Destination Yisrael – “On October 2014, the Knesset Conversion Bill to Judaism was in open debate. For all Lost Israelites who have a desire, hope and vision of living in the Land of Israel should take notice. This letter was written great clarity in the midst of the religious-political environment as the Israel Conversion Bill was looming just days into the future.
Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum wrote this letter giving a very cogent and deep understanding of the issues involved within the State of Israel as to whom is invited into the Land of Israel as a citizen of the State of Israel while keeping true to the halakhic understanding given to Moses and the Children of Israel at the mount called Sinai.
At this moment of time in human history, the presence of HaShem, the G-d of Israel came the closest to His “Chosen People”. There not only was an elevated state of consciousness simultaneously seen on Planet Earth but it included hundreds of thousands of the children of the ancient Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. At that time, they were also declared by “El Shaddai”, the Almighty One of Israel that they were now the “Nation of Israel.”
With his poignant and spiritual insight, Rabbi Greenbaum reaches back to the halakhic truths given at Sinai and he replants it now into today’s modern world of a strange new dilemma that is being revealed to the Observant Jewish people; the rise and integration of the collective understanding of all the prophetic understandings of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel. Today, for modern Israel today is a Jewish State, is strangely silent about the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel. Yet if the collective insight of the ancient Hebrew prophets of old unfolds, there will be a rise of spiritual consciousness, given by the hand of HaShem that will united the entire House of Judah, Klal Yisrael (All 12-Tribed Israel) of the descendants of the Ancient Children of Israel.
If the prophetic picture hangs true, in the near future date we may witness the potential unfolding of the soon coming “Era of the Messiah”. This supernal event may occur within the next 18 months as the 7th Sabbatical Week of Years will finish at Rosh Hashanah 2016, and the Jubilee Year of 2017 [Jewish Year 5777, the 5000 years of man plus the insignia of G-d, 777) the “gates of heaven” may open up and all the prophetic streams of the past will converge into a Mighty Stream of Divine Reality sweeping all Jews, observant or not, and all Lost Ten Tribed Israelites into the futuristic era called the “World to Come.” Let us open our hearts to each other and to the Almighty One of Israel and with teshuvah, repentance prepare to become a part of that glorious moment.
Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum – “Today’s letter is not actually from Jerusalem as I am visiting Safed for a few days, where I have been having discussions with some distinguished authorities on the subject of the Ger, literally a “dweller”, a Torah term with varying shades of meaning. In some contexts it means a full convert to the religion of Israel (Ger Tzeddek), while in others it may refer to a non-Israelite who has rejected paganism and undertaken to observe the Seven Laws of the Children of Noah, and who is permitted to reside with the Children of Israel in their Land (Ger Toshav).
The subject is particularly relevant this week as we begin studying the Torah portions telling the story of the world’s first Ger Tzeddek, the patriarch Abraham. He sought no formal certificate of conversion from any rabbinical court in recognition of his submission to the One God, because in Abraham’s time there were, of course, no rabbinical courts.
For Abraham, recognition came from the One God Himself, Who spoke directly in Abraham’s heart. Instead of a paper certificate, Abraham inscribed his testimony of conversion in his very flesh in the form of the circumcision, sign of the Covenant: Brit Milah.
The timeliness of the topic of Gerimis underlined by this week’s vote by the Israeli Knesset’s Committee on Constitutional Law and Justice to send a proposed new Conversion Bill for its second and third readings despite fierce opposition from the Israeli chief rabbis, from the “national religious” Jewish Home, and the “haredi” (orthodox) Shas and United Torah Judaism parties.
The proponents of the Bill, from the Russian secularist Yisrael Beitenu and Israeli leftist Labor, HaTenuah and Yesh Atid parties, seek to diminish or even eliminate entirely the orthodox Israeli chief rabbinate’s control over conversion in the country, arguing, in the words Knesset members (Yesh Atid):
MK Ruth Calderon – “Easing’ the conversion process will ‘open the door before anyone who wants to tie his fate with that of Israel… The entrance into the Nation of Israel does not pass through one gate but through many gates, which are in line with the identity of each community, an identity that cannot always be measured with the halachic yardstick.”
MK Aliza Lavie – “Israel has been committing a crime against the converts…we are murdering with our own hands those who seek to join the Jewish people.”
If the law does not pass,” she threatened, “there will be a civil rebellion here!” On the other hand, if the law does pass, the orthodox communities will stage their own rebellion and maintain independent population registries.
The question of “Who is a Jew” has long been hotly debated both in Israel and in Jewish communities in the rest of the world. Since the State of Israel was set up as the “Jewish homeland”, it would seem to make sense that those whom Judaism recognizes as Jewish should have the right to live here, a right which for new Olim (immigrants) to the country carries some valuable privileges including financial assistance in setting up, career training, acquiring a home, etc.
The essence of the problem is that on the one hand, the Halachah as derived from the Talmud and codified in the Shulchan Arukh centuries ago, leaves no room for doubt “Who is a Jew” whether through matrilineal heredity or full conversion. On the other hand, centuries of Jewish intermarriage, cultural and social assimilation among the surrounding nations have left a huge proportion of the present-day “Jewish” population across the world with little or no connection with the Torah and its practice.
The defenders of the proposed Israel Conversion Bill claim that “easing” the Halachic requirements for becoming a convert will help solve the anomalous status of over 330,000 immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union and their children, who are not Jewish according to the accepted halachic definition, but who were allowed to enter the country as Olim because of having a Jewish male ancestor even though the halachah requires matrilineal Jewish descent. Under the present law, unless they undergo a demanding orthodox conversion they cannot be married by the rabbinate or buried in the regular sections of Jewish cemeteries.
The proposed solution is to transfer control over conversions in Israel from the Chief Rabbinate – who have the power to impose vetoes on what they see as non-halachic conversions, which they have used not infrequently – and transfer it to local rabbinates, who are expected to be more “flexible” in their requirements. In other words, the new converting Beit Dins will be able to wave a magic wand and set aside the actual Halachah in order to create new “Jews”.
Conversion politics
I personally doubt if most of the proponents of the new bill have the slightest interest in these new Jews or the kind of Judaism they will practice if any. They appear to be mainly interested in better integrating Israel’s halachically non-Jewish immigrants into the new secular society they seek to fashion, being hell-bent on severing the country’s links with the Torah tradition we have received from our ancestors.
It is widely understood that the massive Jewish Agency-sponsored airlifts of hundreds of thousands of new Olim into Israel when the doors of the Soviet Union opened in the 1980s and 1990s, including a huge proportion who were neither Jewish nor had any interest in practicing Judaism, were secretly intended as an exercise in social engineering.
The airlifts reached their peak in the early months of 1991, when Israelis together with all the rest of the world were preoccupied with the Gulf War against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. At the time it seemed amazing that all these planeloads of new immigrants were apparently undeterred by Hussein’s almost daily scud missile attacks on Israel. Perhaps it was the lure of a nice apartment in Ashdod or Ashkelon that made it worth the risk. Meanwhile, the secret plan of the Aliyah bosses was to flood Israel with a new influx of secular voters, who it was hoped would act as a counterweight to what they perceived as the menacing rise of the orthodox and religious nationalist constituencies in the country.
Today the chorus calling to break the Israeli chief rabbinate’s control over conversion is strongly reinforced by the Jewish Reform and Conservative movements, which while relatively small and ineffective in Israel, are of course very powerful in America and elsewhere, where they provide a means of “Jewish” self-expression and identification which does not require observance of the Torah as our ancestors knew it.
I would like presently to discuss why I think that neither the proponents nor the opponents of the new Israeli Conversion Bill have begun to grasp the real challenge of our times.
But before I do so, in order to throw light on the destructive intentions of its proponents, I would like to refer to a work by RaMBaM (Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, “Maimonides”), which is well worth studying in our time for many other reasons besides the insights it contains on our present topic. This work is Iggeret Teiman, the “Letter to Yemen” which Rambam wrote in order to guide, inspire and comfort the imperiled Jewish communities of his time in Yemen who were faced with forced conversion to Islam or death. The work includes Rambam’s incisive analysis of Christianityand Islam (which today would immediately see him hauled into the dock for political incorrectness).
In the context of our present discussion of the current war against the Halachah, what is relevant is Rambam’s explanation of how the plans of enemies like Amalek, Sennacherib, Nebuchadnezzar etc. to make physical war on Israel were thwarted, as were those of the ancient Persians and Greeks etc. who sought to undermine the Torah with intellectual arguments and counter-proofs.
Far more insidious, however, explains Rambam, was a new kind of sect that “resolved to lay claim to prophecy and to found a new faith, contrary to our Divine religion, and to contend that it was equally God-given. Thereby it hoped to raise doubts and to create confusion, since one is opposed to the other and both supposedly emanate from a Divine source, which would lead to the destruction of both religions. For such is the remarkable plan contrived by a man who is envious and querulous. He will strive to kill his enemy and to save his own life, but when he finds it impossible to attain his objective, he will devise a scheme whereby they both will be slain.”
Rambam – writing over 800 years ago – viewed Christianity and Islam as being such sects. It seems highly likely that had he lived to witness the development of Reform and Conservative Judaism, Secular Zionism, Jewish Liberalism etc. etc. from the 1800’s onwards, Rambam would have classified these too as new fronts in the war against the integrity of the Torah. Reform and Conservative Jewish ideologues present their anti-halachic pathway as a reasonable modern “alternative” to orthodoxy, which they portray as merely one possible “interpretation” of the Torah among many.
As a Jew who has accepted the authority of the Talmud and the Shulchan Aruch Torah law code over every aspect of my life, I see the proposed Israel Conversion Bill, as merely the latest attack on the integrity of the Halachah by forces that not only have no interest in the Torah and its practice but seek to undermine them.
My hunch is that in the end the Bill will in any case be killed somewhere along the line in the Knesset, because Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week came out publicly against it even though he had previously expressed his support.
Here again political considerations seem to weigh more heavily than any new-found respect for the Halachah, since the present government coalition, an unlikely concoction of partners, is seemingly soon to break up as Israel lurches towards new elections in an attempt to re-juggle the political pieces. The Prime Minster currently seems to be siding with the parties that oppose the new bill – Jewish Home, Shas and United Torah Judaism – because he will likely have to partner with them in a new coalition when the leftist Yesh Atid and Tenuah leave the present one.
Thus unfortunately we see that across the Israeli political spectrum, the concern is less for the actual prospective Gerim than with jockeying and wheeler dealing in preparation for new elections.
What is so short-sighted about this whole debate is that it completely ignores an entirely different category of people numbering hundreds of thousands if not millions and millions across the world. In the great majority of cases they will in all likelihood never be able even to visit Israel in the foreseeable future, let alone reside there in a Torah-observant community so as to undergo an orthodox “conversion” to Judaism. Yet their souls today are spontaneously awakening with an inexplicable and insatiable thirst for the God of Israel and the Torah of Israel, and for some connection with the People of Israel. These are real living people, deep, deep souls, and they crave some kind of recognition.
These are people across the world who are the strongest supporters of the Jewish people and the State of Israel at a time of exploding anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. Yet I daresay the party politicians of Israel who claim to be promoting the interests of the Jewish people, and even the Rabbis who seek to defend the integrity of the Halachah, have little or no knowledge at all of the existence of these people and their yearnings. Are they Gerim? Potential Gerim? Or might they be sparks of the Long-lost Tribes of Israel?
The founders of Israel did not call it the State of Judea, though it is known and considered as “the Jewish” state. When they called it the State of Israel they legitimately or illegitimately associated it with the tradition of the historical people of Israel in the wider sense, the Children of Israel, the people of the Torah. Do not all the Children of Israel, including those who have long been lost and exiled, deserve their share in the Land of Israel?
The appalling, willful historical myopia of those forces that have hijacked and today control the State of Israel causes them to ignore the fact that the actual land of Israel promised to Abraham goes way beyond the borders of post-1967 Israel, let alone the 1948 Armistice Lines. While ISIL dream of a new Caliphate, it is time for all Jews and all Israelites in the wider sense to wake up and remember that God promised us all the land “from the river of Egypt [the Nile] to the great river, the river Euphrates” (Genesis 15:18).
It may not be politically correct today to announce this in the hallways of the United Nations and on campuses etc., but the fact is that these boundaries include the entire eastern Mediterranean seaboard from the Nile all the way up to the Turkish city of Antakya, ancient Antioch, thus encompassing the whole of present-day Lebanon and Syria as well as huge swathes of southern Turkey.
As we study the story of Abraham, the first Ger, it is surely time to broaden our perspective on who really is a Ger, who is a true Israelite, who is a Jew and what is the Land of Israel.
The present debate in Israel on the Gerim focuses on how to convert people to a Judaism that many of them are unlikely ever to practice halachically, while completely ignoring the millions of awakening souls who are convinced they have a share in the God of Israel and who seek guidance in how they should observe the Torah.
While the rabbis entrusted to guard the Halachah are surely justified in opposing the present assault that aims to undermine it, let them also awaken to the plight of our long lost Israelite brothers and sisters who yearn to find their way home.
Shabbat Shalom!
Avraham ben Yaakov (Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum)
Destination Yisrael - For all the Lost Ten Israelites, scattered predominately in America, Northern Europe and the colonial nations of the British Empire, may you say, Baruch HaShem Adonai, for the arms of the Divine are opening up to a renewed prophetic reality; the return of the Lost 10-Tribed House of Israel back into the fold of Judaism.
One of the halachic provisions that may be restored is the original halakhah at Sinai, if your mother is an “Israelite” that is all 12-tribed Israel, then you are a redeemed Israelite of the House of Israel. (Ezekiel 36).
Let’s face the true reality in our present day, the geo-political environment continues to deteriorate around the entire globe. ISIS races across the Middle Eastern landscapefrom Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Then they plan to head towards Egypt, Libya, Morocco and then on to Spain and Europe.
Today, Putin’s Russia and Obama’s America finds more to disagree concerning the strangle hold of oil and gas in Ukraine, yet let us face one historical reality; Ukraine is one of the ancient homelands of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel.
Now we have been exposed to the blunt reality by the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu in his Purim speech to the American Congress of the United States. It is the intention of Persia-Iran to destroy Israel (Little Satan) and Edom-Rome plus America (Greater Satan) by a nuclear holocaust.
This is not recent news, for the sages of Judah have exposed these prophetic truthsfor centuries. Peres (Persia/Iran) in the prophetic eyes of the Tzaddiks of Judah have recognized that at the “End of Days” the Persians will attack the Vatican (Edom-Rome) but at the end Edom-Rome will conquer Persia.
Today, Northern Europe is the ancient homeland of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel. Those days in exile are about over for as the Prophet Ezekiel foretold, the G-d of Israel will someday soon uproot the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel and return them back to the lands of their forefathers in Samaria, the spiritual battleground of the Palestinians seeking to uproot the Jewish people in Judea. Yet, we may have to concede, the “welcome mat in Israel “may be our last safe haven as HaShem, the G-d of Israel has promised to protect only one nation and city; Jerusalem and theLand of Greater Israel.
Lost Tribers, it’s time to “wake up” like the Jews had to do in Nazi dominated Europe. It’s time to prepare to return early to the land of Israel and be saved, or be exterminated by those who hate and despise you.
The prophets are also united in their clarity that only a “remnant will survive”, and that redemption will be a part of the rise of the new Empire of Greater Israel. Whatever view you have of the future, “Heaven”, the “World to Come” will be here on Planet Earth. It will not occur on some starry nebula in the heavens for when that future Succot arrives and Melekh haMachiach (King Messiah) is revealed, the meaning of the name of Succot reveals his hidden truth as the day when HaShem, the G-d comes of Israel come down to dwell with man [on Planet Earth].
Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum is an internationally-known teacher of Torah spirituality, Chassidut, Kabbalah, preventive healthcare, healing and environmental responsibility, and the author of over twenty-five books…
Rabbi Greenbaum founded Azamra Institute in 1986 with the insight of disseminating Torah teachings using the languages and media of our times. Azamra established one of the first Torah websites on the internet (1994). You are welcome to visit his website at Azamra.
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Destination Yisrael began this series of articles titled, “The Red-Headed Israelite” first by analyzing the amazing puzzle of how “Red Hair” genetically is very rare yet has its highest concentration along the western Atlantic coastlines of Europe from western Norway and Ireland to the Basque region of Spain. Surprisingly this is the homeland today of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel.
This Series can first be read in the article, titled, “The Enigma of the DNA Quest to find the Lost “Red Headed Israelites.” We will continue our quest to rediscover the Lost Israelites but to do so we have to go to the home base, the homeland of the House of Joseph where the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh once lived and whose remnant are struggling today to keep a dynamic presence before they are reunited and absorbed into the Greater Jewish society in the State of Israel.
Destination Yisrael began this series of articles analyzing the amazing puzzle of how “Red Hair” genetically is very rare yet has its highest concentration along the western Atlantic coastlines of Europe from western Norway and Ireland to the Basque region of Spain. This investigation can be read in the article, titled, “The Enigma of the DNA Quest to find the Lost “Red Headed Israelites.” We will continue our quest to rediscover the Lost Israelites but to do so we have to go to the home base, the homeland of the House of Joseph where the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh once lived and whose remnant are struggling today to keep a dynamic presence before they are reunited and absorbed into the Greater Jewish society in the State of Israel.
It was in the 8th century BCE that the Samaritans of the House of Joseph, later called the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel were collectively ruled by the Tribe of Joseph whose descendants were the Tribe of Ephraim and Manasseh. They were cast out of their homelands by the Assyrians and sent into exile in the land of Khorasan, by the Caspian and the Black Seas by the G-d of Israel.
The seriousness of their crimes against the Holy One of Israel was for their apostasy, corruption, and rebellion against the dynastic rulers of Kings David and Solomon. They refused to worship in the Temple of Solomon, refused to enter the city of Jerusalem and celebrate with the Jews during the yearly Jewish festivals, and refused to accept the Mechoquek of Judah, the Jewish rabbanim as the legal Torah scholars for 12-Tribed Israel.
In the Book of Ezekiel, they were called the “Brazen-faced and Hard-hearted:
Ezekiel 2:4 – “He said to me, ‘Son of Man, I send you to the Children of Israel to the rebellious nations that have rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have defiantly sinned against Me to this very day; and the children are brazen-faced and hard hearted – I send you to them.”
These tribes were called the Northern Kingdom of Israel. The central governance of their kingdom was the tribal land of Samaria, where the modern Palestinians people are trying today to take this land to be the “Nation of Palestine”, but there is one problem. This deed of trust and the title to the land has already been promised by the Creator of the Universe to be for the restoration of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel (Ezekiel 36).
These tribes were instead exiled to the land that today encompasses the region of Northern Iran, Eastern Afghanistan and Western Pakistan. These tribes still exist today and are populated by the largest tribe of the region; the Bani-Israel peoples called the Pashtuns Tribal peoples.
With their Jewish cousins, now exiled to the land of Babylon and under the rule of the Jewish Exilarchs of Baghdad, the Lost Ten Tribes continued to live through the Achaemenid Persian Empire of King Cyrus the Great and Queen Esther, through their son, King Darius. In fact, the entire military forces of Cyrus the Great were from the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel.
Not only that, their general was Gobryas, a king from the Guti tribe or the Tribe of Gad. Collectively, they invaded and conquered the most impregnable city in the world, the city of Babylon. They did this without shedding even a drop of Jewish blood.
Yet through the royal descendants of King Darius, the Israelite royal dynastic lineage continued through the Second Sassanid Persian Empire. While these Israelites were empire building, their other tribal cousins were migrating through the region between the Caspian and the Black Sea where the Georgian Empire was once ruled during the era of the Roman Catholic Crusades in Israel, as the largest empire of the region; the Georgian Empire that was ruled by descendants of King David. The rest of the migrating Israelites migrated above and below the Black Sea heading west and became known as the “Great Wanderers.”
They were known as the Royal Scythiansas they migrated above the Black Sea as first the Ghomerians (House of Omer, father of King Ahab), later the Cummerians or Cimmerians, and even later as the Celtic and Cymric peoples migrated from the Caspian Sea regions. They traveled under the Black Sea towards the west. There they scattered themselves from this region into ancient Gaul to the north, east and west.
Not only were they known in the northern regions above the Black Sea as the Scythians, but also the Sarmatians, and to the south east of the Caspian Sea as the Parthians. The Lost Ten Tribes became a people, independent yet allied on and off over the centuries with each other as they eventually entered into Northern Gaul in the 3rd to the 2nd century BCE.
One hundred years later after the Northern Kingdom of Israel was sent into exile around 702 BCE, the Jewish people in the Southern Kingdom of Judah began their rebellion against the same G-d of Israel. He pled and admonished them through the pen and the voice of the prophetic sage’s advice of the Prophet Jeremiah; speaking the “words of the L-rd”.
Like their Northern cousins, the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, the Southern Jewish Kingdom of Judah revolted and rebelled against and were destroyed by King Nebuchadnezzar, the rising star of the imperial state of Babylon in 586 BCE.
Keeping true to the biblical or Jewish historical calendar instead of the anthropological calendars of ice ages represented over tens of thousands of years, we have to decipher what life was like in Central Eurasia in the era after the Great Noachian Flood (2350 BCE), the Great Exodus from Egypt about 1575 BCE, and the era of the Davidian Dynasty during reigns of Kings David and Solomon around 1000 BCE.
As the flood waters began to recede, it is safe to assume that it took centuries as more and more land that was under global flood waters receded and restored the regions of the Middle East into vast plains of pristine forests, meadows and prairies.
When the Children of Israel fled from Egypt around 1575 BCE, it was only 700 years after the Great Flood of Noah. Huge regions of Eurasia were still covered with immense lake regions. Grassy meadows spread across the arc from Europe in the West and Greater Asia in the East. This vast lake region centered from Van where the Ark of Noah settled to its final resting place near Mount Ararat.
Here was the home of Noah and Shem for many centuries, a place of refuge where Abram, the young son of Terah, the Oracular Priest of Nimrod’s Kingdom was taken as a place of safe keeping away from the long arm of the executioners in the days of King Nimrod. It was he who observed the oracles in the heavens at the birth of Abram, knew that this young male child would someday be responsible for Nimrod’s demise.
Abram was tutored by Noah and Shem on how life was like in the pre-diluvian world before the flood. We can learn more about these great regions of lush meadows and prairies during the time of the Exodus as preserved in the Destination Yisrael article titled, “Was the Sinai Peninsula a Rocky Desert or Lush Wilderness Plains during the Exodus?”
Destination Yisrael – “We would expect to find this same lush beauty in the days of Abraham, when he was living in the biblical heartland of Israel in Shomron and later in the southern regions of Canaan in the southwest where he was pasturing his vast flocks of sheep and cattle. Nearby, his nephew Lot chose to go east to a beautiful and lush garden region called the Vale of Siddim where the two cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were located.
We do know that Abram and Isaac had to dig wells to water their vast flocks, but there is no indication that they had to irrigate fields in which to grow grains or grass for their flocks to eat. In those days, Abram, who once was the son of an oracular high priest of Sumer, was now a Potentate from the region of Sumer, now living in the land of Canaan. He was well known and highly respected.
Consider the fact that Abraham (2056-1881 BCE) was only ten generations from the Great Flood of Noah that destroyed the whole earth about 2350 BCE. If the biblical Exodus did occur somewhere between 1550-1575 BCE, it was about 450 years after the birth of Isaac, and 210 years after Jacob descended into the land of Egypt. According to a strict chronology of the patriarchal ages, it would suggest that the historical era from Abraham’s ancestral Patriarch Noah to the day of the Exodus was only about 800 years after the world catastrophe called the Noachian Flood; about the same number of years since the Roman Catholic Crusades in the 13th century BCE and today.
During this era of catastrophic upheavals, about 775 years after the Flood, the Nile apocalypse of 10 plagues would cascade down upon the land of Egypt. Six months later, two million Hebrew-Israelites were fleeing towards the biblical lands of the Patriarchal forefathers; Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in which would be still be remembered three and a half millenniums later as “The Exodus”.
Yet the fullest extent of this catastrophic era was not over when the Hebrew-Israelites fled Egypt. Neither did the two million Bnei Yisrael leave an ancient land of antiquity behind, but rather they left a destroyed imperial state; there were more catastrophes still to come.
The great devastation in Egypt was only a part of a larger Middle Eastern catastrophe that had not ended. All across the Middle East, volcanoes were erupting, the seas were boiling. If it appeared that they were leaving a land of destruction, what was not anticipated was that in seven days, they would be experiencing the most dramatic of all catastrophes that have occurred in the world to date; the parting of the Red Sea. Yet during these few days, the Hebrew-Israelites were racing for their lives across virgin meadows and wilderness plains that would allow them to reach the place of their ultimate destination.”
The Lost Israelites that were “left behind” after being banished from their tribal homelands in the 8th century BCE, were then amalgamated with the populations of prisoners transported from other regions of the Assyrian Empire to inhabit the ancient land of Israel.
Let us not forget, those left behind were the farmers who could still care for themselves, and it was they who became the Samaritans or those who lived in the land of Samaria, living near the capital city of the Northern Kingdom of Israel called Samaria.
They would become the aboriginal Samarians that would eventually be known as Samaritans. Today, their descendants live in two communities near Mount Gerizim in Samaria; Kiryat Luza located in the West Bank and in the city of Holon, near Tel Aviv in Israel.
Strange as it may be, the few hundred Samaritans left living in these regions today, are a testimony that 12-Tribed Israel once lived throughout these regions. What is known, they are also not the ancestors of the modern Palestinian Arab people.
Today the number of Ethnic Samaritans that live in the region of Samaria called “Shomron” number only about 700. Yet, it is feared by many that they may be doomed to extinction as they once numbered about 1.5 million between the 4th and the 5th centuries and dwindling down since that day.
Part of it is the continuing assimilation of the Samaritan peoples back into Judaism and Jewish cultural and pluralistic society. Those that live at Kiryat Luza in Shomron (Samaria) today are being threatened there by the Palestinian State who through the United Nations or the International Criminal Court of Justice in Brussels is seeking to create a Jundenrein (“clean of Jews”) State or a Judenfrei (“free of Jews”) region. To the radical Muslims, the Samaritans are the same as the Jews.
This land devoid of Jews was Yasser Arafat’s vison of a modern Fatah State of Palestine or Hamas’ political leader Khaled Meshaal’s vison as a modern day “Haman” to rule an Amalekite government, “Hamas” as a Palestinian State. It is also Meshaal’s fondest dreams to complete the failed Persian genocide of the Jewish people in Persia that was fulfilled in part by Adolf Hitler, the Rothschild Jewish descendant who virtually wiped out the Jewish presence in Europe and completed the Jewish Holocaust.
This was first dreamt about in the mind of the Persian prime minister, Haman in the days of King Cyrus the Great (King Ahasuerus) and his Jewess Queen Esther. This time, they seek to complete Haman’s dream of a Holocaust by the Hamas, the modern day Amalekites seeking to incite the whole region of the Middle East into a land devoid of Jews. Yet, the G-d of Israel has other plans:
Psalms 83 – “Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, and do not be still, O God! For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; and those who hate You have lifted up their head. They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, and consulted together against Your sheltered Ones.
They have said, ‘Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.’ For they have consulted together with one consent; they form a confederacy against You:
The tents of Edom (Saudi Arabia) and the Ismaelites; Moab and the Hagerites; Gebel, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; Assyria also has joined with them; they have helped the children of Lot. Selah"
The facts exist that most Westerners do not realize that the Samaritans still exist today. For any person walking down the street, you cannot identity a Jew from a Samaritan. The Samaritans speak Modern Hebrew and/or Palestinian Arabic as their mother tongue. A language known as Samaritan Hebrew and Samaritan Aramaic is used for their worship services.
Many Christians today visiting the Land of Israel associate these indigenous Israelite peoples with the New Testament parable called “The Good Samaritan.” They also relate to the encounter between the Prince of David, the Hasidic rabbi called Yahshua and the Samaritan woman at the well, whom he elevated her sense of spiritual consciousness with the concept that she also had destiny and a future in the World to Come.
Yet over the last two millenniums, the Samaritan peoples have diminished in number due to forced conversion, persecution as a people, and murdered. According to Rabbi Arnold Mark Belzer:
Rabbi Arnold Mark Belzer – “Many of these peoples have found that it is a lot more comfortable to live in the Israeli culture than in the predominately Arab culture.”
