[Avodah] yovel

[T613K at aol.com]

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."  [--TK]

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. ....
Kol Tuv
 
Chaim Manaster


 
 
>>>>>
 
You didn't read my post carefully. I wasn't talking about the Ten LOST  
Tribes, which are probably lost forever, long intermarried with other  nations. 
 I was talking about individuals from each of those tribes who  lived in 
the SOUTHERN kingdom, the kingdom of Yehuda, at the time the Bayis  Rishon was 
destroyed, and who have remained within the Jewish fold  throughout the 
centuries.  It is no more improbable that a man from Naftali  or Zevulun would 
today have thousands of male descendants than it is improbable  that a kohen 
alive three thousand years ago would today have thousands of kohen  
descendants, ben achar ben.  Every man alive today is the descendant, ben  achar 
ben, of a man who lived thousands of years ago.   (Maleness is  always 
transmitted in the male line.)  As long as this man from Shevet  X remained Jewish 
and remained within the fold all those years ago, there  is no reason he 
shouldn't today have many living descendants among the Jewish  people -- not 
far away in a distant land but right here in Miami or New York or  Tel Aviv.
 
--Toby  Katz
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