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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000
size=2>From: RallisW@aol.com<BR><BR>>>A very common misnomer used by both
clergy and lay people, is to refer to <BR>the Bnei Yisroel in the Torah
as Jews. <BR><BR>For example; when the Jews left Egypt. Forgetting that 11
other tribes also <BR>left Egypt?<BR><BR>Let's keep in mind Moshe Rabbeinu
was not a Jew. <BR><BR>The first person in Tanach that I am aware of, that was
called a Jew, was <BR>Mordechai.<<<BR><BR><BR></FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV>>>>><BR>Yet Mordechai was from the tribe of Benjamin ("ish
Yemini"), not from the tribe of Judah, which proves that already from the time
of galus Bavel, "Yehudi" (="Jew") had become the generic word for members of any
of the 12 tribes.</DIV>
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<DIV>This was undoubtedly because Yehuda was by then the largest of the tribes,
plus the Jews were no longer living in their ancestral homelands and the tribes
no longer lived in separate areas, but were all mixed together and became
subsumed under Yehuda. (Of course most of the members of the Ten Tribes
were already lost among the nations by then but the few who remained
Jews identified themselves as "Jews" -- as Yehudim -- mixing with the
largest and most dominant tribe.)</DIV></DIV>
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PTSIZE="10"><STRONG></STRONG><BR><B>--Toby
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