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From: Eli Turkel  <eliturkel at gmail.com>


<<Doesn't that require each tribe  living in its own territory?  That
certainly won't happen until Moshiach  comes.>>

Why would one assume that there are any remnants left of  the 10 tribes
to bring back?
By now they are intermarried over many  centuries.


-- 
Eli Turkel





>>>>>
 
 
At least a few individuals from each shevet lived in the southern kingdom  
(the kingdom of Yehuda) at the time of churban bayis rishon, and became  
assimilated into the dominant, largest shevet -- Yehuda.  For example,  
Mordechai is identified as both a member of the tribe of Binyamin (ish Yemini)  as 
well as a Yehudi -- which by then referred to all Jews, including  Leviim.   
 
I agree that it is highly unlikely that pockets of the Ten Tribes are still 
 living somewhere -- I am quite certain the Sambatyon is not a real river 
-- but  at the same time, it is likely that Eliyahu Hanavi will be able to 
point to  specific Yehudim and say, "You are really from the tribe of 
Ephraim...or  Shimon....or Naftali....ben achar ben."  
 
The tribes that will be reconstructed this way will be very small and  
probably there will be a new division of the land, not the one that existed  
during the bayis rishon, to reflect the fact that Yehuda is and will be by far  
the largest shevet.  And also to reflect the fact that the eastern border  
of E'Y will be the Euphrates.
 
--Toby Katz
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