Even though they were rivals in ancient times, when the Samaritans tried to sabotage the rebuilding of the walls of Ancient Jerusalem and the Temple of Zerubbabel during the era of the Nehemiah, the governor of Judea for the Persian Shah Darius; today they see each other as allies in a Middle Eastern world that today does not want any Semitic presence.
As they have sought to find a solution of peace between tribal brothers from Ancient Israel, the Samaritans are also providing a model for the future day, when the House of Joseph, represented by the ancient Lost Israelites Ephraim and Manasseh will also return to the Land of Israel and be settled once again into the lands of their forefathers.
Since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War when the Jewish people gained sovereignty rights over the region of Shomron, the mountains of Judea, Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, we can see in this prophetic mini-vignette that the House of Israel and the House of Judah are both ripe for the final revealing of Klal Yisrael, “All 12-Tribed Israel” and the future Greater Israel to the 70 nations of the world at the “time of the end.”
Rabbi Arnold Mark Belzer – “To be able to say in this world that an ancient people still exists and actually is growing in numbers, I think that's one of your modern miracles. That's a miracle all the Jewish people share with them.”
It was about 1352 CE, that Ibn Al-Hasan al-Samiri al-Danafi (Abu-I-Fath), a Samaritan chronicler wrote about a major rift between the Northern 10 Tribes of the Israelites and the Jews to the south in Jerusalem. He was commissioned to write his major work titled, “Kitab al-Ta’rikh” in the 14th century by Pinhas, the Samaritan high priest. In the year of 1356 CE, he wrote a compilation of the history of the Samaritan peoples using more ancient sources from the days of Adam to Mohammed.
The Samaritans who prefer to call themselves “Israelites”, are the remnant of the twelve tribes of Israel who lived in the days of the “Judges” in the 11th B.C.E. During these years the twelve tribes of Israel were not located in their separate kingdoms but rather they settled in their own tribal boundaries as partitioned to them by Joshua (Jesus) son of Nun, who carried the mantle of Moses the Prophet and conquered the land of Canaan.
Yet, even in this era, three hundred fifty years before the reign of Kings David and Solomon, the demarcation between the tribes of the North and the tribes of the South were already laying their roots of dissent and division. The Northern Tribes were laying claim to their historical traditions that the Mishkhan (Wilderness Tabernacle) should reside on Mount Gerizim.
Destination Yisrael – “The performance of the ceremony in the book of Joshua differs somewhat from the instructions that were given in the book of Deuteronomy. For various reasons, the student (Joshua) deviated from the instructions of his teacher (Moses). The people were divided into two in the valley – half of them looked westward toward the summit of Mount Ebal, while the other looked eastward, toward the summit of Mount Kabir, which, according to Zertal, is the biblical Mount Gerizim. In any case, it is likely that those in attendance were careful not to turn their backs on the Ark of the Covenant, which, according to scripture, stood beside the altar.
Another aspect that is important to the ceremony is acoustics. The valley is laid out in such a way that speakers near the altar are audible from everywhere in the valley. We stood approximately 600 meters away from the altar and two soldiers ascended it and called out: “Am Yisrael hai” (long live Israel). Despite the airplanes up above, the murmuring of the group and the ringing of the cell phones, we heard it very well.
Professor Adam Zertal – “In recent decades, during which the debate over the Bible’s historical accuracy has broken out with even greater vigor, I can say with absolute certainty that going out in the field, the archaeological survey that we have been conducting over the past 34 years and the excavations have revealed that the vast majority of the historical data that appears in the Bible about the beginnings of the Israelite nation are accurate.”
It was in this era when the Wilderness Tabernacle was still residing at the site of Joshua’s Altar at Mount Gerizim that an “elderly priest” called Eli, the son of Yefune, who was a descended from the lineage of Itamar, the son of Aaron, the high priest, that the northern tribes rose in dissent concerning where the “Chosen Place” was eventually be located and where the future Temple of G-d would eventually be located.
Until the days of the Judge Eli, the Mishkhan (Wilderness Tabernacle) had rested on the Mount called Gerizim where the “Blessings and Curses” were given by the Israelite General, Joshua ben Nun (Joshua son of Nun or Yeshua ben Nun or Jesus son of Nun). At this time the Promised Land of Israel was divided into the tribal homelands. Here was the place where the “Declaration of Independence of the Nation of Israel” was first fulfilled after being first instituted at the mount called Sinai as the Nation of Israel.
Mount Moriah was still under the control of the Jebusites at their military fortress called Salem. It would be decades later before the Wilderness Tabernacle called the Mishkhan would be taken to Jerusalem in the days of King David when he began making preparations for the construction of the Temple of Solomon.
Now decades earlier, in the days of Judges of Israel, a dispute arose as to who represented the authentic lineage of the high priest from the genealogical lineage of Aaron, the chosen High Priest at the Mount called Sinai. Which of the priestly lineages would continue to be the care-taker of the Mishkhan, the Wilderness Tabernacle and the Guardian of the Ark of the Covenant?
Uzi, the son of Bachki, of the priestly lineage of Phineas, the son of Aaron was the promised and chosen High Priest in the era of the judges. Yet the “old priest” Eli, the son of Yehune, who was a descendant from the lineage of Ithamar, the son of Aaron left Mount Gerizim and took with him the Mishkhan, the Wilderness Tabernacle and the oracular throne of G-d’s presence to the Children of Israel in the Ark of the Covenant. According to the story of the Samaritans, Eli the Judge, usurped the lineage of the High Priesthood from the descendants of Phineas and established a new cultic site at Shiloh, now rivaling the site at Mount Gerizim.
Understandably this was before the rise of the United Monarchy of Kings David and Solomon, where the Holy Temple of Solomon was erected not on Mount Gerizim but now on Mount Moriah, where according to the history of the Jews, Abraham offered Isaac upon the altar, but Isaac’s life was saved by angelic intervention. In a way, we may assume that with the miraculous presence of the Divine first shooting down from the heavens daily upon the fire altar in the temple was but a reminder that HaShem, the G-d of Israel was giving his Divine blessing upon Mount Moriah and the temple at Mount Gerizim continued to fade into the mist of history.
This story of the Samaritan Temple on Mount Gerizim has been recounted in detail in the article on Samaritan.com titled, “The Schism between the Jews and Samaritans” that records the writings of the author of the major work of Samaritan history, the Samaritan chronicler, Abu’l –Fath, of the fourteenth century C.E., who tells the story as follows from the perspective of the feud between the Ancient Samaritans and the Jews in the days of the Judges of Israel:
Samaritan chronicler, Abu’l –Fath, of the fourteenth century C.E. - “A terrible civil war broke out between Eli son of Yafni, of the line of Ithamar, and the sons of Phineas, because Eli, son of Yafune, resolved to usurp the High Priesthood from the descendants of Phineas. He used to offer sacrifices on the altar of stones. He was 50 years old, endowed with wealth and was in charge of the treasury of the Children of Israel.
He offered a sacrifice on the altar, but without salt, as he were inattentive. When the Great High Priest Azzi (Uzzi) learned of this, and found that the sacrifice was not accepted, he thoroughly disowned him and it is said he rebuked him (Eli).
Thereupon he (Eli) and the group that sympathized with him, rose in revolt and at once he and his followers and his beasts set off for Shiloh. Thus Israel split into factions.
He sent to their leaders saying to them, “Anyone who would like to see wonderful things, let him come to me.” Then he assembled a large group around him in Shiloh, and built a Temple for himself there.
Now, he (Eli) had two sons, Hophni and Phineas, who rounded up young women of attractive appearance and brought them to the Tabernacle which had been built by his father. He let them savor the food of the sacrifices, and had intercourse with them inside the Tabernacle. At this time the Children of Israel became three factions:
A loyal faction on Mount Gerizim
A heretical faction that followed false god.
A faction that followed Eli to Shiloh
This event, not only brought a major separation, between the Israelites, but also marked the end of the ‘Rhuta’ (means grace in Aramaic) – “The Days of the Grace”, and the beginning of the ‘Fanuta’ (means concealment in Aramaic) – the days of the concealment of God from his people. The latter will end, according to the Samaritan tradition, in “The End of the Days” when the Saviour (‘Thab’ – means the Returner) will show up.
There is no rational interpretation, in the Jewish sources, for the passage of the High Priesthood from the lineage of Phineas to continue to the lineage of Itamar. The Tabernacle (Mishkhan), according to the Jewish Sources, was transferred after the death of Eli, to Nob (a village near Jerusalem) and after the death of Samuel it was transferred from Nob to Gibeon (a city north of Jerusalem).
Only after 440 years, since the entrance of the Children of Israel to the land Canaan, the cult site, was transferred by kings David and Solomon, to Jerusalem, while the Samaritans still keeping the Holy Chosen Place on Mt. Gerizim.”
To gain a perspective of the lineages of the High Priest from the House of Aaron, let us remember that Ithamar was the youngest son of Aaron the High Priest: that included Nadav and Avihu, Eleazar and Ithamar as noted in Exodus 6:23. Nadab and Avihu were known to be righteous men, and spiritualists seeking to mend the whole earth.
Regardless of Nadab and Abihu's transgressions, their intentions and motives were noble and devotional. They desired to be close to G-d. They were filled with passion and fervor. They felt holy and pure, and by extension, they felt that their every thought and action was holy and pure. They thought that they had a better idea with their offering to G-d in the Tabernacle. Yet, G-d did not ask for this offering that neither did they consult with Moshe their tzaddik.
Even so the experience they had received just prior to this moment of time was one of exaltation and now they were special. They had just been asked by the Almighty One of Israel to come close to Him at the Mount called Sinai as G-d was to give instruction to Moses on the mount in preparation of giving the Torah.
As Rabbi Ari Kahn wrote in the Midrashic and Kabbalistic Illuminations on M’orey HaAish the article titled, “The Sons of Aaron: Sinners or Saints”:
Rabbi Ari Kahn - “The Torah recounts God's instructions to Moses at Mount Sinai in preparation for the giving of the Torah:
Exodus 24:1, 9-11 – “To Moses [God] said, ‘Ascend to God, you, and Aaron, and Nadav and Avihu, and the seventy elders of Israel, and they shall prostrate themselves from afar ...’ Moses and Aaron, Nadav and Avihu, and the seventy elders arose. They saw the Lord of Israel and beneath His feet, like a brickwork of sapphire ... And to the aristocracy of the Children of Israel, He [God] did not strike His hand. They viewed the Lord, they ate and drank.”
This enigmatic passage may hold the key to understanding the offense of Nadav and Avihu. They are separated from the rest of the nation, leading them to think of themselves early on, at the time of the giving of the Torah, as future leaders. They are invited to join Moses, and they have a better vantage point than the rest of the nation. The purpose of the ascent is to bow from afar; instead, they stood and stared.”
Apparently as they were heading to the Wilderness Sanctuary, they had the young impulses to correct and rectify past mistakes that occurred with Adam and Eve, the Golden Calf near the mount called Sinai and now we read from the Talmud Bavli (Babylonian Talmud) that reported on a strange event:
Talmu Bavli, Sanhedrin 52a – “Moses and Aaron were walking along, as Nadav and Avihu were behind them, and all of Israel behind them. Nadav said to Avihu, ‘When these two elders die, you and I will lead this generation.’ God said to them ‘Let's see who buries whom.’”
Let us reconsider their actions on the 8th day of the dedication of the Tabernacle. On this day, the day which represents the metaphysical (the number 8 is one beyond the natural, which is represented by 7), their father is called upon to offer the calf and bring about forgiveness for the sin of the Golden Calf. The people will offer a goat and bring about forgiveness for the sale of Joseph. Perhaps the only major sin which still needed rectification was the sin of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. If that can be accomplished, a new world awaits.
Adam drank and hid from God; Nadav and Avihu drank after staring at God. When, in the dedication of the Tabernacle, the fire came down and filled the area, the people hid their faces. Nadav and Avihu felt that this generation needed a new approach, one that should have been adopted in the Garden – instead of hiding from God, they confronted God. They offered the fire back to God, but God took them as well.
This, then, may unify all the opinions regarding their sin: they sought a new direction for this generation, as referred to in their speculations about leading the nation. They were infused with the sense of an historic mission which would set the world on a new course, and they therefore had no time or energy to spare for wives or child.”
The death of Nadab and Abihu was a significant loss to Moses, Aaron, Eleazar (Elazar) and now Ithamar (Itamar). Ithamar, the youngest would continue to serve as a priest alongside with Eleazar who would serve as High Priest after the death of Aaron (Numbers 20:28). All through the travels in the wilderness regions, Ithamar stood as the head of the children of Gershom and Merari, who were the chosen carriers of the Tabernacle (Numbers 4:28). Ithamar was also the overseer of all the work assignments of the Levites in general (Exodus 38:21).
Besides the lineages of the Eleazar and Phineas his son, who came to be the next ascending high priest, the lineages of Itamar were also an approved and chosen lineage by the G-d of Israel.
Levi27ben Yacov, had children; Jocheved and Kohath >
Kohath28ben Levi >
Amram29ben Kohath (married his aunt Jocheved and had three children;
Moses, Miriam and Aaron) >
Aaron30 ha-Levi(1st High Priest) >
Eleazar31 ben Aaron(2nd High Priest) >
Phineas32 ben Eleazar(3rd High Priest) >
Abishuah (Abishua) 33 ben Phinehas (4th High Priest) >
Bukki34 ben Abishua(5th High Priest) >
Uzzi35 ben Bukki (6th High Priest) in the days of the Schism of the Samaritans >
Zerahiah36 ben Uzzi> in the days of Eli the Judge >
Meraioth37 ben Aerahiah >
Amariah38 ben Meraioth >
Ahitub39 ben Amariah >
Zadok40 ben Ahitub the (High Priest of King David and Solomon (1000 BCE) >
The historical story by the Samaritans of the first great schism between the Jews of the House of Judah and the Israelites of the House of Israel comes from a secondary source outside of the canon of the Old Testament, called the TaNaKh. Yet, we have to admit that here is a critical historical record of those fateful years that surrounded the story of the rise of the prophetic ministry of the Prophet Samuel. This young Levite was dedicated to HaShem at the time of his weaning from the breast, by a barren Israelite, Hannah, the wife of Elkanah, a Levite living in the village of Ramathaim-zophim, nearby to Mount Ephraim in the land of Samaria. (1 Samuel 1:1-3). Samuel’s and his father’s lineages were recorded in I Chronicles 6:18-23.
What began as a breech in the House of Aaron during the days of Eli the Judge, we ponder over how HaShem in His mercy delays judgment in order to accomplish His Divine Will. Eli was a descendant of Ithamar, the fourth and youngest son of Aaron the High Priest. He became High Priest (Kohen Godol) after the death of Phineas (Pinehas), the son of Eleazar, Ithamar's older brother.
During this era, we read of how a Levite of the house of Ithamar, later known as Eli the Judge, offered an imperfect offering not approved by the Divine, when he failed to provide the right amount of salt in the meat offering; according to the testimony of the Samaritans. Yet we strangely note, G-d did not smite Eli the Levite priest down because Eli still had a mission to accomplish for the G-d of Israel. Eli was reprimanded by Uzzi ben Bukki, the 6th High Priest since the High Priest, Aaron. Unlike the earlier fate of Nadab and Abihu, Eli lived and was not taken away by G-d.
Mount Gerizim was a noble mountain, a place where the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob made His presence several times. The Almighty One at Mount Gerizim promised this land to Abraham. Later Jacob dug a well upon this mount. And here also the Twelve Tribes of Israel recited the ‘Blessings and the Curses’.
So Eli, now again in defiance of the High Priest of Israel, Uzzi ben Bukki, who was residing in Samaria near Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal, gathered a band of partisans loyal to him, and packed up the Wilderness Tabernacle and made haste to Shiloh. There the Mishkhan was erected and the sanctuary service continued. What is first noticed was the fact that the sanctuary was located first in the tribal homelands of Joseph’s two sons; Ephraim and Manasseh.
The tribes were still living within the boundaries of their tribal homelands and the central region of worship was where the Mishkhan or the Wilderness Tabernacle was located. Now as we have learned in the Great Schism between the Samaritans and the Jews, the reigning High Priest was still officiating at Joshua’s Altar at Mount Gerizim where the Wilderness Tabernacle was first erected and the Shekinah glory still shined from the Holy of Holiest in the ancient Mishkhan.
It so happened that G-d then began to maneuver the geopolitical relationships between the Children of Israel in Canaan who were then governed by the reigning “Judge” of the Land of Israel. The ruling judge at that time was Sampson, the “strong man” of Israel who himself got caught up in an illicit relationship with the temptress, Delilah who lived near Nahal Sorek (Brook of Sorek) known in Arabic today as the Wadi Surar that was along the border region of the Valley of Sorek between the land of the Philistines and the Tribe of Dan.
After the death of Sampson the Judge of Israel, Eli became the reigning Judge of the Children of Israel. Not only that, Eli was the first and the only judge who wore the two miters (crowns); first as the Judge (Shofet) and then as the High Priest (HaGadol) at the age of 58 years. This double crown came only after the death of the Israelite “Strong man”; Judge Samson, called Shimson that was killed, after 20 years as a judge in the destruction ruins of the Temple of Dagon in Gaza. This occurred when the massive temple imploded when in his blinded state, his mighty arms dislodged the two central pillars supporting the Temple of Dagon.
Sampson wrapped his arms around the two supporting pillars in the Temple of Dagon in the Jewish year of 2830. Here he wiped out 3,000 of the leading rulers, aristocrats and oligarchs of Gaza who were blinded in their hatred with the Children of Israel. So, Eli then assumed the role as Judge over Israel and held this august office for the forty years until his tragic death at the ripe old age of 98 years.
Yet in spite of the act of the preservation of the Wilderness Tabernacle first located on Mount Gerizim and later relocated by Eli, the 7th High Priest in Shiloh, the Aaronic lineage of the HaGadol (High Priest), now through a descendant of Ithamar ben Aaron, eventually reverted back in the days of Kings David and Solomon from both the lineages of the House of Phineas and Ithamar to the divinely chosen Zadokian lineage from Zadok ben Ahutum (Ahitub ben Amariah), the 12th High Priest since Aaron.
Eli (7th High Priest), descendant from Ithamar ben Aaron >
Ahitub (Achituv) ben Phinehas ben Eli (8th High Priest, was the grandson of Eli >
Ahijah ben Ahitub (9th High Priest), was the great-grandson of Eli, who presided as the high priest when the Tabernacle was erected at Shiloh (1 Samuel 14:3) >
Ahimelech ben Ahitub (10th High Priest) the brother of Ahijah, also the grandson of Eli was slain by King Saul with 85 other priests (1 Samuel 22:11-18) >
Abiathar ben Ahimelech (11th High Priest), was the last High Priest of the House of Eli, and the House of Ithamar. It was Abiathar (Evyathar who brought the Ephod and the regalia of the High Priest to King David, and co-reigned with the High Priest Zadok during the reign of King David. >
Zadok ben Ahitub ben Amariah (12th High Priest, 6th in descent from Uzzi) became the High Priest of Israel when Abiathar (Abiathar ben Ahimelech (11th High Priest), the last High Priest of the House of Eli supported Prince Adonijah in his rebellion against King David over the selection of Prince Solomon and was later deposed by King Solomon. >
We are not told why Eli succeeded to the High Priesthood, instead of the descendants of Phineas (Pinehas) the son of Aaron the High Priest. The last descendant of Ithamar's lineage as the High Priest was Evyathar (Abiathar ben Ahimelech 11th High Priest, who was a grandson of Eli's grandson Achituv (Ahitub).
Evyathar (Abiathar ben Ahimelech) was High Priest during the reign of King David. However, he was banished by King Solomon (Shlomoh) for his siding with the rebellion of King David’s son, Adoniyah, King Solomon's older half-brother who tried to capture the succession to the throne. The High Priesthood then reverted again back to the lineage of Eleazar ben Aaron, in the person of Tzadok (Zadok) the High Priest and his descendants.
We have now learned that the schism that erupted before the United Monarchy continued to simmer for the next eighty years (forty years for each, Kings David and Solomon) until the day when King Solomon died. At that time the Northern Ten Tribes chose to separate themselves from Jerusalem, the Holy Temple of Solomon, the holy Levitical priesthood and the Jewish rabbanim, the Mechoquek, who were the legal jurists that were the guardians of the Written and the Oral Torah Law.
Yet great finger of the Divine at this time was creating the pathway for the preservation not only of the Davidic Dynasty that would last until the “End of Times” when the “Era of the Messiah” would begin, but also the preservation of the Tzadokian (Zadokian) Lineage of the High Priests from the lineages of Phineas and Ithamar, the latter through the lineage of Eli, the High Priest. This lineage would last until King Herod’s Temple was leveled to the ground by the Romans, the Holy city of Jerusalem was destroyed and taken from the hands of the Jews until it was redeemed back to the House of Judah.
It was during this era that Eli, known to his people as a kindly man in nature was one that was beloved as they yearned for his spiritual guidance. It was during this era that Hannah, the wife of a prominent Levite called Elkanah came yearly to pray for HaShem to take away her barrenness and give to her a son. She not only prayed but also promised to the G-d of Israel that she would dedicate her son to the service of the L-rd for his entire life.
When Eli heard the prayer, he prayed for her that her heart’s greatest wish would be granted. Within one year, her prayers were fulfilled when she gave birth to Shmuel whom we know today as Samuel the Prophet and the eventual successor of Eli as the judge of all the Children of Israel.
Samuel was the joy of Hannah’s life. She kept him close to her for several years until he was weaned and as good Israelite mothers, taught him the ways of the L-rd. She took him to Eli, and there under his custody and guidance he grew spiritually as a student worthy of being a Cohen.
Samuel became the shining star in Eli’s life, and a great contrast arose between Samuel, whom Eli was very proud of and the two sons of the High Priest Eli, who were destined to follow in the pathway and esteemed role as their father, as the High Priest and Judge of Israel. But his two sons, Hophni and Phineas (Pinehas) were not spiritually worthy to be priests or judges of Israel.
They were honored to hold august and privileged role in the Tabernacle of the L-rd, yet in the eyes of the Children of Israel, they understood the priesthood was being degraded by two who were corrupt and lived immoral lives. With treachery and with bribery they took the meat and the fat offerings from the people that which belonged to the G-d of Israel and used them for their licentious ways. Soon the oracles of G-d would be begin to mount against the family of Eli the high priest.
During these days, the young priest, Samuel was being tutored under his mentor, Eli the Judge and High Priest. Out of this tzaddik and student relationship, the esteem of the young Levite Samuel began scatter throughout all of the tribe lands of Israel.
It was later that the Prophet Samuel began to reveal the sins of Hophni and Phinehas when he wrote:
I Samuel 2:2:12 – “Eli’s sons were lawless men; they did not recognize HaShem.”
Their wicked ways not only defiled the Holy Place in the Tabernacle of the L-rd, but like their father, Eli, they did not take care to follow explicitly every commandment of G-d in reference to the sacrificial worship in the House of G-d. When Hophni and Phineas (Phinehas) were attending the sacrifice of an animal, they would take their three-pronged fork and they ate any portion of the meat that they would bring out of the pot even when they were commanded to by G-d to eat only the breast and upper thigh of the animals (Leviticus 7:30-34).
They also ate raw meat that had not been cooked against the command of HaShem not to eat any meat with blood on it.
Leviticus 17:10: “Any man of the House of Israel and of the proselyte who dwells among them who will consume any blood – I will concentrate My attention upon the soul consuming the blood, and I will cut it off from its people. For the soul of the flesh is in the blood and I have assigned it for you upon the Altar to provide atonement for your soul for it is the blood that atones for the soul.”
The Levite sons of Eli also intimidated the Israelites and they were abusive to their roles as agents of the Most High G-d for anyone bringing an offering to HaShem, they would say;
1 Samuel 2:15-17 - “Give some meat for roasting for the Kohen; he will not take cooked meat from you, but only raw [meat]. The man would say, “Let them first burn the fat [upon the altar] and then take for yourself whatever your soul desires. But [the attendant] would say, “No give it now, or else I will take it by force.”
The sin of the attendants was very great before HaShem, for the sons of Eli had disgraced HaShem’s offering. Not only that, the sons of Eli were sleeping with the woman according to the figurative meaning in the Midrash in that they deliberately delayed bringing the women’s bird-offering in order that these women were unable to return home the same day to their husbands and had to stay overnight in Shiloh. This became a breach of modesty and a severe breech of Torah Law forbidding adultery. (Exodus 20:14) Other interpretations suggested that Eli’s sons were sleeping with the women who were dedicated to the service of the tabernacle and was also offering to them the meat offerings dedicated for the priests (I Samuel 2:22).
Suddenly a “man of G-d” came to Eli with an oracle from G-d that for his permissiveness for failing to censure his priestly sons for their desecration of G-d’s Torah; the judgment of G-d would come down upon the entire House of Eli:
I Samuel 2:30- 34 - “This is the word of HaShem, G-d of Israel, ‘I had indeed said that your family and your fathers’ family would walk before Me forever – but now,’ …be it from Me [to do so]; for I honor those who honor Me, and to those that scorn Me will be accursed.
Behold the days are coming are coming when I shall cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s family, from here being any old person in your family… And you will see a rival [Kohen in My] dwelling place throughout all the good [times] that He will bring upon Israel, for there will be no old people in your family for all time…’ This [will be] the sign for you, that which will befall your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas - they will both die on the same day.”
This same prophecy would soon be repeated but now through the mouth of a child for one evening, when Samuel laid down to rest at the Sanctuary, he was awakened with a voice calling his name; “Samuel, Samuel.” He awakened and went to see El, who told him that he had not called. This occurred three times, and then Eli suddenly realized that here was the Divine summons. He told the young lad, that if the voice came again, for him to reply, “Speak L-rd for Thy servant hears.”
When the voice came again, Samuel was receptive and the Almighty One spoke directly to him.
I Samuel 3:11-14 - “Behold, I am going to do [such] a thing in Israel that when anyone hears about it, both of his wears will ring. On that day, I will fulfill for Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, beginning to destroy.”
I have told him that I am executing judgment against his house forever for the sin that [he committed] that he was aware that his sons were blaspheming themselves’ and he did not censure them. Therefore I have sworn concerning the house of Eli that the sin of the House of Eli would never be atoned (purged) for by sacrifice or meal-offering.”
Eli’s only response was: “He will do what is good in His eyes!”
At that time, the reputation of Samuel rose throughout the Land of Israel. He would ennoble himself as one whose grew up full of faith, emuna, in the sovereign will of G-d, and in his life, now knew that in the days when the spirit was almost in exile, that Samuel would rise up like champion and carry the mantle of G-d judgment upon his people.
The first decades of Eli’s judgeship, the Children of Israel lived in peace and trouble in the western portion of Canaan was dormant. Yet, in the 4th decade, there was restlessness, especially after the Sampson the Judge of Israel was killed when after he was blinded, was taken to the House of Dagon in Gaza and there sacrificed his life for his people, by toppling the two central pillars of the temple and thousands of Philistine nobles and peoples were destroyed.
The war drums were beginning to rumble and troublous times were again on the western Mediterranean coastline of Canaan with the Philistines. Battle formations were prepared near Aphek and the two enemies were in battle for their lives. The Israelites were driven back and four hundred Israelite warriors lay dead on the battlefield.
The military chiefs and the politicians of the land of Israel, remembered how the Ark of the Covenant was used to win battles for the Children of Israel in the days of Joshua, the Commander of the Israelites hosts. So in league with each other, they went to demand that the Ark of the Covenant be taken out of his sacred premises, the Holiest of Holy, and brought to the battlefield against the Philistines.
The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas personally accompanied the Ark and as they approached the battlefield, the shofars rang out and a great cry rang out throughout the land as the earth trembled as though the presence of G-d was joining this great battle.
Yet, it was not the will of G-d to desecrate the Ark of the Covenant and use it as a talisman for military war. In spite of their great courage, the Philistines prevailed and once again, now thirty thousand Israelites were routed and dead while the rest fled in a milieu of great confusion.
Along with the Israelites warriors were the bodies of Hophni and Phineas among the dead and the Ark of the Covenant was for the first time, now under the control of the military leaders of their arch enemies. The calamity of the fall of the House of Eli was unfolding.
