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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>2.
Today, any Jew called a "Yehudi" is simply a "non-Levi" -- exact tribe
unknown [--TK]<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<DIV>Of course re-reading that, I realize it's an obvious error</DIV>
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<DIV>All Jews today are called Yehudim, with no implication that any particular
tribe is meant. </DIV>
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<DIV>Historically that happened because at the time of the Churban Bayis Rishon,
the great majority of Jews still around were from the tribe of Yehuda, and in
Bavel, where the exiles were taken, there were no tribal divisions and no
separate cities or areas where members of particular tribes clustered. All
the Jews intermingled there. When they came back to E'Y after 70 years
they no longer lived in specific tribal areas and probably most of them had
already forgotten exactly which tribe they belonged to by then.</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><BR><B>--Toby
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