"Brit-Am Now"-396
May 4, 2004
Contents:
1. Brit-Am On the Air
2. Curiosities: The Changing heights of Human Races
3. Culling the list
4. Radio Show: letters
a: Letter to Tamar
Returning to TORAH/TANAK
b. More on Radio Show
From: William Rasmussen
D. Wells: very good
SUSAN GORDON: Brit-Am On the Air
5. Psalms 4
1. Brit-Am On the Air
2. Curiosities: The Changing heights of Human Races
http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/002022.html?entry=2022
Tall Tale
This <http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040405fa_fact>New Yorker
article {Via
<http://letterfromgotham.blogspot.com/2004_03_01_letterfromgotham_archive.html#108068680084988930>Diana}
about the study of past and present national height differences is an
enjoyable read, and has a lot of great little factoids. Among them:
". . . in Northern Europe over the past twelve hundred years human stature
has followed a U-shaped curve: from a high around 800 A.D., to a low
sometime in the seventeenth century, and back up again. Charlemagne was
well over six feet; the soldiers who stormed the Bastille a millennium
later averaged five feet and weighed a hundred pounds. "They didn't look
like Errol Flynn and Alan Hale," the economist Robert Fogel told me. "They
looked like thirteen-year-old girls.""
"The men of the northern Cheyenne, he found, were the tallest people in the
world in the late nineteenth century . . . they averaged nearly five feet
ten."
"In both Europe and the Americas, he discovered, humans grew shorter as
their cities grew larger . . . Heights also fell in synch with global
temperatures, which reached a nadir during the Little Ice Age of the
seventeenth century"
Ok, but the article's main issue is this: The Dutch are the tallest people
in the world {average 6 foot 1}, while Americans are mysteriously short
{average 5 foot 9.5; white Americans apparently being among the shortest
European peoples in the world}. This was not always the case, in fact it
seems to have gone 180 degrees in about a century: Americans were about the
tallest in the world for two centuries while the Dutch were the shortest
people in Europe. American colonists at 5 foot 9 were basically the same
height as modern Americans, and three inches taller than Europeans at the
time, and four inches taller than the Dutch through most of the nineteenth
century. Somewhere around the mid 1950s though, Europe started rapidly
growing and America stopped. Now Americans are the ones who are about three
inches shorter than the {Northern} European average . . . almost the same
as Japan even
{<http://research.yale.edu/wwkelly/restricted/Japan_journalism/WP_930123.htm>5
foot 8 1/4}, which has had some rapid growth spurts of its own.
Four inches taller to four inches smaller in about a century. Why is this?
Well the article describes a couple of theories which don't appear to be
right, such as racial admixture and a host of demographic/economic
variables and yet:
"[the height historian] has subdivided the country's heights by race, sex,
income, and education. He has looked at whites alone, at blacks alone, at
people with advanced degrees and those in the highest income bracket.
Somewhere in the United States, he thinks, there must be a group that's
both so privileged and so socially insulated that it's growing taller. He
has yet to find one."
So a cultural nutrition pattern is considered as a provisional explanation,
though it doesn't go too deeply into how much empirical support there is
for the Fast Food Hypothesis {FFH}. I would think this would be a fairly
easy thing to investigate; it seems strange to me that nothing was said
about 'subdividing the country' by diet. Are the Burger King kids in the
'burbs really three inches shorter than the farm kids in the stix that get
the hearty country breakfast and garden-grown veggies at dinner? Do urban
Brits, with all the same working moms and cheap n' easy hamburger chains,
really eat that much healthier than urban Americans?
Posted by Jason Malloy at
<http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/002022.html>10:05 PM
3. Culling the list
A larger than usual number of our postings are not reaching their addresses.
This is probably because people have changed their addresses (and not told
us) or allowed them to become
inactive.
We will shortly do a periodic culling of the list and remove defunct addresses.
Whenever we do this it happens that some addresses get removed when the
addressees
wanted to remain on the list.
The only recourse is to request you to get in touch with us
if after a week you receive no mail from us.