Back at Shiloh and the now the empty Tabernacle devoid of the presence of G-d stood as a forlorn testimony of G-d’s judgment upon His people. The citizens of Shiloh along with Eli were breathlessly awaiting news of the battle, a suddenly there loomed over the horizon, the figure of a swift runner, a Benjaminite with his clothes rent from his body and his hair matted with dirt and blood, from grief and remorse, entered the gates of the city.
According to the sages of Judah, this Benjaminite was non-other than the future king of Israel, King Saul the Benjamanite. The tiding were horrendous and its implications were more devastating. The sad imagery of war and devastation spilling from his mouth were prefaced with these words, “Our people fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons, Hophni and Pinehas, are dead, and the Ark of G-d is taken.”
When the High Priest Eli heard these words, the devastation tore through his aging body of 998 years and he fell backwards from his chair he was sitting, broke his cervical spine and immediately died. The wrath of the Divine this time proclaimed His own. When the G-d of Israel spoke, He meant what He said. Those implications are still in effect today.
The Mishkhan (Wilderness Tabernacle) now became the center of the religious life of the Children of Israel. Here was the residence of Eli, the Israelite Judge and now High Priest who was the 4th in lineage of the unbroken chain of the Oral Law (Massorah) that began with humble servant of G-d, Moshe Rabbeinu and had continued through Joshua (Jesus) and Phineas (Pinehas).
Soon, the G-d of Israel would show his hand of approval upon Kings David and Solomon and with the blessing of the Divine, the House of the L-rd was constructed on Mount Moriah as the Temple of Solomon. As long as the miraculous and daily fire from the heavens lit up the Altar to the L-rd, the approval of G-d was assured. Even so, the “Brazen-faced and Hard-hearted Israelites” continued their defiance of the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, even to this very day.
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The G-d of Israel proclaimed that there are only two groups of people whom He has promised that He will restored back into covenant with Him, the Jews of the House of Israel and the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel. Both families, the Jews and the Israelites were scattered across the face of the earth and would become HaShem emissaries incognito sent to elevate the 70 nations of the world, so that even Righteous Gentiles could become part of the covenant.
Even the children of Ishmael still rooted in Islam, the children of the Lost Ten Tribes who today are now Buddhist, or the Lost Ten Tribes who today call themselves Christians will be assimilated into the Jewish culture. This will be because deep in their hearts they are known by the Divine to be “safe to save” and willing to live in peace with their brothers; all descendants of the Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Only the G-d of Israel knows who they are.
We are quickly being polarizing a world in which there will be only two choices; we are either for the Hebrew Israelites; both now part of the Jews of the house of Judah and the Lost Israelites of the House of Israel or we will be against them. This comes to one sobering conclusion, if you are a descendant of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, whether Muslim, Buddhist or Christian, and you still despise your brothers, the Jews, you may be left outside, not redeemed to participate in the coming “Era of the Messiah” even though you think you want to be a part of them.
If you have wondered how biblical prophecy fits into your life, and how it will affect the Return of the House of Israel, then the G-d of Israel is beginning his “call” to bring you home, too. You might desire to reconnect with the Biblical portrayals on what is and may be happening in your near future. This Biblical portrayal includes Prophecies that the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel are about to return to the Land of their Biblical Inheritance. This is Divine Destiny in living reality as the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel return to their Homelands first in Shomron (Samaria), Israel.
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So today, in our era of modern science, do we have the technology to identity the Lost Israelites through DNA studies? The answer is yes.Over the decades the science of DNA technology have resurrected the matrix of a genetic genealogy. Now we can identity and compare the markers on the Y chromosome that is transferred genetically from father to son. What is known is that it remains stable for a long period of time. They share the same paternal ancestors even in the distant past eras to the modern era of today.
The DNA markers can also be compared to population groups that have already been identified and then grouped into a classification system called “Haplogroups.” With this information, the population geneticists can begin to plot out migration patterns of large groups of closely identified peoples in the ancient world. What we have learned is the R1b (Haplotype 15) is the most common haplogroup in Western Europe today.
This same R1b (Haplotype 15) DNA sequence is also identified with the Basques of Northern Spain that also includes the aboriginal first settlers in the British Isles. Here we find the ancient Welsh in the British Wales along the Atlantic Seaboards of England to the west. But they also include the Picts to the north in Scotland and the Irish to the west on the Isle of Ireland.
They even seek to identify these populations with Paleolithic populations in Europe. These included those who took refuse from the Ice Age living in the caves of the Pyrenees Mountains between southern France and Northern Spain, called the Atlantic Modal Haplotype.
A near relative of the R1b (Haplotype 15) is the R1b (Haplotype 35) who first came out of the Ice Age in the region of the Balkans under the Black Sea while others migrated across Asia Minor, into the steppes in the region of West Asia and the mountain and plain regions of southeastern Europe.
Today we see this same Haplotype in the DNA of the Eastern Europeans. These include the Armenians, the Greeks, Hungarians, the Romanians, and the Turks. These include also various groups of peoples in the region of the Caucasus Mountains just north of Georgia. Think again, these are all the regions of the habitation of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel.
According to the geneticists, this same haplogroup is also imbedded in the populations in Western Europe where it is purported to have been spread by the Eastern Germanic Gothic tribes of the Ostrogoths, the Visigoths, the Alans, the Vandals, plus the Suevi in Switzerland.
So when we begin to discover the ancient ancestors of the Lost Ten Tribes, we begin to uncover the unsettling but not surprising discovery that red hair is a clue of the identity of these ancient peoples. These were the tribes who continued to abominate the Holy Name of G-d as HaShem, the G-d of Israel spoke through the pen of the Prophet Ezekiel.
Ezekiel 36:16-22, 24-28, 33 (parts) - “The word of Adonai came to me: ‘Human being, when the house of Isra’el lived in their own land, they defiled it by the manner of life and their actions; their way before me was like the uncleanness of niddah (menstruation). Therefore I poured out my fury on them, because of the blood they had shed in the land and because they defiled it with their idols.
I scattered them among the nations and dispersed them throughout the countries. I judged them in keeping with their manner of life and actions. When they came to the nations they were going to, they profaned my holy name so that people said of them ‘These are Adonai’s people, who have been exiled from his land.’ But I am concerned about my holy name, which the House of Isra’el is profaning among the nations where they have gone.
Therefore, tell the house of (the Ten Lost Tribes of ) Isra’el that Adonai Elohim (L-rd G-d) says this: I am not going to do this for your sake, House of Isra’el, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have been profaning among the nations where you went.
I will set apart my great name to be regarded as holy, since it has been profaned in the nations – you profaned it among them. They will know that I am Adonai,’ says Adonai Elohim, ‘when, before their eyes, I am set apart through you to be regarded as holy.
For I will take you from among the nations, gather you from all countries, and return you to your own soil. Then I will sprinkle clean water upon you…I will cleanse you from your uncleanliness…I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit inside you…
You will live in the land I gave to your ancestors. You will be my people, and I will be your G-d…When the day comes for me to cleanse you from all your guilt, I will cause cities to be inhabited and the ruins to be rebuilt. The land that was desolate will be tilled, whereas formerly it lay desolate for all passing by to see.
They will say, ‘the land that used to be desolate has become like Gan Eden (Garden of Eden)…Then the nations around that remain will know that I, Adonai, have rebuilt the ruins and replanted what was abandoned. I, Adonai, have spoke; and I will do it!”
What we will discover as we done in the past is that the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel are alive and well. It is time to ponder these words given by the G-d of Israel. With careful scrutiny, we discover that they, the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel are the ones who have provoked the wars of the nations, such as the 30 year war in 19th century Europe, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Viet Nam War plus the wars against Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and the War in Afghanistan.
They are the ones that are seeking hegemony and control of the world in order to create a One World Order, HaShem is giving them a bold warning; “Your days of creating chaos, anarchy, forcing your Hellenistic Pan-American-European culture upon the native populations of the world and foisting Grecian democracy upon them with the goal of getting their “vote” to the eventual One World Order is a about over.
As the evidence looms over us, we are impelled to recognized that the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel still living in Europe who are the most vocal seeking to deny the rise of the prophetic future. This will be when a Greater Israel will bring Planet Earth and the whole universe into an era of unprecedented peace.
Here will reign an era and a culture to match of spiritual enlightenment, when the Era of the Mashiach arrives to bring all mankind into the “Glory of G-d”.
As HaShem (The Name) has proclaimed; “There is no one that is unredeemable in My eyes, the eyes of the Holy One of Israel.” Yet are those He will allow to descend to their own destruction, for our will to choose the pathway of the Divine, or to choose the pathway of a “culture of death” still places the final plea from the Divine One; “Choose you this day, whom you will serve.”
So it is time to reveal the identity of the Lost Ten Tribes and the fact that the G-d of Israel will redeem them in spite of their lives of self-absorption, degradation, and the loss of the fundamental rights of human beings created in the image of G-d to choose to live a life in the “World to Come” with respect, dignity and honor.
Do we have the emuna, faith in the Sovereignty of G-d that He has the ability to alter the course of history and convince even the inconvincible? Are we willing to accept that Almighty Creator of the Universe might have to give us some options we cannot refuse, and take away some of our arrogance and free will that was stolen from us by the “nachash”, the power of illusion first created in the Garden of Eden (Gan Eden), by the wily serpent at the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (Etz HaDaat Tov vaRa) that led to Adam and Eve’s fall.
It also led to the thirty-nine curses; ten curses upon Adam (man), ten curses upon Eve (woman), ten curses upon the serpent called Nachash, and nine curses upon Planet Earth. Strange as it may seem, the number 39 resurfaced 25 generations later at the Mount called Sinai when the “10 Commands” were given to the Children of Israel, and the Nation of Pan-Israel was created when 69 of the 70 nations of the world first refused to be HaShem’s emissaries and spokesmen to Planet Earth, and so now with the Children of Israel, a special destiny would be placed upon them for the next 150 generations.
In the meantime, Adam and Eve were forbidden to go close and investigate the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. They were warned to stay away from this tree because the “nachash” could tempt them. And so, today we know of the serpent called Satan, who now has become the “accuser” and “prosecutor” against G-d’s chosen people. He has now became the heavenly embodiment of “justice” which is an aspect of divine providence that requires we as human beings have to use our own “free will” and the “power to choose” in order that we can earn and become worthy of the gifts that G-d desires to give each of us preparing us for out reclamation, redemption, and restoration into the Messianic culture called the “World to Come.”
Satan in the ancient cultures was called “Sam” which is a short of “SamEl”, or the angel of death. This created being is truly the personification of evil. The name comes from the Hebrew root word “sam” which means “potion” and “blindness” while El means “G-d”. To understand this archetypical angel called Sam we must comprehend that it means “poison of G-d” or the “blinding angel” who puts blinders over our eyes so we cannot see G-d.
So as we looking around the world today, we can perceive a world that is progressively sinking into chaos and complete destruction. What is most perceptible is the fact that the world that surrounds us today is the progressive culture of being self-centered, arrogant, self-possessed, with the evil intent of aborting the creation of a new cultural era where the love of G-d will give us a world culture of “Pax-Eden” where all mankind will live in peace in a universe of spiritually enhanced Torah enlightenment.
We are now at the end of the 5,000 year culture of man living on a degenerated and decaying earth. What we are seeing with our own eyes is the rise of fear and terrorism in order to create an era of spiritual slavery by Sam or Samekh-mem who with the forces of darkness seeking to create a culture of death.
To put this into a reality in which we can perceive, the rise of terrorism around the world and especially in the Middle East is really a world of “false flags” and spiritual illusions that are a product of the manipulation of the governing rulers of Europe and America who have taught and trained Middle-eastern terrorists to become the pawns of the hands of those seeking world dominion.
Who then are these peoples? They are the descendants of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel who are determined to put shackles upon the Jewish people living in the biblical heartland of the patriarchs in Shomron and the mountains of Judea.
These rulers, under the dominion of “Samekh-men” today are plotting the destiny of the world from the Pentagon, the CIA or from the Oval Office. Yet, it is not just the United States, but the European Union who are confronting the communist powers of Russia and China that are culpable hands seeking the destruction of the State of Israel, in order to annihilate the last vestige of the Nation of Israel that was instituted and created by the hands of Almighty One of Israel at the mount called Sinai.
What is little known is that the hands behind the scene are the controlling interests of the Vatican in Rome, the P2 Masonic Lodge that resides in the shadows of St. Peter’s Cathedral. It is they who control every intelligence services around the world which include the nations of China, Russia, the Middle Eastern nations, and the United States and the European Union. They are also under the secret world power of the Jesuits, the protector of the Pope in Rome. It is they who are the emissaries for Sam and the forces of darkness.
Today we are beginning to understand that that the modern rulers of a rising global One World Order are fueled by the genes of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel. The secret identity of the identity of these peoples have now been revealed in the genetic laboratories of Europe around the world. One of the most poignant clues to this fact is that the “Red Hair” genetic roots of the Y-Haplogroup of the R1b can now be perceived and identified as the “Lost Israelites” in Ancient Europe.
In the ancient script of the Torah, the first Man on earth, created in the Image of G-d was Adam. Adam, to etymologists, carries the meaning of red or ruddy man. What is known today; red hair is rare. Very Rare. It is virtually non-existent around the world except in Western Europe.
We know in history that King David was a red-head so the Davidian lineage of King David would also carry its genetic makeup. Today the red hair is most dense in the western regions along the Atlantic seaboard of Europe and heading to the east towards Poland. It then extends from Poland all the way down over the Pyrenees Mountain through Basque in Northern Spain into central Spain. We see it in the populations of southern Scandinavia, and Finland to the east heading over into the Volga region of Russia.
Looking carefully at the maps, the highest density of red hair that is imbedded in over 10% of the population live along the western regions of Europe. This includes the western Atlantic seaboards of Ireland, the Northwestern sector of Scotland on the Isle of Britannia and the western regions of Great Britain in Wales.
There is a greater density of over 10% of red hair clustering towards the western region of Denmark where the Tribe of Dan is located and in the southwestern region of Norway. This then extends down the coastline of the La Manche (English Channel) along the coastline of the Netherlands and Belgium and then further south to the peninsula of Brittany jutting out into the Atlantic and the Bay of Biscay. Yes, we have to admit that red hair is it one the rarest and most unique of all the colored hairs in the world. It now has become a marker for the identity of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel.
Rarely in the ancient writings did the authors speak of the color of hair, but red hair was the exception. According to Suetonius in “The Life of the Twelve Caesars”, the 8thEmperor of Rome, Vitellius was a redhead. His name should be familiar to all with the knowledge of Jewish history.
The Roman Emperor Vitellius was the last of the “Year of the Four Emperors”, when his claim to the Roman throne was challenged by the eastern Roman legions under the command of the Roman General Vespasian. These troops then proclaimed Vespasian the Roman Emperor while his troops were surrounding Jerusalem in siege.
In the civil war that erupted, the defending legions of Vitellius were decisively defeated at the Second Battle of Bedriacum in Northern Italy and Vitellius was executed in Rome by the legions of Vespasian on the 22nd of December, 69 CE. And so today, the Emperors Vespasian and his son, Hadrian are indelibly tied in the Jewish history with the fall and destruction of Jerusalem and the Holy Temple of G-d on the Temple Mount.
Is it not surprising that with the rise of the United States in America that three of the first seven American presidents were red headed Israelites; Thomas Jefferson, 3rd American president, James Monroe, the 5th American president and Andrew Jackson, the 7th American president for their ancestral lineages came from the Isle of Britannia, no doubt including Welsh lineages plus Irish and Scottish.
As we can now see, the density of red headed humans is closely associated with the Y-Haplogroup R1B in Europe. The Y (male) Haplogroup R1B is also identified with the entry of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel into Northern Gaul as the Celtic and Cymric people with the Tribes of Dan and Simeon along the earliest settlers.
Now let us take the first Eupedia map that outlines the distribution of red hair over the Eurasian landscape and compare it with the Eupedia map above of the distribution of the Haplogroup R1b. The linking identity between the two is amazing.
The most ancient of the ancestral regions of the R1b Haplogroup is now understood by the scientists as coming from the region of Iran, or the land of the peoples that were known as the “Arians”. This is not surprising in that it was to the land of Media near the Black and the Caspian Sea that the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel were sent into exile and first settled. It was from this region that they began their wanderings, north, south, east and west but by far the most predominate part of the Lost Tribers migrated to the West.
The Divine Hand of G-d allowed them to build their own imperial states and world empires. These included; Portugal, Spain, Great Britain, Netherlands, France and even Germany. Their dominions were scattered around the entire world. They even included the Scandinavian Vikings (Scythians) who left their imprint of discovering the North American Continent even before Columbus.
It was the Israelite Scythian Vikings that paved a pathway of dominion all the way to Constantinople while the Danes under King William the Great took over the Isle of Brittany long after the Anglo-Saxons (Engle-Sacae or the “sons of Isaac”) had pushed the Tribes of Ephraim and Dan over to the Atlantic coastline of Wales.
The major region where the populous Lost Ten Tribes were sent into exile included the region of Khurasan, which includes Northern Iran, Eastern Afghanistan and Western Pakistan. The Pashtun Tribes of Bani-Israel are the remnant of these tribes who still live in this region.
The Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel were called the “Great Wanderers”. They then are identified in the routes of the ancient wanderings of this Rb1 Haplogroup as they migrated along with a more ancient subclade called the R1b L23. They settled as they migrated into Southern Russia and Ukraine along the northern banks of the Black Sea and according to the historical texts they rarely amalgamated with the local indigenous populations but stayed rather intact and pure to their lost Hebrew tribal identity.
They also left their imprint upon the landscape of the world as they traversed across the globe. This is first suspected to be the route of the first of the wanderings with the Tribe of Dan, who everywhere this tribe migrated they left the name of “Dan” on the names of the rivers in which they passed over; the Don (Dan) River, the Dnieper (Danieper) the Dniester (Daniester) and the Danube as they then floated north upwards towards Denmark (Danmark).
Here came then the entry of the first White People now identified with the R1b Haplogroup. Within this group came also the first “Redheads” into the region of Gaul, or the mid to northern regions of Europe today. As the Celtic Cimmerians, their final resting place was to be in the Isles of the West.
The peoples most associated with the red hair were the Celtic and the Cymric people who have now been identified with the La Tène villages in Central and Northern Europe. It is understandable that the researchers and scholars of the La Tène peoples do not have consensus of opinion of who these people were. They arrived in central Gaul in the 5th century BCE, expanded in the 4th century to Hispania (Spain) the Balkans and over into Asia Minor, but not necessarily in that order.
Instead, they arrived from the East as the Lost Ten Tribes. They became known as the Gauls or the Gallic peoples. In fact it was the Lost Tribe Gallic general, Brennus who first reached the city of Rome in the 4th century and took possession of it.
It was in the 8th century BCE that the Samaritans of the House of Joseph were first called the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel for they were collectively ruled by the Tribe of Joseph whose descendants were the Tribe of Ephraim and Manasseh. They were cast out of their homelands by the Assyrians and sent into exile in the land of Khorasan, by the Caspian and the Black Seas by the G-d of Israel. This is done for predominately one reason; their apostasy, corruption, and rebellion against the Almighty One of Israel for rebelling against the dynastic rulers of Kings David and Solomon, refusal to worship in the Temple of Solomon during the Jewish festivals, and refusal to accept the Mechoquek of Judah, the Jewish rabbanim to be the legal Torah jurists for all 12-Tribed Israel.
These tribes were called the Northern Kingdom of Israel. The central governance of their kingdom was the tribal land of Samaria, where the modern Palestinians people are trying to take this land to be the “Nation of Palestine”, but there is one problem. This “deed” to the titled of this land has already been land has already been promised by the G-d of Israel to be for the restoration of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel (Ezekiel 36).
These tribes were instead exiled to the land that today encompasses the region of Northern Iran, Eastern Afghanistan and Western Pakistan populated by the largest tribe of the region; the Bani-Israel people called the Pashtuns Tribal peoples.
Our heart and minds begin to ponder as we remember that the Israelite Pashtuns are prophetically destined by the God of Israel to become a military force that will cause the “nations to stumble” while at the same time contain the forces of evil. Are the “nations that stumble” the same nations the will bring the forces of evil? Are we seeing a role reversal, where the allied powers of the west that claim to bring peace and freedom with democracy will actually be the forces of the Anti-Messiah called in Islam as the Dajjal?
According to the Islamic messianic imagery of the world at the time of the end, the forces of evil will come from those global powers that are seeking to take all free will and independence away from all mankind so that they can no longer worship the Monotheistic God of the Universes.
The “army of the Mahdi” will begin what appears to be a new Islamic Jihad. As they travel from the Afghani region of the Pashtuns in Afghanistan, we find an amazing event happening. The Mahdi and his military followers appear to be traveling southwest towards the City of Jerusalem. This will be the same but opposite direction that they were taken into captivity 2,700 years ago by the Assyrian Empire. This time, they will plant the black flags of the Jihad in the “Holy House”, the “Baitul Maqdas” the “Noble Sanctuary” known as the “Al-Aqsa Mosque” or the “Mosque of Omar”.
The Prophet (PBUH or “peace be upon him who reads the words of the Prophet) said: "We (I and my family) are members of a household that Allah (SWT) has chosen for them the life of the Hereafter over the life of this world; and the members of my household (Ahlul-Bayt – “the household of Muhammad) shall suffer a great affliction and they shall be forcefully expelled from their homes after my death.
Then there will come people from the East carrying Black Flags, and they will ask for some good to be given to them, but they shall be refused service; as such, they will wage war and emerge victorious, and will be offered that which they desired in the first place, but they will refuse to accept it till they pass it to a man (The Mahdi) from my family (Ahlul-Bayt – “People of the House of Muhammad) that appears to fill the Earth with justice as it has been filled with corruption. So whoever reaches that (time) ought to come to them even if crawling on the ice/snow since among them is the Vice-regent of Allah (Khalifatullah) al-Mahdi." (Sunan Ibn Majah)
Hadhrat (“Great Presence”) Abu Hurairah (R.A.) narrates that Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) said - "(Armies carrying) Black Flags will come from Khurasan. No power will be able to stop them and they will finally reach Eela (Baitul Maqdas) where they will erect their flags." (Trimdi)
Yet, it appears that the forces of the Pashtuns Israelites will be diverted first to Istanbul (Constantinople) before they turn to face the arrival of the international forces of the anti-Messiah, the Islamic Dajjal. It is not certain as to which of these military engagements will occur first and their sequence of events; fall of Istanbul (Constantinople), the war with the Anti-Messiah (Dajjal) or the entry into Jerusalem and planting their black war flags on the Temple Mount.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle (may peace he upon him) saying: “You have heard about a city the one side of which is in the land and the other is in the sea (Constantinople). They said: Allah's Messenger, yes. Thereupon he said: “The Last Hour would not come (time of the end) unless seventy thousand persons (warriors) from Bani lshaq (Sons of Isaac) would attack it.”
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle (may peace he upon him) saying: “When they would land there, they will neither fight with weapons nor would shower arrows but would only say: “There is no god but Allah and Allah is the Greatest,” that one side of it would fall.” (Saheh Muslim)
Strange as it may be, the Mahdi may be bringing home the most fierce and powerful of the warrior tribes from the Afghan and Pakistani region, the 41 million member Pashtun Tribes of Bani Israel; the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel. They had resisted successfully, like no other warrior tribes, the global assault of the economic internationalists of the west. Will HaShem, the G-d of Israel begin the redemption process at this time?
This concept may have a certain validity. When we look back into the annals of time, we realize that the redemption of the Jewish people who were in exile under the dominion of the Babylonians by King Nebuchadnezzar, came at the hands of the ruler of the Medes and the Persians called Cyrus the Great.
Cyrus the Great, the Pasargadae (Tribe of Gad) Lost Israelite
Destination Yisrael – “Cyrus was a Pasargadae Israelite who now as the emperor of Medes and the Persians returned back to the lands of Media seeking to tame and subdue his exiled cousins whether he knew that or not, and their restless and warring urges for rebellion. This was predicated by the historical facts that the rebellious Lost Ten Tribes of Israel were exiled by the Assyrians from their tribal “Land of Promise” for their continuous rebellion against the Almighty One of Israel.
It was in the year of 530 BCE that the Persian, under the Shah of the Persians and the Medes, Cyrus the Great returned to the tribal territories of the Massagetai (Tribes of Gad and Manasseh). In battle with the rebellious Israelites, the Persians lost the battle and King Cyrus was killed in the year of 529 BCE. Out of this victory, we can visualize how the women in their social cultural were elevated. At the time of that war, the Massagetai warriors were under the rule of the Scythian Queen Tomyris who sought revenge against the Persians for the death of her son in an earlier battle. Queen Tomyris in one of the most famous stories of antiquity, ordered the head of Cyrus the Great, the Persian King, to be cut off and placed into a wineskin filled with his blood, when she stated the following words of infamy:
Queen Tomyris – “You have destroyed me, alive and victorious that I am, by vehemently taking away my son. Now came my turn, to satiate you with your own blood, as I have promised” (Herodotus History I.214).
Today the bravery of Queen Tomyris is praised in the local Kazakhstan society as a national heroine, where the name, Tomyris is one of the most popular names given to young Kazakh girls. Here again we see the archetype of the ancient Children of Israel, when the prophetess Miriam, the sister of Moses and Aaron, along with Moses led the Children of Israel into a song of praise on the shores of the Red Sea when the Pharaoh of Egypt and the entire Egyptian army were destroyed in the collapsing wall of water and the Children of Israel were saved. (Exodus 15:20-21)
Here are a people that will refuse to the death to be ruled by global domination…Today, all the nations of the world are lusting for Afghanistan “oil” and “real estate” in Israel. Today, Afghanistan is controlled by a tribal coalition from all the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel.
The Zionist State of Israel represents the Tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi, but the Orthodox Jewish people have had virtually no political control. The political and the international relations of the State of Israel are controlled by the “Sabbatean Jews”or the “International Jews.”
The Pashtun Tribes of Bani-Israel refused to ally themselves, as did their ancestors of old, with any nation’s global quest for world domination. This gives us a certain suspicion that the identity that BibleSearchers has long proclaimed that the “He-Goat” of Daniel 8that was identified by the Archangel as “Greece” truly does represent the global force that are following the same identical path of Alexander the Great promoting Grecian Hellenism and Grecian democracy to bring “peace” for all mankind.”
Alexander the Great and his military forces of Greece tried very hard to destroy the Bani-Israel tribes of Afghanistan by genocide yet it was the Lost Ten Tribes of the Parthians and Afghani warriors who successfully resisted Rome. They resisted and eventually drove out the Queen’s Army of Great Britain in 1880. They resisted and then watched as the Russian Imperial Army crept back home in defeat in 1980. Now they are resisting and sapping the resources of the greatest imperial power of the world, the United States, over the fear of the Al Qaeda, whom America once created, protected, but now the Pashtun Talibani Afghani are protecting.
The prophetic picture proclaims that they will not be controlled by America’s global intent for world domination. Neither will they be controlled by the Vatican intent for world domination, even when all the major global forces, American, Europe, Russia, and China will be under Jesuit, Illuminati, Freemason and Sabbatean Jewish control.
And now, the Pashtuns, according to the Hadiths, will soon someday be heading home to their former capital of the United Kingdom of Israel under Kings David and Solomon. They will hear the “whistle of the Lord of hosts” and they will return home. How that reunion will come about, is a mystery in which only the mind of the God of Israel knows.
Zechariah 9:6 – “I will strengthen the House of Judah, and I will save the House of Joseph (Houses of Ephraim and Manasseh collectively as the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel). I will bring them back, because I have mercy on them. They shall be as though I had not cast them aside: for I am the Lord their God, and I will hear them...
I will whistle for them and gather them, for I will redeem them, and they shall increase as they once increased…I will also bring them back from the land of Egypt, and gather them from Assyria, I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon, until no more room is found for them.”
This is the promise of the “One G-d of Israel” that He will redeem His own. How this will happen is only for the Almighty One of Israel to know and for His will to accomplish.
It appears that the Pashtun Lost Israelites will be the home and the bastion of the 70,000 Islamic warriors that will go and fight the Anti-Messiah at the “End of Days.” How this will morph together into one, we also do not know. Only vignettes of that culmination of the present age and the rise of the future era of the Messiah, have been given to the prophets of old. The rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is only the beginning of that prophetic drama.
