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Brit-Am Now no. 1523
The Lost Ten Tribes of Israel Movement
11 June 2010, 29 Sivan Nissan 5770
Contents:
1. New Article:
Tribal Symbols on the Doors of the Sephardic Synagogue in
Nachlaot,
Jerusalem, Israel: Pictures
2. Question About the "Mixed Multitude" and Israelites
3. Latest Brit-Am You Tube Production Has Promise
4. Allan Dane: PROTECT THE APPLE OF HIS EYE
5. Question on Leprosy in the Bible
1. New Article:
Tribal Symbols on the Doors of the Sephardic Synagogue in
Nachlaot,
Jerusalem, Israel: Pictures
http://britam.org/synagogue.html
For more symbols of the Tribes see also:
Tribal Characteristics in A Nutshell
http://www.britam.org/tribes/TribecharList.html
"Israeli Stamps: Tribal Symbols"
http://britam.org/stamps.html
2. Question About the "Mixed Multitude"
and Israelites
"Ron Fraser" wrote:
Greetings Yair!
I have a question.
From your research, does the "mixed multitude" referred to in Ex 12:38 imply
that people of races other than Israelite went out from Egypt with the
Israelites at the time of the exodus?
As I understand it the same Hebrew term denoting mixed multitude is used in
Nehemiah at the time that a people of mixed race were separated from the
Israelites.
Shalom,
Ron Fraser
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Brit-Am Reply:
The term "mixed multitude" [Hebrew "erev rav"] is found in Exodus 12:38.
A similar term [Hebrew"erev"] also translated as "mixed multitude" but also
connoting "mixed group" in general is found in Nehemiah 13:3.
Exodus 12:
37 Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six
hundred thousand men on foot, besides children. 38 A mixed multitude [Hebrew "erev
rav"] went up with them also, and flocks and herds ?a great deal of livestock.
Nehemiah 13
1 On that day they read from the Book of Moses in the hearing of the people,
and in it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever come into
the assembly of God, 2 because they had not met the children of Israel with
bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them. However, our God
turned the curse into a blessing. 3 So it was, when they had heard the Law, that
they separated all the mixed multitude [Hebrew: "col erev"] from Israel.
A "Mixed multitude (Hebrew: "erev [mixed] rav [multitude]") did attach itself to
the Children of Israel when they came out of Egypt.
Some traditions and schools of thought emphasize the negative influence of this
element and also its numbers. It has been claimed that they greatly outnumbers
the Israelites though such claims may be figurative as much as literal.
In the time of Nehemiah the mixed multitude may have been mainly from Ammon and
Moab as understood by the Commentary "Metsudat David".
Abarbanel (Mashmia Yishua 2:3) understood Biblical verses to imply that at the
time of Return the returnees will come with their non-Israelite women and their
children will be recognized. It will not be as it was in the time of Ezra and
Nehemiah when the foreign women with their children were sent away.
On the other hand, the Zohar (VaYechi) says that the Returnees (from the Ten
Tribes and Judah) will declare that their lineage has remained pure.
The Zohar may not necessarily be intended literally.
Ezekiel 47 tells us that foreigners who attach themselves to us and identify
with us will receive an inheritance together with whatever Israelite Tribe they
live amongst.
Ezekiel 47:
21 Thus you shall divide this land among yourselves according to the tribes of
Israel. 22 It shall be that you will divide it by lot as an inheritance for
yourselves, and for the strangers who dwell among you and who bear children
among you. They shall be to you as native-born among the children of Israel;
they shall have an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. 23 And it
shall be that in whatever tribe the stranger dwells, there you shall give him
his inheritance, says the Lord GOD.
In other words, we do not know. We cannot say for sure not concerning ourselves
nor others.
There is a reason for this.
We believe in the Ten Tribes. We feel we are descended from Israel.
Biblical Proofs exists alongside strong historical evidence which once accepted
as worthy of consideration quickly is seen to be conclusive, or almost so.
All the evidence however applies to the aggregate. We as individuals may not be
certain at this stage. We should use this factor of uncertainty as a source of
strength, as a driving force. It should stir us forward to learn and study the
Bible and live as close to the will of the Almighty as we are able while doing
whatsoever the task may be that has been laid upon us.
