[Avodah] 10 shevatim

Danny Schoemann doniels at gmail.com
Mon Aug 18 21:27:57 PDT 2008


RTK posited
"When they came back to E'Y after 70 years  they no longer lived in
specific tribal areas and probably most of them had  already forgotten
exactly which tribe they belonged to by then."

I am not convinced, as the 2nd chapter of Ezra specifically mentions 2
families which had lost their Sefer Yuchsin... implying that rest of
the 42,360 people had their lineage records intact.

That said, not a single tribe (besides for Cohen [and Levi]) is mentioned, IIRC.

- Danny, who happens to be reading Sefer Ezra at the moment.



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