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1. An Observed Difference between "Ephraim" and "Manasseh"
It is common enough that English people, Australians, and Canadians in conversation
will either brazenly or subtly try to define the person they are speaking to,
to categorize them in some way or other.
They may not always be aware that they are doing this.
This could be characteristic of "Ephraim", of aristocracy, of allocating to others some
kind of station in life, of psychologically putting them in a kind of "social" niche.
[Personally I always found this irritating. Even though I grew up with it, it took me a
while to realize what was happening, to put my finger on it.]

Americans (from the USA) on the other hand might ask someone about himself
or a question that somehow pertains to the other person personally
out of apparent genuine interest but then suddenly switch their attention
or turn their attention completely away.
They can be polite or quite rude about it and again maybe not even conscious that they
are doing it.
Americans are interested in the here and now, i.e. not what you were or where or how you
were born but what you can do for them at present
or what you can do for others
or even what you can do for yourself in the now-time.
This quality can be applied both positively and negatively.
it could be related to "Machir" (Price, Selling, Capitalism)
who was the firstborn of Manasseh or to Manasseh (Responsible Representation).

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2. Noel Rude: The English Word "The" is Indo-European?
From: Noel Rude <Noel@Ballangrud.com>
Subject: RE: "Brit-Am Now"-905
#1. The English Word "THE"


Greetings!

Appreciate your work but thought maybe I'd better mention that English "the"
derives from the Indo-European distal demonstrative 'that'.  The Old English
declension is clearly cognate with Greek and Sanskrit (see attached file),
[Greek: "To", "Ta"="that" Sanskrit: "Tay"="that"]
and our modern "the" is easily traceable from the Old English.  Not all
languages have a definite article but when they do it almost always (maybe
always) comes from the demonstrative 'that'.  The source of the Romance
definite articles, for example, is the Latin demonstrative ille 'that'  The
indefinite article, on the other hand, derives from the numeral 'one'
(sometimes from the proximate demonstrative 'this').  Modern Hebrew, for
example, has innovated a post-posed indefinite article from the numeral
'one'.

I mention this because I know that you don't want to say things that critics
can easily knock down.  Grammatical reconstruction is a pretty exact science
and it would be wise to take it into account in looking for Hebrew influence
in other languages.

Best,

Noel Rude

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Answer: Fair Enough. If it was just one instance we could put the Hebrew parallelism down
to coincidence. Unfortunately it happens all the time, close to 20% (or more) of the time.
Hebrew has a definite article, so does English. The Hebrew (as we showed) became pronounceable the same
as the English one.
Greek was heavily influenced by Canaanite and Hebrew.
Sanskrit was also influenced by "Semitic" tongues.
The English Pronunciation is closer to the Hebrew than it is to the Greek or Sanskrit.
The supposed Antuiquity of Sanskrit is doubtful in my view
and possibly dates to well after 500 BCE.

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3. Yellow Star of David Exhibit
From: zeev barkan <zeevveez@yahoo.com>
Subject: yellow badge
To: maayan <maayanbarkan@yahoo.com>

You are invited to see "an exhibition" of yellow badge
paintings on:
http://star-of-david.blogspot.com/search?q=Kieselstein


Zeev

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4. Hebrew Types: Pictures of Irish
http://britam.org/HebrewTypes4.html#Irish

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5. Dennis McGinlay:
"These truths and understanding of them comes only
from the Almighty"
From: Dennis McGinlay <dennis.mcginlay@virgin.net>
Subject: Re: "Brit-Am Now"-904
#2. Answers to some "Jewish" objections
#4. Dennis McGinlay: The Need for Faith


Dear Yair

We have our 'faith' strengthened by the good work you do through Biblical,
and secular studies. I meant no criticism.

I'd like to comment on the letter received from Hark.

His understanding of the Bible is from a 'closed minded' ...
This is understandable because the whole world has been left
in darkness for millennia about Gods purpose and plans for the human race.
Just as the lost 10 tribes have forgotten their heritage so have the 'tribe'
of Judah forgotten their brothers. And yet the truth of Gods purpose has
been staring us in the face through the writings of the patriarchs and
prophets. I believe that these truths and understanding of them comes only
from the Almighty to those he chooses to deliver them and I beg you not to
turn the left or the right but keep on your path of exploring these truths
from whichever source.
Shalom
Dennis
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