How they mesh and morph into the future has already been holographic preserved by the forces of the Divine. How we approach that day will depend on how transparent our mental filter toward HaShem has been nurtured so that indwelling spirit of the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) can dwell within us to guide and direct our lives in our near future.
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The G-d of Israel proclaimed that there are only two groups of people who will be restored back into covenant with Him, the Jews of the House of Israel and the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel. Both families, the Jews and the Israelites were scattered across the face of the earth and would become HaShem emissaries incognito sent to elevate the 70 nations of the world, so that even Righteous Gentiles could become part of the covenant.
Even the children of Ishmael still rooted in Islam, the children of the Lost Ten Tribes who today are now Buddhist, or the Lost Ten Tribes who today call themselves Christians will be assimilated into the Jewish culture. This will be because deep in their hearts they are known by the Divine to be “safe to save” and willing to live in peace with their brothers; all descendants of the Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Only the G-d of Israel knows who they are.
We are quickly being polarizing a world in which there will be only two choices; we are either for the Hebrew Israelites; both now part of the Jews of the house of Judah and the Lost Israelites of the House of Israel or we will be against them. This comes to one sobering conclusion, if you are a descendant of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, whether Muslim, Buddhist or Christian, and you still despise your brothers, the Jews, you may be left outside, not redeemed to participate in the coming “Era of the Messiah” even though you think you want to be a part of them.
If you have wondered how biblical prophecy fits into your life, and how it will affect the Return of the House of Israel, then the G-d of Israel is beginning his “call” to bring you home, too. You might desire to reconnect with the Biblical portrayals on what is and may be happening in your near future. This Biblical portrayal includes Prophecies that the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel are about to return to the Land of their Biblical Inheritance. This is Divine Destiny in living reality as the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel return to their Homelands first in Shomron (Samaria), Israel.
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Equally mysterious in the origins of the Supreme Buddha was the role of the Sacae-Suni that were known as the “Sons of Isaac” upon which the 6th century Royal Lost Israelite Prince heir, Siddhartha Gautama was born as one of their peoples. He was later to become known as the Supreme Buddha, the “Sacae- Muni” or the “Great Hermit”. As written in the Bible Searchers Reflections article titled, “The Israeli-Scythian Migration to Europe” in the subtitled section called, “The Influence of the Sacae-Suni, the Sons of Isaac, upon Buddha and Confucius” we read:
Bible Searchers Reflections – “It was in the research of George Moore M.D. in his book published in 1861 titled, “The Lost Tribes and the Saxons of the East and the West, with new views of Buddhism and Translations of Rock Records in India” that the Scythian/Scuths began first to wander east of the Caspian Sea, along the east-west corridor in which they had full autonomy and control.
Bands of the Scythian-Scuth-Israelites who were called the Saki, Saghs, or Asa of Ariana, began penetrating south into the Kingdoms of Media and Persia and wherever they battled, they won in triumph. For a time, the Israelite-Scythians had possession of Media and Persia and ruled them from their homelands now to the far north and all the way over to the Indian Peninsula.
It was in the year of 623 BCE, according to George Moore, that a child was born in the mountains of Northern India that was named, “Sacae- Muni”, meaning the “Great Hermit”. This was a bright child with mental, moral, and spiritual characteristics far in advance of his local peers. He was soon known to them as Buddha. In reality he was not spiritually theirs, but a “Hidden One” or and “Elect One” of the Lost Israelites in Exile.
Among the peoples of India, Buddha soon won their confidence for his teachings were from ascendant level of spiritual and moral supremacy. For the next forty years, Buddha taught a spiritual life that was based upon the principles of the Sinai Decalogue. He taught pure monotheism in what would eventually be known as Buddhism.
He taught that the Supreme Spiritual Ruler of the Universe was One and that “the future coming of the Lord of the world, who, destroying the serpent, should bring peace, and who should spring from the Sakyan race” of the House of Isaac. Here he was linking Buddha’s expectations with the Hebrew’s expectation, “In Isaac shall thy seed be called!” (Ingersoll on Moore in, “Lost Israel found in the Anglo-Saxon Tribe, Chapter 5”)
The Ashokan Pillar called the “Topez of the Sanchi”
Frederick Haberman confirms the relationship of the Sakyas who as the Sakyas of northern India were the originators of Buddhism. He wrote of a 4th century BCE rock carving, called the “Topez of the Sanchi” near the city of Bhopal, Indiaabout the time the Israelite Sanchi (House of Isaac) were invading into the Indian continent. He describes this stone carving as follows:
Frederick Haberman – “Not only is the name of Saki but also the picture itself is of great interest to us. Below we see a Lion and a Unicorn, which are the emblems of the whole house of Israel, the Lion of Judah and the Unicorn, the calf or Engle (Ephraim) of the separated kingdom of Northern Israel. Both figures are still on the British Coat of Arms.
In the center we see the shield of Britannia or the Brits or Covenant race, together with two tridents, the same as that held by Britannia…On one side hangs a double flag with the crosses of St. Andrew and on the other a starry banner.
Of all the ancient stone carvings this is the most striking and of the greatest importance to us, for in it we can see that the original pattern for the Union Jack and the Star Spangled Banner was in the minds of our ancestors twenty three centuries ago and probably before that, not only in Europe but in distant Asia.” (Lawrence Graeme Allan Robert, British History Traced from Egypt and Palestine, 1927, Chapter VI cited by Frederick Haberman, Tracing our Ancestors, pg. 126)
Ancient Pattern for the Union Jack and the Star Spangled Banner – The Topez of the Sanchi from a Rock Carving near Bhopan in India - 4th cent.) – Roberts, “British History Traced.” ch. Xi, Cited in Haberman, “Tracing our Ancestors, Face Sheet)
As the Sacae-Suni (sons of Isaac), centuries later were called the Saxons in Europe, they moved to the East and their religious and spiritual influence was felt all the way to the land of the dragon power of China. There rose, during these years, a new spiritual reformer called Confucius who lived almost contemporaneous with Buddha (Sacae-Muni) around the year of 584 BCE. Confucius started a spiritual revolution in China of a purer religion that challenged and changed the corruption, vice, and immorality of the ancient Chinese social way of life.
As George Moore wrote, "Confucius reformed the standards of morality when he taught the Chinese “to treat others according to the treatment which they themselves would desire at their hands, to guard their secret thoughts; that true renown consists in straightforward and honest sincerity, in the love of justice, in the knowledge of mankind, and in humility.” (George Moore, “The Lost Tribes and the Saxons of the East and the West, with new views of Buddhism and Translations of Rock Recorded in India”, cited by Ingersol, “Lost Israel found in the Anglo-Saxon Tribe, Chapter 5”)
Confucius’ teachings, in a world of paganism appeared to be lifted straight out of the Torah, for “he advocated the ‘law of retaliation’ so prominent in the Mosaic code; and he is called at the present day “the most holy teacher of ancient times.”(Ibid) With the life of Confucius and his descendants and the heir succession in the Chinese culture, Moore wrote:
George Moore – “Though only a single descendant survived Confucius, the succession has continued through sixty-seven or sixty eight generations (in 1861) to the present day in the very district where their great ancestor was born. Various honors and privileges have always distinguished the family.” (George Moore, “The Lost Tribes and the Saxons of the East and the West, with new views of Buddhism and Translations of Rock Recorded in India”, 1861, cited by the Oxonian author, John Heywood, ‘Israel’s Wanderings” pg 61-62, and then cited by Ingersol, “Lost Israel found in the Anglo-Saxon Tribe, Chapter 5”)
Today, most scholars are honing into the life and times of the Prince heir, Siddhartha Gautama. We now know and accept that he was the son of the elected chief of the Shakya clan called King Śuddhodana. As we have now seen and will bolster the evidence later, the Shakya tribal clan were later known by the Persian Shah Darius as the Sacae transliterated as the “sons of Isaac”. So they were part of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel that had settled in the region below Himalaya Mountains in India.
This region was later separated by the British Empire, during the Indian Independence in 1951. The two kingdoms split, the “India of the West” called Pakistan inhabited predominately by the Muslims peoples of the Islamic faith, and the “India of the East” called India that was inhabited predominately by the various Hindu castes of the Hindu religious people, and the Buddhist which now appear to have been in large part the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel now living in Tibet, Nepal, and over into Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam.
The mother of the Buddha called Prince Siddhartha Gautama was Queen Maha Maya (Māyādevī) a Koliyan princess whose people centuries later as the Kolis of Gujarat mixed with the Rajputs in what was called hypergamous marriages to elevate themselves from a lower social class to a higher social status in the Hindu caste system.
In the ancient days, before the modern era of the British Rajs (Rajputs), the Israelite Koliyan’s sided with the Rajputs, who had now become a martial warrior cult which later the British imperial occupiers used enforce land reform that ended in taking possession of the Lost Israelite’s land of the Koliyan peoples.
Siddhartha Gautama was born as a Kshatriya, the son of King Śuddhodana, “an elected chief of the Israelite Shakya (son of Isaac’s) clan”,whose capital was Kapilavastu. Their family were part of the Kshatriya recognized as the holder of Kshatra, or the rule and authority. The Kshatriya were one of the four varnas or social orders in the Hindu caste ruling system.
According to the Sanskrit, the Kshatriya were part of the elite of the ancient Vedic social culture when its members organized themselves into three classifications: the Brahmin, the Kshatriya, and the Vaishya. Over the centuries the Kshatriya represented the ruling and the military elite, while they were in charge of protecting the social culture by fighting in war and governing in times of peace. As such the Israelite Shakya were truly a part of the ancient ruling elite of the Hindu ancient past in India.
When they lost their august and once-equal standing with the Rajputs the Koliyans also lost their small princedoms in the Patidar community. Today, they are agricultural laborers called tenant cultivators and once again subservient to the higher classes within the greater Indian communities. Yet even they will be eventually known as one of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, when according to the rabbanim of Israel, the Prophet Elijah returns before the era of the messiah begins and will give each one authentication of his own tribal identity.
Prince Siddhartha eventually married his own cousin, Princess Yasodharā, a member of his own Israelite tribe, according to the ancient Torah commandments from the mount called Sinai, for Princess Yasodharā was the daughter of Suppabuddha, the sister to King Śuddhodana. King Śuddhodana’s consorts were Queen Maya and Princess Mahapajapati Gotami, the later Buddha Mundi’s mother and stepmother. King Śuddhodana also had two other children, Princess Sundari Nanda and Prince Nanda, sister and brother of the later Buddha Mundi.
As such they remained a part of the Sakyan tribe that later in part moved on into Northern Europe called Gaul. In the largely unpopulated forested region of Northern Gaul, they were known as the Saxons in Germany. With their merger with the Engel or the Angle tribes (Engel, the Hebrew for heifer that was the tribal banner of the tribe of Ephraim) they later invaded and conquered the eastern portion of the British Isles in the 4th century CE as the Anglo-Saxons.
With the present UNESCO archeological digs at the Maya Devi Temple just completed at Lumbini, most scholars still accept that the royal palace was located in Kapilavastu, the capital of King Śuddhodanain present-day Nepal. This capital and palaces were later annexed by the growing Kingdom of Kosala during They were later annexed by the growing Kingdom of Kosala during the Buddha's lifetime. Gautama was the family name and as we shall see later, Gautama represented the Israelite Tribe of Gad.
To see how tight the genealogies of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel had become enmeshed, the mother of the young Sakyan prince, Queen Maha Maya (Māyādevī) was the wife of King Suddhodana.
At the same time, according to Sanskrit traditions, Prince Suprabuddha, and the Lost Israelite in the Pali traditions, Prince Suppabuddha was the son of Añjana and his sister, Yasodhara, a Koliyan prince. Prince Suppabuddha had two children, Bhaddakaccānā, who became the wife of Prince Siddhartha Gautama whom we know today as Yasodharā) and the second daughter, Devadatta, was from Prince Suppabuddha’s wife Amitā.
Prince Suppabuddha also had two sisters, Princess Māyāand Princess Pajāpatī and a brother, Prince Dandapāni. As the mother of Buddha was Maya, that made Prince Suppabuddha the uncle of the Buddha Mundi called Prince Siddhartha, and as his daughter, Princess Yasodharā was the wife of Prince Siddhartha and as such Prince Suppabuddha became also the father-in-law to the Buddha Mundi.
According to the “oral traditions of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel” on the of the evening in which Prince Siddhartha was conceived, his mother, Queen Maya had a dream that a white elephantthat had six white tusks entered into the right side of her body. Ten months later Prince Siddhartha was born.
According to the Shakya Israelite traditions, ten months later, just before the expected birth, Queen Maya left the royal Palace at Kapilavastu to go the palace of her father to give birth to her son. Yet, he came prematurely and was born in Lumbini in a garden area beneath a sal tree identified as the Shorea robusta, while her hand was holding the Sal Tree.
According to the local traditions at Lumbini, it was in the year of 563 BCE (today accepted by UNESCO as 623 BCE) that the Buddha was born when his mother was traveling from one state to another. She passed by a pond that was surrounded by flowering sal trees. She first bathed in the cool water, and shortly after that went into premature labor and had only enough time to walk 25 steps to grab a branch of the sal tree for support when Prince Siddhartha, the future Buddha Mundi was born. Today the pond and the huge sal tree (Bodhi Tree) are still there by the Maya Devi Stupa where it was when the infant Israelite Buddha was born.
Today the birth date of Buddha is celebrated as a holiday called “Buddha Poornima” in India on a day of a full moon. Just after his birth, within the first seven days, Queen Maya, his mother died.
On the eight day, the famous seer Asitar, came down from his mountain abode and with the child in hand, announced that he would become either a great king (chakravartin) or a renowned holy man. Earlier on the fifth day, King Śuddhodana called a naming ceremony for his new son. Eight Brahmin scholars were invited to read the future of the new heir prince. All eight of them gave the prediction that this babe would either be a great king or a great holy man (sadhu). It was the youngest, Kaundinya (Pali: Kondañña), who unequivocally predicted that Siddhartha would become a Buddha and then went on to become the first arahantother than the Buddha.
With the death of his mother, Queen Maya, Prince Siddhartha was raised by his aunt, Queen Mawa’s sister, Princess Maha Pajapati in one of the three seasonal palaces built for the prince. At the orders of the king, his son was to be shielded from religious teachings and the evidence of human suffering. For the next 13 years, after his 16th birthday, Prince Siddhartha married his cousin, Princess Yasodharā, who together had son, named Rāhula. But material wealth was not to be the supreme calling of this young Lost Israelite prince.
At the age of 29, Siddhartha left the palace, left his wife, son, family and gave up rights to the throne of the Sakyas to become an ascetic. Interestingly the Buddha Mundi would later become the model for the Roman Catholic Church as they reinvented the life of the Jewish Orthodox Prince of David, known as the Nazarene who was an active family oriented orthodox rabbi and transformed him into a reclusive celibate to become the “christ” of the future monastic Roman Christianity and later modern Protestantism.
As an ascetic, Prince Siddhartha, the future Buddha Mundi went on to shave his head. He had left the life of royalty and in a life of denial he hoped to find the religious pathway to end the suffering of disease and death. By overcoming ageing, sickness and death, it was his highest aim to accomplish this by an ascetic life of depravation as a medicant. He did receive high levels of spiritual enlightenment, but soon it became evident that this was not the pathway to relieve the suffering of all mankind.
Buddha Mundi then went on to become a student of yoga, and succeeded to be even better than his own masters, so then he went on to try self-mortification with the austere life of deprivation of worldly goods, food, and including self-mutilation of his own body. Living on only a leaf or a nut a day, he one day collapsed in the river and almost drowned. It was then that he began to reconsider his ways.
Extreme asceticism did not work, and by it Gautama discovered that the meditative jhana was to him the balance, a pathway of moderation called the Middle Way from the extremes of self- indulgence on one hand and self-mortification on the other. It took a young village girl to give and offer him in his weakened condition some milk and rice pudding, thinking that he was a “spirit” that had just granted her a wish. This would become the noble Eightfold Path as the now acclaimed Supreme Buddha discussed in his first discourse titled the Dhammaacakkappavattana Sutta.
Now, with his enlightenment, Gautama began to sit under the famous pipal tree now renowned as the Bodhi Tree in Godh Gaya in India when his final pathway of enlightenment was achieved. At the age of 35, and after 49 days of meditation, Prince Siddhartha became the ‘Awakened One” and the “Enlightened One.”
He was not yet prepared to present to his people the “Four Noble Truths” which are still at the heart of modern Buddhism. These “Four Noble Truths” realized in the search for enlightenment by Israelite Sakya Prince Siddhartha, the future Supreme Buddha, can also be realized in our lives, for most people internally realize that the external world around us is crumbling. Our future expectations of the “world to come” have not fully been realized. This can also give us “enlightenment” as we become part of the final remnant the “endures until the end and then shall be saved”.
The Lost Israelite in the person of the Awakened one gave to the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel a new term for physical and spiritual understanding: dukkha meaning human suffering, anxiety, and being unsatisfied, or unfulfilled with our personal state of being. Let us look at the four fundamentals of the “Four Noble Truths”:
The truth of dukkha that is human suffering, anxiety, and unsatisfactoriness.
The truth of the origins of dukkha in one’s personal state of being comes from within us.
The truth of the cessation of dukkha becomes the personal truth of how we can resolve or move beyond our human suffering, personal anxiety or being inherently unsatisfied with the life or “soul” given to us by our Creator. This will be critical for in the transition zone between the dissolution of our occidental modern world of power, greed and control. We will still be caught in a “transition zone” of the past that is rapidly disappearing and the future era of Messianic enlightenment that has not been fully realized. So, in our own personal future, and our own personal state of being, we discover that we cannot move beyond our now, but must resolve ourselves to accept the life that has now been given to us.
The truth of the path leading to the cessation of dukkha is that if the future pathway of our lives leads us as the Psalmist states, “though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for Thou are with me”, we will be able to rise above the challenges, absolve our expectations, and become transparent in our souls. There is a Divine that is more powerful than the evil forces that surround our lives of the present. Therefore the Divine Light can flow through our lives as we are being transformed in order to elevate the souls of others that are in contact with our lives today.
In essence, the first truths of the Supreme Buddha are four in number that deal with the human state of life that uses such terms as “anxiety, stress, frustration, unease, unsatisfactoriness” but then the “Four Noble Truths” were given in order to deal with the deeper concepts of human suffering that include such ideas as “imperfection, pain, impermanence, disharmony, discomfort, irritation, or the awareness of incompleteness and insufficiency.”
Today the western Occidental mindset of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel see their world through the social-cultural prism of Western European idealism. The concepts of the eastern Oriental concepts of life are foreign to our minds. That which stands in opposition to Western Occidental rationalism and pragmatism is the Oriental philosophy that does not ignore but includes a philosophy of pessimism. It does not forget that in its sublime essence it is realism and a practical assessment of human life back then and even more so today.
The self-adulation of modern Westerners that we will overcome has its limitations in real life. We have been given certain social standards of excellence and a social cultural reality that are not compatible with the nature of human sin. Also we have failed in our comprehension of the fact that “as babes we arrived in this world, and as babes most of us will leave this world.”
In essence, what is seen in Buddhism is neither pessimism nor optimism but realism of the human state of life. It neither considers a messiah or a Divine that will help us and lead us through times of chaos into the future called in Judaism as the “World to Come.” At that time the “children of Isaac” (Sacai or Sakya) are destined not to continue living in the Oriental World of Eastern Buddhism and neither are they expected to continue living in the Occidental World of Western Christianity. When they have experienced the “Time of Jacob’s Tribulation” they will become immersed in the synthesis of the Oriental and the Occidental spiritual mindsets of Orthodox Judaism, the repository of the true synthesis of One G-d of Israel.
Only by absolving ourselves of our independence, our arrogance, our “can-do” personality, only then can we claim absolute reliance on the Divine. This is what the Nazarene himself had to do, for he also was human and not the One G-d of Israel, as he himself admitted over and over in his personal testimony of the Gospel of John.
Only then can we begin to comprehend that restoration and redemption of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel go beyond our Western oriented world mindset of “we will overcome.” Yet it appears that there are separate pathways towards the future redemption of the “Lost Sheep of the House of Israel” as multiple tribes will be returning along multiple pathways as we are restored back into oneness with our tribal brothers and sisters the Jews and the Jewess of the House of Judah.
At the time of the “awakening” of Prince Siddhartha as the Supreme Buddha, his quest was to understand the cause of human suffering and then to comprehend those steps that it would take to eliminate human suffering. This became known as the “Four Noble Truths”. Yet it took the focus, concentration and mastery of these “truths” where one could reach the supreme state of liberation known as Nirvana. Here was the moment of time when the body has perfect peace in the mind where one is free from the afflictive states of Ignorance, greed and hatred. These were called “defilements” or kilesas.
The State of Perfect Peace called Nirvana was the final accomplishment, according to the Buddha Mundi, as one now enters the “end of the world”, where within the boundaries of the mind one gives up all personal identity. And so, the state of Nirvana it appears to be akin to the deeper levels of Jewish understanding of the Kabbalah that states that when the “Age of the Messiah” arrives, humankind will enter the “Great Shabbat.”
The Supreme Buddha described this state of being to his five disciples and his larger discipleship much like in the esteemed Orthodox Rabbinic sages do in the Jewish yeshivas throughout the ages and in Israel today. This is where the Jewish student disciples also in moments of meditative states watch with great focus and intent upon their Tzaddik, or rabbinic mentor focusing on a passage of the Torah in the TaNaKh while they watch and pray waiting his message of enlightenment.
What has been forgotten by both the Jews and Christians is that while most of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel ended up in Europe and the United States, a large remnant remained in India and the Near East. As such, we all share in the ultimate destiny of the Lost Tribes of Israel, as prophesied by her prophets. They too must someday come into an oneness with the Jews of the House of Judah, together as “two peas in a pod” or as the Prophet Ezekiel wrote, “Two Sticks in One Rod”:
Ezekiel 37:19-20 - “Thus says the Lord God: ‘surely I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will join them, with the stick of Judah and make them one stick, and they will be in My hand…I will make a covenant of peace with them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them.’”
Today, the sages of Judaism and the many of the scholars of Christianity accept that the Lost Tribes of Israel did spread all around the world, from the region of the Caspian See to China in the east, and to Europe and the Americas in California to the west. They are hidden by the One G-d of Israel, but soon shall be revealed. One of the premises of this revelation that must put fear in all the satanic forces of evil today, is the sacred law of retaliation or retributive justice. First spoken in the Pentateuch (first five Books of Moses), as we read:
Exodus 21:23 – “If any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.”
Yet the Jewish rabbi called “The Nazarene” stated to his disciples:
Matthew 5:38 – “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.”
What this famous rabbi was trying to teach was the fact that, if you practice retributive justice literally on an individual basis, you are seeking to take the providence of G-d and leave it in your hands for revenge. As a Hasid, or one who kept the Laws of Torah, “beyond the letter of the law”, the Nazarene spoke of a standard of righteousness that was above and beyond the “letter of the law”. He understood that treating an evil act with another retributive evil act would become an ongoing cycle for eternity, one Jew for one Palestinian, one Jewish politician for one Palestinian politician, and the cycle goes on.
First we must look within our own hearts and remember that a vengeance based retaliation of “Lex Talionis” breeds a potentially endless cycle of violence, for it was Mahatma Gandhi who remarked”
Mahatma Gandhi – “An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.”
What the G-d of Israel wants are spiritually minded, Torah (Laws of God) observing followers that will be “safe to safe” in the “world to come” for the Almighty to redeem and restore. It is hard not to take sides in such an issue, but the G-d of Divine Justice is rooting out evil within Christians, Jews, Islam, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism and Confucianism alike, for within these lands most of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel resided.
They infected the “lands of their dwelling” with the concepts, however corrupted, of the Almighty One of Israel. The One G-d of Israel will even take the forces of evil, confound their conspiring plans to destroy Israel, such as the Gog-Magog War, and turn their plans against themselves.
So today, this green eyed young lady from Nepal is depicting her genetic diversity which is no doubt from bloodlines to the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel. This is not a racial issue but a “covenanted” issue for the G-d of Israel promised upon honoring His Holy Name that the House of Israel will be redeemed, not just in America, the European nations in Northern Gaul, and the colonies of the British Empire, but they also must include the Islamic Pashtun Tribal peoples in Eastern Afghanistan and Western Pakistan plus the tribes of the Sache and Gad, which also included those that migrated as Buddhists all the way to China, the Koreas, and Japan.
It was a strange occurrence as this article was being prepared for publication, a Golden Urn that purportedly carried the Relics of the Lost Israelite Prince Siddhartha called the Supreme Buddha was recovered by the Cambodia National Police. This golden urn had been stolen in December, 2013 but after a nationwide manhunt for Cambodia’s national treasure, it was recovered by the Cambodian National Police in February, 2013. According to history, after the death of the Lost Israelite the Buddha Mundi, his cremation relics were divided between eight royal families and Buddha’s disciples.
It would be over three centuries later that the Indian Emperor Ashoka later enshrined these relics into 84,000 stupas. Over the centuries numerous supernatural legends would rise, like the relics of the disciples of the Nazarene and many of tombs of the Sages of Judah, where pilgrimages are made to the last resting place of their illustrious lives. This certain golden urn was stolen from a mountainous shrine in the former royal city of Udona in Cambodia.
Within the urn were supposedly the hair, teeth and bones of the Supreme Buddha. According to the police all the relics were still in place. It would be of scientific and religious interest for researchers to be able to take a DNA samples of these relics and see if they match with the DNA data archives of the national populations of the nations where the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel are currently living in the Northern Countries of Europe plus the colonies of the 19th century British Empire.
When we consider carefully the implication of the genetic roots of the “Enlightened One” called the Supreme Buddha, how can we doubt that the G-d of Israel has been carefully watching over his “chosen ones” throughout the centuries?
So the same G-d of Israel gave to the peoples of the Near East in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India a Divine promise for their redemption. Though many of them feel that they are unredeemable and lost forever, the prophetic promises of HaShem, the G-d of Israel is still the same.
Yet it appears that the Divine One gave to the Lost Israelites in the Islamic lands of Afghanistan and Pakistan, plus also the Hindu land of India that a “chosen one” of their own peoples, a “Lost Israelite”, would literally become a “messiah” for their ultimate redemption.
Was Prince Siddhartha Gautama, known as the Illustrious Sache, sent by the G-d of Israel to become their Supreme Buddha and offer them a pathway of restoration, though corrupted, like He sent the Nazarene to later become a messiah to the Christians living in the lands of west? Was it they, who laid the foundation for the redemption of those peoples to someday be restored as one family, Klal Yisrael, in the “world to come” as the Divine One of Israel uncloaks and no longer remains hidden, as He comes to redeem His Chosen People?
Does it mean that the modern Buddhists today will suddenly convert to Judaism? No doubt all of them will when a divine reality occurs to each one of them that they are the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel. Yet, that reality will not come because of their genetics and genealogies but because the G-d of Israel will begin to uncloak Himself and remove His hiddenness so that the numbed down senses of the Lost Ten Tribes will perceive that He is not far away, but near. He is wooing each of us as in whistling; it’s time to come home to the brotherhood of Klal Yisrael (All 12-Tribed Israel).
It does suggest that they will come and that they will convert in the Age of Messianic Enlightenment to Messianic Judaism in part because they were given “a messiah” that was a Jewish priest in the Temple of Solomon, whose followers or disciples would be called “The Budii.” And it appears that it was so, for by the Divine purpose of the Creator of the Universe, this Jewish “messiah” and one who would follow afterwards called the Sakya Muni and later the Buddha Muni would illuminate their pathway so that at the end of times his memory will be resurrected and will prepare the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel absorbed in Buddhism today to wait also for “The Messiah” called the Maschiach ben Dovid (Messiah son of David)?
When we consider carefully the implications of the ancestral genetic roots of the “Enlightened One” called the Supreme Buddha, we are humbled over how the G-d of Israel is carefully watching over his “chosen ones” even so today. Is there any difference in the G-d of Israel watching over his errant and brazen faced children than a Mother Hen watching over her baby chicks?
