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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>From: Eli Turkel
<eliturkel@gmail.com><BR><BR><BR><<Doesn't that require each tribe
living in its own territory? That<BR>certainly won't happen until Moshiach
comes.>><BR><BR>Why would one assume that there are any remnants left of
the 10 tribes<BR>to bring back?<BR>By now they are intermarried over many
centuries.<BR><BR><BR>-- <BR>Eli Turkel<BR><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>At least a few individuals from each shevet lived in the southern kingdom
(the kingdom of Yehuda) at the time of churban bayis rishon, and became
assimilated into the dominant, largest shevet -- Yehuda. For example,
Mordechai is identified as both a member of the tribe of Binyamin (ish Yemini)
as well as a Yehudi -- which by then referred to all Jews, including
Leviim. </DIV>
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<DIV>I agree that it is highly unlikely that pockets of the Ten Tribes are still
living somewhere -- I am quite certain the Sambatyon is not a real river -- but
at the same time, it is likely that Eliyahu Hanavi will be able to point to
specific Yehudim and say, "You are really from the tribe of Ephraim...or
Shimon....or Naftali....ben achar ben." </DIV>
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<DIV>The tribes that will be reconstructed this way will be very small and
probably there will be a new division of the land, not the one that existed
during the bayis rishon, to reflect the fact that Yehuda is and will be by far
the largest shevet. And also to reflect the fact that the eastern border
of E'Y will be the Euphrates.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><B>--Toby Katz<BR>================</FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"></B><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>_____________________</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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