"Brit-Am Now"-303
October 2, 2003
Contents:
1. Scalping
2. Brit-Am Genealogy
3.
Origin of Nations Site
4. Yom Kippur
5. Visit to Temple Mount
6.
Phoenicians in New Zealand?
7. Biblical Proof no.30 Dolmens
1.
Scalping
From: Dbenariel@aol.com
Subject: Re: "Brit-Am
Now"-302
In a message dated 9/30/03 2:01:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
britam@netvision.net.il
writes:
>4. British Atrocities
>From: Joan
Griffith
>Yair,
>You may not have known this, but the British are
the ones who began to pay
>the American Indians for bringing in scalps of
the settlers. This took
>place after the French and Indian War was
settled. Some terrible things
>occurred in the 1700s-1800s, and a lot of
blood was spilled.
And the Mexicans paid Indian mercenaries so much
for the scalp of a man, so
much for a woman, and less for a child. Sin knows
no racial boundaries. May
our Common Creator grant us all repentance and
forgiveness and bless us to
soon pray in His royal House of Prayer for all
Peoples in Jerusalem, Israel!
David Ben-Ariel
Beyond Babylon: Europe's
Rise and Fall
www.benariel.com
2. Brit-Am
Genealogy
From: <betmatrho@britam.org>
Subject:
surnames
Yair,
I have a few pages started on the Genealogy section -
have been getting
email from people sending in some info. Some write wanting
me to do
genealogy research for them but I am not doing that at this
time.
Here are the names I started working with:
Taylor, Wilson, Cotter,
Crawford, Davidson (Davis, Davies), Forbes, Harris,
King, Murphy,
Russell.
These are name that are clickable from the Scottish, Irish, Wales,
UK lists.
Betty
3. Origin of Nations Site
http://www.originofnations.org/
The
Origin of Nations Site run by Craig White has a lot of articles
that are
worth viewing from a Brit-Am perspective.
This does not mean that we agree
with everything on the site or that the
style is like our own
but they
could say the same about us and the site is well worth visiting.
4. Yom
Kippur
Beginning Sunday Night up unto Monday Night is Yom Kippur (the Day of
Atonement),
and also my birthday according to the Hebrew
Calendar.
This is a time for introspection and spiritual
accounting.
[Leviticus 23:27] ALSO ON THE TENTH DAY OF THIS SEVENTH MONTH
THERE SHALL
BE A DAY OF ATONEMENT: IT SHALL BE AN HOLY CONVOCATION UNTO YOU;
AND YE
SHALL AFFLICT YOUR SOULS, AND OFFER AN OFFERING MADE BY FIRE UNTO
THE LORD.
[Leviticus 23:28] AND YE SHALL DO NO WORK IN THAT SAME DAY: FOR
IT IS A DAY
OF ATONEMENT, TO MAKE AN ATONEMENT FOR YOU BEFORE THE LORD YOUR
GOD.
On Yom Kippur every fiftieth year the Shofar (Ram's horn translated
as
"trumpet") was blown sinnallling the return of every Israelite to his
ancestral heritage. This in Jewish Law is connected with the ultimate
return of the Lost Ten Tribes as we will explain in a future
article.
[Leviticus 25:9] THEN SHALT THOU CAUSE THE TRUMPET [Shofar] OF THE
JUBILEE
TO SOUND ON THE TENTH DAY OF THE SEVENTH MONTH, IN THE DAY OF
ATONEMENT
SHALL YE MAKE THE TRUMPET SOUND THROUGHOUT ALL YOUR
LAND.
Isaiah also links the return of the Lost Ten Tribes to the blowing
of a
Shofar in a verse that is repeated throughout the Yom Kippur
service.
