Judah Needs Joseph

From: Yair Davidi: (britam@netvision.net.il)
To: heb_roots_chr@hebroots.org

NOTE FROM EDDIE:

Yair Davidi is an ORTHODOX JEW who lives in Jerusalem, Israel and
has a ministry (Brit-Am) devoted and dedicated to doing research and
spreading awareness of the Ten Lost Tribes and their reunification
with the house of Judah in the end of days.

END OF NOTE

THE PURPOSE OF THE EXILE

There were originally 12 tribes, 12 tribes of Israel.

The 12 tribes were divided into two sections. Ten of the 12 tribes were
lost.

The Lost Ten Tribes were exiled and lost their identity.

Judah was also exiled but Judah did not lose his identity. This is a fact.
Why was this?

The Lost Ten Tribes are destined to return.

Why were The Lost Ten Tribes exiled?

Why did the Lost Ten Tribes lose their identity?

Why did Judah not lose his identity?

What Divine Purpose was there behind this?

We have identified The Lost Ten Tribes primarily with peoples of West
European descent though we admit that scattered descendants of The Lost Ten
Tribes and of the Jews of Judah are also to be found nearly all over the
world.

At all events it was prophesied that The Lost Ten Tribes would be
together in the same areas and this is what happened. Amongst The Lost Ten
Tribes we have identified the English-speaking nations of Britain, America,
Australia, and related nations as having been dominated by the Tribes of
Joseph.

What Divine Purpose was there behind this?

We can only speculate about the answers to the above questions but perhaps
through a consideration of the sources we can gain a clearer picture.

In Genesis 32 it describes the Patriarch Jacob who was returning from Exile
in Aram. He was about to meet up with his brother Esau and he was afraid
since he had cheated Esau out of the Blessings.

[Genesis 32:6] AND THE MESSENGERS RETURNED TO JACOB, SAYING, WE CAME TO THY
BROTHER ESAU, AND ALSO HE COMETH TO MEET THEE, AND FOUR HUNDRED MEN WITH
HIM.

[Genesis 32:7] THEN JACOB WAS GREATLY AFRAID AND DISTRESSED: AND HE DIVIDED
THE PEOPLE THAT WAS WITH HIM, AND THE FLOCKS, AND HERDS, AND THE CAMELS,
INTO TWO BANDS;

[Genesis 32:8] AND SAID, IF ESAU COME TO THE ONE COMPANY, AND SMITE IT,
THEN THE OTHER COMPANY WHICH IS LEFT SHALL ESCAPE.

[Genesis 32:9] AND JACOB SAID, O GOD OF MY FATHER ABRAHAM, AND GOD OF MY
FATHER ISAAC, THE LORD WHICH SAIDST UNTO ME, RETURN UNTO THY COUNTRY, AND
TO THY KINDRED, AND I WILL DEAL WELL WITH THEE:

[Genesis 32:10] I AM NOT WORTHY OF THE LEAST OF ALL THE MERCIES, AND OF ALL
THE TRUTH, WHICH THOU HAST SHEWED UNTO THY SERVANT; FOR WITH MY STAFF I
PASSED OVER THIS JORDAN; AND NOW I AM BECOME TWO BANDS.

The deeds of the forefathers foreshadow the fate of their descendants, it
says in the Talmud.

The forefather Jacob had foreseen that he would be divided into two camps.

The descendants of Jacob were also destined to be divided into two camps:
Judah and Joseph who represents all the Lost Ten Tribes.

In 1-Kings chapter 12 it describes the first division between Judah and
Joseph. It says that the division was caused by God.

[1-Kings 12; 15] "Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the
cause was from the LORD..."

Notice the words: "the cause was from the LORD". This means that God had
His own reasons for allowing the division between Judah and the Northern
Tribes (represented by Joseph) to take place.

It says further,
1-Kings 12; 24: "So says the LORD, You shall not go up, nor fight against
your brothers the children of Israel: return every man unto his house; FOR
THIS THING IS FROM ME. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD,
and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD."
We see from the above that the Division was from God: "FOR THIS THING IS
FROM ME," it says. God had his own reasons for the Division. The Division
was part of the Divine Plan for world history.

