Date: Thu Jul 11, 2002 12:40 am
Contents:
1. The USA and rebuilding the Temple
2. Red Indian from Gad?
3. Melungeons and Jews?
1. The USA and rebuilding the Temple
From: Nancy Miller
Subject: Re: "Brit-Am Now"-52
Looked up America's Hebrew birth-date the other day. July 4, 1776 was the
17th of Tammuz.
Comment from Brit-Am: The 17th of Tammuz is a fast day which commemorates
the process that lead to the destruction of the Temple and on which we
pray
for the rebuilding of the Temple and repent of our sins.
When something happens on the same day it sometimes has one of two possible
significances:
1. OR it means that an additional calamity has occurred.
2. OR it means that a rectification of the first calamity is being prepared.
i.e. Brit-Am teaching would say that since "Joseph" will be instrumental
in
rebuilding the Temple then it is significant that the major nation
representing Joseph today
(which is the USA) was founded on the day commemorating the destruction
of
the Temple and seeking its restoration.
2. Red Indian from Gad?
From: ddlawrence
Subject: Yirmeyahu
Shalom Yair:
Your email series on Jeremiah was very good. ?
I need to learn much more of the prophets, I have been studying them
intensively for months, what do you suggest?
Are you going to do the other prophets?
A few years ago, before I received the Brit-Am message, I talked with a
native American Indian on a bus outside of Chicago. He told me his tribe
believed they descended from Gad.
don
3. Melungeons and Jews?
From the Jewish Genealogy mailing list.
Beth Hirschman spoke at the 4th Melungeon Union, June 22, Kingsport,
Tenn. on "Why This Melungeon Believes She is of Sephardic and Moorish
Descent." Four reasons: 1. Naming patterns (Biblical Hebrew like
Mordechai; Hebrew and Jewish like Golda and Esther; ARabic/Aramaic
like Mahala; Spanish/Portugues/Greek/Italian like Isabella);
2. marriage patterns (just to take her 'family stalk'...Carter,
Caldwell, Blevins, Moore, Cooper, Davis, Wampler, Wolf..."Cousin
marriage maintains ethnic purity and religious traditions, or secrecy,
and it's still practiced by Sephardic Jews and Muslims"
3. Jewish/Muslim behaviors (e.g., avoidance of pork, salting and
soaking meat to remove blood, removal of the sciatic leg nerve in meat,
cleaning house on Friday, throwing a silver coin into a baby boys
first bathwater and
--
My favorite --"Being told you are Jewish by a family member),
4. dna testing of her surnames (2 were Semitic, 8 were Western Atlantic,
2 were unclassifiable (P.S. I know one of these is COOPER because it is
also mine). She also showed maps of where the haplotypes matched--in
places throughout Europe and the New World where the Sephardic Jews lived.
Recommended reading from Beth: James Ross, Fragile Branches...Walter
Weiss, Islam: An Illustrated Historical Overview...Barbara Kessel,
Suddenly Jewish...Lary Tye, Homelands...Casa Shalom at
marrano@a... Form...JewishGene...and Richard G.
Santos, Silent Heritage, Sanantonio: New Sephard Press, 2000. She
announced the publication of her new book Melungeons: The Last Lost
Tribe in America in fall 2003 by Mercer University Press.
I followed Beth, my topic being "Jewish Indian: Who'd 've Thunk It!" But
this isalready a long e-mail, so interested parties can email me at
dpanther@g...
B'Shalom,
Don Panther-Yates
Statesboro, Ga.