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[Music] in the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Bible there's a prophecy</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and that</font> prophecy says<font color="#CCCCCC"> that in the end</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of time</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">all these people that were exiled</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font> we call the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Lost Tribes of Israel</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> will</font> get up and<font color="#E5E5E5"> come</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> back to Israel and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it'll</font> start happening all over<font color="#E5E5E5"> in four corners</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">of the world and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they'll just get up and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">start</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> moving back and what if it was</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">actually</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> happening here you</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> have this</font> prophecy<font color="#CCCCCC"> and people are actually getting</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">up there maybe in your</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> own neighborhood</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and they're</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> packing their bags</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and to</font> you<font color="#CCCCCC"> they're just somebody else packing</font> their bags and moving but<font color="#E5E5E5"> in actual fact</font> they're responding to<font color="#E5E5E5"> some kind of</font> biblical<font color="#E5E5E5"> posthypnotic suggestion I'm not</font> talking about<font color="#E5E5E5"> a thousand</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> M as</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I like</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">twenty-seven hundred</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> year old suggestion</font> that they're responding to now and we could actually phone these people and match the prophecy with<font color="#E5E5E5"> the events and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the reason that should matter is</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font> because once they do what they have<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> do they trigger the apocalypse [Music] on these<font color="#CCCCCC"> altars</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> children were sacrificed</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">in pagan rituals</font> [Applause] scripture<font color="#CCCCCC"> tells us that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the tribes of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Israel deserted the god of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> their</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">forefathers and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> worshiped idols and</font> places<font color="#CCCCCC"> like this the prophets said that</font> for this<font color="#E5E5E5"> sin the Israelite tribes would</font> be conquered and exiled until the end of time when they<font color="#E5E5E5"> would be found and</font> redeemed har Megiddo<font color="#CCCCCC"> a fortress city in northern</font> Israel it is known<font color="#E5E5E5"> to the world as</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Armageddon</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a name synonymous with the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">apocalypse but it won't happen before</font> the Israelite tribes who once<font color="#E5E5E5"> lived here</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">returned</font> according to<font color="#E5E5E5"> prophecy</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the countdown</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font> the apocalypse and final<font color="#CCCCCC"> Redemption</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">begins when the tribes are found one by</font> one so this<font color="#CCCCCC"> is the challenge before us</font> how are<font color="#E5E5E5"> we going to find millions of</font> people that no one<font color="#E5E5E5"> has noticed when I</font> say find them<font color="#CCCCCC"> I don't mean discovering a</font> people that's never<font color="#E5E5E5"> made contact with</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Westerners</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I mean taking</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> very obscure</font> pieces of a puzzle<font color="#CCCCCC"> and going to very</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">remote sometimes dangerous places on the</font> earth and taking those pieces<font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> putting them together and seeing<font color="#E5E5E5"> does</font> this a court with a<font color="#E5E5E5"> Biblical prophecy</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> have been on a<font color="#CCCCCC"> journey and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I invite you</font> to go on this journey<font color="#CCCCCC"> with me</font> [Music] in the early 1980s I went to Africa<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">document the plight of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the Palacios</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> black Jews of Ethiopia these people were caught in<font color="#E5E5E5"> the midst of persecutions</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> war</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and famine in 1991 the Falaschi</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Intl</font> headlines<font color="#E5E5E5"> when</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they were airlifted</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> by</font> the Israeli Secret<font color="#E5E5E5"> Service to Jerusalem</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">but was little noticed is that the</font> Israelis acted only<font color="#CCCCCC"> after the Chief</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Rabbi ruled that the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Philosopher's</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">descendants of the Lost Tribe</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> done</font> [Music] can