"Brit-Am Now"-271
July 24, 2003
Contents:
1. Israelites in Germany
2. Call for Jewish People in Australia
3. Red Hair in Ireland
4. Red Hair in the family
5. Biblical Proofs no.6: Brit-Am
6. H. Hemmenway: The United States and the British Empire
7. Video Clips of Rabbi Lapin
1. Israelites in Germany
Subject: Re: "Brit-Am Now"-270
Yair,
Interesting stuff.
I always thought my mothers people were Germans, they nearly all migrated to
Australia between 1833 and 1845 from Prussia. Mum told me that some of her
ancestors were in fact Jewish. I was eight years old when she told me and it
really caused me to identify with the Jewish people, though I was brought up
Anglican. In later years, I asked my mother's cousins, who look somewhat
semitic, if this Jewish family origin was true. They assured me it was
indeed true, but were a bit vague on the details. ( The ancestors were
mostly tailors and shoemakers.) Well, I married a Jewish girl and my
children are Jewish! So why tell you, Yair? The Prussian ( Israelite) link
fascinates me as it appears that my non-Jewish Prussian ancestors were of
Vandal origin. (The two sticks becoming one again? If you get my drift?)
I read that German "progressive" rabbis in 1844 approved marriage between
monotheists and Jews. (refer Rabbi Lamm ) Maybe this is how the
intermarriage in my mothers family happened. It seems that many branches of
my mothers extended family were products of this era of Jewish and Lutheran
(Prussian) intermarriage. Even the famous Karl Marx is a distant cousin of
mine and had relatives in Australia.
How I wish I could unravel it all, Yair, perhaps I will eventually. But
there seems to be a widespread secret amongst Lutheran Prussians in South
Australia that many of them are of JEWISH origin. I have discovered that
other families not related to my mothers have similar stories. I used to
think they were myths fueled by guilt about being Prussian until I found
Jewish names in some of the family trees. Maybe the Israelite issue is also
a key. I studied British Israel theories but, until I found your site, I
didn't think that the scholarship was solid, as I couldn't find Jewish
scholars who backed the theories.
Yacov
2. Call for Jewish People in Australia
Any Jewish people in Australia who are interested in Brit-Am and also in making contact with each other
are requested to forward their e-mail addresses to us. We will then forward them to a third person who is
interested in forming a group. We rely on this person and there are reasons why at this initial stage the group
should be confined to Jews.
3. Red Hair in Ireland
From: Athol Bloomer <atholbloomer13@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: "Brit-Am Now"-269
Dear Yair,
Regarding the red haired among Jews. I have noticed that in families of
otherwise black headed and olive skinned Jewish families of Eastern
European origins that they often have red haired people in the family but
no blondes. Among the so-called "Black Irish" families (who are of Marrano
descent from the Spanish sailors and merchants in the Galway Bay area) of
Ireland this is also common - the family members have very raven black
siblings with red haired siblings.
Cheers Athol
4. Red Hair in the family
Subject: Re: "Brit-Am Now"-269
Dear Yair,
Very good and well documented information on Jews and red hair.
My dad's family were from Scotland, he had reddish brown hair; my mother's
dad's family were from Ireland. My mother (although her mother was Choctaw
Indian) had reddish, light brown hair, her sister had solid red hair. I had
reddish blond hair, my grandson has bright red hair.
Your excellent information "rings" true to me .
Your friend,
Cecil
5. Biblical Proofs no.6: Brit-Am
The Lost Ten Tribes will comprise a "Brit-Am" or Confederation of People(s).
[Isaiah 42:6] I THE LORD HAVE CALLED THEE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND WILL HOLD
THINE HAND, AND WILL KEEP THEE, AND GIVE THEE FOR A COVENANT OF THE PEOPLE,
FOR A LIGHT OF THE GENTILES;
<<A COVENANT OF THE PEOPLE>>: in Hebrew "Brit-Am". Israel will be a
Brit-Am. In the Middle Ages Britain sometimes referred to herself as
Britammia. The Welsh called themselves, Bryth y Brithan, or Briths of
Brithan [Charles A. L. Totten, The Romance of History. Lost Israel Found, USA, 1890].
. In Biblical Hebrew "brith" means covenant.
The Rabbinical Biblical Commentator Malbim says that Brit-Am means Israel.
This is why we chose "Brit-Am" for the name of our organization. Brit-Am
represents the Lost Ten Tribes returning. Other reasons were that
Brit-Amhints at Britain from whom many of those to whom we direct our
message originate. Our friend Cecil Davis pointed out that Brit-Am can also
be understand as a shortened way of saying Britain and America.