A LIGHT TO THE NATIONS

It says that the Lost Tribes would be a light to the nations:
[Isaiah 42:6] I THE LORD HAVE CALLED THEE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND WILL HOLD
THINE HAND, AND WILL KEEP THEE, AND GIVE THEE FOR A COVENANT OF THE PEOPLE
[in Hebrew: "Brit-Am"], FOR A LIGHT OF THE GENTILES;

[Isaiah 49:6] AND HE SAID, IT IS A LIGHT THING THAT THOU SHOULDEST BE MY
SERVANT TO RAISE UP THE TRIBES OF JACOB, AND TO RESTORE THE PRESERVED OF
ISRAEL: I WILL ALSO GIVE THEE FOR A LIGHT TO THE GENTILES, THAT THOU MAYEST
BE MY SALVATION UNTO THE END OF THE EARTH.

The Lost Ten Tribes of Israel are described by Isaiah as becoming "a light
to the nations" (Isaiah 42;6 49;6): This means they will become some type
of type of humanizing or civilizing influence. In Hebrew "light to the
nations" is "Or Goyim". The Hebrew word "Goyim" can be translated as either
"nations" or as "Gentiles" meaning non-Israelites. Both translations are
possible.

It was said that Israel would be "A LIGHT TO THE GENTILES". The
word for "Gentiles" is synonymous with the word for "Nations". Both words
are correct translations of the Hebrew "Goyim". Isaiah 49;5-12: i.e. Israel
would be a "light" or a civilizing influence over non-Israelites and
non-Israelite nations.

[Isaiah 49:5] AND NOW, SAITH THE LORD THAT FORMED ME FROM THE WOMB TO BE
HIS SERVANT, TO BRING JACOB AGAIN TO HIM, THOUGH ISRAEL BE NOT GATHERED,
YET SHALL I BE GLORIOUS IN THE EYES OF THE LORD, AND MY GOD SHALL BE MY
STRENGTH.

[Isaiah 49:7] THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE REDEEMER OF ISRAEL, AND HIS HOLY
ONE, TO HIM WHOM MAN DESPISETH, TO HIM WHOM THE NATION ABHORRETH, TO A
SERVANT OF RULERS, KINGS SHALL SEE AND ARISE, PRINCES ALSO SHALL WORSHIP,
BECAUSE OF THE LORD THAT IS FAITHFUL, AND THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, AND HE
SHALL CHOOSE THEE.

[Isaiah 49:8] THUS SAITH THE LORD, IN AN ACCEPTABLE TIME HAVE I HEARD
THEE, AND IN A DAY OF SALVATION HAVE I HELPED THEE: AND I WILL PRESERVE
THEE, AND GIVE THEE FOR A COVENANT OF THE PEOPLE [in Hebrew: "Brit-Am"],
TO ESTABLISH THE EARTH, TO CAUSE TO INHERIT THE DESOLATE HERITAGES;

[Isaiah 49:9] THAT THOU MAYEST SAY TO THE PRISONERS, GO FORTH; TO THEM
THAT ARE IN DARKNESS, SHEW YOURSELVES. THEY SHALL FEED IN THE WAYS, AND
THEIR PASTURES SHALL BE IN ALL HIGH PLACES.

[Isaiah 49:10] THEY SHALL NOT HUNGER NOR THIRST; NEITHER SHALL THE HEAT
NOR SUN SMITE THEM: FOR HE THAT HATH MERCY ON THEM SHALL LEAD THEM, EVEN BY
THE SPRINGS OF WATER SHALL HE GUIDE THEM.

[Isaiah 49:11] AND I WILL MAKE ALL MY MOUNTAINS A WAY, AND MY HIGHWAYS
SHALL BE EXALTED.

[Isaiah 49:12] BEHOLD, THESE SHALL COME FROM FAR: AND, LO, THESE FROM THE
NORTH AND FROM THE WEST; AND THESE FROM THE LAND OF SINIM

["The Land of Sinim" means Australia, as we have explained in another talk].

The phrase "End of the Earth" is associated by Isaiah with The Tribes of
Jacob who need to be gathered, says Isaiah. The same applies to the
expression "a light to the Gentiles". It should be acknowledged that
despite all the mistakes, corruption, and evil that the Anglo-Saxon nations
may have done, on the WHOLE, they have been a civilizing influence amongst
the Gentiles. Modern "Western" concepts of human rights and innate dignity
and related values are due to these peoples more than to others.
Humanitarian Trends of thought, altruistic motivation and actual reforming
measures that are workable are often derived from these peoples. At least,
they are due to them more than they are due to anybody else. To the extent
that the Humanism of modern civilization is attributable to non-Anglo-Saxon
elements then these too are usually from nationalities identified by us as
containing a significant proportion of Israelites. French, Scandinavians,
Swiss, Dutch, and the Jews, together with the Anglo-Saxons, are responsible
for most of what good exists in the world today. On a relative scale these
nations have the best record for socially conscious policies in the world.