you<font color="#E5E5E5"> imagine the Lost Tribes of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Israel making front page news</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> can you</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">imagine the government of Israel acting</font> on the words of rabbis who say this<font color="#E5E5E5"> is</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the Lost Tribe of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> done</font> and suddenly modern<font color="#E5E5E5"> aircraft swooping in</font> to<font color="#E5E5E5"> Civil</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> War Ethiopia as people from</font> ages<font color="#CCCCCC"> ago</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> are airlifted into modern</font> Israel seeing the sea opens in Jerusalem <font color="#E5E5E5">I thought was this just an anomaly</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> or</font> was the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Biblical prophecy</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> beginning to</font> unfold [Music] seven years after<font color="#CCCCCC"> the Falaschi</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> airlift</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">in a tomato packing plant</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> near the Gaza</font> Strip<font color="#CCCCCC"> I came across a small</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> group that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">most Israelis take for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Thai guests</font> workers there are people who come<font color="#E5E5E5"> from</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the hill</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> country on the India Burma</font> border<font color="#E5E5E5"> they say they are descendants of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> lost tribe of manasseh</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> there is</font> at least one rabbi here<font color="#E5E5E5"> who believes</font> them<font color="#CCCCCC"> we have to go we bring them before</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the Messiah arrives in Israel our</font> tradition teaches<font color="#E5E5E5"> us that in the end of</font> days<font color="#CCCCCC"> the Jews who are</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the descendants of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the tribes of Benjamin and Judah will</font> bring the Lost Tribes to Israel<font color="#E5E5E5"> so that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">they will participate in messianic times</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">I believe that the whole thing is in the</font> realm of religious belief rather than in the realm of<font color="#CCCCCC"> reality that there is a</font> strong necessity to find the tribes<font color="#CCCCCC"> for</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">religious theological reason both Jewish</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and Christian and those are the two</font> religions<font color="#CCCCCC"> that are active</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in tribe</font> seeking<font color="#CCCCCC"> each one in its own way</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and all</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the attempts to find</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> them I think have</font> no<font color="#E5E5E5"> historical sound historical evidence</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">it is</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the belief that keeps the Ten Lost</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Tribes</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> alive not the people themselves</font> [Music] [Applause] [Music] despite the skeptics<font color="#CCCCCC"> Rabbi Aviv hal has</font> assisted hundreds of<font color="#E5E5E5"> these people to</font> emigrate to Israel and has supervised <font color="#E5E5E5">their formal return to Judaism can the</font> rabbi be right<font color="#E5E5E5"> is the key to the future</font> submerged<font color="#E5E5E5"> in these</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> peoples past</font> the story begins<font color="#CCCCCC"> twenty nine hundred</font> years<font color="#E5E5E5"> ago when</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> after Solomon's death his</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">biblical kingdoms split into two in the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">South Judea home to three tribes</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">including Judah which gave its name to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">modern-day Jews in the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> North there</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was</font> Israel<font color="#E5E5E5"> home to the people</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that would</font> later be<font color="#CCCCCC"> called</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Lost Tribes of</font> Israel [Music] a hundred<font color="#E5E5E5"> years</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> after</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the prophets</font> predicted<font color="#CCCCCC"> the event</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the Assyrian Empire</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">bore down on the Northern Kingdom of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Israel the Assyrians</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they are considered</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to be</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the real heavies I guess you could</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">call them</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the stormtroopers the</font> Prussians<font color="#CCCCCC"> they created what many in fact</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">would tell you was probably the most</font> potent military machine of<font color="#E5E5E5"> its age that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">is</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> sometime from</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> about the end of the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">second millennium BCE they began this</font> inexorable march from<font color="#E5E5E5"> their headquarters</font> in<font color="#E5E5E5"> the upper reaches of the Tigris what</font> is now eastern