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Brit-Am Now no. 1647.
14 February 2011, 10 Adar-Aleph 5772.
Movement of the Ten Tribes of Israel.
Contents:
1. New Brit-Am YouTube Clip. Promised Blessings to Abraham.avi
2. New Brit-Am YouTube Clip. Promised Blessings to Isaac.avi
3. Bagpipes in the Bible. Rashi; A New Source.
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1. New Brit-Am YouTube Clip. Promised Blessings to Abraham.avi
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=0Fn9fPGvJK0
| Promised Blessings to Abraham.avi Duration: 16.25 minutes |
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Forefather Abraham was promised to become a great and mighty nation through whom all the Peoples of the earth would be blessed. He was told that his descendants would number many millions, and possess the strategic pathways of their enemies. All these blessings and more have been fulfilled in the English-speaking peoples. They serve as Biblical Proofs that they are descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel.
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2. New Brit-Am YouTube Clip. Promised Blessings to Isaac.avi
http://il.youtube.com/profile?user=yairdavidiy#p/u/0/rFCSNuw0cII
| Promised Blessings to Isaac.avi Duration: 12.02 minutes |
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Forefather Isaac was promised to receive the blessings Abraham that included to become a great and mighty nation through whom all the Peoples of the earth would be blessed. Isaac was promised that his descendants would number many millions, and possess the strategic pathways of those who hate him. All these blessings and more have been fulfilled in the English-speaking peoples. They serve as Biblical Proofs that they are descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel.
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3. Bagpipes in the Bible. Rashi; A New Source
In the past we wrote on several occasions concerning the bagpipe in the Bible, e.g.
http://britam.org/samuel-10.html
[1-Samuel 10:5] AFTER THAT THOU SHALT COME TO THE HILL OF GOD, WHERE IS THE GARRISON OF THE PHILISTINES: AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, WHEN THOU ART COME THITHER TO THE CITY, THAT THOU SHALT MEET A COMPANY OF PROPHETS COMING DOWN FROM THE HIGH PLACE WITH A PSALTERY, AND A TABRET, AND A PIPE, AND A HARP, BEFORE THEM; AND THEY SHALL PROPHESY:
The Prophets would play music to make them happy and enable them to reach spiritual enlightenment.
Happiness is conducive to the spirit of Prophecy (Talmud, Shabbat 72), cf. 2-Kings 3:15.
## PSALTERY ## Hebrew "Navel" which presumably derives from the root "HeVeL" meaning air, or hot air and therefore the word is related to a wind instrument. On the other hand "navel" also means the stomach of a sheep that was used to hold water or wine (see above, 1-Samuel 10:3). The bag-pipes are also based on the principle of blowing through a pipe into a sheep's skin. There are those who say that "Navel" means bag-pipe.
See the Brit-Am Commentary to Daniel 3:5.
The bag-pipes did originate in the Middle East area. On the other hand the term "Navel" in Second Temple Times may also have been applied to some kind of stringed instrument though in the light of present findings "bagpipes" appears the most probable.
Recently we happened across a source that made us look at the subject again:
The question hinges around the meaning of the word "navel" also transliterated "Nabal", "nevel, or "nebel".
Iben Shushan (New Concordance) explains "nabal" to mean a stringed instrument.
Jastrow ("Dictionary of the Talmud") tries to cover all the options:
1) leather bottle...
2) a hollow musical instrument lyre (with a leather body)...
3) a leather wind instrument, a sort of bellows...
Recently I heard the opinion that "nabal" means bagpipes such as those used in Scotland.
This opinion was expressed while explaining the source below.
The Talmud (Zevachim 68;a) speaks of the ram while alive makes only one sound but when it is dead it makes seven.
Rashi explains that from the body of a ram seven musical instruments are produced:
# Its two horns make two trumpets,..its skin makes drums, its intestines make nabalim [i.e. bagpipes], its small intestines to make musical strings, ...
A certain Rabbi giving a lesson on this source said that nabalim (plural of "nabal") means bagpipes such those used in Scotland.
He also said that the earliest Scottish bagpipes were made from the intestines of sheep. We have not been able to corroborate this source so have refrained from quoting the Rabbi by name.
We are still searching but so far here is the only source that even vaguely confirms what was said:
# I'm sure they would probably have the odd large intestine laying around that they hadn't yet turned into bagpipes... #
Source:
Sheep Skin Seat Cover
http://www.ott-motorcycles.ca/
index.php?topic=47621.0
See also:
Ethnology of Scotland
http://www.arizonascots.
com/2010SCOTTISHREPORT.pdf
The bag, the bag is the large bladder where the air is contained when playing.
Bagpipes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagpipes
Extracts:
Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones, using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes of many different types come from different regions throughout Europe, Northern Africa, the Persian Gulf, and the Caucasus.
Possible ancient origins
Evidence of pre-medieval bagpipes is uncertain, but several textual and visual clues may possibly indicate ancient forms of bagpipes. The "Oxford History of Music" makes mention of the first documented bagpipe being found on a Hittite slab at Eyuk in the Middle East. This sculptured bagpipe has been dated to 1000 BC.
Many examples of early folk bagpipes in Continental Europe can be found in the paintings of Brueghel, Teniers, Jordaens and Durer.[5]
Evidence of the bagpipe in Ireland occurs in 1581, when John Derrick's "The Image of Irelande" clearly depicts a bagpiper.
During the expansion of the British Empire, spearheaded by British military forces that included Highland regiments, the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe became well-known worldwide. This surge in popularity was boosted by large numbers of pipers trained for military service in the two World Wars. The surge coincided with a decline in the popularity of many traditional forms of bagpipe throughout Europe, which began to be displaced by instruments from the classical tradition and later by gramophone and radio.
In the United Kingdom and Commonwealth Nations such as Canada and New Zealand, the bagpipe is commonly used in the military and is often played in formal ceremonies. Foreign militaries patterned after the British Army have also taken the Highland bagpipe into use, including Uganda, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Oman. Many police and fire forces in Scotland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and the U.S.A. have also adopted the tradition of pipe bands.
Great Highland Bagpipe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Great_Highland_Bagpipe
Extracts:
The Clan Menzies still owns a remnant of a set of bagpipes said to have been carried at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, though the veracity of this claim is debated.[1] There are many ancient legends and stories about bagpipes which were passed down through minstrels and oral tradition, whose origins are now lost. However, textual evidence for Scottish bagpipes is more definite in 1396, when records of the Battle of the North Inch of Perth reference "warpipes" being carried into battle.[2]
Brit-Am Note:
Bagpipes it seems were known of in many places. Nowadays they are associated mainly with the Scottish Highlands.
It may not really prove anything but it adds a point of interest knowing that bagpipes were used by the Ancient Israelites and are mentioned in the Bible.
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