<<AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THAT DAY, THAT THE GREAT
TRUMPET [Shofar]
SHALL BE BLOWN, AND THEY SHALL COME WHICH WERE READY TO
PERISH (Hebrew:
Ovdim also translatable as they who were lost) IN THE LAND
OF ASSYRIA
(i.e. Lost Ten Tribes s), AND THE OUTCASTS (i.e. Jewish Captives)
IN THE
LAND OF EGYPT, AND SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD IN THE HOLY MOUNT AT
JERUSALEM>>
[Isaiah 27:13].
5. Visit to Temple Mount
Until
recently Jews had not been allowed to go up to the Temple Mount due
to fear
of Arab reactions.
This has begun to change.
For views and an account of
recent visits see:
http://www.younevercall.com/templemount
http://www.alsonetworks.com/~aviv/Harhabayit.htm
6.
Phoenicians in New Zealand?
Did Phoenicians and others visit Australia and
New Zealand? see:
http://www.zealand.org.nz/history.htm
7.
Biblical Proof no.30 Dolmens
Jeremiah (31;21) refers to
dolmens which are large stones set
table fashion over others and often
covered by large piles of rocks and
stone. The dolmens and other related
stone monuments form a connecting link
between Israel, Britain, West France,
and Scandinavia. More dolmens (over
5000!) have been found in Denmark than
in any other country. On the other
hand the oldest dolmens are believed to
be those of Israel. More than
20,000 megalithic monuments of all types
(including dolmens) have been
found in the Land of Israel especially on the
eastern "Jordanian" side
since for various reasons those on the west were
destroyed by local
inhabitants. The verse in effects links dolmens with
Ephraim.
[Jeremiah 31:21] SET THEE UP WAYMARKS, MAKE THEE HIGH HEAPS: SET
THINE
HEART TOWARD THE HIGHWAY, EVEN THE WAY WHICH THOU WENTEST: TURN AGAIN,
O
VIRGIN OF ISRAEL, TURN AGAIN TO THESE THY CITIES.
Hofman (Olam HaTanach): <<The Prophet calls upon the Exiles to
indicate with special signs their pathway into Exile, in order that they
may quickly return to the land by the path they went in. This method of
marking a pathway is practiced unto this day&How would they know to find
the way in Biblical Times? How would they describe the way of journey or
the border line? It appears that in Biblical times to was accepted practice
to make note of prominent features&>>
Abarbanel:
<<The prophet therefore spoke concerning the Kingdom of Israel
[of the
Ten Tribes] SET THEE UP WAYMARKS saying that when you g into Exile
make
signs by the routes and waymarks like piles of rocks [i.e. cairns] or
stone
monuments [Hebrew: Matzavah, i.e. dolmen] so that you may set your
heart to
the route and remember in order that you may return in the way you
went in,
return to your city.>>
The WAYMARKSthe Prophet is referring to were
megalithic monuments. These
monuments we believe were set up by Israelites
and we have some proof for
this belief. Even however if the monuments in
question were not set up by
Israelites but had existed previously the fact
remains that they happened
to all lie along the path of Israelite migration
westward. It is this fact
that Jeremiah is telling the Israelites (i.e. he
is telling us) to take
note of.
The word translated
above as "WAYMARKS" in the original Hebrew
is "Tzionim" which strictly
speaking means "signs" but in spoken Hebrew is
usually used to denote a
stone erection marking a grave or event.
The most literal
explanation of this verse amongst the
Classical Authoritative Rabbinical
Commentators is that given by the
"Radak" (Rabbi David Kimchi, 1157-1236) of
Narbonne, France. The Radak says:
"SET YOURSELF UP WAYMARKS"
(Jeremiah 31): This was directed to
the Community of Israel, that in the
generation when they would be exiled
they should set up waymarks [i.e.
"tsionim"] such as PILED-UP STONES OR
STONE MONUMENTS. The purpose of these
monuments was to mark the paths [of
migration for the sake of future
recognition]. The meaning was to say that
even though you will be exiled,
hope is not lost and you are still destined
to return to these your cities.