4. Radio Show: letters
a: Letter to Tamar
Returning to TORAH/TANAK
>From: "craig"
>To: <Tamar@israelnationalradio.com>
>
>Subject: Returning to TORAH/TANAK
>Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 23:45:16 -0400
>
>I have just finished listening to your show on the lost ten tribes. I am
>from the state of South Carolina, USA, my heritage is from Norway and
>England. For the past ten years I and other friends have become aware of
>the heritage that has been stripped from us. Where our brother Yah Huda is
>struggling with who we are, we are struggling with a history and a culture
>that we have been denied. I have been observing the feast of Leviticus 23
>and the fourth commandment, SHABBAT, now for five years, and giving up the
>pagan holidays of christmas and easter. This has been indeed a shock to
>my life style. the number of people who imbrace this two house message is
>growing. Last Succot, 300 gentiles gathered in the wilderness to camp out
>in tabernacles, we were their for the full festival. We are white, black,
>asian,american Indian, european, Canadian,and teaching us are Levites, Yah
>Huda, and BenYamin. We are returning to Torah and the Tanak. It is strange
>and wonderful to embrace the full message. Your show comes from the
>perspective of our brother Yah Huda. We have a perspective of not knowing
>what we do not know. This is saturday I have observed the Sabbath, a
>group of us started at 10am and went to 7pm today studying Leviticus
>16-20. Reading from the Chumash and other related material. On tuesday
>evening we will be holding a make up Pesach for 15 plus people who have
>not done a Pesach but have a hunger to experience what they do not know,
>in excess of 200 will gather for Shavuot. This awakening is growing and
>the mainline christian church is against this. We have a very different
>and distinct message and we NEED our brothers YAH HUDA,LEVI, BENYAMIN to
>teach us what we do not know. We do not know the history or culture that
>you have preserved so well at such a great cost, we are beginning to see
>the deeper levels of TORAH, but we do not need to recreate the wheel. the
>twelve tribes have fought with each other in the distant path. HASHEM was
>not pleased. Both groups need to work on putting ego aside, pride aside,
>and submit to what HE wants. The awakening is growing, our spiritual
>hunger for the truth (emet) pushes us forward. The Calling of THE HOLY ONE
>of YISRAEL pulls and tugs at us, we thirst for what we have been
>denied. ZECHAR YAH 9:12-14. We who are coming out of the christian
>church---- we who are of Ephrayim are a quiver of arrows waiting to be
>strung into the bow of Yah Huda. We are the dry bones awakening and TORAH
>is what is bringing life to us. We have a message and you have a message,
>we need to increase the dialog between us. The House of YISRAEL is
>awakening and these are the final days, may we become the the one new
>stick SOON.
>Shalom Craig
b. More on Radio Show
From: William Rasmussen <brasshalom@yahoo.com>
Subject: Shalom and b'richot [Blessings] to you from Bill Rasmussen in
Minnesota
Shalom Yair, or should I say G'day mate? I just listened to the radio
interview that you did with Israeli National Radio. The interview was
fantastic. What surprised me was to hear you speaking Aussie
English. Brisbane perhaps? In any event, your comments as well as those
of Rabbi Feld were insightful, clear and intellectual. They simply and
effectively made the case for the return of all the tribes back to Eretz
Yisrael. Brit Am needs this kind of publicity to get its message out. As
we approach the Acharit Yamim [End of Days], I pray that you will have many
radio and TV interviews to help awaken the Lost tribes.
I bless you with the following Australian expressions: May all your
coconuts be standing in a row, may all your kangaroos be tied down and may
your Fosters always be cold. Shalom, Bill Rasmussen
c. very good
The radio talk about the lost 10 tribes was very good. Needs to be
broadcast more often. Keep up the good work. Shalom D.Wells
I will be as the dew unto Israel; He shall blossom as the lily, and cast
forth his ROOTS as Lebanon. His BRANCHES shall spread, and his beauty
shall be as the olive tree, and his fragrance as Lebanon. They that dwell
under his shadow shall again make corn to grow, and shall blossom as the
vine; The scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon".
[Hosea 14:6-8]
.
d.
>From: SUSAN GORDON
>Subject: Re: Brit-Am On the Air
>
>
>How excited I was to hear you on Israel National News this weekend via the
>computer! Finally I know how to pronounce the name Yair. I told a number
>of people to tune in but they missed you. I'm looking forward to hearing
>more from you and Rabbi Avraham Feld.
