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Showing posts with label Lost Tribes of Israel. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Events Leading Up to December 21st

Nadene Goldfoot
According to the Hebrew Calendar, this is the year 5772.  That means that the world was created in 3760 BCE.  The following cultures gave 6,000 years as about the time of existence for our present mankind.

The Mayans had an extraordinary calendar system, better than ours today.  Their date was 3114 BCE for creation.  According to the Hindus, the world was created in 3102 BCE.  The Hopi Tribe of Native Americans have the same sort of history.  They all feel the time is ripe for the end of times; or another calendar.  "Like the Maya, Aztec, and other Native American tribal wisdom traditions, the Hopi tell of a series of 'worlds' which have existed. Each may be thought of as a cycle of civilization. A common aspect is that we are currently in the 4th world.

 The Hopi describe the demise of the other worlds"  They are known to have the Prophecy Rock in Arizona.which goes back 2,000 years.  The first was by volcanoes and fire, the 2nd with a pole shift and the ice age, the 3rd by water which sounds a lot like the story of the flood and Noah's ark.  The 4th or "The final stage, called "The great day of Purification", has been described as a "Mystery Egg" in which the forces of the swastika and the Sun plus a third force symbolized by the color "red" culminate either in total rebirth or total annihilation, we don't know which. But the choice is yours, war and natural catastrophe may be involved. The degree of violence will be determined by the degree of inequity caused among the peoples of the world and in the balance of nature. In this crisis rich and poor will be forced to struggle as equals in order to survive."

2500 years ago King Solomon's Temple was built.  Today it is covered over by a Mosque in Jerusalem built in 691 CE.  Jews have wanted to build a 3rd, for the 1st had been destroyed and a 2nd built on the same spot.  Jerusalem is a sacred city to not only Jews, but the Christians and Muslims as well. Many Christians are all for the Temple being built as it fulfills their requirement to bring on the Messiah they are expecting.  In fact, Jews and Muslims also are expecting their Messiah as well around the same date.  Author Hal Lindsey thinks the Temple could be built next to the Muslim's "Dome of the Rock."  Those interested in this are still looking into a proper site.  Cohens are ready to serve and have been DNA tested for authenticity and have the Cohen gene that shows they are descendants of Aaron, the first priest and brother of Moses.   Moses (1391-1271 BCE) and Aaron were Levites of the tribe of Levi.

This is all very interesting because so many cultures have come to this conclusion using  many different methods.  Now  we again see the end of times being prophesied in the same manner.  December 21, 2012 is seen by many groups as a day that something fierce could happen.  Something like fire could come from the sky.  There is to be an alignment of the planets with the sun in the center on that date that we have never experienced.  It only happens once every 26,000 years.  This comes from the Mayan Indian calendar.

The Dead Sea Scrolls tell us more.  They were found in a cave in Qumran in 1947. That location was in Judah when the scribes lived there near the Dead Sea which is now in the area called the "West Bank."   One one them was the War Scroll that dealt with the end of days.  The creepy fact is that it tells of the final days as fighting the Persians, who are today's Iran, the Mesopotamians who are all the countries east of Israel, and the Assyrians who are today's Iraq.  The sons of darkness are mentioned as Edom, Moab, Ammon, Amalekites, Philistia, and Kittim of Asshur which could be referring to the Romans.

In it, we see Good versus Evil fighting.  There are to be  7 important battles.  People say that 6 have already occurred.  The first could have been the battle of 1948 when Israel was attacked by Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq when Israel was created once again.  The Lost Tribes of Israel are to return.  Some people wonder if they haven't already being Jews have returned to Israel from all corners of the world already of which we know for sure that the tribes of Judah, Levi and some of Benjamin are with us. According to scripture, it is they that will be fighting the sons of darkness.

However, if true,some of the sons of Benjamin  have found their way to Afghanistan and Pakistan along with many of the other tribes that were lost and now bear the new name of the Pashtuns.  They are Muslim and are not about to fight on the side of the Jews against their Muslim comrades.  They carry a convincing argument that they are our lost cousins but they hate us as we refused to accept Islam.  They are strong and mean fighters, according to them.  They are someone that the Russians couldn't bring down, so if one uses their imagination, one can easily see them fighting all the adversaries alongside Judah in the conquering of Canaan.  Tall, good looking men with a fierce trigger-happy temper, they haven't changed a bit.