"MAKE YOURSELF HIGH HEAPS" [Hebrew:
"tamrurim"]. The same message is
repeated though the wording is changed
since both "tamrurim" [i.e. "high
heaps"] and "tsionim" (i.e. "waymarks")
connote elevated-height [from the
root "tamar"]...
Bearing in mind that according to the
previous verse (31;20)
Jeremiah is addressing himself to Ephraim, the verse
in Jeremiah 31;21 may
therefore be understood to say:
"Set
yourself up stone monuments [menhirs, dolmens] and high
heaps of stones
[cairns] [i.e. Megalithicmonuments!]. Set your heart
towards the prepared
way: The way in which you went. Turn back o virgin of
Israel, return unto
these cities of yours.
The mode of expression employed by
the Prophet should be
understood differently from that used by Moses. When
Moses gave a
commandment it had to be obeyed. When the prophets issue an
order
concerning future action it means they are predicting what will
happen.
They are telling us what must be learned from this action. Jeremiah
is
saying that (for whatever reason) the exiled Israelites will have stone
monuments set up. Through these monuments Jeremiah predicts that it will be
possible in the future to learn of the Israelite paths of migration away
from the Land of Israel. Once this is learned it will serve as a means by
which they may be persuaded to return. The inferred commandment to the
exiles to erect "Tsionim" is therefore applicable to the dolmens and other
socalled "StoneAge" ("Megalithic") monuments. Many of these monuments date
from the Bronze and Iron Age periods. They are mentioned in the Bible as
being set up by the Hebrew Patriarchs and Judges as well as by
others.
The ancient Israelites were always familiar with
bronze and
iron utensils but it should be noted that in some cases the use
of stone
only was enforced. An altar had to be erected of whole unhewn
stones
(Exodus 20;22); "An altar of whole stones over which no man hath lift
up
any iron" (Joshua 8;31). Joshua was commanded to circumcise Israelites
born
in the wilderness with "knives of flint" (Joshua 5;2-3). The Hebrew has
"Charvoth Tsurim" which the KJ imprecisely translates as "sharp knives".
"Tsur" means flint or sharp stone.
Dolmens and related
monuments are found in the Land of Israel,
in Jordan, in the Caucasus, in
Spain, Brittany (France), Britain, and
Scandinavia.
There are several types of dolmens and examples have also been
reported from
Ethiopia, Japan and India. Eastern dolmens are somewhat
different from those
of Israel and the west. Even so in India the dolmens
are linked with legends
of green-eyed Vikings and with the Lost Ten Tribes.
The type of dolmen found
in the area of ancient Israel (on both sides of
the Jordan River) is the
same as that found in Western Europe:
"The megalithic
dolmens found in the Golan and Galilee are
table like structures composed of
two vertical basalt blocks roofed by
large rock slabs. A heap of stones
usually covered the dolmens, creating a
tumulus. Such structures are known
in Transjordan from the Chalcolithic
period, but in the Golan and Galilee
they definitely date to EB [i.e. Early
Bronze] IV /MB [Middle Bronze]
I...These dolmens recall similar megalithic
burial structures known
throughout Europe in the Bronze Age, but the
significance of this
resemblance is unclear". A. MAZAR, Archaeology of the
Land of the Bible,
U.S.A. 1990. p.160.
The conventional dating applied in
Europe to dolmens and the
like is too early. Most Megaltihic monuments in
Western Europe were erected
in the Late Bronze or Early Iron Age after the
Israelites had been exiled.
People of Israelite origin erected them! In
archaeological and historical
studies of Western Europe dolmens are
associated with the Celtic Druids.
Wherever Celts and Druids were found
together, so too, were there dolmens.
Iron age artifacts are
frequently found together with or in
the vicinity of dolmens. Iron was
largely introduced to Europe after 700
BCE with the coming of the Celts.
Some of the Israelite groups used bronze
tools, some reverted to stone-age
ones (as did the Dutch Boers in South
Africa in the 1700s), but on the whole
the migrating Israelites may be
associated with iron.
