (9 October, 2013, Cheshvan 5, 5774)
Contents:
1. Possible Difficulty with understanding Yair in the YouTube Clips.
2. The Great Seal of the USA (as depicted on the dollar bill) in Prophecy Concerning Joseph!
Addition to the article, God is the Shepherd of Israel.
3. Meredith Carpenter: Women lack time and the Scots are the greatest!!
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1. Possible Difficulty with understanding Yair in the YouTube Clips.
Re
The Blessings to Joseph Re-Translated!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVJf9JgnoyE&feature=share&list=UUsTg-uJIQYujqZ83QtidAkg
Pam wrote: "Wonder if closed caption could be added. I want to learn what Yair is saying, but have a hearing issue, and cannot understand a lot of the words."
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Brit-Am Reply:
Pam Shalom, At the moment, we lack the expertise, time/and or manpower to add captions.
I sometimes slur my words. The remnants of my Australian accent with a touch of Israeli pronunciation does not help either. I try to speak more clearly and seem to have improved somewhat.
Most people manage to understand most of what is being said. Nevertheless most of what is said is contained in the articles that accompany the YouTube clips. A quick read-through the articles before, during, or after the clips could help.
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2. The Great Seal of the USA (as depicted on the dollar bill) in Prophecy Concerning Joseph!
Addition to the article, God is the Shepherd of Israel
The Blessings of Jacob to Joseph Re-examined. Genesis 49:22-26 Retranslated
http://www.britam.org/Shepherd.html
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/biblical-proof/joseph/shep.html
Genesis 49:
22 Joseph is a son of fertility and power, a potent son under the Eye [of Divine Providence] ; the daughters marched as one for the sake of the bull.
We thus have a "Powerful Son who is Potent and Fertile" overseen by the Eye of Providence. This is depicted on the Great Seal of the USA overlooking the Pyramid. The Pyramid may be considered the Picture of Egypt which was the symbol of Joseph ( Midrash Numbers Rabah 2;5).
This is a NEW and ORIGINAL understanding of the Hebrew Text. Nevertheless it is valid and closer to the Literal meaning than conventional translations. This new understanding of ours is not something esoteric or abstruse.
On the contrary. It may be confirmed by the simple use of a Hebrew Dictionary.
Our understanding is closer to the simple straight-forward meaning than all of the Translations offered up to now.
NEW Hebrew Nations Version (slightly polished over):
Genesis 49:
22 Joseph is a fertile son, a powerful child, under the Eye [of Divine Providence] ; the daughters marched as one for the sake of the bull.
23 And there were those who were embittered against him, and quarrelled, and the owners of missiles hated him.
24 And he settled in the strength of his bow. And the seed of his arms spread outwards. This was from the hand of the Great Bull of Jacob. From there comes the Shepherd who does equitable justice in Israel.
25 [This was] From the God of your father; and HE will help you. And [HE IS] the Almighty. And HE will bless you. Blessings of the Heavens above; blessings of the Chasm lying underneath. Blessings of breasts and womb.
26 The blessing of your father are greater than the blessings of my forebears. They reach the boundaries of the hills of this world. Be you at the head, Joseph. And the Supreme Commander, the Crown [Nazir] of his brothers [and separate from them].
Selected Additional Commentary:
49:22.... the daughters marched as one for the sake of the bull.
The daughters referred to here may rtefer to anhistorical event. Did the descendants of Joseph take numerous women from other nations?
See: Hebrew Fathers? Did Only Male Descendants Survive in Some Cases? Are Many of the Ten Tribes descended from Non-Israelite Women? Notes for Further Study.
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/tribes/fathers.html
The bull is Joseph in general, or Ephraim, cf. "HIS GLORY IS LIKE THE FIRSTLING OF HIS BULL" [Deuteronomy 33:17] .
http://www.britam.org/Proof/Joseph/joBull.html
49:24 ... And the seed of his arms spread outwards. The Hebrew words translated here as "seed of his arms" are "zroyai-yadav". zroyai means arms, and Yadav means his hands or his hands and arms. The word zroyai however is so configured here as to connote also a link to the word "zera" meaning seed. We therefore infer that both meanings are implied and that we have a play on words.
49:24... From there comes the Shepherd who does equitable justice in Israel. This a difficult expression but it fits the literal sense of the Hebrew. We would understand the Shepherd spoken of here to represent the soul of the Israelite Nation.
49:26 They reach the boundaries of the hills of this world. The word translated as "this world" in Hebrew is "olam". This word also implies eternity. The expression could therefore also be rendered as "the eternal hills".
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3. Meredith Carpenter: Women lack time and the Scots are the greatest!!
Re: Brit-Am Now no. 2137 Ten Tribes Studies.
http://hebrewnations.com/features/now4/2137.html
(a) 2. Anyone Seen this Book? [Scottish Enlightenment],
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It by Arthur Herman.
(b) 5. Should Brit-Am/Hebrew Nations Have its own Women Section?
Hi Yair,
(a) ... The reason women don't watch the videos is because we don't have time. The videos are too long. If you made them around 10-12 minutes we would view them more. My fave is the Ezekiel video.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6IhC34NWUxaxFhM2igg9ao5R3CLHmx9Z
Learned much from it!
(b) Of course the Scots think they are the greatest people ever born ... and that they single-handedly made the world a better place... haha. Meredith