[Isaiah 49:8] THUS SAITH THE LORD, IN AN ACCEPTABLE TIME HAVE I HEARD THEE,
AND IN A DAY OF SALVATION HAVE I HELPED THEE: AND I WILL PRESERVE THEE, AND
GIVE THEE FOR A COVENANT OF THE PEOPLE [Brim-Am], TO ESTABLISH THE EARTH,
TO CAUSE TO INHERIT THE DESOLATE HERITAGES;
The Talmud and Midrashim say that this verse and all the verses around
concern the Lost Ten Tribes and their ultimate return and re-unification
with Judah. We have quoted some of these sources at length in "Ephraim" and
elsewhere..
"A covenant of the people [Hebrew: "BRIT-AM" i.e. Britain], to establish
the earth [or in the Hebrew: "to found a country", e.g. the U.S.A., the
State of Israel], to cause to inherit the desolate heritages".
"Desolate heritages" relatively speaking were the regions of
North America, Australia and New Zealand, and South Africa before the
nations here spoken of colonized them. Also, on a long-term geo-political
and economical level the Zionist- Jewish re-settlement of part of the Land
of Israel was made possible (like and/or believe it or not), in some
measure, due to the policies of Britain (sic!) and America!!
The Lost Ten Tribes were to be associated with the name "Brit-Am"
and with the concept it represents: The Commonwealth of Nations, and the
Commonwealth of the People. British and American Constitutional
Understanding and Law entail (each with their own different points of
emphasis) the Conception of Confederation and of a Peoples Covenant, a
sacred bonding and mutual obligation between different parts of the nation
and basic in alienable rights. All this is entailed by the Covenant of the
People with the Nation. All of this is summed up in the Hebrew expression
"Brit-Am". "Brit-Am" is the Lost Tribes of Israel and their future
reunification with Judah. This point is also spoken of in Isaiah 49:
Concerning the Reaction of Judah when he sees the LOst Ten Tribes returning:
[Isaiah 49:21] THEN SHALT THOU SAY IN THINE HEART, WHO HATH BEGOTTEN ME
THESE, SEEING I HAVE LOST MY CHILDREN, AND AM DESOLATE, A CAPTIVE, AND
REMOVING TO AND FRO? AND WHO HATH BROUGHT UP THESE? BEHOLD, I WAS LEFT
ALONE; THESE, WHERE HAD THEY BEEN?
A Midrash (repeated at least eight times in early Talmudic and Midrashic
sources) speaks of Isaiah 49:6 as referring to the Lost Ten Tribes and
their places of exile and links Isaiah 49:21 to this phenomenon and the
reaction of Judah when Judah begins to realize who the present day Lost Ten
Tribes are. The Midrash understands from the verse that until that time
Judah will not have been aware of who their Lost Tribal brothers are! We
discussed this in "Ephraim" and additional sources that we have since been
made aware of have confirmed our conclusions.
6. H. Hemmenway: The United States and the British Empire
The following short article is taken from a web-site run by Harold Hemmenway.
Source [Because we say something is worth reading does not mean that the
views are necessarily our own]
http://www.british-israel.us/01.html
Harold Hemmenway: The United States and the British Empire FORETOLD in the Bible
Did the Saxons come from Isaac's sons? Are the Jutes descendants of Judah?
Were the Danes members of the tribe of Dan? Is Hibernia the home of
Hebrews? Did the Scots migrate from Scythia (S. Russia)? What happened to
the LOST TEN TRIBES of Israel? God says the shepherds haven't "SOUGHT that
which was LOST... MY SHEEP wandered through all the mountains (countries --
Ez.34:13), and upon every high hill (nation): yea, MY FLOCK was scattered
upon all the face of the earth, and none did SEARCH or SEEK after them"
(Ez.34). Are the BRITISH and AMERICANS these LOST TEN TRIBES of Israel?
"Listen, O ISLES, unto me" (Isa. 49:1). "Hear the word of the Lord, O ye
nations, and declare it in the ISLES AFAR OFF, and say, He that SCATTERED
ISRAEL will gather him, and keep him" (Jer. 31:10). ISRAEL is SCATTERED
today - not found in Palestine among the JEWS. The JEWS are only ONE of
TWELVE tribes of ISRAEL. Isaiah 24:15 places "ISRAEL in the ISLANDS of the
SEA" and since the Hebrew word for "SEA" is the same word also translated
"WEST," Isaiah may have been referring to the BRITISH ISLES. God said to
Jacob, "a COMPANY of NATIONS shall be of thee, and KINGS shall come out of
thy loins" (Gen. 35:11). The British Empire was a large trading COMPANY of
NATIONS ruled by British KINGS. God said to Abraham, I will make of thee a
GREAT NATION (United States), and I will bless thee" ("God bless America")
(Gen.12:2). Balaam compared Israel to a "UNICORN" (Num.23:22), a "LION" and
talked about Israel's ARROWS (Num. 24:8-9). The THIRTEEN STARS represent
the thirteen tribes of Israel (Gen. 37:9-11).
