Finland, Denmark, Netherlands. Tribal Report (21 November, 2013. 18 Kislev, 5774)
Contents:
1. Marjatta Lavin: Ancient Finns wore Jewish Skull-Cap Type Headdress!
2. Recalling the 1943 Rosh Hashanah Escape of Danish Jews by Rafael Medoff
3. Netherlands. Recommended Article.
Ten Prophetic Clues Concerning Zebulun - Holland by Bert Otten
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1. Marjatta Lavin: Ancient Finns wore Jewish Skull-Cap Type Headdress!
Shalom to you all! To add, the Finnish ancestral men's hat looks like Yermulke too! Marjatta
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2. Recalling the 1943 Rosh Hashanah Escape of Danish Jews by Rafael Medoff
http://www.jspace.com/news/articles/recalling-the-1943-rosh-hashanah-escape-of-danish-jews/15049
From JNS.org on 8/16/2013 at 4:27 PM
Extracts:
When the Nazis occupied Denmark during the Holocaust in 1940, the Danes put up little resistance. As a result, the German authorities agreed to let the Danish government continue functioning with greater autonomy than other occupied countries. They also postponed taking steps against Denmark's 8,000 Jewish citizens.
In the late summer of 1943, amid rising tensions between the occupation regime and the Danish government, the Nazis declared martial law and decided the time had come to deport Danish Jews to the death camps. But Georg Duckwitz, a German diplomat in Denmark, leaked the information to Danish friends. Duckwitz was later honored by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations. As word of the Germans' plans spread, the Danish public responded with a spontaneous nationwide grassroots effort to help the Jews.
On Rosh Hashanah, which fell on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 in 1943, and the days that followed, numerous Danish Christian families hid Jews from Holocaust persecution in their homes or farms, and then smuggled them to the seashore late at night. From there, fishermen took them across the Kattegat Straits to neighboring Sweden. This three-week operation had the strong support of Danish church leaders, who used their pulpits to urge aid to the Jews, as well as Danish universities, which shut down so that students could assist the smugglers. More than 7,000 Danish Jews reached Sweden and were sheltered there until the end of the war.
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3. Netherlands. Recommended Article.
Ten Prophetic Clues Concerning Zebulun - Holland by Bert Otten
http://www.hope-of-israel.org/zebulonholland.html
Note: This article was sent to us by the author.
It is worth reading. It contains valuable information and insights. Below are selected extracts.
For complete article go to:
ZEBULUN -- HOLLAND. A STUDY OF TEN PROPHETIC CLUES by Bert Otten
The author lists reasons as to why the Netherlands should be identified as Zebulon.
These include:
Extracts:
1st Clue: To dwell - dwelling
The name Zebulun means to dwell or dwelling ... Home, homeliness, cosiness, intimate dwelling, it's all very important to the Dutch. The Dutch word 'ezelligheid' is hard to translate into other languages, 'cosiness' comes close.
2nd Clue: dwellings 'on-Sea'
Zebulun shall dwell at the SHORE of the sea, and he shall be a SHORE for ships (Gen 49:13a, JPS). Zebulun will live AT THE SEASHORE, with ships anchoring along his coast (Gen 49:13a, CJB).... Before the great land reclamations started, half of the country was close to the sea. ...Half the country is built on reclaimed land.
3rd Clue: Zebulun, a haven for ships
Zebulun shall dwell at the HAVEN of the sea; and he shall be for an HAVEN OF SHIPS Â (Gen 49:13).
... Jacob's prophecy concerning the tribe of Zebulun in the 'end-time' (acharit ha-yamim, Gen 49:1) is about dwelling 'on-Sea' and being a port for the nations. This can only be fulfilled by Zebulun as a lost tribe, as Zebulun was a landlocked tribe in Canaan.
There are many ports in the low-countries. Rotterdam was the biggest port of the world for 50 years and still is the biggest port of Europe.
4th Clue: Zebulun, a travelling people
And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy GOING OUT; and, Issachar, in thy tents (Deut 33:18).
At the time of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces (1581-1795) there were many Dutch explorers.
Statistically, the VOC [Dutch East India Company] eclipsed all of its rivals in the Asia trade.
5th Clue: Zebulun, abundance of the seas
'for they [Zebulun and Issachar, Holland and Friesland] shall suck of the ABUNDANCE of the SEAS ' (Deut 33:19b).
The phrase abundance of the seas concerns many items over the past centuries: herring fishing, fishing in general, whaling, the harvesting of shrimps, mussels and oysters, trade coming by sea, dredging vessels, making of dykes, canals and ports, Holland-America line, Dutch merchant fleet in the 20th century, naval wars, shipbuilding, etc. Our riches came from the sea and by sea!
6th Clue: Zebulun, treasures hid in the sand
'or they [Zebulun and Issachar, Holland and Friesland] shall suck of the TREASURES hid in the SAND (Deut 33:19c).
... Below many parts of the Netherlands are huge layers of sand and gravel. ... So even our tulip fields are linked to the abundance of the sea and treasures hid in the sand, as the North Sea brought both the clay and the sand.
Another fulfilment is to be found in Shell. Wikipedia: Royal Dutch Shell, commonly known as Shell, is an Anglo-Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the second largest company in the world in terms of revenue. Gas and oil are formed in former seas and can be defined as -treasures hid in the sand-.
7th Clue: Zebulun, a compassionate people
According to the writer of the pseudo-epigraphic The Testament of Zebulun, the patriarch Zebulun was a giver and full of compassion. ... a nation tied to the sea and known to be givers, to be compassionate, both by government as well as in private.
8th Clue: Zebulun's stone, a diamond
And thou shalt make the BREASTPLATE of judgment with cunning work  ...and a DIAMOND [Zebulun] (Exodus 28:15-18).
Amsterdam has been a diamond city for 400 years. For 400 years Amsterdam was the most important diamond city in the world, but not anymore. ..
There is a link between diamonds and Dutch speaking areas. Of course many diamonds were found in the Boer Republics of South Africa (near Kimberley of Orange Free State). Diamonds follow the trail of the tribe of Zebulun.
9th Clue: Zebulun, writers, bookprinting
[From Deborah's Song] and out of Zebulun they that HANDLE THE PEN OF THE WRITER (Judges 5:14b)
Holland is a very literate country and everything having to do with books, reading, writing, printing, publishing, cartography, Bible Societies, literacy, speaking foreign languages, can be seen as fulfilments of this clue.
Many Dutch people see Laurens Janszoon Coster (Haarlem, c. 1370- 1440) as the inventor of the printing press.
10th Clue: Zebulun & Judah (Jews)
..the tribe of ISSACHAR Then the tribe of ZEBULUN All that were numbered in the camp of JUDAH were 186,400, throughout their armies. These shall first set forth (Numbers 2:1-9).
There is a bond between Judah, Issachar and Zebulun. They are the three youngest sons of Leah.
... Holland became independent in 1581 and over the past 430 years Jews have lived in relative peace among the Dutch, as long as we were independent. We lost control and were occupied in 1940 - 1945 by the Germans. Tragically 105,000 Jews were deported.
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