Through Dolmens a good case may be made for tracing the
migrations of the
Lost Ten Tribes to Western Europe. The quoted verse of
Jeremiah may well be
understood in this sense.
The word "Tamrurim" used by
Jeremiah (translated here as "high
heaps") in Modern Hebrew is the word used
for "Trafficsign" or
"wayfareindicator". WAYMARKS, as noted, equal dolmens.
The verse (Jeremiah
31;12) may therefore in the Hebrew be understood further
as saying:
"Establish waymarks [i.e. "Tsionim" =dolmens] for
yourself,
set up for yourself high-heaps [i.e. cairns, "Tamrurim" = wayfare
markers]:
put your heart [i.e. pay attention] to the pathways you went by
and return,
O virgin of Israel, come back to these cities of
yours.
Some understand the above verse in a partly
figurative sense
but taken literally according to the Radak (Kimchi) it
means that a trail
of megalithic monuments should be traceable along the
paths of migration as
indeed it is. Megalithic Monuments begin in the land
of Israel on both
sides of the Jordan. They have offshoots of uncertain
nature into Asia but
exact reproductions are fund in the Caucasus, in
Bulgaria, in Spain, West
France, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Britain, and
Ireland. They describe
two main migratory paths from Israel to Western
Europe. These paths show us
how the Lost Ten Tribes left their land and
where they went to. Jeremiah
the Prophet transmits the command of God
telling us to take heed of the
paths we went in, the monuments we set up,
and the way leading back to the
cities of our forefathers in the Land of
Israel.
[Jeremiah 31:22] HOW LONG WILT THOU GO ABOUT, O THOU BACKSLIDING
DAUGHTER?
FOR THE LORD HATH CREATED A NEW THING IN THE EARTH, A WOMAN SHALL
COMPASS A
MAN.
Abarbanel on this verse says it refers to the Ten
Tribes who at first would
be weak like a woman but later would gain strength
like a man and overcome
the Gentiles.
Radak: <<A WOMAN SHALL
COMPASS A MAN: It is the way of the world that a man
goes after and hangs
around a woman, as the sages said: Someone who has
lost something seeks
after what he is lacking. Here the female goes after
and around the man,
that is the Children of Israel will repent and return
to their God who will
redeem them>>.
The expression A WOMAN SHALL COMPASS A MAN is
considered an allegory to the
Children of Israel attempting to return to
God, as if Israel is symbolized
by a female wooing her man who is the God of
Israel. For the last few years
I have been studying the Book of Jeremiah in
a weekly class given by Rabbi
Mordecai Machles in Jerusalem. Rabbi Machles
has pointed out that today it
is becoming acceptable for a female to
initiate courtship with a male. In
the past this was unthinkable. Rabbi
Machles suggests that this development
is connected with the expression in
Jeremiah, A WOMAN SHALL COMPASS A MAN,
and that this is a sign that the
prophecies of Jeremiah are about to be
fulfilled.
A WOMAN SHALL
COMPASS A MAN: In Hebrew it can be said to mean that a woman
shall surround
a man. The Rabbis said (Yebamot 62) that a person should get
married. Every
one without a wife dwells without happiness; without
blessing, without
goodness etc. In Israel they said, without Torah, without
a wall [to protect
him from temptation] as it says, A WOMAN SHALL COMPASS A
MAN.
On a
symbolic level this verse has been applied to the Lost Ten Tribes who
will
initiate an approach to Judah to which Judah will reply. Brit-Am
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[Jeremiah 31:21] SET THEE UP
WAYMARKS, MAKE THEE HIGH HEAPS: SET THINE
HEART TOWARD THE HIGHWAY, EVEN THE
WAY WHICH THOU WENTEST: TURN AGAIN, O
VIRGIN OF ISRAEL, TURN AGAIN TO THESE
THY CITIES.
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