[Avodah] Ten Tribes (was Yovel)

Allan Engel allan.engel at gmail.com
Wed Jun 29 18:06:31 PDT 2011


On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
> In any case, I still don't think they're Jewish.

> And I still don't. I already cited an explicit gemara that an emergency
> session of beis din either found their descendents to be non-Jewish or
> enacted a ruling that de-Judaized them somehow. So I don't think the
> lost shevatim are counted toward a rov in chu"l.

Why is it such a stretch to say that, in the same way that he will reveal
the shevet of every member of klal yisroel, he will also reveal the shevet
of those people who don't even know themselves to be Jewish? How would they
be in any worse position than a Jewish Tinok Shenishba?



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