Iraq the borders with Iran and year after year a campaign after campaign they just marched westwards they marched<font color="#E5E5E5"> as far as Israel</font> as far as the<font color="#E5E5E5"> coast in 721 BC the</font> Assyrians put to the torch many Israelite cities and deported to<font color="#E5E5E5"> most of</font> the population [Music] most scholars<font color="#CCCCCC"> believe that the tribes</font> were lost<font color="#E5E5E5"> because in exile they could</font> not have held on to<font color="#E5E5E5"> their identities</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">they must have assimilated</font> we're talking about<font color="#E5E5E5"> 2700 years ago there</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">are historical documentation historical</font> records<font color="#E5E5E5"> actually</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> found in excavations</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">from say the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 5th</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> century BC that record</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">israelite names in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Assyria</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> so at</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">time</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> maybe they still existed there or a</font> trickle of<font color="#E5E5E5"> them existed there after that</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">there</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> is nothing no documentation so if</font> you look at<font color="#E5E5E5"> it historically</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> all kinds of</font> people were<font color="#E5E5E5"> exiled and got lost</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and I</font> believe<font color="#CCCCCC"> that the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> ten tribes also got</font> lost<font color="#E5E5E5"> but what if they</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> are</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> not lost</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font> have preserved the memory<font color="#CCCCCC"> of their</font> ancient origins<font color="#E5E5E5"> what if they are waiting</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">in their millions for</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> their prophesied</font> return the<font color="#CCCCCC"> hill country where</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Burma meets India</font> is home to the<font color="#E5E5E5"> people called man</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Massa</font> or<font color="#E5E5E5"> Manasa were now claiming descent from</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> lost tribe of manasseh</font> [Music] so we went there<font color="#E5E5E5"> what we found there is</font> a war zone<font color="#E5E5E5"> over and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> over in pursuit of</font> the tribes<font color="#E5E5E5"> we found ourselves in the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">middle of a war zone</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and what's the war</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">about it's about territory and ethnicity</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and these people</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that call themselves</font> Manasseh are fighting a people called <font color="#CCCCCC">Nagas and the Nagas</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> are saying their</font> enemies are<font color="#CCCCCC"> saying you don't belong here</font> you know and we know that you're<font color="#E5E5E5"> not</font> from here<font color="#E5E5E5"> did you ever</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> think that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> on the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Indian Burmese border there's a tribal</font> conflict<font color="#E5E5E5"> and being an Israelite is part</font> of<font color="#E5E5E5"> the issue</font> this area is<font color="#E5E5E5"> called money</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> port it swarms</font> with insurrectionist groups<font color="#E5E5E5"> and the</font> Indian<font color="#E5E5E5"> government has responded by</font> turning<font color="#CCCCCC"> money poor into a police state</font> [Music] the local mortuary receives daily <font color="#E5E5E5">deliveries</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of the victims of Naga</font> violence in response the<font color="#CCCCCC"> manasa have begun to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">organize an underground army my</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> village</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> attacked my own house was burnt</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> my uncle was<font color="#E5E5E5"> killed they destroyed my</font> village<font color="#E5E5E5"> Israelites are good fighters</font> we are good fighters<font color="#E5E5E5"> that is why we</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> are</font> not<font color="#E5E5E5"> afraid</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we are</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> not afraid</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to fight</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> us</font> we feel we are<font color="#E5E5E5"> worried about</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from a</font> NASA<font color="#CCCCCC"> guerillas were dedicated to setting</font> up an independent Israelite state in India the flag of gellan gum which is the flag for<font color="#E5E5E5"> the future sovereign state</font> has the Star of<font color="#CCCCCC"> David</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in the middle one</font> because the<font color="#E5E5E5"> grandmas sake believe they</font> are one<font color="#E5E5E5"> of the Lost Tribes of Israel</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">from the tribe of manasseh secondly the</font> Star of<font color="#CCCCCC"> David is a neutral figure or</font> symbol all the clans would find it <font color="#CCCCCC">acceptable</font> into this cauldron comes<font color="#CCCCCC"> Rebecca he's</font> drawn here by<font color="#E5E5E5"> the fact that for reasons</font> no<font color="#CCCCCC"> one can explain thousands</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of locals</font> are now claiming to be<font color="#E5E5E5"> Israelites</font> [Music] love me shallow<font color="#E5E5E5"> charmer in