Even though the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel were over the ages desecrating and abominating the Holy Name of HaShem, the G-d of Israel, this same G-d promised that he will redeem the Lost Ten Tribes in that day when the Messianic Era of Enlightenment begins.
According to the Prophecy of Rabbi Judah ben Samuel, that day will begin in the Jewish Jubilee year of 5777 (5000 years as the era of Man and 777 the number of G-d) beginning on Rosh Hashanah 2016.
The same G-d of Israel also gave to the Buddhist peoples of the Near East in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India the promise that they too will be redeemed. As the prophets warned so eloquently 2,700 years ago, they will live a life of sackcloth and ashes, and their lives will be spent with their heads shaved and bald as they mourn lamentations for their destiny, as many of them feel that they are unredeemable and lost forever.
Even so, the Divine One gave to the Lost Israelites in the Islamic lands of Afghanistan and Pakistan, plus also the Hindu lands of India and the Buddhist lands of Pakistan, Nepal, Tibet, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Thailand and further on into Japan that a “chosen one of the Israelites”, Prince Siddhartha Gautama, who was known as the Illustrious Sakha was sent by the G-d of Israel for one purpose to become the Supreme Buddha. It was he, as a Sakya (“son of Isaac”) was elected to carry on the messianic mission to prepare the Lost Ten Tribes still trapped in a world of lamentations and grief, but even so, the foundation for their redemption in the “world to come” was already being prepared by the Holy One of Israel.
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The Lost Ten Tribed Israelites were the First Primitive Buddhists
The G-d of Israel proclaimed that there are only two groups of people who will be restored back into covenant with Him, the Jews of the House of Israel and the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel. Both families, the Jews and the Israelites were scattered across the face of the earth and would become HaShem emissaries incognito sent to elevate the 70 nations of the world, so that even Righteous Gentiles could become part of the covenant. Even the children of Ishmael still rooted in Islam, the children of the Lost Ten Tribes who today are now Buddhist, or the Lost Ten Tribes who today call themselves Christians will be assimilated into the Jewish culture. This will be because deep in their hearts they are known by the Divine to be “safe to save” and willing to live in peace with their brothers; all descendants of the Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Only the G-d of Israel knows who they are.
We are quickly being polarizing a world in which there will be only two choices; we are either for the Hebrew Israelites; both now part of the Jews of the house of Judah and the Lost Israelites of the House of Israel or we will be against them. This comes to one sobering conclusion, if you are a descendant of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, whether Muslim, Buddhist or Christian, and you still despise your brothers, the Jews, you may be left outside, not redeemed to participate in the coming “Era of the Messiah” even though you think you want to be a part of them.
So today, the G-d of Israel is whistling for you to come back home to the brotherhood of Klal Yisra’el (All Israel). To learn more about this redemptive process, you are Welcome to Contact “Kol Ha Tor”, the Voice of the Turtledove.Here is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Vision to bring awareness of the imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United). This super Event of all Times will entail establishing in the region of Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness into a new homeland for the Return of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel when All Israel will finally be redeemed.
For inquiries about Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron Lives!”, a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost Tribers of the House of Israel to their chosen destiny.
The Modern Ashkenazi Jews are Descendants of the Jewish Male Prisoners in 70 CE with the Female Descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel in Europe
One of the key premises in Judaism is that to be a Jew your mother must be a Jew. This tribal standard was decreed by Ezra the Scribe when the Jewish people began their historical return to Jerusalem after their seventy year exile in Babylon and Persia. This decree was a critical fact in the preservation of the tribal and national identity of the Jewish people over the next 2,300 years.
Yet, as shocking as it may seem, it will be the theme of Destination Yisrael that guided by the hand of the Divine, this cleric decree was instituted in order to preserve the Jewish people, when once again they were again threatened with extermination when the Temple of Herod was destroyed in 70 CE. The Roman military forces under the command of the Roman General Titus sacrificed the Jewish mothers and children in a massive genocide and extermination and the Jewish fathers of military age were taken into captivity to Italy and their capital, the City of Rome.
In Part One of this series, we learned of a new genetic DNA study published in Nature Communicationsthat postulated that 80 percent of the Ashkenazi maternal lineages came from European origins rather than Jewish mothers from the Near Eastern regions of the Roman Empire. According to Dr. Martin B Richards from the University of Huddersfield in England, four of these European lineages were assimilated into the Jewish communities that later became the Ashkenazi populations in northern Europe. As revealed in the Destination Yisrael article, titled, “Modern Ashkenazi Jew’s ancestral Matriarchs were not Jews but ancient European Women”, we read:
Destination Yisrael – “The Ashkenazim have four major female founding lineages that make up of 40% of the Ashkenazi mtDNA variations seen in ancient and prehistoric Europe rather than was assumed earlier to have come from the Near East or the regions of the Caucasus.
Even then, the remaining minor genetic foundational gene pools all shared a deep European ancestry, so as the scholars agreed upon, the maternal lineages did not come from the region of the Levant where the Land of Israel is today and all have concluded, came from woman that had assimilated and were part of the indigenous populations within Europe up to hundreds and thousands of years prior to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE. The conclusion of the scholars made an amazing and profound discovery as it may seem to be; to be a Jewish person and part of the Nation of Israel and a people’s of the G-d of Israel, one cannot also count on having a mother that is a Jew.
Yet as with all the premises of the ancient Torah law and their halakhic implications, to be a Jew, one must also agree to become part of the Jewish family of G-d and convert to Judaism. In the ancient days, 2000 years ago, as it now appears, the G-d of Israel scattered the Jewish fathers across the Europe and out of their loins, the vibrant Ashkenazi communities were founded by European and Italian matriarchs who chose Judaism as their spiritual life. Out of this came some of the most prominent Jewish rabbanim of Judaism in the last two millenniums.
The discoveries of these genetic lineages that became the foundational lineages of the Ashkenazi Jews today came by decoding the entire mitochondrial genomes of the people from Europe and the Near East surrounding the land of Israel today. It was an earlier DNA research that discovered that the Jewish communities that were scattered around the world were founded by Jewish men whose Y chromosomes bore the DNA patterns are were part of the larger gene pool found in the Near East.
Yet, it was the same geneticists, when they came to analyze the mitochondrial DNA, or the genetic elements that are separate from the main human genome and transferred through the female lineages, unlike the Y chromosomes of the male, the female mitochondrial DNA did not share a common pattern as the male Y chromosomes. The male Y Chromosomes were of Near Eastern origins but the mitochondrial DNA of the females came from European origins. This then suggested that the migration pattern of the Jewish males who entered Rome, Italy and then further to the north in Gaul (Europe) were not the same. It also depicted that the female lineages came from the indigenous population that were antecedent to the arrival of later male Jewish population.”
The Redemption and Restoration of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel
The historical documentation is overwhelming by the Orthodox Jewish Researcher, such as Yair Davidiy with Brit Am, with his numerous books and publications. His books and research collaborated with the Restoration and Redemption Vision of Kol Ha Tor in Israel; founded by Rabbi Avraham Feld and OvadYah Avrahami. This was highlighted in Rabbi Feld’s article titled, “Tracing the Lost Ten Tribes and preparing for their return”. Both rabbi and scholar are in agreement, plus numerous other scholars that there was an exile of the Northern Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, and that they virtually lost their identity that they fought each other as separate peoples, yet began to wander and move in massive migrations and multiple invasions from the east towards the continental lands in Europe to the north and west of Jerusalem. There at the time of the end, they would be living “in the land of their habitations” until a day in the future during an era of great crisis and catastrophic upheavals they would be “returned back” to the lands of their forefathers in the Land of Israel by the same great hand of G-d that took them out of captivity and oppression 3,600 years earlier in Egypt.
This Biblical evidence is astounding in the data collection alone of the biblical texts affirming such an exile as testified in Kol Ha Tor’s article titled, “Biblical Confirmations of the Return of the Tribes of Israel.” The clues are abundant in the regions of Central and Northern Europe called Gaul and in the Balkans called Galatia, that these tribes were so feared by the Romans for every time they encountered them on the battlefield, the Romans lost.
Here in the region of Gaul, a land that was virtually not inhabited became inhabited by peoples before the founding of Rome; at least by the 8th century BCE, and possibly as early as the 15th century BCE. They were the Lost Tribes of Israel and that the G-d of Israel was on a historical rescue mission that would take another 2000 years before the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel could be reclaimed, redeemed and restored back into fellowship with their ancient Jewish brothers and sisters of the House of Judah.
The traces of any other peoples outside of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel living in the ancient land of Gaul in Central and Northern Israel are scanty at best. The robust genetic and physical evidence of these early Israelites through the 12 tribal descendants of the Patriarchs Jacob is abundantly clear. These facts are also part of the historical traditions of the Jews, Christians and Muslims alike over the ages.
When we began to research the wanderings of the Lost Israelites, it is as if a veil began to evaporate before our eyes. As the Lost Tribes were sent into exile by the Assyrians to the region of the land of Media by the Assyrians, they lived, except for a remnant, for a small time in the land of their exile called the Land of Khurasan. During this time, they were the prime invasion force under Cyrus the Great, a lost Pasargadae Israelite, with his top general, Gobryas, a king of the Guti, from the Tribe of Gad. Yet the primary lands of their exile were located in the northeastern regions of Persia/Iran today plus eastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan.
We could imagine that the Lost Ten Tribes should look like peoples far different than we are today. But that is not necessarily so. When we take two photographs of two individuals, one an Afghani girl and the other a Golistan (Gaulistan) Iranian woman, we are faced with a shocking revelation.
Here is a picture of what was called the “Tora Bora Girl” who lived the Afghanistan mountainous regions of the “Tora Bora Mountain Range” where the American military and air force sought to snuff out Afghani mountaineer followers of Osama ben Laden. Osama and his fighters were trained by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to be the American front line military forces to counter the Russian bid to take control of the Nation of Afghanistan.
The picture, taken by the National Geographic photographer, Reza, is a mere depiction of how the G-d of Israel has planted His people, the Lost Tribes of Israel and imbedded them within the nations of the earth. Change their clothes and put a different attire upon them, and they would fit into many of the northern European countries and America today, yet they are Lost Israelites.
And then we have the people classically known as the “red haired” Irish, British and Scottish in the western regions of modern Europe. They are also found in the eastern regions of Europe today; the major homeland of the Ashkenazi Jews. About 1% to 2% of the human populations across the globe have red hair. It occurs more frequently (between 2% and 6% of the population) in the descendants of the Northern and Western Europeans. It’s even scarcer in other regions around the world.
Red hair appears in people with two copies of a recessive gene on chromosome 16 which causes a change in the MC1R protein. It is associated with those people with fair colored skin, and then associated with freckles, and hyper-sensitivity to ultraviolet light. These peoples include the ancient Cymrics on the Isle of Britannia plus the Scottish and the Irish. They also included the Celtic peoples as the red haired Gaulish tribes of the Germanic and the Belgic people. They have all been identified as the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel.
In the year of 278 BCE, the Gaulish Lost Israelite settlers living in the Balkans were invited by Nicomedes I of Bithynia in a royal dynastic struggle with his brother for control of the throne. Over 10,000 Gauls plus their women and children were divided into three tribes called the Trocmi, Tolistobogii, and the Tectosages. They fought against the Seleucid King Antiochus I Soter (Savior) in 275 BCE when they used Seleucid war elephants and shocked the Israelite Galatian warriors.
Seven generations later, the Syrian King Antiochus Epiphanes IV was now ruler of the Seleucid throne. He took control of the Judean province, desecrated the Temple of Zerubabbel, forbad circumcision and the reading of the Torah in order to break the back of the Jewish people in the land of Israel called Judea in those days. The days of Antiochus IV Epiphanes were soon numbered when the fiery zeal of the Jewish Maccabee warriors took down the army of the Greek Seleucids. To this day, the Jews celebrate the Festival of Chanukah on the 25th day of Kislev; celebrating the day of their deliverance when they restored and rededicated their temple in Jerusalem and relit the new menorah with one day of Holy Oil that continued to light the menorah lamp for seven full days.
As a relic of the past, the dark red or reddish-tinged hair identified in other Caucasian populations can now be seen because of the war of the Lost Israelite Galatians in the year of 275 BCE, and today the modern State of Turkey have populations that have red hair and green eyes.
Then we have to consider the harbinger of threats of genocide to the Jews coming from the region of Iran today. This was especially from the former Jewish Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. And then we remember that in the northeastern regions of Iran, the region of Khurasan where in the land of Media, this region became the homeland of the Lost Tribes of Israel. In that same region live the “Galesh” people who live in the Province of Golestan (Gaulistan) or the “Land of Gol or Gaul”.
The Guidance of the Hand of G-d assisting the Lost Israelites as they moved to a New Homeland
It was in the year of 2009, BibleSearchers Reflections, in researching the Lost Tribes of Israelites wrote the following article titled, “Finding a New Home for the Lost Tribes of Israel.” In this article, we learned that the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel who were part of the Northern Kingdom of Israel in Samaria were taken captive and transported to the region of Khurasan in Northern Iran, Eastern Afghanistan and Western Pakistan in the 8th century BCE. The remnants of these Lost Tribes who have become Islamic are living still there today, and known as the Pashtun tribes living still in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Their heritage and legacy has also been carefully preserved
As BibleSearchers Reflections was beginning its research on the Lost Tribes of Israel, an amateur Orthodox Jewish researcher on the Lost Tribes of Israel, Howard Bahr wrote to BibleSearchers the following:
Howard Bahr – “As you know, the re-unification of the "10 hidden tribes" with normative Jews is in fact a Scriptural teaching. The prophets allude to this re-unification. Here is an observation. I believe this will happen before the Revelation of Messiah.
According to Chazal (Sages of Judah), there is a well known teaching agreed upon by all Jewish Scholars and Expositors. There will be no converts to Judaism after the appearance of Messiah. Conversion will not be an option at that time. For that reason, it would appear that the "hidden tribes" will be re-united with normative Jews before the Redemption, i.e appearance of Messiah.
There would be a modified, abbreviated conversion process, perhaps similar to the process underwent by the black Jews, the Falashas. It would be somewhat different than the conversion process which gentiles undergo, i.e. for an authentic orthodox conversion. I am absolutely certain, though, there will be some sort of conversion process. Obviously, if such people in the millions were declared Jews, it would provoke unimaginable controversy…
The prophet Elijah is suppose to appear just before the Revelation of Moshiach, or to confirm his identity. Christianity utilizes this teaching by having John the Baptist, "baptising Jesus" and declaring him Messiah. Another function of Elijah will be to declare all authentic Jews from non-authentic people claiming to be Jewish. It would appear that this weighty mission of Elijah would have a direct impact on the authenticity of the hidden Jews who would have already emerged.”
In a separate communication with Rabbi Avraham Sutton, one of the Jew’s most revered rabbis with an understanding of the hidden knowledge of the Torah and Mystical Judaism once wrote:
Rabbi Avraham Sutton – “All Mankind will be elevated to the level of Yisrael, I emphasize that this will not be done by any force other than G-d Himself. Please understand that this elevation of the nations is a spiritual transformation. I am not talking about physical DNA. It isn’t to your benefit to believe that you are physical descendents of Israel.
The only way that you can honestly claim before G-d that you are “Israel,” at this point in history, is to dissociate from any and all idolatrous beliefs, go through Orthodox conversion, and enter Clal Yisrael (All Israel) as Jews, who are the only recognizable, verifiable remnant of the ancient tribes of Yehudah and Yisrael…There are three levels to the lost tribes.
Those who went north (and then east or west), and became assimilated into the various nations and cultures of Asia and Europe.
Those who re-incorporated back into Yehudah; such that although Yehudah is only one tribe, it is a microcosm, and therefore representative of the entire Israelite nation in and of itself.
Those who live in another dimension which our tradition describes as "on the other side of the Sambatyon." It is this third group that has retained Prophecy, Kehunah (“Service” like Avodah or the priestly service in the temple), and Physical Prowess once had by all Israel.
We dream of the day when Mashiach ben Yoseph will return physically at the head of this third group. In the meantime, their souls are whispering into ours now. They are our connection to the upper worlds; a connection which is unknown to most Jews living today. At any rate, on a positive note, you need to know that, from the true Torah perspective, the powerful current of “connecting to Judaic roots” that is sweeping through the Xian (Christian) world at this time is FROM HASHEM. No question about it. It’s just that, if you continue to look at it thru the Xian mindset, you can’t help but distort it.
The Talmud says that one of the reasons for Israel being exiled to the four corners of the world was for the elevation of the nations. The fullness of the elevation of the nations will be fully manifested only when Hashem decides. Our job in the meantime is to live according to His Torah to the best of our abilities.”
The Exile of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel
As we have seen in this series, the ancient Lost Tribes of Israel were spread out over the ancient lands of the Medes and the Persians. They eventually, as our research continued, migrated in mass between the Caspian and Black Seal corridor as they traveled northwards from Uratu, the ancient homeland of Noah and Shem surrounding the mountains of Ararat up and through the land mass between the Caspian and the Black Sea where the State of Georgia today was once ruled as a Jewish state by Prince and Princess of King David.
The Lost Tribes then traveled over the Caucasus Mountains towards the land of the Sarmatians along the Volga River and under the Black Sea from Turkey, across the Bosphorus Strait through the Balkans and into European Gaul and the Isles of the West beyond. There they became known as the Celtic and Cymric peoples.
In the hiatus of merging and reemerging out of this amalgamation of Lost Tribes there rose a new people identified as the ancient Scythians, the horsemen of the North. The powerful horsemen and horsewomen of the North gilded their bodies and their horses with gold and eventually ended up populating the Scandinavian countries of Norway, Sweden and Finland in the Northern regions of Europe.
The Lost Tribes as the “Great Wanderers”
It is well known and accepted that the Jews including all the Israelites called the Hebrews, as a people were as ancient as the people of China. The question, we have to ask, why are the Jews not a billion strong as the Chinese? As also well known, of all the nations of the world, it was the Israelites and then the Jews that were hunted and murdered by pogroms, holocausts, genocide and ethnic cleansing, plus assimilated by coercion, enticement or expulsed into exile.
This is the same question we are impelled to ask today. The genetic DNA study published in Nature Communication postulated that 80 percent of the Ashkenazi maternal lineages came from European origins and that the four European lineages, according to Dr. Martin B Richards from the University of Huddersfield in England, were assimilated into the Jewish communities that later became the Ashkenazi populations in northern Europe.
Scholars for the last two centuries have been pouring over the ancient leads to the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel. They also were not a people satisfied with the divine judgment given to them by the Almighty One of Israel. The Beni Israel (children of Israel) peoples each settled according to each Israelite tribe and today, the Pashtun royalty trace their Israelite royalty lineage to the loins of King Saul of the tribe of Benjamin. It was soon after they began to wander across the landscape of the earth, some to the east, and most to the west and hence became one of their names; “Great Wanderers”.
The Tribe of Dan as identified by numerous authors escaped earlier than the Assyrian Exile and followed the pathway of an even earlier migrations of the Children of Israel who scattered from the land of their oppression in Egypt about 1585 BCE during that year of long apocalyptic catastrophes that brought Moses, the Prince of Egypt to the international limelight.
These catastrophes destroyed the Imperial Nation of Pharaonic Egypt that precipitated the Great Exodus of the Children of Israel. Yet, during this year of plagues, dark days when earth stood still when the rotation of Planet Earth came to a screeching halt, numerous Lost Israelites fled to the north and west towards the Bosphorus Straits and beyond to Europe. According to many historians the Danites became participants in the famous Battle of Troy, from thence they continued to migrate into Europe.
The Legendary Hu the Mighty (Hu Gadaru Hysicion)
One of these most ancient of legends was centered upon the mysterious and legendary Hu Gadaru Hysicion, called Hu the Mighty, where “Hysicion” also meant Isaac’s Son (Isaacson). The legends of Hu the Mighty go all the way back to the year of 1800 BCE when Hu Gadaru Hysicion led the first of the Cymric peoples from the city of Defrobane that stood across the Bosphorus from where Constantinople later stood, and with his tribal peoples traversed across the Baltic Region towards the western coast of the Isle of Britannia called Wales.
But Hu the Mighty was more than a mighty warrior for in the Welsh Triads, he “mnemonically systemized the wisdom of the ancients of these peoples whom he led from “Summerland” in the Land of Israel. As the Welsh traditions account, Hu Gadaru was the originator of the use of memorization in what was called the “culture of the intellect.”
To Hu Gadaru, poetry was the “vehicle of memory” and today is remembered as the inventor of the Celtic Triads. This form of learning is still alive and well in the Orthodox Jewish Synagogues across the world, for it is the Orthodox Jew who treasures the pearls of great wisdom imbedded in the Torah that stimulates a young Jew to memorize the complete Torah by his or her twelfth birthday. So also the ancient Cymric from the Isles of the West increased their intellect by honoring HaShem’s creation of creating man in the “image of G-d.”
Art used by permission by Pat Marvenko Smith, copyright 1992. Click here to visit her "Revelation Illustrated" site
To other 19th century Lost Israelite antiquarians, Hu Gadara was also the architect of Stonehenge and through his great wisdom, established the Assembly of the Druids and Bards. His legendary mystique attributes him to the invention of glass-making plus the writing of the Ogham character scripts. Yet, it was Hu Gadaru, whose “standard” was also the representation of the “Ox” which was the tribal “Standard” of the Tribe of Ephraim, known for as one of the four “Chief Tribes” of the Children of Israel as they camped at the base of the Mount called Sinai in the four cardinal points of the globe surrounding the Sanctuary of the Dwelling.
At the time of the Great Revelation of HaShem (God of Israel), when the Torah was given upon the Mount called Sinai, the tribes of Israel, twelve in number were organized into the “Israelite Nation”. When encamped surrounding the “House of the Lord” called the “Wilderness Tabernacle” at the time of the Great Revelation of HaShem (G-d of Israel), when the Torah was given upon the Mount called Sinai, the tribes of Israel, twelve in number, were organized into a national force.
Numbers 2:2 – “Every one of the Children of Israel shall camp by his own standard, beside the emblems of his father’s house; they shall camp some distance from the tabernacle of meeting.”
A Large Portion of the Children of Israel in Goshen escaped before the Great Exodus from Egypt
From the traditions in Jewish lore, we today know that a large portion of the Israelites escaped on their own, fleeing northwest from Egypt during the midst of the plagues against the Pharaoh of Egypt. Analyzing the chronology of the Exodus, we appeal to the work of the Australian Astronomer, Barry Setterfield, in his historical analysis of the dating system of the ancient world in reference to atomic time (my) and historical or dynamical time (years) we discover that Moses was born during the reign of Pharaoh Palmanothes. His daughter Merris (‘Beloved’) adopted a Hebrew child by the name of Mousos, a prince of Egypt. Princess Merris married Pharaoh Khenephres (Kha’neferre meaning ‘Ra’s glory shines on the horizon’) whose personal name was Pharaoh Sobekhotep IV, meaning “Sobek is satisfied” (Sobek was the crocodile-headed god of the Egyptians) and became the 24th ruler of the 13th Dynasty in the Middle Kingdom of Egypt.
The Great Library in Alexandria, Egypt founded by Ptolemy I which held the largest collection of ancient texts from around the world was destroyed in a conflagration of fire. According to Setterfield, fortunately the Jewish historian Artapanus from the 3rd century BCE recorded portions of these texts of which portions of his texts are still extant. This gave us relevant dates to the era of the Great Exodus from Egypt at 1585 BCE. The entry into the Land of Canaan by the Children of Israel under Joshua the Mighty Warrior of G-d could now be determined as being about 1545 BCE +/- 6 years when they began conquering the key Canaanite cities at the close of the Middle Bronze IIC Age which ended about the year of 1550 BCE.
With this dating of the ‘Exodus’ in the year of 1585 BCE +/- 6 years, a Prince of Egypt called Mousos (Moses) led the Children of Israel out of Egypt in an era of great catastrophes. As such the birth of the Jewish Egyptian Prince Mousos (Moses) would have been about 1665 BCE, when he was adopted by the daughter of Pharaoh Kha'neferre (Sobekhotep IV), Princess Merris, an after an illustrious career as the prince regent heir to the Egyptian throne fled after he killed an Egyptian in defense of a Jew at the age of 40 in 1625 BCE. This was near to the close of the 12th Dynasty of the Middle Kingdom (see 'Atlas of Ancient Egypt', op. cit., p. 36). As Barry Setterfield wrote in the article, titled, “Creation and Catastrophe Chronology”, we read:
Barry Setterfield – “This is an interesting record from Artapanus. A Pharaoh in the mid to late 13th Dynasty is what the chronology presented above would suggest. But there are two things that make this a more positive identification of the Pharaoh to whom Moses (Mousos) was a prince. First, the only other record of a Kha’neferre is a mention of this name on an isolated fragment from the 10th Dynasty, and there is no other evidence for this particular king. In any case this is far too early, being in the Old Kingdom. There is certainly no other Pharaoh with the throne-name Kha'neferre in the Middle Kingdom, let alone in the 13th Dynasty: it is unique.
However, there is a second point of key interest. Artapanus writes that this Pharaoh appointed Prince Mousos to administer the land on his behalf. Even more importantly, Artapanus states that Prince Mousos led a military campaign against the Ethiopians to extend the frontiers of the Egyptian Empire into Upper Nubia. The records available to us reveal that, of all the Pharaohs of the 13th Dynasty, Kha'neferre was the only one to launch such an expedition. Indeed, a stela in the British Museum tells of this 13th Dynasty Campaign into Nubia in Kha'neferre's reign. The identification is therefore certain. Artapanus knew what he was writing about.
The outcome of the Campaign was interesting. According to Artapanus' understanding of ancient sources, Mousos was victorious against the Nubians. He extended Kha'neferre's jurisdiction at least 200 kilometers further south than any other 12th or 13th Dynasty ruler. This fact caused Egyptologist J. H. Breasted to label Kha'neferre (Sobekhotep IV) as the greatest Pharaoh of that era. At Kerma, beyond the 3rd Cataract of the Nile, a governor's residence was established to administer the province with a statue of Kha'neferre outside. Artapanus concludes his account by saying that this victory brought Mousos such popularity that Kha'neferre became jealous and forced Mousos to flee to Arabia. Then, after Kha'neferre was dead, Mousos returned to lead the Israelites out of Egypt.”
Amazingly archeologists discovered a parallel Egyptian Papyrus called the 'Ipuwer Papyrus – Leiden 344'. Here we see a parallel document from the close of the Middle Kingdom of the 13th dynasty of Egypt and the utmost chaos that led to the 2nd Intermediate Period just before the Hyksos (Amalekites) came and took over the country as foreign rulers. It was in early 19th Century that a papyrus dating from the end of the Middle Kingdom, was discovered in the land of Egypt. The Papyrus was taken to the Leiden Museum in Holland and there in the year of 1909, A.H. Gardiner interpreted the meaning of the papyrus and to their shock appeared to be a parallel document recording the same events as recorded in the Book of Exodus.
Today, the complete papyrus can be found in the book “Admonitions of an Egyptian from a heiratic papyrus in Leiden”. Here in graphic detail, the papyrus describes violent upheavals in Egypt, that included starvation, drought, death throughout the land plus the escape of slaves who left along with the wealth of the land of Egypt. The author of the papyrus was written by an Egyptian named Ipuwer. Today it is known as the Ipuwer Papyrus and it appears to be an eyewitness account of the effects of the Exodus plagues from the perspective of an average Egyptian.
As the Egyptian Empire began to crumple from the Ten Apocalypses upon the Land of Egypt, it doesn’t take any imagination to suggest that a part of the oppressed Egyptian Israelite slaves could have chosen to flee during the year that the great catastrophes fell upon the Land of Egypt and the Pharaonic Egyptian empire was devastated for their animal gods were helpless against the strong arm of the G-d of Israel.
Does this suggest that in this year of global holocausts that the ancient ancestors of the Celts and Cymric fled early from the Egyptian delta known as the Land of Goshen? That fact appears in part to be true, for later they left their “footprints” across the terrestrial landscape from Egypt to Gaul for others to follow. What we do know is that many of these ancient Israelites went directly to Britain, Scotland and Ireland in the Isles of the West and also fanned out over the continent of Europe and settled in the unknown and feared region which the Romans called the land of Gaul. This was the land in which the Romans feared to trod.