Then again, all this could be relating about events of the days of the writers.  Perhaps it is just accidental that such correlations can be made.  When you think of it, it is amazing that Israel is in existence now and fighting the same old enemies of the past along with all these events coalesing at the same time.

On top of my computer sits a black and blue Y2K Bug.  He has 2 little white tusks and 2 black antennae on his head.  We thought the living end would happen in 2000 and here we are 12 years later about to embark on the 13th.  Nothing happened when we swung into the year 2000 and I'm hoping nothing happens on December 21st.  Are you ready for it?  One thing to zero in on is that all these horrid TV commercials for President will be finished.  Think of that and feel better.

Resource: TV Program, The History Channel-Program: The Nostradamus Effect channel 128 Frontier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Sons_of_Light_Against_the_Sons_of_Darkness
http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/war
http://www.templemountfaithful.org/
http://www.squidoo.com/templejerusalem



Monday, August 20, 2012

Pashtuns of Afghanistan and Pakistan-The Lost Israeli Tribes

Nadene Goldfoot
Pakistan is made up of 172,800,000 people who are 97% Muslim of Sunni as the main sect with Shi'a and the main fiqh (Islamic law (fiqh) or how they follow the laws of Sharia being Hanafi.    Pakistan is an Islamic state.

Afghanistan has a smaller population of 28,395, 716 who are 99% Muslim with the same makeup but including the Jafari fiqh as well.  This is as of wikipedia's 2011 information.

The Pashtun Tribe found in Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of India claim to be of the Lost Tribes of Israel.  It is said that the exile was caused by the Assyrians in 732 BCE.    It was first thought that they were either killed or assimilated into the Assyrian populace.  Evidence is very powerful through cultural behaviors and found parchments saying that the Pashtuns could be them, coming mainly from the tribe of Ephraim..    Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and the second largest ethnic group in Pakistan.  There are over 40 million in the world with over 10 million in Afghanistan, and over 30 million in Pakistan.

"There are also discussions in the Talmud as to whether the Ten Lost Tribes will eventually be reunited with the Tribe of Judah, that is, with the Jewish people."

One of many interesting writers on the subject is Mirza Ghulam Ahmad,who is not considered a Muslim , nor is his so called sect a Muslim, but is said to be the  founder of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community,  who wrote a book named Jesus in India where he argued that Afghans, Pashtuns and Pathans are descendants from the Tribes of Israel.  Another is Issachar Katzir, Afghanistan Jew living now in Israel who wrote the book, "Lost Tribes from Assyria" by A. Avihail and A. Brin, 1978, in Hebrew.  "This is an introduction to the world of the ' lost tribes' of those Jews who were taken into exile at the fall of the First Temple. Rabbi Avichail is the world's foremost expert on the whole subject of crypto- Jews and has traveled throughout the world seeking to identify such communities"  It's a very expensive book to buy.  Hopefully one day it will come out in English.

Evidently Jewish children of Afghanistani parents heard the stories about the 10 Tribes that were lost who still "kept Jewish customs and names,  who had preserved their forefathers' tradition, bearing arms and awaiting the day of redemption. "  The Pathans lived on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and called themselves the sons of Israel, even though they live as Muslims and are known for their physical strength.  They are tall, light-coloured and handsome, good soldiers, diligent, intelligent and are known as wonderful hosts.  Two million of them even live as beduins.  They look very much like the Jews.

One misconception people may have about the people of Afghanistan is that all the men belong to the Taliban terrorists.  This was not true in 2010 as one of the largest Pashun tribes, the Shinwari with 400,000 people  had declared war on the Taliban citing that they were robbing them and taking their sons to fight.  Their tribe is as large as our city of Portland, Oregon.

