[Avodah] 10 tribes -- exile without redemption

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On this thread, did any of us mention birkhas ge'ulah? "Ufdeih
khin'umekha Yehudah veYisrael" expresses our expectation that Hashem
will redeem both malkhios. Or is there another way to talk separately
about Yehudah and Yisrael.

So I would think the siddur pasqens, and this is in all traditional
nusachos, that the 1- tribes are not permanently lost.

I am assuming since this is a birkhas shevakh rather than baqashah,
this is an expectation "you will surely redeem", and not a request.
Requesting the impossible is a tefillas shav. So...

As a baqashah, the berakhah would only prove they could be redeemed;
as shevakh (which is, I believe, the correct category), the berakhah is
expressing our faith they will be redeemed.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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