the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> bagel is</font> right the rabbi has been researching the<font color="#CCCCCC"> lost</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">tribes</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> for more than 35 years he firmly</font> believes<font color="#CCCCCC"> that the Manasseh are indeed</font> remnants of<font color="#E5E5E5"> the tribe of Manasseh</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> sent</font> into exile<font color="#CCCCCC"> 2700 years ago</font> this particular tribe seems to have been a rather lowly tribe in the area economically poor socially on the lower scale<font color="#E5E5E5"> of society and to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> people</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> like</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the idea</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they may be related to</font> some divine promise of a huge and glorious future<font color="#CCCCCC"> may have a very big</font> appeal and when rabbi avec<font color="#CCCCCC"> isle came he</font> already found<font color="#E5E5E5"> a tribe that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> has managed</font> to convince itself that it belongs to <font color="#E5E5E5">the Ten</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Lost Tribes</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we believe to be</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> Jew is not<font color="#E5E5E5"> by body to be a Jew is by</font> soul so<font color="#E5E5E5"> you can be</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> sometime</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in all the</font> generation to change your body here<font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> there but the soul<font color="#CCCCCC"> remains after all</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Jewish soul and I believe</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> all</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> my heart</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the do people have Jewish soul</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I want to</font> go to Israel<font color="#CCCCCC"> as soon</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> as possible so that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">I can</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> worship my god</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in peace and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">without any obstacle today do it very</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">very slowly my opinion is the main thing</font> to<font color="#E5E5E5"> bring old</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Menasha</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the ten tribe will</font> be the main<font color="#E5E5E5"> goal of Messiah</font> thousands of<font color="#CCCCCC"> Manasseh have decided not</font> to wait passively for the Messiah<font color="#E5E5E5"> they</font> have<font color="#E5E5E5"> applied to emigrate to Israel</font> despite those who<font color="#CCCCCC"> challenge their</font> Israelite claims<font color="#E5E5E5"> they continue to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">practice Judaism</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in virtual isolation</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">from the rest of the Jewish world</font> in this small<font color="#CCCCCC"> place called Manipur which</font> is at the corner<font color="#CCCCCC"> of India we're still</font> alive<font color="#E5E5E5"> and we</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> accuse</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and we like to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> go</font> back<font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the place where we</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> belong</font> we were appreciated if things become better for us and we're allowed to<font color="#E5E5E5"> go to</font> that place which is our fatherland<font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">is Israel</font> if this is really<font color="#E5E5E5"> happening</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it should be</font> happening<font color="#E5E5E5"> everywhere because</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> prophecy is clear it's<font color="#CCCCCC"> not a few</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> people</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">here and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> there</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Ezekiel talks about the</font> staff of Judah being rejoined<font color="#E5E5E5"> with a</font> staff of<font color="#E5E5E5"> Joseph and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the staff of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Joseph</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">are the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 10</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Lost Tribes of Israel there's</font> a million<font color="#E5E5E5"> and a half Manasseh that's a</font> lot of<font color="#E5E5E5"> people where the rest so we said</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">ok</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> let's go back to the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> ancient sources</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">where did they go</font> where did they go the Assyrians who destroyed the Northern <font color="#E5E5E5">Kingdom of Israel</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and took the people</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">into exile</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> had a propensity for making</font> wall reliefs<font color="#E5E5E5"> and this is very fortunate</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">for us</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> because it's almost like</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> having</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">someone with a video camera</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> journalist</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">or</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the video camera present</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 2700 years</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">ago</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> because after they destroyed the</font> Israelites they went home<font