Update 7/26/15  The Taliban have killed 35,000 Pashtuns who are fighting against them.  (Resource-Pashtun contact in Pakistan).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiqh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Lost_Tribes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Pashtun_descent_from_Israelites
http://www.dangoor.com/74069.html  A Must Read Excellent information
http://www.amazon.com/lost-tribes-Assyria-Eliyahu-Avichail/dp/B0007B0ENK/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345488584&sr=1-2&keywords=Lost+Tribe+From+Assyria
http://mydailyclarity.com/2010/01/pashtun-taliban-%E2%80%93-the-lost-tribe-of-israel/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/17/israel-lost-tribes-pashtun
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/world/asia/28tribe.html?pagewanted=all
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Muslim-majority_countries
Updated 3/15/14 on information about Mirza Ghulam

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Back Where Muslims and Jews Got Along: In India, Or Where "Kum Bi Ya" Really Takes Place

Nadene Goldfoot
Jews have lived in India, a country with 4,500 years of cultural history,  without any instances of antisemitism from the local majority populace.  That means that the custom of treating Jews as Dhminnis, or 2nd or 3rd class citizens  did not exist.  Jews arriving to this land were a religious minority of India, being Judaism was one of the first foreign religions to arrive there in recorded history.  The older Jewish communities assimilated a large number of local traditions through cultural diffusion.  Some had arrived during the time of the Kingdom of Judah in 933 BCE.

 Others assimilated completely by converting to Islam.  They are seen by some as the descendants of Israel's Ten Lost Tribes, termed as mythical by some writers, but taken quite seriously by many Jews and a large tribe, the Pashtuns, who claim to be these very lost ones.  Pashtuns have converted to Islam. 

The Lost 10 tribes were exiled by the Assyrian Empire 2,700 years ago. People believing in this theory cite names of various clans which resemble the names of Israelite tribes that were exiled by the Assyrians.  This information is in the Rig Veda, an ancient text, which was composed before 1200 BCE and Herodotus in his Histories composed around 450 BCE which mentions the Pashtuns as the "Paktyakai," and as the Aparytai or Afridis in what is now Afghanistan and Pakistan.  However, no sources were cited before the conversion of the Pashtuns to Islam which would have happened after 600CE by naming any Israelite or Jewish connections.  Researchers have failed to take into account the Eastern Iranian language of the Pashtuns when looking at the claims of Hebrew ancestry.  I have reports from Pashtun Tribal members that their fathers never said anything disparaging about Jews; in fact they praised them.

I would think this is an important fact of proof in that an exile took Jews to Persia in the time of Queen Esther, the Jewish girl married to the Persian King Ahasuerus.    The Persian period of exile would have happened way before 330 BCE when texts telling about Queen Esther were written with Jews made up of the Babylonian exile later in 586 BCE when large number of Jews were deported from Jerusalem again.  .  .

The 10 tribes were lost to the Kingdom of Israel first in about 701-720 BCE when Sennacherib, King of the Assyrians attacked Judah and sacked Jerusalem.  The Jews were captured and exiled.  Jewish Kings of Judah then were Ahaz (735-720) and Hezekiah (720-692).  Josiah (637-608) was also important in checking the Assyrian expansion at the walls of Jerusalem  in 701 BCE which had overwhelmed the northern Kingdom.

In India, half of the Jews congregated in Manipur and Mizoram and a quarter lived in the city of Mumbai (Bombay).  The one problem they had encountered was when they were persecuted by the Portuguese during their control of Goa.  In 1492 the Spanish Inquisition occurred where Jews had 2 choices; leave or convert. Many had fled to Portugal who gave Jews the same ultimatum a few years later.  

Cochin Jews arrived in India 2,500 years ago and lived in Kerala as traders from Judea.  They arrived in 562 BCE.  After the destruction of the 2nd Temple in 70 CE more came as exiles from Israel.   Bene Israel arrived 2,100 years ago and lived in the state of Maharashtra. Their ship wrecked and stranded 7 Jewish families from Judea at Navagaon near Alibag, south of Mumbai and they were nicknamed the Shanivar Teli or Saturday oil-pressers by the local population as they didn't work on Saturdays, which is Judaism's day of rest or "Shabbat."  In the 1950's and 60's many families emigrated to the new state of Israel.   The Bnei Menashe are Mizo and Kuki tribesmen in Manipur and Mizoram who claimed descent from the tribe of Manasseh.  About 9,000 people in NE Indian states started practicing halachic Judaism in the 1970's.  7,200 were given permission for immigration to Israel from Manaipur.

More recent arrivals to India were the Baghdadi Jews who came from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan  about 250 years ago and settled in Mumbai.  The Bene Ephraim or Telugu Jews are a small group who speak Telugu.  Their Judaism dates to only 1981.  They were from Andhra Pradesh and followed the customs of Orthodox Jews like hair customs of having unshaven long side locks,and  wearing head covering all the time.

