Brit-Am Now 719

"Brit-Am Now"-719
1. Athol Bloomer: Early British Israel
2. Finland Codes Corrected and Expanded
3. Isacon (Isaac) ancestor of Picts and Scots
4. The Case of Ashirah
5. Joseph and Esau
6. Reply to "Business" Complaint
7. The Magazine

1. Athol Bloomer: Early British Israel
From: Athol Bloomer <atholbloomer13@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: "Brit-Am Now"-718
#1. Answers to Questions on the BIWF

Dear Yair,

I found it interesting about the link with Naphtali and Finland as I have always thought that some of Naphtali were in the North in Finland and Scandinavia and the others in central Europe especially among the Hungarians and Austrians.

One of my ancestral uncles Jacob Montefiore was a Jewish supporter of the British Israel movement in the 19th century when the movement was pro Zionist. I believe he was one of the leaders of the movement in those days along with Colonel Gawler the Governor of South Australia. Jacob was a first cousin to Sir Moses Montefiore and the brother of Joseph Barrow Montefiore a founder of the Jewish communities of Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne. Jacob's brother John Montefiore was my ancestral grandfather and he became an Anglican and was involved in both the Hebrew Christian movement and the British Israel movement. In those early days many of the British Israelites were also connected to the Hebrew Christians. The first Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem was the former Rabbi of Norwich, Norfolk who was a close friend and supporter of John Wilson and presided over some of the first British Israelite meetings in England. Many of the gentry and aristocratic families that supported British Israel had some Jewish ancestry.

Cheers Athol

It is a shame that some later became anti-semitic as the original British Israelites were all pro-Jewish many of them Anglicans and Presbyterians of Jewish descent. John Wilson the early founder of British Israel was descended from a Jewish family originally called Wolfson but became Wilson in Scotland.

2. Finland Codes Corrected
Correction to
"Brit-Am Now"-718
#4. Orjan Svensson: New Result for Finland
to see the finding of Orjan go to:
Finland in Biblical Codes
(4. Orjan Svensson: Issachar and Finland
http://www.britam.org/codesarticles/CodesFinland.html#4
Orjan has added to the results he posted yesterday and they may now be seen.
We have posted a
conclusion.
We found almost overwhelming evidence that according to the Brit-Am Biblical Codes Finland is dominated by Issachar. In a general sense Finland belongs strongly to Joseph. We found no mention of Judah but we did find LEVI and a repeated appearance of Dan. The presence of an element from Dan is consistent with the Scandinavian location of Finland with Dan being dominant in the north (Numbers 2:25, Shabat 24).
Brit-Am analyses from other sources, as explained in "The Tribes", identifies Finland primarily with Issachar but includes elements from Simeon and Gad. There is therefore a slight divergence of opinion between the two approaches that further research may yet clarify.

3. Isacon (Isaac) ancestor of Picts and Scots
The Four Ancient Books of Wales
by William F. Skene
[1868]
Extracts followed by Brit-Am Comments:
<<The earliest record of such ethnological traditions. connected with the British Isles is probably to be found in the Historia Britonum....
<<The Historia had given us three of the sons of Hessitio-Romanus, Brittus, and Albanus; the brotherhood in such a genealogy implying no more than their mutual presence in the same country; and in the poem referred to there, is an obvious reference to the same tradition--

Three races, wrathful, of right qualities:
Gwyddyl and Brython and Romani,
Create war and tumult."

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/fab/fab009.htm
<<In the Albanic Duan, which seems to have belonged to some collection of additions to Nennius, and which contains the oldest record of the ethnological traditions of Scotland, the brothers Brittus and Albanus appear as the eponymi of the two Celtic races inhabiting respectively Britain and Alban, or Scotland. Thus--

p. 100

"O, all ye learned of Alban,
Ye well-skilled host of yellow hair,
What was the first invasion? Is it known to you?
Which took the land of Alban?
Albanus possessed it; numerous his hosts.
He was the illustrious son of Isacon.
He and Briutus were brothers without deceit.
From him Alban of ships has its name.
Briutus banished his active brother
Across the stormy sea of Icht.
Briutus possessed the noble Alban
As far as the conspicuous promontory of Fothudain." 1
Chron. Picts and Scots, p. 57.

The Historia had said that Brittus and Albanus were brothers, and sons of Hessitio, and that from them proceeded the nations of the Britti and the Albani. The Pictish Chronicle adds, after quoting a passage from Isidorus giving the etymology of the name Albani. "de quibus originem duxerunt Scoti et Picti;" 1 that is, that both Scots and Picts belonged to the race of which Albanus was the eponymus.