Hu Gardarn as Joshua the Mighty who chased Fleeing Canaanites to Cymric Regions of Western Wales (Welsh Cambria) on the British Isles
In the Welsh Triads, there is recorded the story about a mysterious man who was called Hu the Mighty. He led a group of Danites across the Hazy Sea from the Sumer Country to the Isles of the West in Britannia. He was the first of three chieftains who were to establish colonies at the furthest land to the west. Known as Hu Gardarn, he was known as a descendant of Abraham and as such, very early in earth’s history fulfilled the promise of the G-d of Israel to the Patriarch Yaakov (Jacob) when he departed from Beer-sheba and went to Haran. If so, then Hu Gardarn was the first Hebrew fulfill this promise given to of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when he later led their descendants in a migration earlier to the Isles of the West in Britain, Scotland and Ireland:
Genesis 18:13-15 – “I am HaShem, G-d of Abraham your father and G-d of Isaac; the ground upon which you are lying, to you will I give it to your descendants. Your offspring shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall spread out powerfully westward, eastward, northward, and southward; and all the families of the earth shall bless themselves by you and by your offspring. Behold, I am with you; I will guard you wherever you go, and I will return you to this soil. For I will not forsake you until I will have done what I have spoke about you.”
As the Welsh Triads read, the Cymry known as the Cambrians, were the first who came with Hu Gardarn to Ynys Prydain (Isle of Britannia). According to the Triads of Britain as translated by Iolo Morganwg and translated by William Probert we read in the 4th and 5th Triads:
4th Triad of Britain – “There are three pillars of the nation of the Isle of Britain. The first was Hu the Mighty, who brought the nation of the Cambrians first to the Isle of Britain; and they came from the Summer Country, which is also called Defrobani; and they came over the Hazy Sea to the Isle of Britain, and to Armorica, where they settled. The second was Prydain the son of Aedd the Great, who first organized a social state of sovereignty in Britain; for before that time there was no justice but what was done by favour; nor any law, except that of superior force. The third was Dyvnwal Moelmud, for he first made arrangements respecting the laws, maxims, customs, and privileges of the country and tribe. And on account of these reasons, they were called the three pillars of the nation of the Cambrians.”
5th Triad of Britain – “There were three social tribes on the Isle of Britain. The first was the tribe of the Cambrians, who came to the Isle of Britain with Hu the Mighty, because he would not possess a country and lands by fighting and pursuit, but by justice and tranquility. The second was the tribe of the Lloegrians, who came from Gascony, and they were descended from the primitive tribe of the Cambrians. The third were the Brython, who came from Armorica, and who were descended from the primitive tribe of the Cambrians. These were called the three peaceful tribes because they came by mutual consent and tranquility; and these tribes were descended from the primitive tribe of the Cambrians, and all three tribes had the same language and speech.”
“Gardarn” in Gaelic means “Mighty”, and “Hu” was a shortened form of the Celtic name Hesus, whose Hebrew name was Joshua which in Hebrew was Yehoshua (YHVH is salvation). So, was the famous Israelite general, Joshua of the Tribe of Ephraim the same person as Hu Gardarn, later known as “Joshua the Mighty”? The colonization of Hu Gardarn to the land of Britannia preceded by over 420 years by the migration of Brutus of Troy to Britain in 1149 BCE after the famous city of Troy was destroyed. Strange as it may seem, the Aegean attackers have later been identified as being part of the Lost Israelites and Brutus’ name became the namesake for the land of Britain.
“Hu” was a shortened form of the Celtic name Hesus, whose Hebrew name was Joshua; or Yehoshua (YHVH is salvation). So Hu Gardarn could have been the famous Israelite warrior, Joshua the Ephraimite, who was chosen by Moses to finish the mandate of HaShem to “conquer the land of Canaan". Hu Gardarn could now have been one of the same; Joshua the Mighty. As the Welsh Triads record, in his later years, Hu Gardarn peaceable settled Israelite colonists in the British Isles.
When in later years the Welsh Cambrians did migrated to the European continent in the west, they became subject to the German Cymry who were descendants of the German king Cimbrus (1679-1635 BCE) (Reference: Compendium of World History. Pasadena, CA: Ambassador College, 1963. Pp. 48-49). It was later recorded in the third year of Romus (son of Testa and King of Spain) a man known as "Liber Pater" or Bacchus (Iacchus) conquered Spain and brought it under his sway. "He was from the East and his title belonged to "Hesus the Mighty". He pursued the Canaanites and drove them out of Western Europe in 1430 B.C. (See volume II of the Compendium of World History).
Now, if the Exodus was in 1585 BCE; and not including the year it took to get to the Jordan River when the Twelve Spies went on surveillance of the Land of Israel and ten of the spies gave an evil report to stop the invasion. Because of the lack of faith, in spite of the upbeat and valiant reports by Caleb and Joshua, the Children of Israel revolted and for their lack of faith had to continue to wander throughout the wilderness for another 40 years.
If the dating of the Exodus by the Australian Astronomer Barry Setterfield is correct, then the crossing of the Jordan and the attack on Jericho would have been in the year of 1444/45 BCE, only 110 years different to the above statement in the Compendium of World History. After conquering the major cities in the Land of Israel, could now the legendary Ephraimite General “Joshua the Mighty” could have takes a coalition of tribal military warriors and pursued the Canaanites all the way to Spain and driven the “Canaanites” out of Western Europe. It is not impossible!
Was it Hue the Great who began the great Cymric exodus from Egypt, while Moses with the remaining Israelites headed towards the Promised Land?
Was the Legendary Hu Gadaru Hysicion an Ephraimite Israelite as the famous Hebrew general, Joshua the Ephraimite, who led in the battles to conquer the Land of Israel.
Or was Hu Gardarn a Danite Israelite who did migrated to the Isles of the West with a colony of the Children of Israel who included also tribal members of the Tribes of Dan and Ephraim?
These questions we still ponder today! One of the more astute researchers of the Lost Tribes of the House of Judah is the Orthodox Jewish researcher of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, Yair Davidiy, who in his commentary on the “Book of Zechariah” wrote:
Yair Davidiy – “Welsh tradition claimed that their ancestors the Cymry (i.e. "Cimmerian") led by Hu Gadaru of the Sons of Dan had come across the "Lazy Sea" (i.e. Mediterranean) to the British isles from Defrobane which they said was just opposite Byzantium. In other words Defrobane stood on the Asiatic side of the Bosporus in the place where the port of Defen was reported to be. Defrobane may be some kind of linguistic derivation of Daphne.
The British Welsh who came from DEFROBANE opposite Byzantium called themselves CYMRY and the Scandinavian peoples contained an underlying ethnic stratum from the similarly named CIMBRI of Celtic culture. In Scandinavian mythology one version (reported by Saxo Grammaticus) concerning the origins of their ancestral gods said that they too came from the area of Byzantium, and that one of their ancestors ruled over a city in the nearby Hellespont called Dana!
In Celtic Britain the region of southern Wales, Devon, and Cornwall was referred to as Defenia and from this name comes the modern day appellation of "Devon"! This region of Defenia on Ptolemy's map of Britain is called Damnonia which is similar to the ethnic name Damnonii in Scotland within whose region was the northern Don River. There was another (second) Don River in Scotland further south and to the east upon his banks stood the city of Danum. Defenia (Damnonia) in the south was also known as Daunonia and as Dannonia. Defenia also encompassed or adjoined the Deni. Hu Gadaru who led the Cymry over the seas to Britain was descended from the Children of Dan who paralleled the Tribe of Dana in Irish legend.”
Here we are witnessing the great hand of the L-rd as He cast his wayward peoples out across the nations of the world. The Tribe of Dan was proud of its accomplishments as a global trader with his own fleet of ships along with those of the Tribe of Issachar as they migrated so far that they placed their name across the face of this planet from the Middle East to the Isles of the West in Britannia, Scotland, and Ireland. So does Yair Davidiy point out the obvious; Hu Gadaru was of the Tribe of Dana (Dan) and led the Tribe of Dan from the area of the Bosphorus Strait, near also to the ancient site of Troy, but was Hu Gadaru truly of the Tribe of Dan?
Others suggest that “Hu Gadarn” was of the Tribe of Ephraim. This would seem reasonable as it was Hu Gadarn, whose “standard” was already identified as an “Ox” which was later identified as the tribal “Standard” of the Tribe of Ephraim. His was one of the four “Chief Tribes” of the Children of Israel as they camped at the base of the Mount called Sinai in the four cardinal points of the globe surrounding the Sanctuary of the Dwelling. After the death of Moses, it was Joshua (Yehoshua) ben Nun who was Moses’ chief assistant that was anointed by Moses to became the leader the Children of Israel whose mission was to conquer the land of the Canaanites, and transform it into the land of Israel, for a people who would live the life of Torah and eventually become the “light to the world.”
As we witness now the migrations of the Lost Tribes of Israel, can we envision the Tribe of Ephraim migrating from the lands where the Assyrians displaced them to the Isles of ancient Britannia to the West, with Tribe of Manasseh continuing this migration to the farthest west into the wilderness of the Americas and evolve into the United States, Canada, and Mexico? Can we image the Tribe of Benjamin, who remained loyal to Judah from the apostasy of Dan, and eventually claim her inheritance from Bethlehem to the west of the Temple and Jerusalem towards Gaza and the Great Mediterranean Sea?
Can we also envision the Tribe of Dan, the great apostate, settling upon land surrounding the Seat of Satan at Pergamum to the north and become the prototype of apostasy through modern Rome and the Vatican? Were it not the Danites, who led with the apostasy of the “Golden Calf” with the Ten Northern Tribes? This worship of other gods was later transplanted into the Northern Kingdom of Israel with King Ahab and Queen Jezebel, a Princess from Phoenicia with the worship of Baal.
Yet, we see the traces of the Tribe of Dan as they migrated to the farther reaches of the north as the Tuatha Danan in Ireland, and leaving the legacy of their name in D(a)nmark in Scandinavia and to the outer reaches of the Danube and the D(a)nieper River to the north in the region of the Holy Roman Empire upon the European continent. Can we envision the Tribe of Reuben migrating from their lands of dispossession by the hands of the Assyrians conquerors and heading south of Jerusalem to Egypt, with the tribal remnants of Simeon and Gad through the gateway into the heartland of the South Continent of Africa?
This still does not answer the questions about the legendary identity of Hu Gadaru Hysicion coming to Britain during the years around 1800 BCE. It is easy to suggest that the ancients did not know their dating systems well and that a little over 215 years later, around the year of 1585 BCE, the plagues fell down over Egypt and precipitated the Great Exodus. Yet, is their still another Hu Gardarn even more ancient that could have led a group of the Tribe of Ephraim and escaped from bondage, left out of Egypt and headed to Britain? But why did they head to the Isle of Britannia on the other side of the visible “then known world?”
Hu Gadaru Hysicion as the Guardian of the Spiritual Life Culture of the Patriarch Seth
It was R.W. Morgan in the book titled, “St. Paul in Britain” who identified Hu Gadaru as associated with the Biblical Seth, the Melchizedek. The Patriarch Abram paid a tithe of the booty recovered from his defeat of the five kings from the East who raided Sodom and captured his nephew, Lot and his family. Yet Morgan added a new dimension. According to him, Hu Gadaru, took “Druidism”, the spiritual life system of the Patriarch Seth and his father, the Patriarch Noah, and established primitive Druidism as a worship of the Almighty Creator in the Isles of the far west in its most primitive and spiritual form. As Morgan wrote:
R.W. Morgan – “Druidism was founded by Gwyddon Ganhebon, supposed to be the Seth of the Mosaic genealogy, in Asia, in the year when the equinox occurred in the first point of Taurus, or the constellation of the Bull…When the Druidic system was founded, the equinox on the 1st of May, occurred in the first point of Taurus, which first point is now, on the 1st of May, 80 degrees from this solstitial point. It requires 72 years to recede one degree. Eighty degrees multiplied by 72 gives 5,760, the exact date when Druidism commenced, i.e., 3,903 years before the Christian era, 181 years after the creation of man, and 50 years after the birth of Seth.
The astral bull of milk-white hue, its horns crowned with golden stars, became the symbol, or visible sacrament, of Druidism. In process of time the symbol, as usual, superseded in the East the thing signified, and Druidism became a tauric religion which gave the Crimea the appellation of the Tauric Chersonese.
Extending thence, this corruption became the religion of Mithras in Persia, of Baal in Syria, of Brahma in India, of Astarte or the Dea Syria in Syria, of Apis in Egypt, and in later ages, transferred from Egypt, of the two “Apis” (or calves as they are rendered in our version of the Scriptures) of the kingdom of Israel.
In all these religions the bull, or Taurus, was the sacred animal, and the symbol was preserved free, as far as we can judge, from idolatry by the Gomeridae of Britain. The bull was the sign and represented the great Druidic isle, and the name still, in common parlance, continued to indicate a Briton of Britain as distinguished from the rest of the world.” (R.W. Morgan, “St. Paul in Britain”, reprint from 1869 edition, pg. 12-13)
According to Morgan, Hu Gadaru, the Mighty, was a contemporary of Abraham, during the patriarchal era. in which the Patriarch Shem, the son of Noah, lived so long that he lived to see, visit, and counsel Abraham’s grandson, Jacob (Israel), the 12th generation from their primal Patriarch, Noah. It was Hu the Mighty who took the spiritual life system of Druidism and transported it from the Middle East all the way to the Isles of Britannia. Druidism in Britain was perpetuated by its successors; Plannydd, Goron, Alawn, and Rhivon. It was instituted as both an ecclesiastical as well as a civil governance and the constitution of the island. (R.W. Morgan, “St. Paul in Britain”, reprint from 1869 edition, pg. 13)
The spiritual life system of the Patriarch Seth spread around the entire world. The traces of Druidism and the animal symbol of the bull and its eventual corruption were revealed in the Menw-tarw or Menw-bull found on Crete with the Minotaur in the Temple of the Labyrinth, the worship of the Bull in Baal of Phoenicia, the dual Golden Calves of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, the Golden Calf at Sinai, the sacred bull in Brahmanism, plus the Apis bulls at the Seraphim at Memphis Egypt. Yet to some scholars, corruption filtered into the spiritual life system of Shem, yet the purist remnant was found in Cymric Druidic Britain.
Is it not significance that Hu Gadaru, whose standard was the “Ox” could have been a tribal leader of the Tribe of Ephraim. Is it of any wonder that the land of Britain that lays to the west of Jerusalem is where Hu Gadaru took his Cymric exiles? Today, the Great Britain on the Isle of Britannia is noted as the land that is most identified with the identity of the Tribe of Ephraim. It was the famous English antiquarian, Isabel Hill Elder who in researching about the Druids of the Isles of the West wrote these words:
Isabel Hill Elder – “The truth about the Druids, to be found amongst fragments of literature and in folk-memory, is that they were men of culture, well-educated, equitable and impartial in the administration of justice. These ancient leaders of thought and instruction in our islands had lofty beliefs as to the character of the one God, Creator, and Preserver, and of man’s high origin and destiny. There is reason to believe that this doctrine included the need of atonement for sin (Yom Kippur) and the resurrection of the body…
It was the Druidic religious way of life that gave ancient Britain certain qualities not seen in any other place upon this earth. Their reverence for the Divine One was supreme, their abstinence from evil was meritorious and their ability to behave valiantly gained the admiration, envy and fear of every nation upon this planet, including Rome. Justice and patriotism were on the same page of their lives, because their lofty codes of moral behavior created and influenced in a profound way their national character. This character was inscribed in the motto of the Druids, “The Truth against the World”. Yet, the scholars bemoan that the history of the Druids was too scarce and obscure due to the paucity of literary manuscripts that proved the “wisdom of the teachers and the docility of the people.” (Isabel Hill Elder, “Celt, Druid, and Culdee” pg. 51- 52)
The Celt and the Cymric as written about in the Destination Yisrael article titled, “The Jewish Nazarene Culdee Ecclesia and the British Cymric Druids” were some of the earliest Israelites that settled in the Welsh region of the Isle of Britannia. There is no doubt that their educational system was the most advanced and far-reaching academic university system in the world. It was where the academic elite sent the crème of the Roman children to be educated for up to twenty years. With the understanding that the Druidic academic system was a Hebrew based scholastic system of education, we can begin to understand why. As written:
Destination Yisrael – “It was Adam Rutherford, in his 1934 book, published in London called “Anglo-Saxon Israel, or Israel-Britain”, he documented succinctly the fact that the first colonization of Britain came from people who wrote and spoke Hebrew. Scattered across the landscape of this ancient isle, Hebrew inscriptions have been found, both in England and Ireland. Rutherford, citing the studies by Jacob Tomlin, titled, “A comparative Vocabulary of Forty-Eight Languages, comprising One Hundred and Forty-Six Common English Words, with the Cognates in other Languages showing their Affinities with the English and Hebrew” demonstrated that early Cymric literature written in Britain was largely a modified version of ancient Hebrew. Even in our modern times, a traveling Jew, arriving in England and Ireland can communicate with a certain ease to native Brits who still speak the ancient Cymric language. As cited on the website called, “The Origins of our Western Heritage Category”, in the article titled, “The Westward Movement), we quote:
Origins of our Western Heritage Category – “The Welsh language, even today, closely resembles Hebrew. According to Rutherford, it is difficult to adduce a single article or form of construction in Hebrew grammar, but that the same can be found in Welsh. Many whole sentences of the two languages have exactly the same words. Rutherford notes that Dr. Davies, the author of a Welsh grammar book, says almost every page of the Welsh translation of the Bible is replete with Hebraisms in the time, sense, and spirit of the original. The Welsh is so close to Hebrew that the same syntax might serve both (Rutherford, 40). Historians place the arrival of the Hebrews in Ireland prior to the Exodus (ibid, 32-33, fn, cited on Origins of our Western Heritage Category, article, The Westward Movement)."
We then have to ask, were the early Cymric tribes with their ancient Israelite Druidic religion, albeit corrupted from their Hebrew Sinai Torah roots, actually a remnant of the pre-Sinai ancient Israelites? Or, did the Druidic roots come from greater antiquity, when they knew the G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but were clueless of the revelations of G-d as the Torah from the mount called Sinai? Were not the Jewish people destined to be the “remnant” of the greater Hebrew national movement who destinies were tied to the Torah revelation at Sinai?
Was it possible that the Welsh Cymric peoples were actually a “remnant” of the ancient tribes of Jacob who fled early before the Great Exodus? This was during the final end of the Egyptian slavery and oppression of the Hebrews as the Egyptian Imperial Pharaonic rule was weakening and crumbling from the vast destruction that was destroying the entire agrarian culture and imperial rule of the Egyptian pharaoh?
Were the Druids rather a remnant of the apostate priests that stayed with the Golden Calf religion of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, while amalgamating the Phoenician Baal worship imported by the Phoenician princess, Queen Jezebel during the rule of King Ahab in the Northern Kingdom of Israel. This was during the days of the Prophet Elijah and later they were sent into exile by the Assyrians for their corruption and rebellion against the Davidian rulers, the Temple of Solomon priestly worship and with their arrogance that said to the G-d of Israel; “We know best"!
Yet, the G-d of Israel already was instituting a spiritual reclamation program to eventually bring the Israelites back home to their Hebrew Torah roots. Yet, it would take over two thousand seven hundred years into their future to reach their spiritual elevation so that the Divine One of Israel could bring the final redemption of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel home, to participate as one family with the Jews in the “World to Come?” According to Isabel Hill Elder:
Isabel Hill Elder – “The primitive mind of the Brit was in the worship of the L-rd of hosts, who was the Creator of the Greater of the Great Lights, the Sun and the Moon. They used these two solar bodies, not as forms of worship but with the realization that through nature we learn about the G-d of Creation. Viewing the universe in the heavens was a source of spiritual inspiration from the Divine. There in the crisp day and nights, the sun and the moon were their reflection and inspiration. To view the starry heavens was to them the voice of the Almighty One. Like their ancestral forefathers whom they had lost contact, they knew not even their ancestral identity, even though each one of them knew their ancestral genealogies for nine generations.
They used the movements of the heavenly bodies to fix the order of their festivals and set the dates for their agricultural yearly calendar. It was Strabo who in his observation saw that the worship of the Supreme Being was exalted amongst the British nation. (Isabel Hill Elder, “Celt, Druid, and Culdee” pg. 61)
There are no historical traditions of any other peoples that carry such the volume of legends and legacies that can we matched out with hard archeological facts on the ground, that have been preserved over the centuries except about the role of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel. It was they who wandered across the nations from Pakistan and India over and under the Black Sea until they wandered into the dense and virgin forests of central and northern Europe called Gaul. It was a swathe of land that was virtually unpopulated and ready, prepared by the hand of G-d for the final settling place of the Lost Ten Tribes.
According to the prophets, they would continue to live there until the era of man was over. Then they would reclaimed by G-d as His own, redeemed and restored by the spirit of HaShem with an elevated state of consciousness. This time in their restored state, Israel the “Battle Axe” will become one in alliance with the Jews as a coalition of nations seek to assalt the State of Israel in what will be the final GogUMogog war. This time they will seek to take possession of Jerusalem, G-d’s “Solar Rex” capital of our sun’s solar system for the dark forces of HaSatan.
Yet the evidence is still incomplete for larger and more powerful tribal migrations were still in the making, preparing the Northern Europe to become the new home of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel. At the same time, the G-d of Israel was also making preparations for the restoration of the future Ashkenazi Jews in Europe whose “mothers of Judah” and families and children were slaughtered en mass by the Roman legions during the destruction of Jerusalem and the Holy Temple of King Herod in the decades after 70 CE and the later Bar Kokhba revolt. The last of the Jewish freedom fighting patriots went to their death by suicide rather than surrender in the “Last Stand” while sheltered in King Herod’s Palace at Masada overlooking the Dead Sea.
Even though, everything looked hopeless, it was the Prophet Jeremiah who gave them the words of hope, for the final redemption of Judah would also be the final redemption of the Lost House of Israel.
Jeremiah 3:14-18 – “Return, faithless people," declares HaShem, "for I am your Husband. I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion. Then I will give you shepherds after My own Heart, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding.
In those days, when your numbers have increased greatly in the land," declares HaShem, "men will no longer say, 'The Ark of the Covenant of HaShem.' It will never enter their minds or be remembered; it will not be missed, nor will another one be made. At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of HaShem, and all nations will gather in Jerusalem to honor the name of HaShem.
No longer will they follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts. In those days the House of Judah will join the House of Israel, and together they will come from a northern land to the land I gave your forefathers as an inheritance…"
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“Modern Ashkenazi Jew’s ancestral Matriarchs were not Jews”
The G-d of Israel claimed that there are only two groups of people who will be restored back into covenant with Him, the Jews of the House of Israel and the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel. Both families, the Jews and the Israelites were scattered across the face of the earth and would become HaShem emissaries incognito sent to elevate the 70 nations of the world, so that even Righteous Gentiles would become part of the covenant. Even those children of Ishmael will be assimilated into the Jewish culture when deep in their hearts they are “safe to save” and willing to live in peace with their brothers, the descendants of Abraham. Only the G-d of Israel knows who they are.
We are quickly polarizing a world in which there will be only two choices; we are either for the Hebrew Israelites; both now part of the Jews of the house of Judah and the Lost Israelites of the House of Israel or we will be against them. This comes to one sobering conclusion, if you are a descendant of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel and you still despise your brothers, the Jews, you will be left cohabitating with peoples who will have a genetic hatred to you even though you think you want to be a part of them.
So today, the G-d of Israel is whistling for you to come back home to the brotherhood of Klal Yisra’el (All Israel). To learn more about this redemptive process, you are Welcome to Contact “Kol Ha Tor”, the Voice of the Turtledove.Here is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Vision to bring awareness of the imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United). This super Event of all Times will entail establishing in the region of Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness into a new homeland for the Return of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel when All Israel will finally be redeemed.
For inquiries about Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron Lives!”, a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost Tribers of the House of Israel.
Amazing transformations are
settling over the Land of Israel. The hope and illusions of having a true peace
partner with the Palestinian people is diminishing every day. Out of the pyres of delusions, thinking that a
leopard can truly change his spots is now a concept that has a greater reality.
The prophets of Israel have
given us direct from the throne of the G-d of Israel that there is a Manifest Destiny,
not for America or Europe but for Klal Yisrael (All 12-Israel) and a future
“Greater Israel”. Yes, the Lost Ten
Tribes of the House of Israel will soon return. They will become observant sons
and daughters of HaShem, the G-d of All Israel. How? Because the G-d of Israel
has willed that these future prophetic facts will become a living reality.
To consider anything else
means that we do not trust HaShem, the Creator of the Universe that He is able
to pull it off that the Lost and Rebellious 10-Tribes of Israel can be rediscovered,
redeemed, and restored back into brotherhood with the Jews of the House of
Judah into 12-Israel.
The latter, Klal Yisrael is
still in is embryonic stage. There was once Ten Tribes of the Northern Kingdom
of Israel that in their rebellion and arrogance, they thought that they knew
things better than G-d. For their rebellion, they were exiled and become the Lost
Ten Tribes of the House of Israel that virtually disappeared off the face of
the earth.
Yet, with the historical
sleuthing of the Jewish scholars, Yair Davidiy and Rabbi
Avraham Feld, we know
today that pure genetic Lost 10-Israelites truly live and exist next
door with Jews all around the world. The lost Israelites are clueless to that
divine facts that they, themselves and their brothers the Jews, are destined to
once again be united together as one family; the restoration of the Twelve
Tribes of Jacob.
As outrageous as this may
seem, this is only because it was G-d’s purpose to hide Himself from His
people, so that they would have to search for Him with greater intensity and
desire over the ages. So today, the revelation is being revealed that there are
hundreds of millions of peoples all around the world, who in HaShem’s eyes will
one day have their “eyes and their ears” opened to “see and to hear” that the
G-d of Israel is bringing them back into brotherhood once again. Sounds
outrageous! Maybe, but in the eyes of
the prophets of Israel and Judah, those facts are a divine reality.
Such was the transformation that is continuously being imprinted into the “discussions”
by the Jewish people living in the land of Israel. These facts were recently enhanced and became a “living
conversation” when the Yesha Council, an umbrella body of Jewish
communities in Judea and Samaria sent out the invitation to various government
officials to speak to their conference on how to focus Israel’s public advocacy
more effectively on the international world stage.
Suddenly the citizens in the State of Israel are becoming aware of a
gut-felt fact; there is no way on Planet Earth, except by the divine
intervention of G-d that the Palestinian leaders will ever have any interest in
sharing and co-existing the Land of Israel with the Jewish people.
As they met in a conference center that was hosted in the
central mountainous region of Samaria, Israel’s Economy and Trade
Minister Naftali Bennett, the leader of the Habayit Hayehudi political party, stated
the bare facts with succinct reality:
Naftali Bennett – “The
conflict with the Palestinians has come to an impasse. Israel should discard
the two-state solution, so it’s time to “live with the problem”, quit looking
behind and “move on.”
The punch line was yet to come; the“Two-State
Solution” is dead.” It’s time to put that idea behind us and move on.” With
great passion, he continued to speak about the facts on the ground:
Naftali
Bennett - “Never has so much
time been invested in something so pointless. We need to build, build, build!
If the money spent on caviar in cocktail parties dealing with the idea of a
Palestinian state would have been used for building interchanges (in the
territories) – everything would be different.”
Facts and reality are
beginning to be instilled on the ground in Israel within the mental conceptions
of the Jewish people in Israel. It is obvious to most Jews except to Justice Ministry Tzipi Livni (Hatnuah) and Israeli
President Shimon Peres, that the Land of
Israel's land deed and trust was given to the Jewish people and the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, not the Syrian Palestinians, Jordanian
Palestinians, Saudi Palestinians or Egyptian Palestinians.
While Livni and Peres are on the “let us give away Holy Land” to unholy
people who will desecrate it and abominate the Holy Name of Hashem, new voices
are now being listened to such a Bennet’s who made these comments:
Naftali
Bennett - “There
has never been a Palestinian state here. We need to change our conception and
say we're here because it's our home. We need to start thinking about how we
conduct ourselves from now on, with that concept behind us.”
It was the disciples of the Vilna Gaon who first
voiced those opinions that the “end of days” was now upon their lives in the
1740s. The Messiah will not return until the Holy Land was populated with
Jewish people as the majority inhabitants in the land.
