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Oral Torah Of The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven Short Torah Clips

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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.