The Jews in North India had assimilated with the Muslims completely as they had been brought there by the Ghauri Sultans from Afghanistan in 1200 CE.  The sultans kept their promise in naming a muhalla (district) in each conquered city as "Beni Israel."  This remains true even to this day.  One such place was in Aligarh where there was a Beni-Israel muhalla.  This is the home of a large university

Sultan Shahab-ud-Din Muhammad Ghori or Muhammad of Ghor (1150-March 15, 1206) was one of the rulers of the Ghurid dynasty who reigned over a territory spanning present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India.  He took the city of Ghazni in 1173 and used it as as the start for expansion into N. India.  His brother, Ghiyasuddin fought the Khwarezmid Empire for lordship of Kharasan and the Sultan Shababuddin captured Multan and Uch and annexed the Ghaznavid of Lahore.  After his brother died in 1202, he became successosr of the Ghurid Empire and ruled until assassinated in 1206 near Jhelum in today's Pakistan.  The Ghurid Empire was short-lived but these conquests strengthened the foundations of Muslim rule in India.

It is interesting that so many Khans pepper the history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.  At this time in 1258 the grandson of Genghis Khan, Hulegu, sacked Baghdad and massacred the population and killed the last Abbasid caliph.  Two years later the Mongol army, after occupying first Aleppo and then Damascus, was defeated at the battle of Ayn Jalut in Palestine.  Baybars were at the head of the Mamluk Sultanate from Egypt.  By 1268, Baybars  took Antioch, which had been allied with the Mongols.  Here we see these same cities in today's struggle in Syria.

 Sayyid Ahmad Khan b: 1817  and  in 1867 CE moved to Aligarh and died in 1898, was mourned by thousands. He had started the university there in Aligarh in 1875.   He was born into a distinguished family, most likely of the Pashtun Tribe's royal family  as they also have the genealogy of descending from Mohammad in the same manner, the eldest of 5 prominent Muslim modernists who influenced Islamic thought and was concerned with the state of Muslims in a world dominated by European colonizing powers.  The family claims direct blood relationship with the Prophet of Islam through his daughter Fatimah and son-in-law cAli.  They had migrated to Iran, then to Herat in Afghanistan.  Being the Royal family has this lineage from Mohammad, I am theorizing that the Pashtuns were in Saudi Arabia and were of the Jewish tribes who were converted there in Mohammed's early rising.  We do know of many Jewish tribes there.

At least 75,000 Indian Jews now live in Israel which is over 1% of Israel's total population of about 7.5 million.  There are only at the most, 0.7% of Jews making up India's religious population as of 2001 census in this vast country of over 1.21 billion people which makes up one sixth of the world population.  Jews have been such a small number where Hindus number 800 million or 80.5% of the population, Muslims 13.4%, Christians 2.3%, Sikhs 1.9%, Buddahists 0.8%, and Jainism 0.4%.  Jews were listed with Zoroastrianism and the Bahai Faith with no % listed on one source.

Jews are not in competition here for land.  There was no earthly reason to discriminate against Jews in this multi-religious and vast country made up mostly of passifistic Hindus.  The Muslims moved out after battling with the Hindu population and formed Pakistan about at the same time Israel was re-born,  from what used to be a part of India, so they now have their own state. Most likely a lot were of the Pashtun Tribe.

India had really become a "Kum bi Ya, my Lord, Kum bi Ya" place to live.  The Jews living there were not pressed into changing their religion.  Pashtun conversion to Islam must have happened in Saudi Arabia already before they entered Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.  They were not held back in their emigration to Israel.  India and Israel have good relations right now.

Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahabuddin_Muhammad_Ghauri
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Lost_Tribes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Pashtun_descent_from_Israelites
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2944-beni-israel
http://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2012/01/can-pashtun-tribe-of-afghanistan-have.html
http://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2012/06/israel-that-little-devil-and-pakistan.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aligarh_Muslim_University
Dr. Ahmed.
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/baybars.htm
added 8/22/12: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDrL7-nILYE Pashtu and Koran
Note: Kumbaya was a song from Africa sung in the 1960's by many groups.  It was a time of peaceful feelings towards each other, the hippy movement, etc.