[Avodah] Ten Lost Tribes

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

Sorry for hitting "send" too soon.

On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 12:00om EST, I wrote:
: I couldn't find anyone commenting on 

to finish the sentence: either Sanhedrin (mishnah 10:3; bavli 94b, 110b;
Y-mi 10:4-5 vilna 53b) nor Melachim 1 11:31 at the start of Malkhus
Yisrael, who discussed how there are 10 shevatim not 9.

So,
: Personally, I flip-flop between two theories:

The idea being that 9 shevatim were lost as part of Malchus Yisrael,
and Shim'on was a "lost tribe" while still from Malchus Yehudah.
Which doesn't help understand Melakhim 1, but then if you recall I
cited Chazal and didn't have Melakhim 1 pointed out to me until this
conversation.

Then the question becomes, how were they lost?

: 1- They got "scattered" into cities within Yehudah...

But then they are "lost" among the Jews, and not really lost. After
all, by Chazal's day, Binyamin was equally "lost".

: 2- I saw someone suggest once that Shim'on's cities were on Yehudah's
: border...
: OTOH, the advantage is that if would make it far more likely for Shim'on
: to be taken in the same manner as Malkhus Yisrael...

But it's an idisoyncratic anonymous take that also has the "kohein city"
problem.


-Micha

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