Ten Tribes Studies (5 September, 2014, 10 Elul, 5774)
Contents:
1. Just Released! 2010 Eddie Chumney interviews of Yair Davidiy.
(1) Are all 12 Tribes Jewish? Are they united ?
2. More Clips from the 2010 Eddie Chumney Interview of Yair Davidiy
(2) Were the 12 Tribes united in the days of the King?
(3) Are the Ten Tribes Following Christianity Today ?
(4) Where Are Ten Tribes Located Today?
3. Please visit our first (but less frequently visited) site
4. Interesting Cartoon Depicting the Twelve Tribes According to Hebrew Nations Identification
5. New comment on YouTube Videos
6. YouTube Clip. JNews-4Â See Also: New Article. Cut Wheat. Inspiring Anecdote from the Recent War.
Operation Protective Edge, Divine Providence, and Keeping the Commandments
7. New Article. 12 Tribes in Both Judah and Joseph
Part One of Truly Earnest. A Reply to:
The Not Lost Tribes of Israel. Who and Where Are the Northern Ten Tribes of Israel Today?
by Ernest L. Martin, Ph.D.
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1. Just Released! 2010 Eddie Chumney interview of Yair Davidiy.
In 2010 Eddie Chumney interviewed Yair Davidiy at the residence of Yair in Jerusalem.
The interviews were successful but for different reasons were never made public until now.
Below is an excerpt from a letter from Eddie followed by links to the interviews.
We recommend these clips.
In our opinion they are worth hearing and interesting.
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From: Edward Chumney <hebraicheritage@yahoo.com>
Subject: Yair Davidi Interview
Yair,
I hope that you are doing well.
Do you remember that set of interviews that I did with you in 2010 ?
...we started the "Hebraic Roots Network" 24 / 7 internet streaming TV.
It has gone quite well.
We have grown a lot in the past 3 years. We have reached over 155 countries.
The website is:Â
The Hebraic Roots Network
 http://hebraicrootsnetwork.com/
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My program is called: "The Eddie Chumney show"
Today, I uploaded to YouTube the first program that we did in Jerusalem. We did a total of 10 programs. I will be uploading the other programs as I get time.
You may be interested in watching the first program. I think it came out well.
You may also want to share the video with your e-mail list.
I just posted the first video to my facebook page.
I will include a link to the youtube video and a picture of you and I doing the interview.
Here it is:
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(1) Are all 12 Tribes Jewish? Are they united ? Eddie Chumney interviews Orthodox Jew Yair Davidi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jvmXuG7Q6U&feature=youtu.be
Duration:Â 27.26 minutes
Published on Sep 4, 2014
Are all twelve tribes of Israel today Jewish ? Who is Ephraim / Ten Tribes ? Are the Ten Tribes today practicing Christianity ? Are the twelve tribes today united ? Will the Messiah unite the 12 tribes of Israel ? Eddie Chumney interviews Orthodox Jew, Yair Davidi, from Jerusalem who share with us the Orthodox Jewish view of the Ten Tribes of Israel.
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2. More Clips from the 2010 Eddie Chumney Interview of Yair Davidiy
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(2) Were the 12 Tribes united in the days of the Kings of Israel ? Eddie Chumney interviews Yair Davidi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qW-luvbLLQ
Duration: 27.42 minutes
Are all twelve tribes of Israel today Jewish ? Who is Ephraim / Ten Tribes ? Are the Ten Tribes today practicing Christianity ? Are the twelve tribes today united ? Will the Messiah unite the 12 tribes of Israel ? Eddie Chumney interviews Orthodox Jew, Yair Davidi, from Jerusalem who share with us the Orthodox Jewish view of the Ten Tribes of Israel.
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(3) Are the Ten Tribes Following Christianity Today ? Eddie Chumney interviews Orthodox Jew Yair Davidi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0q1R-rVg6Y
Duration: 27.39 minutes
Are the ten tribes of Israel NOT Jewish ? Are the ten tribes of Israel following Christianity today ? What is the view of Orthodox Judaism ? Eddie Chumney interviews Orthodox Jew, Yair Davidi, from Jerusalem.
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(4) Where Are Ten Tribes Located Today?  Eddie Chumney interviews Orthodox Jew Yair Davidi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJonzBDPS7U
Duration: 27.34 minutes
How can we identify the Ten Tribes of Israel today ? Where are they located ? Eddie Chumney interviews Orthodox Jew, Yair Davidi, from Jerusalem.
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3. Please visit our first (but less frequently visited) site
http://www.britam.org/
If there any problems with connection etc, Please let us know.
So too, for all our sites, video clips. etc, if anything is not working, or not satisfactory, etc, please tell us.
Yair
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4. Interesting Cartoon Depicting the Twelve Tribes According to Hebrew Nations Identification
From: Sylvia Halpert
http://collectivistcomics.deviantart.com/art/The-12-Tribes-of-Israel-340322851
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5. New comment on YouTube Videos
Re:
JNews-3: Phoenicians and Israelites in Scandinavia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wz-ckbOIVw&list=UUsTg-uJIQYujqZ83QtidAkg
Mats Rosenquist
My mother is living in the city of Kristianstad in the County of Skaane & a few kilometers away is a village called Balsby meaning the village of Bal.
New comment on your video
The Celts Called Themselves Hebrews!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USAZi_ocp2w&list=TLebh-bSrUasMGMBeU9K1UE0d_OXft0Q71
King Gaza
 My family surname comes from Ireland, this is what is told for many generations. After many years of searching my ancestry and seeing my family was in the U.S.A. since the 1600's and then reading into my surname, it actually is a Spanish name for many Jews in exile from Spain. Although knowing I am not 100% Kosher Jewish, it makes me proud knowing my bloodline.