>More, more, more!
>
>Shalom from the Great Northwest (USA).
>
>Susie
5. Psalms 4
[Psalms 4:1] HEAR ME WHEN I CALL, O GOD OF MY RIGHTEOUSNESS: THOU HAST
ENLARGED ME WHEN I WAS IN DISTRESS; HAVE MERCY UPON ME, AND HEAR MY PRAYER.
In the Hebrew this psalm beings with the words: "LeMenatsaech BeNiginot
LeDavid" translated as "To He Who grants victory through the art of music,
for David". S.R. Hirsch comments that through music one can obtain
spiritual inspiration to enable one to overcome whatever adverse forces
one may be facing. King Saul suffered from mental anguish and David
through his music had been able to alleviate his suffering 2-Kings 3:15.
I myself never understood much about music. My attempts at singing where
once compared (by a good-natured friend) to the braying of a donkey. On
the other hand one of my sons composes modern-type music which is not bad.
Also on my mother's side my great-grandfather was reportedly an
accomplished violinist. According to reports he had been appointed to the
King of Denmark. I do not know if this is true or not but if so it must be
recorded somewhere: A Jew named "Jacoby" appointed as official violinist
to the King of Denmark must have been exceptional at the time and should be
of interest to historians. Or maybe it's a familial wishful think?
Sometimes we underrate our ancestors (and ourselves) and sometimes we do
the opposite.
<<HEAR ME WHEN I CALL, O GOD OF MY RIGHTEOUSNESS>>: This Psalm was a
personal prayer of King David that anyone who wishes may now use as a
personal prayer to ask God for help.
The Midrash (Yalkut Shimeoni) points out that this Psalm may also be seen
as a cry of the Tribe of Judah for assistance in time of trouble, cf.
" HEAR, LORD, THE VOICE OF JUDAH, AND BRING HIM UNTO HIS PEOPLE"
[Deuteronomy 33:7], re-unite him with his brothers?
[Psalms 4:2] O YE SONS OF MEN, HOW LONG WILL YE TURN MY GLORY INTO SHAME?
HOW LONG WILL YE LOVE VANITY, AND SEEK AFTER LEASING? SELAH.
<<YE SONS OF MEN>>: In Hebrew "Bnei Ish" meaning (as the Radak points out)
great men or important men. Even today Biblical Critics and all kinds
of other cranks belittle the greatness of King David. In a sense, nothing
has changed. Everything in the Bible is almost immediately applicable to
the situation today.
[Psalms 4:3] BUT KNOW THAT THE LORD HATH SET APART HIM THAT IS GODLY FOR
HIMSELF: THE LORD WILL HEAR WHEN I CALL UNTO HIM.
[Psalms 4:4] STAND IN AWE, AND SIN NOT: COMMUNE WITH YOUR OWN HEART UPON
YOUR BED, AND BE STILL. SELAH.
[Psalms 4:5] OFFER THE SACRIFICES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND PUT YOUR TRUST IN
THE LORD.
[Psalms 4:6] THERE BE MANY THAT SAY, WHO WILL SHEW US ANY GOOD? LORD, LIFT
THOU UP THE LIGHT OF THY COUNTENANCE UPON US.
<<LIFT THOU UP>>: S.R. Hirsch points out that in Hebrew this can also be
understood to mean "Set the light of your favor upon us as a mark of our
distinction".
[Psalms 4:7] THOU HAST PUT GLADNESS IN MY HEART, MORE THAN IN THE TIME THAT
THEIR CORN AND THEIR WINE INCREASED.
The inner happiness that comes with walking with God leads to salvation.
This must be often worked upon and striven for since spiritually-inclined
people also have a tendency towards depression. At all events the Psalms
are a valuable tool and should be utilized. Oliver Cromwell knew the Psalms
by heart or nearly so. Elizabeth-1 was also familiar with them as well as
learning Hebrew.
[Psalms 4:8] I WILL BOTH LAY ME DOWN IN PEACE, AND SLEEP: FOR THOU, LORD,
ONLY MAKEST ME DWELL IN SAFETY.
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