[Avodah] Ten Tribes (was Yovel)

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From: Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org>
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>> The  gemara asks what about the descendents
of the daughters of the 10  shevatim?

Answer 1: There is a mesorah that they went  sterile....

Answer 2, given by R' Yehudah besheim Shemu'el: Chakhamim at  the time
declared them non-Jews....

....But in any case, chazal know  as from a pasuq that they are non-Jews. 
There
is no hidden identity here to  be revealed.



-- 
Micha  Berger              
micha at aishdas.org       





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There is a mesorah that [some?  many? most?] converts to  Judaism are 
people who were really already part of the Jewish people, they  just didn't know 
it. Their neshamos want to be Jewish.  Someone  could be Jewish by 
matrilineal descent going back centuries and not be aware of  it.  They could even go 
all the way back to the Ten Tribes, theoretically,  or they could be 
descendants of forced xian converts from the Spanish  Inquisition or from any one 
of many countries in many centuries.
 
 

--Toby Katz
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