A GREAT AND MIGHTY NATION

Again in Genesis ch.18 God had made himself known unto Abraham:

Genesis 18;18-19: "ABRAHAM SHALL BECOME A GREAT AND MIGHTY NATION, AND ALL
THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH SHALL BE BLESSED IN HIM.
"FOR I KNOW HIM, THAT HE WILL COMMAND HIS CHILDREN AND HIS HOUSEHOLD AFTER
HIM, AND THEY SHALL KEEP THE WAY OF THE LORD, TO DO JUSTICE AND JUDGMENT:
THAT THE LORD MAY BRING UPON ABRAHAM THAT WHICH HE HAS SPOKEN OF HIM.

"Justice And Judgement": Here, looking at this Blessing, the doing
of Justice and Judgement are being spoken of and emphasized.
The Chosen People were destined to do "justice and judgement", that was to
be part of their task in history: They were to do "justice and judgement",
in order that all the nations of the earth be blessed in them. First they
were going to become a great and mighty nation and then they would do
"justice and judgement" that ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH SHALL BE BLESSED
IN HIM.

The order of the blessing implies that in order to do "justice and
judgment" the people who are so blessed must first become "a great and
mighty nation" since first "a great and mighty nation" is mentioned and
then later the goal of doing "justice and judgement" follows after.

The Blessings were unconditional!

UNCONDITIONALITY OF THE BLESSINGS
"Akeda" = "The Binding"

The material blessings of becoming a great and mighty nation in which all
the nations of the earth would be blessed was unconditional.

In Genesis 22 is described the incident known in Hebrew as "The
Akeda" = "The Binding". Abraham had passed a test and had shown that he was
willing to obey God no matter what God was told him to do. After the test
God promised that the international aspects of the Promises given to the
descendants of Abraham were to be fulfilled UNCONDITIONALLY.
God Blessed Abraham,

"And said, By myself have I sworn, says the LORD, for because you have done
this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
"That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your
seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the
seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
"And in your seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed; because
you have obeyed my voice.

Note the expression in the first part of this blessing:

"By myself have I sworn, says the LORD": in other words unconditionally
"by MYSELF" i.e. by HIMSELF", by the very essence of God Almighty and
therefore the Promises were NOT SUBJECT TO CHANGE!!!! They had to be
fulfilled.

We have seen from the above that part of the Blessings were given
unconditionally and that they had to be fulfilled and that part of the
purpose of these blessings was to enable Joseph (meaning the Lost Ten
Tribes) to civilize and upgrade the nations of the world. Judah was
destined to keep the Law whereas Joseph was destined to lose his identity
yet reform the world from within. Joseph the son of Jacob had been sold as
a captive into Egypt. He had become by order of the king the effective
ruler of Egypt. Joseph saved Egypt from famine. He also reformed and
changed the social and economic arrangements of Egypt. According to
tradition Joseph also introduced agricultural reforms to Egypt. As well as
saving Egypt from famine Joseph also saved many of the countries round
about. The brothers of Joseph came down to Egypt to buy grain because the
Land of Canaan where they lived had also been stricken by the famine.
Joseph saved his father and his brothers and all their families from
famine. The descendants of Joseph were also destined to go as captives into
exile, to lose their identity and in their place of exile to save the world
and their Israelite brothers from calamity.

Jacob asked Esau to leave him alone for the time being until Jacob comes to
him to his own country of Seir where Esau lived. Symbolically there is a
tradition that Jacob was agreeing that Esau have worldly power instead of
him until the End Days come when Jacob will come to war against
Esau. This is what it means when it says: "UNTIL I COME UNTO MY LORD
UNTO SEIR". The War of Jacob against Esau is the War of Joseph against Edom
as described in the Book of Obadiah.