Triads, in which the ethnology of the inhabitants of Britain is conveyed under the form of successive colonies, or invasions, they are thus represented: "Three social tribes of the Isle of Britain--the nation (cenedl) of the Kymry, the race (al) of the Lloegrwys and the Brython--and these are said to be descended from the original nation of the Cymry, and to be of the same language and speech. Three refuge-seeking tribes that came to the Isle of Britain--the tribe of Celyddon yn y Gogled, the race (al) of the Gwyddyl that are in Alban, and the men of Galedin.

A few further extracts of interest from Skene ch. VII.

THE RACES OF BRITAIN AND THE PLACE OF THE PICTS AMONG THEM.

Brutus, the eponymus of the Britons, being, in the Bruts, father of Camber Locrinus and Albanactus, while, in the Triads, the Kymri, the Lloegri, and the Brython, are successive colonies which entered the country from different lands.

Albanus possessed it; numerous his hosts.
He was the illustrious son of Isacon.
He and Briutus were brothers without deceit.

Here the two brothers, Brittus and Albanus, appear, and the latter is the eponymus of the inhabitants of Alban or Scotland, while the tradition of the retreat of the race of the one before that of the other seems to be preserved.

What races, then, were typified by the brothers Brittus and Albanus? A passage in one of the old poems preserved in the Book of Taliessin indicates this very clearly.

Three races, wrathful, of right qualities:
Gwyddyl and Brython and Romani,
Create war and tumult."

Here the Romani and Brython represent Romanus and Brittus, and Gwyddyl comes in place of Albanus.

This term Gwyddyl, though latterly used by the Welsh as synonymous with Irish, was formerly applied to the whole Gaelic race as distinguished from the Cymric. This is apparent from another poem in the Book of Taliessin, where the Celtic inhabitants of the British Isles are thus enumerated:--

"Let us make great rejoicing after exhaustion,
And the reconciliation of the Cymry and men of Dublin,
The Gwyddyl of Iwerdon, Mon, and Prydyn,
The Cornishmen and the Clydemen."

Here the Cymry of Wales and the Britons of Cornwall and Strathclyde are contrasted with the Gwyddyl of Ireland, Anglesea, and Scotland; in short, the Gaelic race in its full extension at that period, including Prydyn, or North Britain, and Mona, or Anglesea, as well as Ireland.

the Colbertine MS. usually called the Pictish Chronicle, and which bears evident marks of having been formed from such additions to the Historia. This chronicle contains a very important addition to the statement in the
Historia. The Historia had said that Brittus and Albanus were brothers, and sons of Hessitio, and that from them proceeded the nations of the Britti and the Albani. The Pictish Chronicle adds, after quoting a passage from Isidorus giving the etymology of the name Albani. "de quibus originem duxerunt Scoti et Picti;" 1 that is, that both Scots and Picts belonged to the race of which Albanus was the eponymus.

Now the testimony of the entire literature of Wales is to the fact that the Picts belonged to the race of the Gwyddyl, and not to the Cymric race. To take, first, the perhaps doubtful authority of the Triads

: "Three social tribes of the Isle of Britain--the nation (cenedl) of the Kymry, the race (al) of the Lloegrwys and the Brython--and these are said to be descended from the original nation of the Cymry, and to be of the same language and speech. Three refuge-seeking tribes that came to the Isle of Britain--the tribe of Celyddon yn y Gogled, the race (al) of the Gwyddyl that are in Alban, and the men of Galedin. Three invading tribes that came to the Isle of Britain--the, Coraniaid, the Gwyddyl Ffichti who came to Alban by the sea of Llychlyn, and the Saeson;" and it is added that the Gwyddyl Ffichti "are in Alban, on the shore of the sea of Llyddyn." "Three treacherous invasions of the Isle of Britain--the Gwyddyl Coch o'r Iwerddon, who came into Alban; the men of Llychlyn, and the Saesons."

That by these Ffichti Gwyddyl, the Picts of the Pictish kingdom in Scotland are meant

The legend of the origin of the Picts, as contained in the Bruts, is that they came from Scythia and settled in Alban;

The whole testimony of the Britons themselves, and the inferences to be drawn from tradition, thus clearly range the Picts as a people with the Gwyddyl, or Gaelic division of the great Celtic, race, and not with the Cymric or British, and point to their race and language both being Gaelic; but though this may be true of the core or central body of the people, there are yet indications that the more outlying or frontier portions were extensively mixed with other people, and especially with the three races of the Saxons, the, Scots of Ireland, and the Britons.

