Friday, March 06, 2020
Closeness in a Family Unsurpassed! Story of Judah's People
Nadene Goldfoot
weakened in Judah and so many were taken away to Babylonia that they couldn't return for 50 years until 538 BCE. Judah was weakened and people there were imported from other places as unwanted in those statehoods.
486-465 BCE: King Ahasuerus of Persia (may have been Xerxes, son of Darius I) had a Chief Minister named Haman who resented the independent attitude of the Queen Esther's Uncle, Mordecai, so much that he hated all Jews because of this, and set about and accomplished starting a Holocaust of killing all in the Empire. It was the first such annihilation attempt, but was stopped by the Queen. Haman was known to be descended from the Amalek King Agag, the meanest of people we met during the Exodus who had attacked us. Haman is known now to be the enemy of the Jews. We look at the name-Hitler and think the same thing today. Purim commemorates this event of being rescued by Queen Esther.
When Jews were expelled surely they gathered together as there is safety in numbers, and pitched their tents together, traveling to find somewhere to live.
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| Assyria and Babylonia 2nd millennium BCE Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, Nile River in Egypt Leaving Assyria in 1948 BCE Assyria came for us in 722-721 BCE Babylonia came for more of us in 597 BCE and again in 586 BCE. Babylonia took over Assyrian lands |
We started off as a family with Terah leading the way from the 2 rivers in the east, and we followed the sun that sets in the West and came to Canaan(was Syria in the 15th century to 13th Century BCE; in stricter sense applies to the coast of Eretz Yisrael).
We were not in a hurry, biding our time, and Abraham was born in Ur of the Chaldees where we lived among the Canaanite and Philistines. We wandered into Egypt and set up our tents in Hebron. The family fought to get Lot, Abraham's nephew, back to safety from the Elamites and the Shinarites. Ha- Shem promised we would get to a safe place in a vision and that our future children would inherit this safe place from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates River. We made a covenant with Ha Shem by offering up Isaac, Abraham's son, in a sacrifice that was stopped by Ha Shem just in time. Ha Shem was testing our loyalty. We will remain most loyal to the end of times.
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| Going along the Euphrates River |
We were not in a hurry, biding our time, and Abraham was born in Ur of the Chaldees where we lived among the Canaanite and Philistines. We wandered into Egypt and set up our tents in Hebron. The family fought to get Lot, Abraham's nephew, back to safety from the Elamites and the Shinarites. Ha- Shem promised we would get to a safe place in a vision and that our future children would inherit this safe place from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates River. We made a covenant with Ha Shem by offering up Isaac, Abraham's son, in a sacrifice that was stopped by Ha Shem just in time. Ha Shem was testing our loyalty. We will remain most loyal to the end of times.
Jacob, Abraham's grandson, married in Haran the daughters of his Uncle Laban, Rachel and Leah. He also took each of their handmaids and had 12 sons and a daughter with the 4 wives. They resettled in Canaan and he lost Joseph to Egypt.
A draught caused our family of 70 to move to Egypt as no food could be found, and we multiplied there until the Egyptians grew fearful of us and our numbers. From the time of entering Egypt till the time we left was 400 years. In that time we were slaves of the Egyptians. We built storage cities, and worked 7 days a week. When we left, we had multiplied to be 603,550 people of the 12 tribes of Rueben, Simeon, Judah, Issachar, Zebuun, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin. Moses led us out at his old age of 80.
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| Joshua leading us into Canaan |
Our Exodus took us 40 years to return to Canaan (a land divided into small city-states) where we had lived before the draught from Egypt, and Moses at 120 died just outside of Canaan, not quite making it in with us. Our numbers now were counted in a 2nd census and were 601,730. We had lost 1,820 due to attacks, aging, sickness, etc. It was a long trek.
We needed a leader so one of us in a group were chosen as judges of our problems. Finally we needed something more as we continued to multiply and wanted a king like other peoples had, so Saul was selected by the 11th century BCE. from the tribe of Benjamin. David became a very special king to us by 1010 BCE and then his son, Solomon the Wise became the next special and unforgettable king from 961 to 920 BCE.
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| Assyrian leading Israelites |
| We lost our Israel and 27,290 of the best of men there in the North in 721 BCE to the Assyrians as we had weakened when Solomon died in 920 BCE and after 586 BCE we |
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| Judah taken away by Babylonian soldiers |
weakened in Judah and so many were taken away to Babylonia that they couldn't return for 50 years until 538 BCE. Judah was weakened and people there were imported from other places as unwanted in those statehoods.
486-465 BCE: King Ahasuerus of Persia (may have been Xerxes, son of Darius I) had a Chief Minister named Haman who resented the independent attitude of the Queen Esther's Uncle, Mordecai, so much that he hated all Jews because of this, and set about and accomplished starting a Holocaust of killing all in the Empire. It was the first such annihilation attempt, but was stopped by the Queen. Haman was known to be descended from the Amalek King Agag, the meanest of people we met during the Exodus who had attacked us. Haman is known now to be the enemy of the Jews. We look at the name-Hitler and think the same thing today. Purim commemorates this event of being rescued by Queen Esther.
When Jews were expelled surely they gathered together as there is safety in numbers, and pitched their tents together, traveling to find somewhere to live.
The Romans under Pompey came along in 63 BCE and occupied our land of Judah, and wanting our holy city of Jerusalem with our Temple. They could not convert us to their worship of many gods they said lived up high on Mt. Olympus, and so in anger and jealousy, burnt down what they coveted, but robbed the golden and silver out first in 70 CE. Many of us found were taken as slaves to Rome and spread out with their soldiers later. Some managed to get to Spain.