color="#E5E5E5"> created</font> palaces and created this huge wall reliefs showing the destruction<font color="#CCCCCC"> you see</font> them being killed<font color="#E5E5E5"> and you see them being</font> taken<font color="#CCCCCC"> prisoner and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you see them being</font> deported<font color="#E5E5E5"> and it's very clear difference</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">obviously killing is one thing you see</font> them being flayed alive<font color="#CCCCCC"> taken</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> prisoner</font> you only see men<font color="#E5E5E5"> taking prisoner and you</font> see them being deported you see them being deported<font color="#CCCCCC"> in family units so we've</font> got a lot of<font color="#E5E5E5"> evidence they never</font> deported<font color="#CCCCCC"> people as just the men or just</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the women to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> be concubines or something</font> they deported families<font color="#E5E5E5"> they kept them</font> together the only<font color="#CCCCCC"> group of charioteers</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that the Assyrians retain intact</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> as a</font> elite unit<font color="#E5E5E5"> of charioteers is an</font> Israelite unit from<font color="#E5E5E5"> Samaria what this</font> means is that<font color="#E5E5E5"> they were appropriated by</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> core of the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Empire</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to the service of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> center</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Empire</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Israelite</font> charioteers are retained intact<font color="#E5E5E5"> the fact</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that they were kept together in military</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and family units gave us hope</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font> perhaps they had survived the deportations after all that's<font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> beautiful way of stop doing that<font color="#E5E5E5"> that's</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">beautiful</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I cannot say that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it's</font> impossible<font color="#E5E5E5"> no I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> can't say it's</font> impossible<font color="#CCCCCC"> I would say it's very</font> optimistic people<font color="#CCCCCC"> were thrown into</font> nowhere amongst many other<font color="#CCCCCC"> peoples</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> we have no evidence<font color="#CCCCCC"> whatsoever that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">anything survived the Assyrian melting</font> pot<font color="#E5E5E5"> maybe the evidence lay elsewhere</font> we<font color="#CCCCCC"> return to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the Assyrian reliefs hoping</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that they could tell</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> us their ancient</font> story from the Assyrian records we learned<font color="#E5E5E5"> that in the first assault</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> serious<font color="#E5E5E5"> act</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> seven Israelite cities of</font> the tribe of Naphtali<font color="#CCCCCC"> and put the nefta</font> lights on the volatile border with<font color="#CCCCCC"> Medea</font> as the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Assyrians lost ground to the</font> Medes<font color="#CCCCCC"> the Israelites found themselves</font> under<font color="#E5E5E5"> Midian rule in an empire</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font> extended from modern Iran to Central Asia<font color="#CCCCCC"> any Israelites living</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in Iran were</font> later absorbed<font color="#E5E5E5"> by</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> mainstream Judaism it</font> was pointless to<font color="#E5E5E5"> search here</font> perhaps we would find the lost <font color="#CCCCCC">Israelites behind the former</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Midian</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">empire along the super highways of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">ancient world across</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> as Becky</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Stan on</font> the road to China [Music] we picked up the trail<font color="#CCCCCC"> in Uzbekistan</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">home to the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> legendary cities of bahara</font> and Samarkand here we<font color="#E5E5E5"> found ourselves in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Forgotten</font> region that had once been<font color="#CCCCCC"> the prize of</font> Alexander the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Great and the Mongol</font> warlord<font color="#E5E5E5"> Genghis Khan</font> [Music] founded over 2,500<font color="#CCCCCC"> years ago</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Mahara was</font> the cultural center of<font color="#CCCCCC"> the region from</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">this place one could go and trade in all</font> directions the<font color="#CCCCCC"> City of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Goo Hara is really at</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> crossroads the legendary Silk<font color="#CCCCCC"> Route</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">which started in the second century came</font> right through<font color="#E5E5E5"> Mahara in the 12th century</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the famous</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Jewish traveller Benjamin of</font> Tudela<font color="#E5E5E5"> wrote that there was a Hebrew</font> tribe here which considered itself to be one<font color="#CCCCCC"> of the lost</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> tribes that were exiled</font> by the Assyrians [Music] [Music] <font color="#CCCCCC">sang-doo as late as the 19th century</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">British missionary and explorer Joseph</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Wolfe</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> reported that the lost