And first of the Saxons. It is somewhat remarkable that when Ammianus Marcellinus narrates the first great outburst of the barbarian, or ex-provincial tribes, against the Romans in 360, he enumerates them as consisting of the "gentes Scotorum Pictorumque." In the second invasion, in 364, they were joined by two other nations, and consisted of the "Picti Saxonesque, et Scotti et Attacotti;" and in the third invasion, in 368, of the "Picti in duas gentes divisi Dicaledones et Vecturiones, itidemque Atticotti bellicosa hominum natio, et Scotti per diversa vagantes."

Claudian, in writing of the same invasion, expressly mentions the Saxones along with the Picts as forming part of the ravagers, and names the Orkneys as their seat.

"------- Maduerunt Saxone fuso
Orcades, incaluit Pictorum sanguine Thule
Scotorum cumulos flevit glacialis Ierne."

I have elsewhere shown 1 that the tradition given by Nennius, that Octa and bussa, the son and nephew of Hengist, led a body of Saxons past the Orkneys, and took possession of a part of Scotland, "usque ad confinia Pictorum," indicated a real settlement of Saxons on the east coast of Scotland as early as the year 374; and it is not impossible that they may have allied with the Picts proper so closely as to form one of the two gentes [Dicaledones et Attacotes?], and that the Vecturiones included them

But if there were Saxon settlements among the Picts on the east coast, the Scots made a settlement in their western district, in part of Argyllshire, which they called Dalriada. ...We know that this mythic colony of the Scots represented an actual settlement of them in Dalriada, which took place in the year 503, if not earlier, and that they too settled among the Picts.

On their southern frontier they seem to have become mixed with the Britons.

The presence, therefore, both of Britons and Saxons as part of the population of the districts which, under the name of Cruthentuaith, was the territory of the Pictish kingdom, is here indicated.

So far as race is concerned, therefore, the Pictish nation presents itself to us in the following aspect. The main body and centre of the nation, pure Albanic or old Gwyddyl, with the outlying parts mixed with other races--Saxons on the east coast, Scots in Argyll, and Britons south of the Tay--each having occasionally seen a king of their own race on the throne, and the Scots succeeding in converting the accession of one of their race to the throne, in right of his Pictish blood through his female descent, into their permanent supremacy over the Pictish population of the country--people and language gradually merging and disappearing under the general term of Scottish.

Brit-Am Note: All the above are extracts from Skene.
Albanus and Briutus are described as the first conquerors of Britain.
They are the sons of "Isacon".
In continuation Isacon switches with Hesitio
Isacon is another form of Isaac.
Galedin is derived from Gilead.
It suggests (alongside other sources) a tradition of descent from Isaac and Gilead of Israel
but Esau is also involved.
A link between the Picts and Anglo-Saxons also ties in with other evidence and in our opinion existed
while both parties were still in Scythia and that both parties were connected to the Khazars.
see:
http://britam.org/khazars.html

Hessitio above interchanges with Isacon (Isaac). Elsewhere Hessitio is equated with Hesus or Essus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esus
meaning Esau who like Jacob was a son of Isaac.

We do not have to make too much out of all this but it is worth noting.
see #5. Joseph and Esau below.

4. The Case of Ashirah
A few people have written us concerning the web-site ran by Ashira Yosefa
www.shuvoo.com
as if this site contains material against Brit-Am.
We looked at the site and also spoke to Ashira and could not find anything
that need give offence.
Some of the opinions and formulations are not necessarily to our liking
but that is unavoidable and we found nothing that should be considered adverse to us.

Ashira declares herself to be a convert to Judaism and she is writing from what
she understands to be a Jewish perspective.
You do not have to read what she says but if you do I saw no reason to be offended.
One statement that perhaps is worth commenting on is the following:

<<Despite verbal overtures of reconciliation and return, most Ephraimites seem to feel that they have bridged the Grand Canyon of more than 2500 years of exile and separation. The Ten Lost Tribes, and their descendents, have been estranged from their family ancestry, traditions and Torah for nearly three millennia. That is a long time with an infinite number of genealogical permutations. That is why they are lost not missing, but completely lost of their identity and a watered down genealogical line at that. When some commentaries in the Talmud go so far as to say that they are as good as dead, or have become gentiles, the true meaning is that the descendents of the Ten Tribes did become dead to Torah and tradition. In fact, they accomplished this even before the Assyrian invasion. That is why they were exiled in the first place. Furthermore, there has been constant intermarriage amidst the gentile nations. Once the maternal line of Am Yisrael is broken just once, family identification can only be restored by conversion even for those with Jewish fathers who can prove generations of Halachically acceptable Jewish ancestry.>>