Judah in Need of Joseph

In the Book of Numbers it relates how the Israelites after coming out
of Egypt were about to conquer the Land of Canaan. They sent spies
into the Land to spy it out. The spies brought back a report that
giving the impression that the natives of the Land were too powerful
to be conquered. The people on hearing this bad report became
demoralized and tried to rebel against Moses. God punished them by
declaring that they would not be allowed to enter the Land immediately
but would have to wander in the wilderness for forty years until all
the generation that rebelled had died out. After that their children
would inherit the Land. Our story picks up from there but first we
will go back to the Blessing given to Joseph by his father Israel:

[Genesis 49:22] JOSEPH IS A FRUITFUL BOUGH, EVEN A FRUITFUL BOUGH BY A
WELL; WHOSE BRANCHES RUN OVER THE WALL:

"BY A WELL" in Hebrew: "ali
ayin" which can also mean "above ("al") the eye ("ayin"). Rabbi Haim
Dynovisz in a weekly tract in French ("Lev p'tit Hebdo. Thora et Info"
Num 56/28 Sivan) gave certain insights that have been paraphrased and
adapted below: When the spies (Numbers 13) went into the land of
Israel they went after their eyes and reported what their eyes saw:

<<AND THERE WE SAW THE GIANTS, THE SONS OF ANAK, WHICH COME OF THE
GIANTS: AND WE WERE IN OUR OWN SIGHT AS GRASSHOPPERS, AND SO WE WERE
IN THEIR SIGHT [Numbers 13:33] . <<NEVERTHELESS THE PEOPLE BE STRONG
THAT DWELL IN THE LAND, AND THE CITIES ARE WALLED, AND VERY GREAT: AND
MOREOVER WE SAW THE CHILDREN OF ANAK THERE [Numbers 13:28].

They were
confounded by what they saw and spread dismay to the rest of Israel.
For this reason the incident of the Spies is followed by the
commandment concerning tassels whose purpose is to teach us to guard
our eyes:

<<AND IT SHALL BE UNTO YOU FOR A FRINGE, THAT YE MAY LOOK
UPON IT, AND REMEMBER ALL THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD, AND DO THEM;
AND THAT YE SEEK NOT AFTER YOUR OWN HEART AND YOUR OWN EYES, AFTER
WHICH YE USE TO GO A WHORING. [Numbers 15:39].

It was because the spies went after their eyes that the
People of Israel were unable to immediately conquer the Land but had to wander
in the Wilderness for forty years. When they finally did go in to
conquer the Land they were led by Joshua. Joshua was of the Tribe of
Ephraim and descended from Joseph. Joseph had received the blessing to
be "ali ayin" i.e. "above the eye". This quality enabled him not to be
impressed by what he saw but to transcend historical logic. <<Israel
is always confronted with the problems that according to "human
vision" have no real solution. It is only the "Joshuas" who are
capable of seeing that which the eye cannot see and that permit us to
attain the "impossible". The scouts ("spies") failed because they were
guided by their eye. They were pragmatic. It was because of this fault
that we have been exiled amongst the seventy nations. [Seventy sons of
Noah are mentioned in Genesis 10 and it is from these 70 that all
nations of the earth descend]. There are seventy nations because they
too are under the domination of the "eye" [i.e. of practical
considerations according to apparent reality]. Seventy is the
numerical value in Hebrew of the letter "ayin" whose name means "eye"
in Hebrew. [The English word "eye" is derived from the Hebrew "ayin"
meaning "eye"].

Ever since Israel [i.e. the Jews of Judah in this context]
lost the power of Joseph who was above the "eye" [and above the seventy
nations] they have been in Exile.>>

The above observations are derived (as we mentioned above)
from the thoughts of Rabbi Haim Dynovisz. It is doubtful if the Rabbi had
the Lost Ten Tribes in mind when he put these thoughts down.
Nevertheless, the point holds. Ever since Joseph departed from Judah
and Judah-aspect of Israel lost the power of Joseph the Jews have been
oppressed by non-Israelite nations. The establishment of the State of
Israel and its stabilization began the process of "normalizing" the
Jewish status and enabling the Jews to work towards national
self-expression in their own land. This process was made possible and
supported by the forces of Joseph, at first through Britain and then
the USA. Judah is in need of Joseph whether he likes it or not BUT it
works both ways. Joseph also needs Joseph to realize himself. Joseph
in Egypt was the de-facto ruler of the country but that was all. Only
when he was reconciled to his brothers was Joseph enabled to express
his complete personality.

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