Israelites</font> could still be found living<font color="#E5E5E5"> in Bukhara</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">legend has it that the most ancient</font> tombs here date back<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> biblical times</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">but we could find no markings linking</font> them to Israelites not far from<font color="#E5E5E5"> these tombs is a Jewish</font> community<font color="#CCCCCC"> of uncertain origin</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the first</font> clue that they are<font color="#E5E5E5"> related to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the Lost</font> Tribes<font color="#CCCCCC"> is the name is</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a Haram common in</font> this<font color="#E5E5E5"> area and nowhere else in Sahar is</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">one of the Lost Tribes and many of the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">people here including the local</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> rabbi</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">claim is a heart as an ancestor</font> they say<font color="#CCCCCC"> harley did not take us any</font> further<font color="#E5E5E5"> so</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we explored the mahalo the</font> Jewish quarter<font color="#E5E5E5"> to see if there was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> connection<font color="#E5E5E5"> to the tribe of Naphtali</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> also</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">exiled</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to this area at first it seemed</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that all</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we could ascertain is that the</font> community<font color="#E5E5E5"> is</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> very old for many hundreds</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> years we've been preparing matzah in</font> this<font color="#E5E5E5"> oven it is</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a very very old</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> custom</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">these customs are ancient thousands of</font> years<font color="#E5E5E5"> old when God gave us Jerusalem we</font> were preparing matzah by hand<font color="#CCCCCC"> just</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> like</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">this</font> [Music] while the women<font color="#CCCCCC"> prepare unleavened bread</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">for Passover</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the men slaughter a sheep</font> in accordance with<font color="#CCCCCC"> the biblical law the</font> tradition of<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Paschal Lamb is as old</font> as<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Bible itself</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a sheep is</font> slaughtered with an extra sharp knife in one<font color="#CCCCCC"> quick cut the blood is</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> then drained</font> and removed<font color="#E5E5E5"> at the time of the exodus of</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">bush would be dipped in the blood and</font> smeared on doorpost<font color="#E5E5E5"> then to find those</font> homes as<font color="#E5E5E5"> Israelite I'm rendering</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> this</font> animal kosher<font color="#E5E5E5"> as we have always done it</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">how</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> are</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you doing that I'm</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> discarding</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the sciatic nerve here in accordance</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">with Jewish law</font> when they were first discovered<font color="#E5E5E5"> they</font> didn't claim<font color="#CCCCCC"> to be Jews they</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> claim to be</font> Israelites it's only in the last<font color="#CCCCCC"> few</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">hundred years that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they've integrated</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">themselves into the body of the world</font> Jewish community and<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> baharon Jews</font> are important because they tip you<font color="#CCCCCC"> off</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the history of the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Lost Tribes is a</font> hidden<font color="#E5E5E5"> history that there are political</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">reasons why their history would have</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">been hidden</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> so</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> for example in Mahara in</font> Uzbekistan this country<font color="#E5E5E5"> that was part of</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> former Soviet</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Union anything</font> Israelite was hidden<font color="#E5E5E5"> and locked up</font> because<font color="#CCCCCC"> it was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> not in the interests of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> local authorities to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> say that</font> Israelites were here before the <font color="#E5E5E5">supposedly indigenous people and in</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Mahara</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> actually had a guide who ran</font> the baharon<font color="#E5E5E5"> Museum who was torn between</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">pursuing the truth</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and looking out for</font> himself<font color="#CCCCCC"> in a political</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> climate where</font> it's still policy to hide anything Israelite so for<font color="#E5E5E5"> example he gave us</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">access to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the basement of the Blue Heron</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Museum on top in the museum you have all</font> the official history<font color="#E5E5E5"> and