Reply:
a. On the whole we doubt that there is a "watered down genealogical line."
There is a genealogical line and along most of it will be found Israelites
often from the same tribe who marry each other.
b. In some cases, the line may be broken here and there.
The breaking of the line in Scripture and according to the Sages was not because
of the "maternal lineage" ("Who is a Jew?" question
http://www.britam.org/Questions/QuesJudaism.html#Mother )
but for other reasons.
Even if the line was broken Scripture
and the sources speak of the return of Joseph and re-union with Judah.
In other words Scripture declares that Joseph will be recognized.
There is no such thing as a partial recognition.

c. We understand that the eventual re-union will according to Jewish sources
have the equivalent status to conversion but it will be different in so far
as the Tribes will retain their separate identity. In some ways Joseph will be placed before
Judah and in other ways Judah before Joseph.

Most importantly of all:
d. At all events we have not reached the stage where these matters need be seriously
considered.
e. For the moment we should do as well as we can from where we are and affirm the truth
of our ancestry in Biblical terms supplemented by other knowledge.

5. Joseph and Esau
For sources on Esau and Edom go to:
http://www.britam.org/Questions/QuesEdom.html

There probably still remain elements from Edom amongst Judah
but the Jews remains JUDAH according to the definition of Scripture
and the Edomite elements are subservient to Judah or should be.

LIKEWISE, Edom (Esau), along with Moab and Ammon and others
(such as the Philistines, Canaanites, etc) also are to be found in Europe.
In some places they dominate in others they are a minority but liable to
come to control at historical important moments.
Amongst Joseph there exist elements from Esau but Joseph remains
the dominant party in the long run.

In our book "Ephraim" we discussed Esau in Europe and elsewhere.

Brit-Am concentrates on finding the Lost Ten Tribes and usually pushes other considerations aside
since we can rely on our detractors to bring them forward.

It is worth noting that both in Judah but MORE ESPECIALLY in Joseph one will find
elements that instinctively are against the Brit-Am approach both as concerns Judah and
regarding Joseph himself.

We will return to this subject later and speak at great length.

6. Reply to "Business" Complaint
"S" wrote:

Hello Yair,
I can not negotiate for the ... group. I just am aware of their difficulties at this point.
I was under the impression that you were solidly and enthusiastically on "the same side". I did not perceive you as two neutral groups involved in a simple business relationship. I thought you would be more than happy to facilitate wider and deeper involvement with Brit Am and its positions. You can not find greater enthusiasts than these wonderful people...
Or am I missing the point...?
Sincerely,
S

Extracts from Reply:

In exceptional circumstances we are prepared to help others in the "same field"
and sometimes do so but this willingness of ours is not something to be taken for granted.

.....The organizers .... also probably are not operating at a loss.
I doubt if the ......participants could all be described as indigent
or would welcome being so defined....
No-one complains since we all work and all have families and needs.
Why should Brit-Am be different?
Brit-Am receives from others and gives out.
What Brit-Am receives is in order to allow Brit-Am to function and to spread the
Brit-Am message according to our understanding and this is what we try to do.
Prisoners and people in hard circumstances who request free literature usually receive it
sent at our expense. We also endure expenses in order to spread the message
in some cases knowing in advance that remuneration is very unlikely.
Money received by us is tithed and in exceptional circumstances we also help
others the same as most other people at some time or other do.
People who help Brit-Am
(Yair Davidiy, Rabbi Avraham Feld, Betty Rhodes, Orjan Svensson, contributers,
supporters, etc)
quite frequently give of their time, creativity, energy, personal funds, etc and we have created a good thing.
Brit-Am is something to be proud of
and something that helps others as well as being a credit to ourselves.

People who believe in the "Ephraimite" message should be helping us.
Assistance to Brit-Am should be the no.1 priority on their agenda.
This is not the reality.
Our impression more often than not is that not only is assistance to Brit-Am not the no.1 priority
but it is not even on the agenda and is not likely to be.
Nevertheless as we see it that is how things should be.
Brit-Am does not need to be last in line.
Brit-Am defines the premises and reveals the facts.
This should be recognized and appreciated.

7. The Magazine
Our magazine
"Brit-Am Truth" no.9 should be available shortly
and we hope (God willing) no.10 will appear shortly after that.
Our intention is that from now as much as it is in our power the magazine
will appear regularly, will be of high quality, and will serve the Peoples of
Israel.

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