So in the early 19th century, the disciples
of the Gaon of Vilna moved to the Land of Israel.
It was upon their intrepid work of settling the land, that the process of
transforming the Land of Israel back into a population of Abraham’s descendants
that would remain in covenant with the commands of the Torah that were given to
them on the mount of Sinai.
It was the Children of Israel who populated the
land that was given by the G-d of Israel in the division of the world land mass
by Noah to his descendants. The facts that the descendants of Ham violated the
demarcation of the world land mass by Noah, and the Canaanites chose to become
the first occupiers of land that did not belong to them, is still a fact of
ancient history. The first “occupiers of
the Land Israel” were the children of Ham, and the first “redeemers of the Land
of Israel” were the children of Shem, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob. It was they who fled Egypt that held them in hostage and redeemed the
Land of Israel.
Ishmael, the prophetic “wild-ass man” whose
mother, Hagar was an Egyptian princess today is the ancestral forefather of
those Arabs who claim that the former “Land of Canaan” belongs to them. This is
only a part of a family struggle for domination of land masses that G-d through
Noah first gave to the first peoples when they left the Ark of Noah to
repopulate the post-diluvian world after the Great Flood of Noah.
These same arguments are continuing to be
resurrected today, even by Israeli Knesset MKs, such as Yesh
Atid MK Ofer Shelah who harshly slammed
Israel's policy in the West Bank only a few days prior to the Yesha conference
with these words:
MK Ofer Shelah – “The
occupation corrupts Israeli society, the IDF , Israeli justice, Israeli media, Israeli
psyche and Israeli mode of speech. Thinking the world will get used to this
situation is similar to what white people used to say in South Africa.”
Bennett reencountered this statement with this response:
Naftali
Bennett - “Those
who dare say that the occupation corrupts and talk about occupation all day,
what occupation are they talking about? How can you be an occupier in your own
home? This is our home!”
It was the opinion of MK Ofer Shelah that the
settlements in the West Bank are an obstacle to peace. The question we ask,
“what peace?” To leave behind a remnant of peoples whose future dreams are only
to annihilate the Jewish people, is a pathway of destruction, not peace.
Co-existence may not be a fact of reality on the
ground, for Palestinian leader Abbas has stated over and over that no Jewish
life will be allowed to live in the Palestinian State. They will be killed.
So, we again ask, how does the United Nation
even condone this kind of rhetoric of a national leader whose only futuristic
ideology is one of genocide and depopulation of other people lives? Truly as a planetary peoples, we been there
before and don’t have to continue to recreate again and again holocausts,
pogroms, and genocide.
These facts are obvious to
most Jewish settlers living in the Israeli towns located in the central mountainous
region of Shomron and Judea. The reason it is obvious is the stark reality; this
land is the biblical homeland of their ancient patriarchal forefathers;
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
This fact is elusive to
some Jews for in their minds the Land of Israel is a bargaining chip for their delusions
of world domination. Let us not forget that it was Livni and Peres that that
took the ideas in 2005 to bargain with Pope Benedict XVI that Jerusalem was
being prepped to become the “Capital of the World.”
Facts do not lie; for they both, Tzipi and Peres are trying even today desperately to give
away the land in Shomron and Judea to the Palestinian people, andEastern
Jerusalem to Vatican Rome. Instead, according to Bennet, Israel should
annex now the entire region of Shomron and Judea. The facts come forth with a
stark reality that now with the sheer number of Jewish residents living,
working, being educated, servicing and defending their country the “two-state
solution” is not longer viable nor a living reality. As Bennet spoke to the
audience:
Naftali Bennett – “More
than 10 percent of all Israelis live beyond what was known as the Green Line
[Israel's pre-1967 border with Jordan]; anyone walking in Judea and Samaria
knows that what was negotiated in Annapolis and in Oslo was just divorced from
reality."
As the speech continued he spoke that the pursuit of peace in such
conference settling along with numerous and negotiating sessions has ultimately
resulted in many deaths. So he slowly offered to the Jewish people in
attendance that a Western-style peace accord is beyond reach. As he noted and
transparently expressed his fear than there will be many more deaths before the
Israeli people abandon their "quest for a perfect solution.”
Deputy Foreign Minister Zeev Elkin from the Likud party observed at the
conference that most European diplomats (most of whom are Lost Israelites in
descent) that he meets with are wedded to the idea that a “two-state solution”
is the only solution. As Zeev Elkins continued to speak:
Zeev Elkins – “Not a
single foreign minister in Europe would agree with what Bennett said, not even
with 10% of what he said; dozens of European foreign ministers have met with me
recently and all they talked about was the two-state solution.”
Yet, it was Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon, also from the Likud Party
and truly was considered by his colleagues to be a “hawk” on the Palestinian
two-state solution later made these comments:
Deputy Defense Minister
Danny Danon – “If you will bring it (Palestinian “Two-State” solution”) to a
vote in the government -- nobody will bring it to a vote, it’s not smart to do
it -- but if you bring it to a vote, you will see the majority of Likud
ministers, along with Habayit Hayehudi, will be against it.”
Danon who later did become Israel’s Defense Deputy Minister pursued further
comments and observations. The Defense Deputy Minister Danny Danon recently
told a reporter from The Times of Israel that the media’s
portrayal that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is truly in support for a
two-state solution is nothing more than a tactical strategy for the prospect of
a “two-state solution” to be approved in the Israeli Knesset had zero chance of
materializing.
When these facts hit the Israeli press, it was reported that a “media
firestorm” erupted. Netanyahu distanced himself from Danon’s public statements,
and to everyone expectations; Jewish Justice Ministry Tzipi Livni with the
Hatnuah Party condemned Danon’s statements. She stated that
Danon’s views, were “Danonism”.
What else would anyone expect from Livni, one
whose life and mission has been to give away Gush Katif and the Orthodox towns,
synagogue and flower and vegetable nurseries in 2005 to the citizens of Gaza, a
dozen other properties to the Vatican, the Jewish capital of Jerusalem to the
Vatican to become the “International Capital” of Planet Earth and to give away
Eastern Jerusalem to the Palestinian State to become their new capital?
This only prompts one last question, has the
Israeli Justice Ministry Director, Tzipi Livni ever read the Torah? Has she
ever asked, “What has the G-d of Israel decreed about the future of the State
of Israel? Does she have any belief in
the prophets of Judah? If she has not,
why does she represent the interests of the Israeli national government and the
Israeli people?
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All of have wondered
how the G-d of Israel will bring all the prophetic events to their fulfillment
at the time of the end. Watching the “Finger of the Divine” stirring up nations
of the world is far more fascinating than watching a movie drama. The end results
will be that all nations will pool all their economic resources at the “gates
of Israel” and be prepared to once again to evoke the “Final Solution” this
time amongst the remnant of the Jewish peoples. These will include all the Jews
of the Diaspora that have fled to Israel as a land of safety before their lives
will be thrust into “the world to come”.
Yet, during this same
time, the G-d of Israel is wooing each one of you, the Lost Ten Tribes of the
House of Israel, to return and be restored back into brotherhood with the Jews
of the House of Judah. When that day come, He will send His Messiah to clean
house of all the wickedness and corruption on Planet Earth.
If you want to learn
more divinely led prophecies, we invite you to Contact “Kol Ha Tor Vision”, the Voice of the Turtledove.Here you will discover
is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Vision to bring awareness of the
imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all
Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United). This super Event of all Times
will bring the restoration and the Shomron Region, the Ancient Biblical
Heartland of the Patriarchs plus the Judean Wilderness as part of the entire
Land of Israel. There we will witness the Divine as the “Land” will be restored
and prepared for the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then
the Redemption of All Israel.
For inquiries about
Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron Lives!”, a
Spiritual Retreat and Guest House in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria)
Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost Tribers of the House of Israel.
Destination Yisra’el – “Philippe
Assouline brought to the international news media one of the most unusual
articles of “life in Israel”. It is a refreshing image of a young married
Palestinian woman who was born and raised in Israel and carries a wholesome and
realistic image of what a life of democracy can be like; when one chooses to
live in peace, harmony and in good will to all people.
Too many times, we seek to
change other peoples, not knowing that it is we who need to be changed. That is
our personal mission and responsibility. One thing that is understood in the
highest levels of rabbinic understanding is the fact that there will be a day,
when the spirit of peace and understanding will descend upon the peoples of the
world. This is the Elijah message to bring peace to the world especially in the
sense of peace within the “family of G-d”.
The strife within the
Middle East is a family affair. Was it not family discord first manifested in
the Abrahamic family between his sons; Ishmael against Isaac? In the next
generation was it not the family discord in the House of Isaac over the rights
of the birthright and blessings that brought strife and tension between the
twins; Esau and Jacob?
Yet, thirteen generations
later, the Northern Ten Tribes of the House of Israel revolted from the
divinely led rise of Imperial Israel under Kings David and Solomon. They chose
to plot their own future that eventually led to their exile and lost identity
for the next 3,000 years lasting for 104 generations.
Whether you believe that
your ancestral genetics will get you to the Kingdom of G-d on earth, think
again. The G-d of Israel warned the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel in
Ezekiel 36, that they did not choose to return to Him. They instead continued
to abominate His Holy Name throughout the nations of the world for the next
three millenniums to this very day. Yet, He also promised the Lost Ten Tribes
of Israel, that He would redeem them.
Not for their sake will
HaShem redeem the House of Israel, but rather their redemption will come
because He would choose to honor His Holy Name which they refused, and with His
“clean water” he would give them a “New Heart” and write His Torah upon their
hearts. Only then He will restore them to the lands of their forefathers to be
again His chosen people, forever. This sounds like an irrevocable promise with
a very literal impact.
Yet what is most important,
this will be an era in which a spiritual elevation will descend upon the House
of Abraham; Arabs, Jews and Lost Israelites alike. It will be sent by Eliyahu haNavi (Elijah the
Prophet) to restore and revive to those in the wilderness the spirit of peace
and spiritual harmony as written in the TaNaKh:
Malachi
3:1, 23-24 – “Behold, I am sending My messenger and he will clear a path before
Me; suddenly the L-rd Whom you seek will come to His Sanctuary, and the
messenger of the covenant for whom you yearn, behold, he comes, says HaShem
Master of Legions…
Behold,
I send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome day of
HaShem. And he will turn back [to G-d] the hearts of fathers with [their] sons
and the hearts of sons with their fathers; lest I come and strike the land with
utter destruction.”
We
are see this manifestation of an elevated spiritual consciousness in the
article titled, “Telling Israel like it is — in Arabic” when this secular Palestinian
woman of the House of Ishmael steps out of the crowds showing a defined aura of
spiritual consciousness of peace and harmony to the Jews of the House of Isaac.
This same elevation of spiritual consciousness has already been rising between
the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel and their brothers, the Jews of the House
of Judah as the Lost Tribes are seeking to be restored to their “Hebrew Roots”.
We welcome this refreshing article by that says, “Yes! A return of the
brotherhood of the children of Abraham can not only happen, but it is being
revealed right in front of our eyes when the “Times of Israel” reporter, Philippe Assouline conducted this following interview:
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Philippe Assouline – “I
first met Boshra Khalaila in the Spring of 2010, at the Ministry of Public
Diplomacy’s offices in Jerusalem. She was 24 at the time. Like me, she’d been
alarmed by the public relations debacle that followed the Gaza flotilla
incident and had somehow found her way to the Ministry’s hastily set-up
Potemkin village of a situation room, to volunteer her time and do damage
control, in Arabic.
I next saw her last January
at the first preparatory meeting for the Faces of Israel program, which I have
previously written
about. She had again volunteered
to defend her country and taken time off work to drive from Jerusalem, where
she lives, to Tel Aviv for the preparatory sessions, a ritual she would have to
repeat often. I was sent to California as part of that program. Boshra’s
destination was South Africa — during Israel Apartheid Week.
In South Africa, she
traveled to both Johannesburg and Cape Town, lecturing at four large university
events that included a serious round of follow-up work — public discussions,
five radio interviews, and a host of newspaper interviews.
Boshra, a secular,
independent and patriotic Israeli Arab woman, defies stereotypes. She grew up
in a liberal home in the Arab village of Deir Hana, in the Galilee. Her first
contact with Jewish Israelis came at the age of 18, when she enrolled in Haifa
University. There, she had to speak Hebrew for the first time. And it is there
that she started to develop her political conscience and her attachment to the
State of Israel.
Boshra
Khalaila - “I am married and doing a master’s degree [in Tel Aviv]. I am a
liberal, free woman, with all the rights that I could enjoy. I compare myself
to other women my age in Jordan, the territories, Egypt, any Arab country. They
don’t have the rights that I have: freedom of expression, the right to vote.
They are forced into marriage at a young age, and religious head covering,
despite their own convictions. With me it’s the opposite; I have everything.”
After returning from our
mission, we sat down for an interview in the lobby of a Tel Aviv hotel. My
first question was why she feels the need to speak up for Israel so publicly —
something that most Jews don’t even feel compelled to do. She answered me in
perfect Hebrew:
Boshra
Khalaila - “To sacrifice from myself for the country that I live in and that
gives me rights, that’s a natural price.”
Boshra was part of a team
of five people, including another Israeli Arab and a Druze, who were sent to
South Africa with Faces of Israel during Israel Apartheid Week. Like us, Boshra
and her team had to deal with widespread ignorance about Israel, compounded by
a campaign of demonization waged by pro-Palestinian students. Unlike us, she
could counter the anti-Israel Middle Eastern students as an Arab herself, in
Arabic.
Boshra
Khalaila - “[The pro Palestinian students in Johannesburg] had built fake
barriers and put up all kinds of slogans demonizing Israel and accusing it of
Apartheid, of being a child murderer and the like. There were awful pictures,
pictures with dead children, [it was] really terrible. Boshra and her team were
generally not welcome.
They
didn’t even know that there was such a thing as Israeli Arabs. They accused us
of being Jews. Some people were hostile, they told us ‘get out,’ ‘we don’t want
to hear from you.’ [Some] were even more unwilling to talk to me because I am
Arab and was seen as a traitor, but this was only a small part of their group.
Others, thankfully, came to listen; they were open-minded about it.”
Boshra and her team
delivered a number of lectures, told their personal stories, dialogued with
students and gave interviews. “You want to defend yourself from people that
tell the world that [Jews and Arabs] travel on different buses and study at
different schools and that there is segregation,” she said:
Boshra
Khalaila - “That just isn’t true: I study in same educational institutions,
ride the same buses, shop in the same supermarkets. Everything that they say is
absolutely false. And I do feel that I belong to my country.”
Hoping to give South
Africans a glimpse of her everyday life as an Arab citizen of Israel, Boshra
instead found herself publicly debating politics with a Palestinian PhD student
from Gaza, in Arabic.
Boshra
Khalaila - “This is what I told him in front of everyone; I spoke in Arabic,
and I was translated: ‘I don’t enjoy it when soldiers attack and mothers and
babies end up getting killed or injured. It’s hard. But the same is true for
Netivot and Sderot, when Kassam rockets hit and, God forbid, someone is killed,
it is very hard. On both sides there are mothers and it is hard. I want the
Palestinian people to have a country. It’s a natural right. That said, there
are all kinds of conflicts within the Palestinian authority, mainly with Hamas,
that prevent progress toward a peaceful settlement for the state of Israel and
that is unfortunate.”
She added:
Boshra
Khalaila - “If there is any Apartheid, in the sense of a flagrant injustice in
the world; it is what is happening in Syria. Thousands of people murdered…the
number of dead doesn’t even come close here.”
Thinking back to my
experience in California, I assumed that her message would fall on deaf ears.
But she surprised me:
Boshra
Khalaila - “Most of the talks ended with a handshake and a hug. To me this says
it all. I have to say that it was important that I wasn’t there representing
the government of Israel. It was surprising for them to see that I was a simple
person, defending my country for the rights that I have and not speaking on
behalf of the government. It came across as very genuine. For them, this was
huge — to be able to listen to someone who is not from the government,
including for the pro-Palestinian students. When you tell them you are a
student and not a government spokesman, they no longer see you as an enemy.”
Boshra’s appearances on
campus made waves, and, among her many radio appearances, she was interviewed
by an Islamic, Arabic-language radio station in Johannesburg. The interviewer,
a religious Saudi man, asked her questions which revealed a disheartening level
of ignorance about Israel, the most over-scrutinized and documented country in
the world — an ignorance that is unfortunately all too common.
Boshra
Khalaila - “He asked why Israel doesn’t let Muslims pray or go to Al Aqsa
mosque in Jerusalem; why only Jews are allowed to pray [in the State of
Israel]. I told them that in my own small village in the Galilee there are not
only one but two mosques and two imams who both get a monthly salary from the
state. The interviewer was in shock. I added that I could go pray at Al Aqsa
mosque at will, freely. Sure, sometimes there are security concerns and they
limit entrance temporarily, but that’s it.”
The host was receptive to
Boshra’s story and as the conversation turned to the rights of Arabs in Israel,
her assertiveness grew.
Boshra
Khalaila - “I said to him: ‘In Saudi Arabia, can a woman drive a car?’ He said
no. I said: ‘I can.’ And he was silent. I asked: ‘Can a woman in Kuwait or
Saudi Arabia meet a man and get to know him before getting married or is she
just forced into marriage at a young age?’ He said no, she can’t. I said: ‘I
can.’ And I would answer his questions with my own questions…and each time he
would be stunned silent.”
Boshra went on to correct
other popular misconceptions that the host had, including ideas about the
Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. She informed him of the supplies that Israel provides
to the strip on a monthly basis, and she reminded him that Egypt also enforces
the embargo. She asked him why it was Israel and not Egypt, an Arab county that
provided for the territory’s necessities.
Boshra
Khalaila - “He was speechless. He was often speechless during our interview.”
The host’s silence, and the
reception she got from many if not all of the Arab students that she met, stood
in stark contrast to my experience at Berkeley. Boshra’s interviewer, a
religious Saudi, was more receptive to new facts than the “liberal” Ivy league
students that I faced.
Boshra
Khalaila - “He saw me; I spoke Arabic, I was liberal and secular. This
made him quite open-minded, actually.”
Her tale begs the question
of why, if a religious Muslim from a hyper-conservative state in the Middle
East is willing to shed preconceived notions about Israel — even temporarily —
the state is still faced with such disastrous public relations. Boshra’s
diagnosis:
Boshra
Khalaila - “Every media outlet pushes this narrative painting Israel as an evil
aggressor. It’s enough that a popular prime-time show plays, a few times, a
clip of the IDF bombing a target in Gaza where a baby was killed, for people to
be convinced that Israel is an evil state. It’s hard for people to see
tragedies like that.”
Boshra Khalaila – “I am
looking for an apartment to rent in Jerusalem right now. And when they ask me
my name — Boshra — they then ask if I am an Arab. When I ask if there is a
problem with that; there’s always some embarrassment; some evasion. One woman
told me, ‘I don’t have a problem with you, but others tenants mind, so we can’t
rent to you’”
She
continued by underlining why people are not told the rest of the story:
And our public diplomacy
here in Israel,” she went on, underlining why people are not told the rest
of the story, “is catastrophic. I can tell you first hand, it’s catastrophic.”
She uses the Hebrew slang expression “all hapanim” — flat on its face — to
describe Israel’s public relations apparatus.
Sadly, the hostility and
suspicion that Boshra initially encountered in Johannesburg were but a taste of
what she’d face upon returning home.
Boshra
Khalaila - “There were a number of articles in Israel, the international press
and the Arab press even outside of Israel. They described me as a Zionist who
sold out her people.”
Others accused her of
taking bribes to support the country. The media exposure led to real trouble.
In Deir Hana, where she grew up, activists from Hadash and Balad, Arab Israeli
political parties represented in parliament, “published flyers and articles
saying that I sold out my people, that I was brainwashed.”
Like the rest of us, Boshra
didn’t get paid a cent for her troubles. “They wanted to banish me and my
family –- all kinds of bad things.” The rancor eventually turned to threats. “I
got many hostile phone calls and threatening Facebook messages. A Facebook
group attacking me was started. At one point, even my husband was threatened
and told that if I didn’t ‘calm down’ I’d pay a heavy price.”
Boshra told me this almost
matter-of-factly, undeterred. And yet, she admitted that facing such hostility
was not easy.
Boshra
Khalaila - “I cried for hours every day.”
But although she felt
alone, she found the strength to persevere.
Boshra
Khalaila - “I am very proud of what I did because these are my opinions. I will
not and am not able to change my opinions to please anyone. And the essential,
most important thing is that I got full support from my family and my husband.”
She also got support from a
number of people in her home village.
Boshra
Khalaila - “People understood my actions and opinions and expressed this to my
family in the kfar too,” she says, referring to her village. “It was mostly
Hadash activists that caused problems.”
But why put herself through
it all? The hostility one faces when defending Israel -– the intimidation, the
isolation, the constant bickering, the justifications of terrorism under the
guise of concern for human rights, the slander that one inevitably faces — is,
at times, enough to make you want to give it all up and move to Mexico. I
couldn’t imagine having to deal with the same hostility at home as well as
abroad. I doubt I would have had Boshra’s fortitude.
Boshra
Khalaila - “It was important to me that people know that there are Arabs that
live in the state of Israel, and on this trip there were [people] from all
backgrounds…that didn’t know that there were Arabs in Israel. They thought
Israel was a country exclusively of Jews. It was very important to me to
correct this misconception.”
Boshra also wanted to
challenge herself and break some barriers in the process.
Boshra
Khalaila - “Second, I wanted to prove to myself that I could do this as a woman
in our community, where women are weak. And what I experienced, the negative
comments, the slander that I was bribed, revealed that they just couldn’t
accept that a woman could get ahead. Had a man been in my position, they would
have related to him differently, I am sure, but because I am a woman they
rejected my actions…as if to abuse me. It is also a resentment of success. When
people get ahead there is a tendency in the Arab community to bring them down,
to infer that they should stop. This is particularly true with respect to
women.”
But though she is
definitely not stopping, she doesn’t advocate that everyone follow her lead.
Boshra Khalaila - “You need a lot of strength
and perseverance. As a woman from an Arab town it is more difficult to stand up
and it takes a lot of courage. Not everyone is capable of doing it. In our
community, the woman is the weaker sex. You need even more strength and courage
[than the men].”
But to be accused of
treason is the price you have to pay to make a difference,” Boshra said,
summarizing her ordeal. “Bottom line: you need to believe in your way and what
you are doing.”
I asked if she’s ever
encountered discrimination in Israel, by Jewish Israelis. It’s a scary question
whose answer I was afraid to hear.
Boshra
Khalaila - “I can’t say that I enjoy 100% of the rights that I get under law,
but I don’t deny that I have rights, like others in my community might claim.
That’s not true. I work for the office of social insurance in Israel, so I can
tell you confidently that Arabs have the same legal rights. That said, as an
Arab I can’t get certain jobs for which military service is required, for
example, because Arabs are exempt from military service. I can’t always live
where I want.”
We discussed military
service for a while, and the growing trend among Arabs — which she supports —
to volunteer for the military or national service. Nonetheless, I was bothered
that a person such as her is not universally greeted as a hero in this country.
And I told her.
Boshra
Khalaila - “Listen, it’s not pleasant. I am looking for an apartment to rent in
Jerusalem right now. And when they ask me my name — Boshra — they then ask if I
am an Arab. When I ask if there is a problem with that, there’s always some
embarrassment, some evasion. One woman told me, ‘I don’t have a problem with
you, but others tenants mind, so we can’t rent to you. I looked for a place to
live in Adam [a settlement in the West Bank] and I wasn’t accepted.”
While I typed up her words,
embarrassed by those stories, she added:
Boshra
Khalaila - “Jerusalem is becoming ultra-Orthodox ” — she actually uses a play
on the Hebrew word “Haredi,” (i.e., “anxious”) and tells me that Jerusalem is
becoming ‘anxiety-ridden’ — “Who gets to rent what and where is an issue for everyone
these days. The ultra-Orthodox have their areas, and if someone Jewish is
not religious they won’t rent to them, either.”
Still, I kept digging,
feeling it my duty to expose and condemn whatever unpleasantness she may have
encountered at the hands of Israelis on account of her background. But there
isn’t much.
Boshra
Khalaila - “I don’t feel racism on a daily basis. I don’t look for an apartment
every day. At the supermarket everyone is nice to me and they know that I am
Arab. But I won’t say there is none – it’s just not a frequent thing. If it were,
I couldn’t stand to live here. And I know that for each woman who won’t rent me
an apartment there are tens of others who will. And when I was in Haifa, I
never once experienced any racism. I didn’t know what racism was. It was only
when I arrived to Jerusalem – because the city is in conflict – that I felt
something.”
In search of ‘the common good’
What of the Arab members of
Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, and their constant, public complaints about
the state? Boshra’s answer was decidedly Israeli.
Boshra
Khalaila - “Everything is politics and everything is dirty. Everyone is looking
out for his own interests and the narrow interests of his constituency —
religious, Arab, whatever. No one looks out for the common good. And it is
often in their interest to incite, to be inflammatory.”
“[The Saudi interviewer]
asked me about the Arab members of Knesset who are always against the Jews,”
she continued:
Boshra
Khalaila - “I answered him that those members of Knesset should thank Israel
for giving them rights, including freedom of expression, which they would not
enjoy in any Arab country. Second, those Arab Knesset members do not represent
me.”
This is something Boshra
first explained to me back in 2010 about Hanin Zoabi, an Arab-Israeli member of
Knesset who participated in the Mavi Marmara flotilla to Gaza and viciously
criticized Israel in the press.
Boshra
Khalaila - “They [the Arab Members of Knesset] serve only their own interests.”
She added that many Arab
Israelis agree and feel that the Arab Members of Knesset even hold Israeli
Arabs back, but that tradition still held much sway in dictating how people
voted.
Boshra
Khalaila - “The truth is that awareness of the possibility to vote and whom to
vote for is still not very high in the Israeli Arab community. It is very much
a family thing; you follow what your family loyalties dictate. This is not my
case because I was lucky to have been born in a very liberal, open home in
favor of co-existence and higher education. I was able to get married
relatively late, at the age of 25, because I am pursuing a master’s degree. But
others are not that fortunate…
I
am for a Palestinian state. But I don’t think that I am pro-Palestinian. I
think that they should have their rights that the Saudi millionaires should
help them out a little…but that is it. I am not for a One State solution,
either. I am for two states for two people…and I would stay here. Israel is my
home”
And although she supports
them, Boshra does not identify with the Palestinians, nor would she move to a
Palestinian State where it ever is to arise.
Boshra
Khalaila - “Israel is my country, my home. Why would I leave to Jordan or
Egypt? This is where my roots are. Here my grandfather and grandmother were
born, all my family is here. This is my home,” she told me unequivocally.”
Her logic is rooted in
optimism:
Boshra
Khalaila - “I am in favor of coexistence, I am in favor of peace and I very
much believe that when younger people start to speak for us, instead of the
older generation now in power, there will be more joie de vivre. Many
problems stem from the older mentalities and hatreds. They don’t want Jews in
this land, they want to kick them out, treat them as enemies, or vice versa.”
Unlike
many young Israeli-Arabs, she doesn’t consider herself Palestinian.
I compared her willingness
to speak out to the hesitation of some other Arab participants on the Faces of
Israel to defend Israel abroad, for fear of upsetting their kin back home. This
outraged Boshra:
Boshra
Khalaila - “Why!? They didn’t study!? They didn’t get all their rights and
dues? That kind of ingratitude could get one killed in an Arab country.”
That led me to ask her
about her place as an Israeli Arab within the Arab world. Her answer tells of
the isolation of a community struggling to define itself between two clashing
identities.
Boshra
Khalaila - “There is a problem. To the Jews we are Palestinian Arabs and to
Arabs in the Middle East we are Jews. And we want to both identify with Arabs
and be Israeli and connect with Jews. It is a problem.”
But
she makes no apologies and expects understanding from the Arabs around Israel.
Boshra
Khalaila - “Just as I accept that someone from, say, Lebanon has his own
identity, he needs to accept that I was born in Israel. The Palestinians born
in Lebanon are still stuck in camps on the border. They are not recognized by
Lebanon; they are not even considered residents; even to marry a Lebanese, to
get a Lebanese ID card down the line is impossible. There is no family
reunification. It’s simple: You need to appreciate that everyone has their own
reality.”
