[Avodah] yovel

[Hankman]

RET wrote:

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.


R'nTK wrote:

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."  

CM responds:

I certainly do not question Eliyahu Hanavi's ability to identify someone al pi nevuah. What I do question is the existence of someone from the 10 tribes BEN ACHAR BEN after all this time left to identify.  The galus of the 10 tribes was c. 2600 years ago. Conservatively, at about 4 or more generations per century this means the probability of anyone from an all male line  is the inverse of  2 to the 104th power! This is so tiny that it is a virtual impossibility without the intervention of nes. You remember the story about the "mere" request from a king giving a reward for one grain doubled on each square of the chessboard. This was only 2 to the 64th power.

Kol Tuv

Chaim Manaster
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