in the basement</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">locked up</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you have anything Israelite</font> [Music] and what's in this musty dank basement <font color="#CCCCCC">prayer books</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> silver platters with</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Hebrew</font> alphabet on them locked up<font color="#E5E5E5"> Torah scrolls</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Bible scrolls are locked up</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> as if</font> there's some<font color="#CCCCCC"> kind of state secret</font> anything anything<font color="#CCCCCC"> with a Hebrew letter</font> anything signifying some kind of historical<font color="#CCCCCC"> Israelite presence</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> locked up</font> [Music] and then when we asked<font color="#E5E5E5"> him about</font> Israelites<font color="#CCCCCC"> he didn't want</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to talk</font> directly<font color="#E5E5E5"> about Israelites but he said</font> you<font color="#E5E5E5"> know there were these people here</font> that ruled Central Asia<font color="#E5E5E5"> for 200</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> years</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and they were called f2</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> lights from our</font> recent digs<font color="#CCCCCC"> we've learned</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that in the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">6th century</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> boo Hara</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was the capital of</font> a mighty<font color="#CCCCCC"> kingdom of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Semites</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> which</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> also</font> ruled parts of India Pakistan and <font color="#E5E5E5">Afghanistan now in the 19th century</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Russian writer chevensky believed</font> that it was<font color="#E5E5E5"> in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> this region that the</font> Israelites<font color="#E5E5E5"> were settled but the people</font> who rule the area were called<font color="#CCCCCC"> as</font> crystallites<font color="#E5E5E5"> and right up</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to the present</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">day we are still debating the origins of</font> the heftily dynasty of<font color="#CCCCCC"> bukhara were</font> these<font color="#CCCCCC"> half</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> delights have you ever heard</font> of half<font color="#CCCCCC"> delights</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and you have the lights</font> here<font color="#CCCCCC"> I don't want to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> offend anybody</font> looking in the Britannica<font color="#E5E5E5"> and I found</font> half<font color="#CCCCCC"> delights and what does the first</font> line say it says this<font color="#E5E5E5"> much named and</font> enigmatic<font color="#E5E5E5"> tribe ruled Central Asia in</font> the fifths and<font color="#CCCCCC"> 6th centuries</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> are we</font> following here much named<font color="#E5E5E5"> many names and</font> enigmatic mysterious<font color="#E5E5E5"> tribe now why is a</font> tribe<font color="#CCCCCC"> that ruled Central Asia</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> for 200</font> years mysterious you'd think you'd get to know<font color="#E5E5E5"> them after the first hundred</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">years of rule</font> the second sentence was revelatory<font color="#E5E5E5"> as</font> well because it says they were known to <font color="#E5E5E5">medieval writers as</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> f2 lights and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> nefta</font> lights it seems to us that<font color="#E5E5E5"> the nefta lights</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">must have been the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> lost tribe of</font> Naphtali<font color="#CCCCCC"> but we</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> wanted some hard</font> archaeological<font color="#E5E5E5"> evidence</font> we went to the Tashkent Institute of <font color="#E5E5E5">Archaeology where we gained access to a</font> restricted facility<font color="#E5E5E5"> containing a</font> treasure of ancient artifacts<font color="#E5E5E5"> among them</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">twenty-two hundred year old portraits</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">clearly displayed on the ancient clay</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">his</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> aramaic script</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the day-to-day</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">language of the Israelite tribes here we</font> also met<font color="#E5E5E5"> professors manova a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">semi-retired archaeologist</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and what does</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">she have</font> she has wrapped in a tea towel wrapped in a tea towel<font color="#CCCCCC"> 1700 year old</font> religious ritual<font color="#E5E5E5"> object with Hebrew</font> writings with an Israelite name with ram's horns<font color="#E5E5E5"> a religious object of</font> Israelite origin from<font color="#E5E5E5"> exactly the area</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that the Lost Tribes went to a thousand</font> years<font color="#E5E5E5"> after</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> their supposedly disappeared</font> unbeknownst to<font color="#CCCCCC"> most Israelis the</font> majority of<font color="#CCCCCC"> baharon jews have now</font> emigrated to Israel<font color="#E5E5E5"> but the chain has</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">been broken they do not know</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that they</font> may be descendants of the<font color="#CCCCCC"> nefta lights</font> they say that we are<font color="#E5E5E5"> descendants of the</font> Lost Tribes but we don't know which<font color="#E5E5E5"> one</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">all we know is that Jewish that's what</font> it's important I hope<font color="#E5E5E5"> that with