The THRONE of BRITAIN is the oldest in Europe and has preserved the same
coronation service as far as records go back from Egferth in 785 A.D. That
is for 1215 years. Why so long? Because God said to David, "thy THRONE
shall be established FOREVER" (2 Sam. 7:16). Genesis 49:10 says, "The
SCEPTER shall NOT DEPART from Judah... until Shiloh ("Peace") come." The
Messiah is the "Prince of Shiloh" (Peace) (Isa. 9:6) and hasn't come back
yet. The British coronation service is identical to the Bible: anointing
with oil (1 Ki. 1:34), crown of pure gold (Ps.21:3), sitting on or "at his
PILLAR" (stone) (2 Chr.23:13), presented with a Bible (Deut.17:14), given
bracelets of St. George (2 Sam. 1:10), the shout, "GOD SAVE THE KING" (1
Sam.10:24) and an oath (2 Chr.23:16). This is proof the British are the
HOUSE of ISRAEL. "Thy seed shall possess the GATE of his enemies" (Straits
of Gibraltar; Suez Canal; Straits of Malacca and Panama Canal) (Gen.
22:18). In ISAAC shall thy seed be called" (SAXONS) (Gen. 21:12). "BRITISH"
means "COVENANT MAN" in Hebrew. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (891 A.D.) says
the BRITISH came from ARMENIA. The JUTES and DANES were JEWS and DANITES.
The names GAELIC and GAUL both come from the Hebrew word GOLAH meaning
CAPTIVITY (Ez. 39:23). Welsh CYMRY came from the CRIMEA where ISRAELITE
gravestones have been found (Her. 4:11; 2 Esdras 13:40-46). These
CAUCASIANS came from below the CAUCASUS Mts., the same place the Israelites
were taken as CAPTIVES (2 Ki. 17:6).
The customs of the DRUIDS were virtually identical to the customs of the
LEVITES. Canon Lyson found 5000 HEBREW roots in the ENGLISH language. WELSH
is so much like HEBREW that the SAME SYNTAX may be used for both. OLD SAXON
is said to be 80% HEBREW. Yet these Israelites would be BLIND to their
IDENTITY (Isa. 25:7; 42:19; 43:8). Joseph would be the "custodian of the
STONE of Israel" (Stone of Scone) (Gen. 49:24). "His seed shall be in many
WATERS" (Num. 24:7) just as Britannia "ruled the waves." "Israel then shall
dwell in SAFETY ALONE" (Deut. 33:28) surrounded by a "MOAT" - the English
Channel - from the rest of Europe. America is isolated between two OCEANS.
Israel would be the "CHIEF of the nations" (Jer. 31:7) and "ABOVE ALL
nations" (Deut. 26:19) just like Britain and America. The British did
"INHERIT the GENTILES" (Isa. 54:3) in AFRICA and INDIA primarily and "Jacob
shall possess... (ESAU'S) possessions" (Obad. 17) when in 1917 it took
Trans-Jordan, Palestine and Iraq from Turkey. God told Abraham that "in thy
seed shall all families of the earth be BLESSED" (Gen. 28:14) because of
the Industrial Revolution, the Magna Carta, irrigation, abolition of
slavery, sati and thuggi, and the distribution of the Bible worldwide.
America is the "arsenal of Democracy" and the "World's policeman." Israel
was prophesied to be "a LIGHT to the nations" (Isa. 42:6), so Thomas Edison
invented the light bulb. Why did the fulfillment of prophecy take so long?
Israel had to be punished "SEVEN TIMES" for her sins (Lev. 26:28). In 745
B.C. Israel was taken captive. "Seven times" later (7 x 360 = 2520) the
United States was FORMED in 1776 A.D. Samaria was conquered in 718 B.C.
"Seven times" later Jefferson bought the "LOUISIANA PURCHASE" in 1803 A.D.
7. Video Clips of Rabbi Lapin
"Toward Tradition" have put out video clips.
I have seen three of these and it was worth it:
http://www.towardtradition.org/
Below is a description of some of the clips:
After the main speeches, Rabbi Ilan Feldman of Atlanta 's Beth Jacob
Congregation asked some very pointed and direct questions. Questions that
are on many Jews' and Christians' minds, but never discussed publicly. But
Rabbi Lapin and Ralph Reed answer these questions with very pointed and
direct answers.
1. Is it reasonable to ask Jews and Christians to work
shoulder-to-shoulder with one another, given that most Jews are convinced
that most Christians believe that Jews will 'not go to heaven.'? (2 minutes)
2. Why should Christians be friendly toward Jews and support Israel
, given that a majority of American Jews actively oppose the positions
most Christians hold on matters like abortion, school prayer, and
homosexuality. (3 minutes)
3. Aren't Christians only friendly and supportive toward Jews and
Israel because they really want to convert all Jews to Christianity? (6
minutes)
4. What gives you the right to try and impose your own vision of
morality on all other Americans? (3 minutes)
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