New comment on your video
America - Friend of Israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeDk6gj-7As
junglemaster2014
Jews have nothing to do with the tribes of Israel! think about it, where do they go to ''pray''? a synagogue, therefore they are the synagogue of satan, jeez it's not hard people.
New comment on your video
Norway and Jacob
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fceA-EbeGvQ
Cris Columbo
Its always exciting to hear about this topic. I was introduced to this decades ago. Today I have more of a scientific approach in that observable concrete evidence can now be produced to support this
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6. YouTube Clip. JNews-4
Duration:Â Â 10.46 minutes
Ethnic Cleansing by Muslim in UK, Israeli Flag in Belfast, Cut Wheat Miracle in Operation Protective Edge, Israel, EU Nations buy oil from ISIS.
See: JN-1090. Jerusalem News
http://hebrewnations.com/features/jn/jn1090.html
See Also:
New Article. Cut Wheat. Inspiring Anecdote from the Recent War.
Operation Protective Edge, Divine Providence, and Keeping the Commandments
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/ca/wheat.html
Extracts:
Due to the Ultra-Orthodox buying the wheat and urgently INSISTING that it be harvested straight away the cover had been removed. One of the farmers whose wheat had been harvested remarked:
Extract:
\# This is the first time that my wheat was harvested for the sake of a mitsvah [fulfilling a commandment]. Previously it had been sent to the big bakeries. This time it was harvested for the sake of a mitsvah... #
One of the matsah overseers involved said:
# This was for matsah shmirah [matsah that has been guarded]. This time it was certainly guarded. It guarded us more than we guarded it. #
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7. New Article. 12 Tribes in Both Judah and Joseph
Part One of Truly Earnest
A Reply to:
The Not Lost Tribes of Israel
Who and Where Are the Northern Ten Tribes of Israel Today?
by Ernest L. Martin, Ph.D.
http://www.soundchristian.com/tribes/
This article is written by a well-known author. Ernest L. Martin (1932-2002) himself was a Christian.
In one of his works, The People That History Forgot ,
http://www.amazon.com/People-History-Forgot-Second-Edition/dp/094565782X
http://www.askelm.com/people/index.asp
 he claims that the early Christians were in effect Samaritans and Edomites etc. In his view they hijacked true Christianity but he, of course, had it.
We are not certain how accurate this book is but we found it interesting and quoted from it in our work, "Ephraim".
Martin was also well know for supporting a view that the site of the Temple was not exactly on the Temple Mount but a little bit to the south of it. It was this notion that made him famous, or notorious, as the case may be. Martin founded the Foundation for Biblical Research in Pasadena.
 Now, regarding the article in question.
The Not Lost Tribes of Israel . Who and Where Are the Northern Ten Tribes of Israel Today?
by Ernest L. Martin, Ph.D.
He says the Ten Tribes were not lost:
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 # One of the most erroneous teachings being disseminated today is that the Northern Ten Tribes of Israel left the region of Assyria where they were taken captive in the eighth and seventh centuries before Christ and that they wandered into northwestern Europe and into the British Isles (where they became "lost" to the people of Jerusalem) and they established their roots in Europe as Celts, Angles, Saxons, Danes, etc. #
# It is believed in some quarters that these Northern Ten Tribes divorced themselves from Palestine and gave up their observance of the Sabbath and Mosaic holydays and that they became virtual pagans in belief (as were the ancient Celts, Angles, Saxons, etc.). Only in the last 200 years, it is believed, have these people supposedly regained their real "Israel identity" through the political exaltation of Great Britain and the United States (along with other northwestern European powers). This belief, however, is sheer nonsense. #
Martin says that he used to believe in this. He was a member and later a pastor of the Worldwide Church of God. After being made Dean of Faculty at their college in England he studied the subject from an historical point of view and decided that it was not so.
Martin then quotes the New Testament.
James wrote a letter to "the twelve tribes scattered abroad, greeting" (James 1:1). This letter was obviously written to Jews and therefore members of the Ten Tribes were included in the 12 addressed to. For about half the length of his article Martin belabors this point. James spoke to members of the 12 tribes, therefore the 10 tribes as a separate entity did not exist, or so he says.
We have dealt with this question elsewhere,
The Completeness of the Exile. Answers to Deniers of Brit-Am Biblical Truth
http://www.britam.org/CompleteExile.html
In short,
There were two entities:
(1) Inhabitants of the Northern Kingdom of Israel meaning the Ten Tribes and in the end a portion of Judah.
(2) Inhabitants of the Southern Kingdom of Judah meaning the Tribes of Judah, Benjamin, Levi, and minority representatives of all the other Tribes.
Despite there being members of ALL 12 tribes in both groups, the northern group is referred to in the Bible as Israel (when juxtaposed to Judah), or Joseph, or Ephraim. The southern section may be referred to as Israel (in certain contexts), or as Judah, or as Jerusalem, or Zion. In each case, we need to look at the context.
# A Midrash indicates that up to 20% of the people of Judah who returned with Ezra from Babylon were refugees from the Northern Kingdom. Nevertheless, as emphasized by Nachmanides, these were considered as nullified amongst Judah and counted as part of Judah just as those of Judah who had gone with Northern Israel are considered part of the Lost Ten Tribes. The Bible has its own terminology and the Bible considers the Northern "Israel" ("Joseph", "Ephraim") to be a separate entity apart from Judah. #
It follows that Jews from Judah could be addressed as from all the 12 tribes of Israel WITHOUT compromising the principle that most Israelites had been part of the Ten Tribes and had gotten lost.