Daily Thought

“And the world shall be filled with the awareness of G-d as the waters cover the ocean floor.”— Isaiah These are the Waters of Life To All Things. Now we live as creatures of the dry land, as though we were separate beings from our life source. Then we shall be as creatures of the sea that live absorbed within their source of life. We shall be in such oneness with the Source of All Life until there shall be nothing to distinguish between the created being and the Creator. —The Rebbe

Reprinted from 365 Meditations of the Rebbe by Tzvi Freeman

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The Lost 10 Tribes
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Mendy Elishevitz   
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Mendy Elishevitz   
The Ten Tribes were exiled during the First Temple Era - over 2,000 years ago, and have been separated from the rest of Jewry ever since. But ultimately, they will be redeemed, and join the rest of Jewry - at the time of Moshiach.
 
Afghanistan Print E-mail
Rabbi Marvin Tokayer   
The Bible mentions the city of Medes as one of the locations of the Assyrian exile of the Ten Tribes of Israel. Most explain and understand this area to be the region in Northwest Persia called Kurdistan. It is an accepted tradition that the people of this area are from the Assyrian exile.
 
Burma - Bnei Menashe Print E-mail
Rabbi Marvin Tokayer   
In the mountainous region which lies on both sides of the border between India and Myanmar (former Burma), lives the Menashe (Shinlung) tribe which numbers between 1-2 million people. They intermarried with the Chinese and look Chinese-Burmas, but the entire tribe is conscious of their Israeli ancestry.
 
Kashmir Print E-mail
Rabbi Marvin Tokayer   
Leaving Afghanistan and Pakistan where the Pathans live, when one goes east, it is the State of Kashmir in northern part of India which is west of Nepal. Kashmir consists of a very wide and beautiful valley, surrounded by tall mountains and I think it is one of the most beautiful places in the world.
 
Japan Print E-mail
Arimasa Kubo   
Many of the traditional ceremonies in Japan seem to indicate that the Lost Tribes of Israel came to ancient Japan. The "Ontohsai" festival illustrates the story of Isaac in chapter 22 of Genesis in the Bible - when Abraham was about to sacrifice his own son, Isaac.
 
Ecuador Print E-mail
Rabbi Marvin Tokayer   
Intensified attention to the subject took place in the 17th century in England. It was all due to the writings of Manasseh Ben Israel, an Amsterdam Rabbi, who convinced Oliver Cromwell to allow the Jews to Return to England after their banishment from that country four centuries previously.
 
China Print E-mail
Rabbi Marvin Tokayer   
In the mountainous area of northwest China, west of the Min River, near the border of Tibet, in Szechuan lives an ancient people called by the Chinese, Chiang or Chiang-Min, who numbers about 250 thousand people.
 
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