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Nehemiah ben Hushiel will come
and arrive with the tribes of Ephraim,
Manasseh, Benjamin, and some of the
tribe of God.
These are the Jews that live
beyond the dark mountains called in
Hebrew Hoshiel.
And they are part of the 10 tribes that
have been hidden from the rest of the
world for the last 2,500 years.
After Sennacherib
went to battle against the Jewish
people,
he saw the previous kings that fought
the Jewish people eventually lost
control
because they left the Jewish people
after they beat them, they left them
there.
So, they beat them up, they took their
weapons, they took their money,
and they collected taxes from them,
like they do in every other country.
Problem is the Jewish people,
they can't stay down.
So, what do they do? They pray to God
above you.
And God above you eventually gives them
salvation.
And they get new weapons, they get new
strength, they get new miracles,
and they rise against the enemy.
So, each time someone went, beat them
up, killed among them,
but left them there,
eventually it didn't work out for the
enemy.
The Jews rose.
Sennacherib did not want to fail
the same way that the previous kings
did.
So, he did what nobody else ever did.
He took the Jews,
and he spread them
around the world.
That way they cannot unite.
That way they're no longer home. That
way they're not only conquered,
but they're in unfamiliar territory.
Our entire oral Torah
the Mishna, the Talmud Bavli, the Talmud
Yerushalmi
all of it comes
from just a couple of the 12 tribes.
The ones that you see next to you
sitting.
Judah
We have a little bit of Levi that's
among
among us.
We have some of Shevet Dan. We have some
of Shevet Menashe in the world. Very
little bit of some of these which were
recently discovered.
We don't even have a handful of the
tribes.
Why? Because 10 out of the 12 tribes
were taken from society
thrown somewhere
and no one's heard from them for 2,500
years.
Which means that our entire oral Torah
does not have
any of the wisdom from the 10 tribes.
What happened to them?
That's if you assume you haven't heard
from them.
But we did.
It's just not so common for people to
know about.
The Gemara Masechet Sanhedrin
page 94B has a machlokes between Mar
Zutra
and Rabbi Chanina
about where Sennacherib
put all of the
Jewish people.
Mar Zutra said that he put them in
Africa, different countries among
Africa, Cush
the
and places around there. But Rabbi
Chanina says
he put them
Mount Seir Luke.
Beyond
Now Sambation, the river of Shabbat
in Greek.
What's the river of Shabbat?
The Gemara in Masechet Sanhedrin page
65b has
a discussion between Rabbi Akiva
and a heretic named Tonus Rufus.
Who always used to bother him,
asking him heretical questions.
But he was an important person,
so he couldn't just tell him to go fly a
kite. He had to answer his questions.
So Tonus Rufus asked Rabbi Akiva, "How
do you know that you really your Shabbat
is the divine will
and that it's really the right day?
Maybe Shabbat that God talked about,
maybe it's a Tuesday.
Maybe it's Monday afternoon."
Rabbi Akiva says,
"Now Sambation proves that the Shabbat
is on our Shabbat.
Why? Cuz this special river
is a river of rocks
that flow like water.
I saw something like this
in video a few years ago.
It's unbelievable.
I don't know if that was Now Sambation
or not,
but whatever I saw was unbelievable.
Don't ask me where I saw it and how I
saw it. I don't remember, but I saw it.
It exists online somewhere.
But during the week, this Now Sambation
is a very rough Now. It's a very rough
river.
Rocks all over the place. It's not like
something smooth and nice. It's not like
a uh
But it stops everything
on Shabbat.
Shabbat starts, the second Shabbat
starts, it's like somebody pressed stop
on a video.
Freezes
until Shabbat ends.
So, the Hahamim say that some of the
tribes
the Midrash Rabbah in chapter 73 section
say that some of the tribes are beyond
now Sambation.
Person by name of Josephus, Josephus
Flavius.
Many people
were clueless
especially when they come from Christian
backgrounds or they are Christians
like to insult Josephus.
Say he's a liar. Say
lost his mind.
All types of things.
Newsflash.
Josephus was a Tanna Kadosh.
And his real name
was Rabbi Yossi.
He is quoted by Gedolei Yisrael
throughout all of history. The
Abravanel, the Hida
the Ramban
and many of the Rishonim and the Gaonim
quote Josephus.
And therefore anytime
that the Hahamim write something
different than Josephus, we go with the
Hahamim.
But if we see that the Hahamim do not
contradict Josephus
we go with what Josephus says.
Why? He was a Tanna Kadosh.
And we see that the Hahamim throughout
all of history
use them as a source.
He writes
in Antiquities chapter 11 section 33
that the 10 tribes are beyond the
Euphrates
until this day.
And there is such immense in number
of population
to the point where they cannot be
counted.
Meaning, it's not a small tribe you saw
on some Discovery Channel
that has a little group of 5,000 Arabs
that let's say they like to slaughter
the way we do and they say shalom.
It's not that.
We're talking about
millions, tens of millions, hundreds of
millions.
We're going to get to that a little bit.
About 1,200 years ago
a person by name of Eldad ben Dan
showed up
in the Jewish community
at the time of the Geonim.
And he said that he came
from beyond the mountains.
He was part of those people.
And he wrote
different hidushim that Amish land never
heard of before.
He published a sefer called Sefer Eldad.
And many of the Hakhamim
quote him.
Among the Geonim
they quote him.
The Hida quotes him.
And one interesting thing
that you'll see in his writing
is when we read we learn Gemara,
what do we see?
We see that every sage mentions where he
learned what he learned.
Amara Abaye, Abaye said,
Amara Rava, Rava said,
Amara Rabbi Yehoshua,
Rabbi Yehoshua said, Amara Rabbi
Yohanan, Rabbi Yohanan said, Right?
That's what everybody says.
Eldad says,
Amara Rabbenu Yehoshua ben Nun,
Amara Rabbenu Othniel ben Kenaz.
Why? That's his rabbis.
THEY DIDN'T HAVE the Rabbi Akiva and the
Tannaim and the Zugot, didn't have any
of that.
They had Yehoshua ben Nun,
Othniel ben Kenaz.
After that, that's it. No one heard from
them for 2,500 years. Meaning the entire
time of when the Mishnah is being
written, the entire time of the Talmud,
the entire time of all the
None of that existed.
Why? They were behind the mountains.
SO HE QUOTES AMARA Othniel ben Kenaz,
the leader after Yehoshua ben Nun. AMARA
YEHOSHUA BEN NUN.
The good news is that he wasn't the only
one.
In Spain, in the year 1165,
Benjamin of Toledo said
that there are men of Israel in the land
of Persia
that he saw
from the tribe of Dan, Zebulun, Asher,
Naphtali.
Multiple tribes are there that the rest
of the Jewish people didn't know
existed.
He said, "There are many of them."
And they're so powerful
that the cannot touch them.
And they have a prince
named Yosef Halevi.
So, we see here
there are several sources, more than
what I'm mentioning,
where some of the people
either came from there and joined the
rest of Am Yisrael, or went, and so many
words, there wasn't counted multiple
encounters
between the tribes
that are behind the mountains.
Now, you can ask, naturally, "Why don't
they all come?"
No.
They don't have permission.