Jesus was born in Bethlehem and after his death when 37 years old, was worshipped as G-d's son, similar thinking to the Greeks and Romans who had such situations with some of their gods. Christianity was born with a Roman Emperor's mother, Helena. She even was able to get her son, Emperor Constantine, converted.
115 CE was the earliest expulsion of Jews from a country. It was Cyprus.
300s CE Conferences in Constantinople decided that Jews were competition in religion, and they wanted all to follow them in their new religion of Christianity (eastern Catholicism). Jews were now not only in trouble for not worshipping multiple gods like other people but were in trouble for not worshipping Jesus Christ either! Jews continued with their own religion, and were kept from taking in gentiles into Judaism by the Christians on pain of death. As Judaism grew with the natural growth of the Jewish population, Christianity grew by leaps and bounds. Soon half the world was Christianized.
527 Emperor Justinian of Byzantine issued anti-Jewish laws in his codes.
553 Emperor Justinian of Byzantine issued his decree interfering with the conduct of the synagogue services
632 Mohammad died, Islam was on the march.
614 Emperor Heraelius of Byzantine issued an edict ordering the conversion of the Jews. The practice of Judaim was formally forbidden by successive emperors:
640 Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire including Judea) forces Jews to convert
721
723 Emperor Leo of Byzantine: Judaism was forbidden
873-874 were three times that Jews were forcibly converted to Christianity in the Byzantine Empire. Emperor Basil I forbid Judaism to be practiced by anyone.
932-936 Emperor Romanus Lucapenus of Byzantine forbid Judaism to be practiced
1290-1655 Jews were expulsed from England for 400 years.
1306 Jews were expulsed from France
1349-1360 Jews were expulsed from Hungary
1421 Jews were expulsed from Austria
1453 Attenuated Byzantine Empire conquered by the Turks, Jews had remained though treated with contempt.
1492 180,000 Jews were expulsed from Spain in the Spanish Inquisition Law
saying that Jews either had to convert (eastern Catholicism) or leave the country. This evidently comes from the Pope who tainted the whole world with his law as Portugal, where many had fled to, also added this law to their books as well and Jews had to leave there, too within a few years. If they remained and it was known, they were slaughtered.
1495 Lithuania expelled Jews.
1497 Jews were expulsed from Sicily and Sardinia and Portugal
1502 Jews were expulsed from the Island of Rhodes, forcibly converted if they didn't leave, or taken into slavery.
1541 Jews were expelled from the Kingdom of Naples
1727 Jews were expelled from Russia
1747 Jews were expelled from Russia
1838 Meshed, Persia didn't allow Jews to leave. They just forcibly converted them to Islam.
1882-1890 750,000 Jews were again forced to leave Russia proper and were even told where to move to: The Pale of Settlement, still owned by Queen Catherine but now Russia was, cleared of Jews.
1891 Jews were expelled from Moscow and St. Petersburg
1917 End of WWI Jews in the Soviet Union denied the right of national identity, all religion ended; Atheistic country.
1939-1945 WWII's Holocaust: The murder of 6 million Jews who after 1939 were not allowed to leave if they could find a country to take them in. It was by the German Nazis and their European collaborators.
1941: Baghdad attacked their Jewish community and slaughtered 180.
1948 Israel was created with the USA President Harry Truman's recognition of it at the UN being first. All others followed.
1948: Mass expulsions and persecutions in Arab countries.
Those Jews remaining through all the times were from the southern part of Israel which had been mainly populated by the tribe of Judah and a smattering of Benjamin and a few others. This was Judah, called Judea by the Romans. We've been forced to stick together, and of course it was our preference, too. Having 10 men together made a group that could survive, and those 10 men were accountable in the synagogue, and were called a minyan, something expected and important to hold a service, as the orthodox do today.
Israel started in 1948 with some 600,000 and have bested themselves now with 6 million Jews and others to be over 7 million. We've been a close-knit group since the beginning of our time. Is it not surprising then that I have found 4th and 5th cousins living in the same vicinity as myself? One even married my 1st cousin and the other traveled to my city in Oregon all the way from England.
We've been scattered and we come back together in Israel. Today Israel is more of a melting pot than the USA is. This is a time that was prophecized.
Wherever we've been, we've been together in a group, held together, marrying with our own people. We've been tempted on our treks, but cajolled and reprimanded not to mix with idol-worshippers. We were a lone group, odd in worshipping one unseen G-d, Ha Shem (the name). The shunning of us kept us together.
Other people started looking odd to us even, and their ways of religion, in
biblical days.
We are finding through DNA testing that we have been intermarrying for several
thousand years, the same group of people found during the many generations, receiving some of the same genes. Therefore we do have many 4th and 5th cousins and beyond that. Judaism has been a family, and a religion. We find that Aaron and Moses's male line has been found by our scientists to be the "Cohen gene" of J, the gene also found in an abundance of Arabs; who the Torah already said were our cousins. It's great when we find evidence of something told to us in the Tanakh.
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| When Mesha, the Moabite King, sacrificed his son, his heir. |
Other people started looking odd to us even, and their ways of religion, in
biblical days.
We are finding through DNA testing that we have been intermarrying for several
thousand years, the same group of people found during the many generations, receiving some of the same genes. Therefore we do have many 4th and 5th cousins and beyond that. Judaism has been a family, and a religion. We find that Aaron and Moses's male line has been found by our scientists to be the "Cohen gene" of J, the gene also found in an abundance of Arabs; who the Torah already said were our cousins. It's great when we find evidence of something told to us in the Tanakh.
Resource:
Facts About Israel, 1973 ministry for foreign affairs, Jerusalem
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
The Stone Edition: Tanach-the Torah, etc. (Old Testament)
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