3. Latest Brit-Am You Tube Production
Has Promise
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See:
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4. Allan Dane: PROTECT THE APPLE OF HIS
EYE,
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Jerusalem News 914
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Official: Netanyahu Waiting for 'President Palin'
http://britam.org/jerusalem2/jerusalem914.html#Obama
Dear Yair,
Hope you are feeling better, All the quote unquote moral outrage against Israel
for the attack on the flotilla, reminds me of the new Arizona anti immigration
law. The people that say how immoral it is, when you ask them if they have read
the bill, the answer is all ways NO. And getting back to the moral outrage,
where was all the moral outrage when Hitler was murdering 6 million Jews. Some
will say we didn't know, to which I respond, that is a bunch of baloney. All you
have to do is do a google search, Roosevelt knew, Churchill knew. How many times
did Jewish people beg Roosevelt and Churchill to bomb the tracks leading to
Auschwitz or Dachau, the response was all ways those planes need to bombing
German munitions factories. In other words, they didn't care. MAY THE GOD OF
ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB, CONTINUE TO WATCH OVER, BLESS, AND PROTECT THE APPLE
OF HIS EYE, HIS PEOPLE ISRAEL. Wherever in this world they may be. And I am also
waiting for President Sarah Palin.
5. Question on Leprosy in the Bible
Jay wrote:
Re
2-Kings. Chapter 5. Elisha Cures Naaman of Leprosy
http://www.britam.org/Kings/2Kings5.html
Shalom Yair:
The comment in the Artscroll TANACH for Leviticus 13 describes that
"Leprosy" or "Tzaraas" is a physical manifestation of a spiritual
malaise such as slander, also bloodshed, false oaths, sexual immorality,
pride, robbery and selfishness.
Have I somehow missed a verse? It seems to me that in my reading of the
five books of Moses, only Moses and Miriam were ever afflicted with
Tzaraas, Moses as a demonstration of the Almighty's power and Miriam
because she spoke against Moses concerning his Ethiopian wife. (I am
aware of the commentary that the "Ethiopian" wife refers to Zipporah and
that Miriam gossiped that Moses had not been intimate with her for some
time.)
Jay
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Brit-Am Reply:
If I understand your question correctly you are saying that since
Artscroll (based on the Sages) says that leprosy in the Torah applied to a
spiritually-induced condition and the Torah itself appears to confirm this then
what was Naaman doing with his leprous condition?
The Laws of Leprosy (Hebrew: Tsaraat) do in deed emanate from a spiritual
condition and were applicable when the Israelite were at a high level of
spiritual development and achievement and Prophecy was a common phenomenon.
A person only became an official Leper (Metsorah) when a Cohen (Priest) declared
him so. Maimonides points out that the Priests and Levites had to undergo a good
number of years of full-time training. Only a specially qualified Priest could
declare a leper as officially afflicted. This specialist had to have a thorough
training is physiology in order to distinguish between natural phenomena and
spiritual ones.
See:
http://torahsearch.com/page.cfm/4452
In this
week's Parsha,
Tazria,
we're told about the discoloration (leprosy) that occurs when people, and
sometimes even their property, get for speaking negatively about others (Lashon
Hara). One interesting rule, however, is that even if it's blatantly obvious
that one has leprosy, the laws pertaining to it do not apply until the
Kohen
(priest) declares it impure. Why would we need an 'official' to see and declare
it if it's obvious what it is? Also, the Torah says that leprosy that's
partially healed is considered as if it's clean (13:6). Why would a partial
healing be adequate if there's still discoloration?
The Impurity
of Leprosy - Tumas
Tzaraas
http://torahsearch.com/page.cfm/1692
Such persons must be
pronounced impure (and when they are healed, pure) by a priest, as it says "And
the priests the sons of Levi... by their mouths shall every dispute and every
condition be [decided]"
On the other hand, there was a physical disease that was also referred to as
Leprosy (Tsaraat) and its physical manifestations were similar to those of the
spiritually-induced type. This is the leprosy that Naaman had.
cf.
# Here, the
intent is not leprosy as described in the Torah (tzara'at),
but rather the illness that is referred to as leprosy in contemporary terms. #
http://www.chabad.org/dailystudy/rambam.asp?tDate=1/6/2010
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