And Boshra’s reality is
being an engaged, active Israeli. But she is not interested in a political
career. Here again, her rejection of Israeli politics sounds exactly like what
she is — purely, unmistakably Israeli.
Boshra
Khalaila - “I won’t go into politics, it’s a dirty game.”
She wants to make an
enduring difference, to unite people and build bridges to the Arab world with a
better more timely idea, one that, in my opinion, the politicians playing their
“dirty game” should quickly heed:
Boshra
Khalaila - “I want to work for peace between people. I want to do this through
the media… to speak to the world. Why isn’t there an Israeli channel that
speaks to the world, like the French have or the BBC, for instance? I would
like to be involved in such a thing.”
What is known and
understood in the TaNaKh (Old Testament), the Ishmaelite descendants of Abraham
will someday become as one, living in peace and harmony with the descendants of
Isaac and Jacob with the recognition that the G-d of Israel is the One and Only
One G-d of the Universe. As we enter the final era of the Guela, the Redemption
of all mankind, the yearning for peace and family harmony will become a
palpable presence in the whole world. We see this theme gradually progressing
as some of the House of Ishmael is today reconsidering the fact that we are one
family.
So today, the G-d of
Israel is whistling or coaxing the House of Israel to come back to the
brotherhood of Klal Yisra’el (All Israel). To learn more about this redemptive
process, you are Welcome to Contact “Kol Ha'Tor”, the Voice of the Turtledove.Here is a joint Orthodox
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establishing in the region of Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the
Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness into a new homeland for the Return of the
Lost Ten Tribes of Israel when All Israel will finally be redeemed.
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Parashat Va’etchanan - 20 July 2013 – And I
besought
Deuteronomy 3:23 – 7:11
Parashat Eikev - 27 July 2013 – Because
Deuteronomy
7:12 – 1125
Parashat Re'eh - 03 August 2013 – Behold
Deuteronomy 11:26 – 16:17
Parashat Shoftim - 10 August 2013 –
Judges
Deuteronomy 16:18 – 21:19
Parashat Ki Teitzei - 17 August 2013 – When
you go out
Deuteronomy 21:10 –
25:19
Parashat Ki Tavo - 24 August 2013 – When
you come in
Deuteronomy 26:1 –
29:8
Parashat Nitzavim – 31 August – Are
standing
Deuteronomy
29:9 – 30:20
Double Parashat Vayeilech – 31 August – And went
Deuteronomy 31:1 – 31:30
Parashat Ha'Azinu - 07 September 2013
Deuteronomy 32:1 – 32:52
Parashat Vezot Haberakhah – 14 September 2013
Deuteronomy 33:1 – 34:12
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(Samaria), Israel, Contact “Kol Ha’Tor”, the Voice of the
Turtledove.
Here is a joint
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fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all Israel
(12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United). This super Event of all Times will
entail Establishing the Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs)
and the Judean Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and preparing the
“Land” for the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then the
Redemption of All Israel.
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Lives!”, a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House in Samaria, that
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House of Israel.
In other words, if I understand correctly, this syrup-particle is sort of like the glue of existence.
Interesting, significant and amusing. Why amusing? Because even a simpleton as myself, with almost no scientific background at all, could have come to the same conclusion and revealed it to the world without spending all that money.
The glue of humanity, the precursor of the world as we know it, came into existence over 5772 years ago. As our Sages have taught, G-d looked into the Torah, and then created the world. The Bible, the word of G-d, is the syrup that all creation must pass through in order to have any kind of mass. For without the Torah, as is written in the above-mentioned article, "Without it, they — we — would zip around frantically at the speed of light, too foot-loose to form atoms." In other words, humanity would be lost, running around, chasing its shadow, so to speak, without being able to take any real, relevant, substantial form. That is what Torah, the Bible, the word of G-d, gives us.
But of course, that's not enough. The now discovered particle, in order to be discerned, needed, in the words of the Fox article, a ‘playing field’ where it could be visualized. Here too, the Good L-rd, preceded Prof. Higgs, who hypothesized existence of this particle over 50 years ago. About 3,800 years ago, the Creator set out the field, by which His particle could be distinguished. He called that field by the name Abraham, who, over the centuries, developed from a family field to a national field, by way of the Jewish people.
That's our role in the world: to be a 'thick syrupy mass,' which when interacted with other, fast-flying objects, will give them form and purpose, and ultimately, bring them closer to their Maker.
But it doesn't end there. Again referring back to Fox, ‘You have to get enough energy to excite the field so that it looks like a particle to us. Otherwise we don't know the field is there.’
Here too, we arrived before the good professor. In order for us, the Jewish people, together with our Torah, to be 'seen,' in order to know that the ‘field is there,’ the Deity provided us with a place to put it all together. That being, of course, Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel.
As the article concluded, ‘But because the Higgs particle is extremely high-energy (or, equivalently, very heavy), it's tough to excite the Higgs field enough to create one. That's where the Large Hadron Collider comes in: by smashing together high-speed protons, it generates enough juice to slosh the syrupy Higgs field around now and again, producing Higgs bosons.’
So too with us Jews. We also were processed via a Collider. But back then it had different names: the exile in Egypt, ten plagues, the Exodus, the parting of the Sea, receiving the Torah, the dwelling of G-d in the ‘Tent of Meeting’ in the desert, entering into the land of Israel, leading to revelation, the Temple, in Jerusalem.
That collider hasn't stopped working. Again we experienced exile, again we experienced aches and pains, the Inquisition, the Holocaust, and again we came back to our land. And the particles keep flying around.
There are such specks that might prefer not to take form, to be 'free,' without any purpose for being. They would hope, and even work, to keep the G-d particle from doing its job. But they cannot succeed.
Today we are witness to an additional G-d particle disclosure. That being, for anyone who still didn't know, that Jews really can live in their land, in Eretz Yisrael, the third leg of the G-d particle. We have permission, not only from G-d, but also according to international law.
For years, we, those of us living in Judea and Samaria, individually and collectively, have been accused of ‘occupying conquered land,’ and thereby being in violation of international law. Today the Israeli press published the findings of an 'official committee,' headed up by former Supreme Court justice Edmond Levy which concludes ‘that there is no “occupation” and international law allows Jews to live in Judea and Samaria.’ They concluded that from a historical and legal prospective, and considering agreements with the Palestinian Authority, the international law against ”occupation" does not apply to Judea and Samaria.
Hebron the Spiritual Home of G-d’s descendants from Adam through the Patriarch to the Jews and Lost Israelites
Holy Cow! No, Holy G-d particle! Finally, 3,500 years after the Israelites entered the Land of Israel, we have an official OK to live here…..anywhere. Not just in Tel-Aviv, Haifa, and Beersheva. But also in Hebron, Jerusalem, and Shilo.
Actually, Hebron, Jerusalem, and Shilo, with the rest of Judea and Samaria, are the glue which gives Tel-Aviv and Haifa their form, their existence. Hebron and Jerusalem are the syrupy G-d particle via which the others received their mass, their being.
Several articles, dealing with today's news, point out that this discovery and announcement may lead to Dr Higgs receiving the Nobel Prize in physics. We'd be happy to bypass the Nobel Prize in anything. But it would be nice if the peoples of the world would finally recognize, after all these years and all those colliders, that we, the Jewish people, really do have a legitimate right to live in our land, in all of it, as Jews, the way were created, thousands of years ago. For this is the authentic G-d particle.”
The authentic reality of this world is a mystery to most people. It’s hard to conceive that our true reality is not in our bodies cloaked with skin and bones, but within our spiritual dimensions given as a gift from HaShem (“The Name”), the G-d of Israel called the “Image of G-d”. This image cannot be replicated, and neither can it be given away, it came by our ancestral forefather, Adam, and with it we will one day return as “sons and daughters of the Divine”.
Strange as it may seem, even in the most impossible of situations, such as the Lost Ten Tribes being exiled for 2,700 years and virtually lost to their own identity, we will be redeemed, not because we did anything worthy of redemption, but because the G-d of Israel foreordained it to be and it will be. That’s one piece of reality we have to come to accept, when the G-d of Israel says that He will do something, count on it, it will be done.
Maybe you have this inner urge to connect with the Grand Drama of the Ages, and become a part of its total fulfillment. This include the return of the Jews of the House of Judah, after the catastrophic Shoah (Holocaust) that destroyed most of Jewry in Europe, but propelled the world to commit one act of solidarity for the Jewish people; the international acceptance and right to return and live in the lands of their forefathers in Shomron and Judea. In this case this includes, Hebron, Jerusalem and Shiloh, all towns of distinction only for the descendants of the Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Yes, G-d was reinstating His people as the literal “G-d Particle” back into the Solar Rex capital of Jerusalem, to literally begin the Final Drama of the Ages, the return of the Whole House of Israel, called Klal Yisrael. If you want to learn more, Contact “Kol Ha Tor Vision”, the Voice of the Turtledove.
Here is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Mission to bring awareness of the imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United). This super Event of all Times will entail Establishing the Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and preparing the “Land” for the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then the Redemption of All Israel. For inquiries about Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron Lives!”, a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost Tribers of the House of Israel.
So today, we as the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel stand upon the terrace looking into the future of a “last days” in which the elements of the earth will be exposed again in exalted and fearsome celestial activities, known to all today, as the “Acts of G-d”. When these will come, we do not know, but all the hallmark signs say, “Soon!” Yet, we have other issues today, much like our ancient forefathers did as they were fleeing away from Egypt.
In such a time, as it was in the days of the Exodus, there were those fleeing with the Children of Israel, who with every momentous change would start complaining and with impetuous explosions seeking to mobilize a majority of the Israelites to blame the G-d of their forefathers and turn around and go back to Egypt. It was a challenge to the Bnei Yisra’el, yet especially after they had been given the Oracles of G-d verbally, and when Moses had gone up into the mountain to receive them literally engrave by the finger of the Divine, and then in a moment of impetuous impulsiveness, say, “Give us another god!” Moses is no longer here!
And so with the gold given by the Israelites for the service of the L-rd, and using the incantations of the demonic forces, they created a “Golden Calf” with which they could worship. These were not the true Israelites. They were called the “Erev Rav”
Who then are these Erev Rav? As BibleSearchers Reflection pondered upon this phenomenon back in 2005 after the Sharon government’s expulsion of the Orthodox Jewish families in Gush Katif in Gaza, it was suggested that this phenomenon will again arrive at the “end of days” as written in the mini-article, titled, “The Erev Rav, the Mixed Multitude”:
BibleSearchers Reflections – “According to Rav Israel Solomon in his book, the “Erev Rav” that is reportedly “sensationally correct,” the Erev Rav are the anti-type or what is called as the gilgulim “(reincarnates or last days anti-type) of the Sons of Bilaam” who led the mixed multitude that were mingled with the Children of Israel in the desert to construct the Golden Calf.
According to the Christian translations of this story in Exodus 32, the “people” are stated to be the Children of Israel. Not so, says Rav Solomon, the “people” were not the true Israelites but were actually the two sons of Balaam that stirred up the “mixed multitude” to murder Hur in the presence of his father, Aaron the high priest. They then threatened the life of Aaron as a hostage that he must do as they dictated. Then Aaron cried out to all the people, “tomorrow there will be a holy day to the L-rd".
According to the Oral Torah that was brought by the word of mouth only through the representatives that were the guardians of the written Holy Torah, the Maggid of Kochav
Maggid Yaakov Dov Ben-Lieb of Kochav – “The two sons of Bilaam had other plans. Using the silver plate which brought Yosef’s coffin out of the Nile, on which was inscribed "Rise, bull rise", these two reprehensible men took the gold, which Aharon simply touched and had thrown into the smelter, and instantaneously formed through sorcery a golden calf. The entire purpose of the sordid affair in the eyes of Israel was that the purpose of serving G-d was to create prosperity. In the minds of the ex-slave nation prosperity was utopia.”
Today the golden calf is exemplified best in the American culture as told in the article “American Twilight” written by Maggid Dov Ben-Lieb. This corrupt culture has taken over the government of Israel today where Arial Sharon and Shimon Peres’ golden calf has given them their own golden nest egg.
This is as long as they guarantee to protect the interests and the assets of the United States and Europe and the assets of the members of the Council of Foreign Relations who own ninety percent of the industrial companies and news media in Israel today. As Ben Lieb stated, “These two sons of Bilaam were talking turkey over a scrumptious dinner when the sword struck.”
The Maggid of Kochav Yaakov continues in the analysis of Zechariah text:
Zechariah 13:7 – “Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; then I will turn My hand against the little ones.”
As the Maggid writes:
Maggid Yaakov Dov Ben-Lieb – “Hach et HaRo’eh!" screams the next verse telling us very clearly that of the two men specifically the "Shepherd" should "be struck" or "have a stroke". "Let the flock disperse." This particular half of a verse can have two different meanings. The more obvious meaning is that those wayward Jews from the "mixed multitude" and those who get all of their information about the world around them from Israel’s "Does the world love us today" media will disperse from the Erev Rav’s new political party, Kadima, leaving the wretched refuse known as the Erev Rav with no mass following.
The other possible meaning could be bad news for yours truly here in Kochav Yakov. It could mean that all the places that Sharon built up will be made Judenrein ("Cleansed of Jews" denoting areas where all Jews had been either murdered or deported) for a short while until Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) is divided and the miraculous salvation commences.”
The next two verses in Zechariah suggest that Plan B in America will probably be the future of what we are seeing in the Land of Israel today. It is sad and sobering that we might be witnessing prophecy before our own eyes but most of Christianity is in their Laodicean experience; neither hot nor cold. They are clueless that the streams of prophecy are sweeping our globe and that even though they may be the “elect” that are the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel, they may also be deceived."
If the prophetic picture is correct, Laodicean Christians will not wake up until global catastrophes will rain down upon America and the rest of the world.
Revelation 3:14-22 – “And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, ‘These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God: ‘I know your works, that you neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.
Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’ – and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked – I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”
We continue to the next verse from when the Lord called upon the angel to “strike the Shepherd” in the prophetic utterances of Zechariah. The message to the Laodicean Church and the message to inhabitants in the land of Israel at the time of the end is the same. “Buy of me gold tried in fire” will be the refinement of the Jewish people to their final spiritual state when their innocence has now been taken away from them. Let us look at the response of the Jewish remnant “saints” and the response back to them by the G-d of Israel.
Zechariah 13:8 – “And it shall come to pass in all the land,” say the L-rd, “that two-thirds in it shall be cut off and die, but one-third shall be left in it: I will bring the one-third through the fire, will refine them as silver is refined, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on My Name and I will answer them. I will say, “This is My people”; and each one will say, “The L-rd is my God.”
And catastrophes it may be, both in Israel, America, and Europe and around the world. We can understand now that the plagues in Egypt, the cleaving of the Red Sea between Sinai and Arabia, and soon to come the inferno of fire at the mount called Sinai, were all a part of G-d’s Plan of Redemption for His chosen people. They came with an “Angel” that made a “Pass-over” the land of Egypt and placed G-d’s judgment upon the eldest son and the first born calf, sheep, and goats, except those that the Children of Israel owned in Goshen.
Since “angels” and “planets” are represented together in Hebrew cosmology, this gives us good reason to suspect that the final Exodus of the Jews and Lost Israelites from Northern Europe and North America in specifics will come with another solar body, a rouge planet, comet, or even a dark binary star, such as Planet X, as suggested in BibleSearchers Reflections series of article beginning with Part One “Is “Planet X God’s Divine Judgment during the Final Apocalypse of Redemption?”
As the Children of Israel, finally settled with their tents encamped and prepared to meet their G-d. As the ancient text proclaims;
Exodus 19:16-19 (parts) – “On the third day, when it was morning, there was thunder and lightning and a heavy cloud on the mountain, and the sound of the shofar was very powerful, and the entire people that was in the camp shuddered…All of Mount Sinai was smoking because HaShem had descended upon it in the fire; its smoke ascended like the smoke of the furnace, and the entire mountain shuddered exceedingly. The sound of the shofar grew continually much stronger; Moses would speak and G-d would respond to him with a voice.”
On this day of Shavuot, the G-d of Israel came down, for a moment of time, to dwell with His people. It was not just the Jews, but All Israel; the Jews of the House of Judah, and the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel. There they stood in rapt silence with fear and awe in the Presence of the Master of the Universe. The “sound of the shofar” ricochet around the world, as the voice of the Almighty One spoke forth the words of the “Ten Commands”.
There in the presence of their Creator, He transformed His own people. They were no longer a group of tribes, but from now on they would become the “Nation of G-d”, a “Kingdom of Priests” and a “Holy Nation”. Here they, as the Nation of G-d would receive HaShem’s Torah, the blue-print of life. To keep it was life, and if they continued to keep the Torah, it was suggested that they could be restored back into oneness with the Divine just as Adam and Eve lived in Gan Eden upon their own merits, and genetically restored back to the exalted state of Adam Kadman; fully restored to the “Divine Image of G-d”.
That was not a far-fetched idea, for Enoch was taken from earth to the world to come. According to the Book of Jude, Moses was resurrected and claimed from the clutches of the Powers of Darkness and restored to the “World to Come” and the Prophet Elijah was taken up in the Merkabah, the Heavenly Flying Chariot, and like Enoch was restored without seeing death.
The Children of Israel when they left Egypt were existing at the lowest state of spiritual contamination. According to the sages of Judah, this was called the 49th level of Tuma, or “spiritual contamination”. One more step and their existence would have been annihilation. The purpose of the great rescue mission by G-d was to restored them back to the exalted stature of their forefathers; the Patriarch Moses, Isaac, and Jacob.
It wasn’t that the Torah could not have been given to any of the nations on Planet Earth, but only to the peoples that were willing to be “sanctified”. As the sages of Judah have explained G-d’s Proposal:
Chumash – “Although the purpose of Israel’s coming to Mount Sinai was to receive the Torah, and G-d – as the Creator and the One Who had delivered them from slavery – had the right to demand that they accept it, such was not the Divine Plan. As the familiar narrative of the Sages teaches (Sifrei, Vezos Haberachah): G-d offered the Torah to other nations, as well, but they all refused it because the commandments of the Torah were in conflict with their national characteristics.
Esau’s offspring would not tolerate a law that prohibited murder; Ishmael’s could not live with a law that banned thievery; and Lot’s would not accept a ban on adultery. Now it was Israel’s turn…
The significance of the above dialogue is that human beings have natures that are rooted in their innermost spiritual forces. That nations have their own unique characteristics is the message of centuries of history. The Torah can become the national heritage only of a people that is suited to its demands. Nations nurtured in impurity and wickedness – such as the bloodshed, dishonesty, and immorality of Esau, Ishmael, and Lot – could no more accept the Torah than a midget can touch a vaulted ceiling. That Israel was willing to accept the Torah without even inquiring as to its contents was because it had inherited the spiritual heritage of the Patriarchs that its cousins had rejected.” (Parashas Yisro)
So today, the final Battle of the Ages is over the Torah. Esau (Edom) as Rome and Roman Christianity and her children who refuse to return to the “Faith of their Forefathers”, the Hebrew-Judaic faith of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will soon confront the Jews of the House of Judah. The question, for everyone whose ancestral lineage come from the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, are you willing to return to Torah observance and become part of the restoration of All Israel? Are you willing to accept the Revelation mandate that was given in the Second Great Awakening of 1844; “Come out of her My people!” and return to your Hebrew-Judaic roots? Here is your message from the Divine.
Revelation 18:1-2 – “I saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had great authority, the earth was lit up by his splendor. He cried with a loud voice, She had Fallen! She has fallen! Bavel the Great! She has become a home for demons, prison for every unclean spirit, prison for every unclean, hated bird…
Then I hear another voice out of heaven say: “My people, come out of her! So that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not be affect by her plagues!”
The Northern Kingdom of the House of Israel’s apostasy was very simple. They wanted to do their own thing. They did not want to worship during the festivals of the L-rd in Solomon’s Temple; they did not want Jerusalem to be the center of spiritual enlightenment for their children; they did not want the kings that were dynastic heirs of the Throne of Kings David and Solomon to be their kings; they did not want the rabbinic jurists to be the legal decision makers on halakhic decisions; and neither did they want the G-d of Israel to be their G-d.
The time is short, for the Drama of the Ages is about to unfold with all the intensity of G-d’s judgment, for the “Time of G-d’s Judgment has Come!” It’s time you begin to look with favor upon your brother, the Jews of the House of Judah and come to them with repentance for the sins of your forefathers. When we come to the Jews of Judah with love and appeal for their forgiveness, the G-d of All Israel will look with favor upon us, the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, and Master of the Universe will give the Jews the open hearts to welcome us, as our elder brother, back home! When Judah and Joseph, representing All Israel are united, the end will be come to its full completion. This is the message of Shavuot, that the final outpouring of the Ruach HaKodesh will come, when our (Jews and Israelites) hearts are in “One Accord!”
Postlude –“The Heroine of Shavuot is Ruth, whose book is read at every Shavuot in the Synagogues around the world. Ruth was the descendant of the Moabites, the children of Lot in an incestuous relationship with his daughter after Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed. All descendants of Lot were banned from associating with the Hebrew Israelite society for ten generations. While reading the Book of Ruth on Shavuot, you might be interested to remember the following information.
The generations from Adam to Terah were 20 generations.
The generations from Abram to Salmon who married Rahab when the Israelites destroyed the fortified city of Jericho was 10 generations. Rahab as a Righteous Gentile was privileged to be converted and assimilated into the Hebrew-Israelite faith and economy and privileged to be the great-great grandmother of King David.
The generations from Abram and Lot to Boaz who married Ruth was the 11th generation from the era of Abraham and Lot. Ruth was free to return to the faith of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, for the curse of Lot was over in the 11th generation. So she was blessed to become the great grandmother of King David.
For the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel.
Today, the generation of the rebellion of the Northern Kingdom of Israel was 103 generations ago. Though lost, there never was put a generational curse upon the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, for if they were willing to repent and return to the Torah faith of the Jews (Judaism) they would be welcome back into the fellowship of the House of Judah who in part remained in the covenant of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Today, the children born today are the 140th generation since the days of Adam’s creation. They will be the ones who will be privileged to enter and live out their whole lives in “World to Come”.
Today also the 110th generation from our Patriarch Jacob will also be the children that will “pass-over” from this era of evil and wickedness into the “World to Come of the Messiah”.
Consider the fact that King David, if our Patriarch Jacob was the 110th generation, and if your lineage goes through the Royal House of King David and Solomon, then a child born just prior to the coming of the Messiah David ben Dovid will be the 100th generation.
If that is true then Prince Salmon and Rahab from Jericho would be the 103th ancestor and Prince Boaz and Naomi would be the 102nd generational grandparents. That would make, as we have stated, that child’s ancestor, Prince Salmon was also a child then he and his family fled Egypt with his parents. It was he who crossed over the Red Sea as the military of the Pharaoh of Egypt were destroyed and their salvation was assured.
It was also this child, Salmon, who witnessed with his parents the G-d of Israel speaking to all 2 million Hebrew Israelites at the Mount called Sinai. This is like saying that our great-great grandfather was the first generation born in America after the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
Prince Salmon became the generation that crossed over the Jordan River after his parents were part of the generation that rebelled and refused to cross over after the report of the ten spies who returned from a secret commando operation to spy out the land of Canaan.
Since Prince Salmon’s parents were the 6th generation in descent from his Patriarch Jacob, is it not amazing that he was exactly the 7th generations after their Patriarch Jacob left Canaan and went down to Egypt to live under the rule of his son, Joseph, the Visier of Egypt. Yet, the 7th generation after the Patriarch Jacob were entering into the Promised Land.
Therefore, it was the 7th generation from the Patriarch Judah and the 10th from their Patriarch Abraham that witnessed the impregnable walls of Jericho falling before their eyes. This era of catastrophes would continue about every 50 years and remembered as a Jubilee cycle of catastrophes until the days of King Hezekiah when Jerusalem was spared destruction by the Assyrian king Sennacherib’s army of 180,000 troops, who were vaporized by a flux of greater a billion volts outside the walls of Jerusalem.
It was also the son of this same King Sennacherib, King Esarhaddon who returned again forty five years after Sennacherib who was wounded in the destruction and vaporization of his entire army that returned to his death back in Nineveh. This time he returned, the Northern Kingdom of Israel was a devastated land. The ruins are still there in Shomron in Israel today. King Esarhaddon did not go to the Northern Kingdom of Judah to destroy her, but understanding full well that HaShem’s judgment would be upon him, he instead went to take King Hezekiah’s son, King Manasseh, put him in chains and reprimanded him for being such a cruel and heartless king to his people, the Jews of the Kingdom of Judah. King Manasseh later repented, reformed his way, and returned to rule in Jerusalem, and now serve the G-d of his people.
Is it possible that the G-d of order decreed that Good King Hezekiah be the 10th ruler of the divinely appointed Royal Dynastic House of Kings David and Solomon, and even though the 11th ruler was the most wicked king of all the kings of Judah, he was redeemed by the Assyrian King Esarhaddon who literally “spanked” him and told him to shape up, gave him a mind altering experience of being kept a prisoner in irons until he made a spiritual reformation in his own life.
Today, the generation born the last 20 years are the 99th generation since King David, and the 89th generation from King Hezekiah. 103 generations ago the Lost Tribes of Israel were sent into exile. 100 generations, King David was ruling the largest empire of the world.
Today, 100 generations later, the Jews of the House of Judah and the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel are awaiting the return of the Messiah, David the son of David. By the promise pledged on the Holy Name of G-d, G-d has promised that He will redeem us because He alone will honor His Holy Name (Ezekiel 36) and restore us back into fellowship with the Jews of the House of Judah (Ezekiel 37). After that the end will come! This is HaShem’s “appointed time” for the age of man is now over and the era of the “Age of the Messiah” is soon to come.
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You might want to Read the Destination Yisra’el’s Spring Festival Season Articles:
The Festival of Shavuot – May, 2012
“Shavuot and the Restoration of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel”
All of have wondered how the G-d of Israel will bring all the prophetic events to their fulfillment at the time of the end. Watching the “Finger of the Divine” stirring up nations of the world is far more fascinating than watching a movie drama. The end results will be that all nations will pool all their economic resources at the “gates of Israel” and be prepared to once again to evoke the “Final Solution” this time amongst the remnant of the Jewish peoples that include all the Jews of the Diaspora that have fled to Israel as a land of safety before their lives will be thrust into “the world to come”. And during this same time, the G-d of Israel is wooing each one of you, the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, to return and be restored back into brotherhood with the Jews of the House of Judah so that He will send His Messiah to clean house of all the wickedness and corruption on Planet Earth.
If you want to learn more divinely led prophecies, we invite you to Contact “Kol Ha Tor Vision”, the Voice of the Turtledove.Here you will discover is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Mission to bring awareness of the imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United). This super Event of all Times will bring the restoration and the Shomron Region, the Ancient Biblical Heartland of the Patriarchs plus the Judean Wilderness as part of the entire Land of Israel. There we will witness the Divine as the “Land” will be restored and prepared for the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then the Redemption of All Israel.
For inquiries about Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron Lives!”, a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost Tribers of the House of Israel.
You are Israel!
The History was Revealed by the Prophets and Confirmed by Archeology, the Judgment of the God of Israel was Sealed as they were Exiled to Khurasan in Northern Iran, Eastern Afghanistan and Western Pakistan. They Disappeared into the Mists of History as they Migrated in Waves up through Georgia through the Caucasus and Followed the Tracks of their Cousin Dan who left his Name on the Rivers of his Passage (Don, Dniester, Dnieper, and the Danube) as they Migrated Northwestward towards Denmark. They Erupted into Northern Europe in the 3rd Century BCE as the Royal Scythians, Celts, Cymrics, Cimmerians, Goths, Angles, Saxons, Ostrogoths, Visigoths and Frisians.
They Populated the Lands of Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark), the Isles of the West (Britain, Ireland, and Scotland) the Lowlands (Netherlands and Belgium), the Colonies of Great Britain (United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa) plus the Lands of Northern France, and Germany. These today are the Lost Tribes of Israel!
If your Ancestry comes from any of these Lands,
Welcome, You are a “Lost Ten Triber” of the House of Israel!
The Prophets have Proclaimed, at the Time of the End, You will Return Home!
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