God's</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">help the redemption will come and with</font> it the in gathering of the tribes<font color="#E5E5E5"> then</font> we'll know which tribe we belong to until then we identify with the tribe of Judah if by my laws you walk and my <font color="#CCCCCC">Commandments you guard and do them I</font> will give<font color="#E5E5E5"> your</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> reign in due season</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> you shall eat your bread to<font color="#E5E5E5"> the full and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">you will dwell</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in your land safely</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and I</font> will be your God<font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you shall be my</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">people I am God your God who brought you</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">up from the land of Egypt</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that you</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> shall</font> not<font color="#CCCCCC"> be slaves to them</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and I have broken</font> the bonds<font color="#E5E5E5"> of your yoke that you may go</font> up right back<font color="#CCCCCC"> into Hara</font> it seems that the<font color="#CCCCCC"> nefta lights</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a once</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">mighty tribe of rulers have been reduced</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to a tiny community of a few thousand</font> who did not<font color="#E5E5E5"> flee after</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the collapse of</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Soviet Union</font> Oh [Music] Oh No [Music] [Music] once you could find<font color="#E5E5E5"> these people in</font> dozens of towns<font color="#CCCCCC"> darling the area now</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">there are only a few isolated Bihar and</font> Jewish enclaves<font color="#E5E5E5"> including this one in</font> the jewel of<font color="#E5E5E5"> Central Asia summer</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> county</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">a city with a history dating</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> back more</font> than<font color="#CCCCCC"> twenty-five hundred years</font> [Music] the word<font color="#E5E5E5"> conned in the local dialect</font> means<font color="#E5E5E5"> city</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Samarkand</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> translates as the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">city</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of the Sumerians</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Sumeria was the</font> capital of the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Northern Kingdom of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Israel</font> [Music] we continued along<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Silk Route</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">towards China</font> the city<font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Kazan was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the capital</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> city</font> of the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Han Dynasty following the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> NAFTA</font> light trail<font color="#E5E5E5"> we learned that the Chinese</font> records<font color="#E5E5E5"> say that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the nefta lights were</font> here they were<font color="#E5E5E5"> labeled Jews or</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Yuda by</font> the Chinese is virtually impossible<font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">identify during</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Chi Fang today but there</font> was<font color="#E5E5E5"> one government official who</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was</font> willing to<font color="#E5E5E5"> talk there was a Jewish</font> community<font color="#CCCCCC"> but now there is no more</font> Jewish community there's no no Jewish community anymore <font color="#CCCCCC">we are only a few families</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> this</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">synagogue former site of a synagogue</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it</font> can be<font color="#CCCCCC"> vital to hear that the to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> plan</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">aims only</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> for your reference is done</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> most<font color="#E5E5E5"> likely and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you will be refused to</font> your name<font color="#CCCCCC"> no no no no put that up</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> on</font> your window we did not find<font color="#CCCCCC"> Lost Tribes in China</font> waiting in their<font color="#E5E5E5"> Millions</font> but could the last use of<font color="#CCCCCC"> Chi Fang help</font> us in our<font color="#E5E5E5"> quest</font> [Music] again about<font color="#E5E5E5"> 300 years</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> ago our</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> synagogue</font> ceased to exist without the synagogue <font color="#E5E5E5">there</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was no place for the Jews to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">congregate without a congregation there</font> were no more rabbis without the congregation<font color="#E5E5E5"> without the rabbis without</font> the religious rituals<font color="#CCCCCC"> or readings of the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Scriptures there was no more worship</font> nothing was<font color="#E5E5E5"> left</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">nonetheless to this day there are</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Chinese people in Chi Fang whose</font> identity papers<font color="#E5E5E5"> still</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> describe</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> them as</font> Jews Judah see you<font color="#CCCCCC"> die you die</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> this is</font> his name<font color="#E5E5E5"> right yes does he think he is a</font> Jew [Music] amidst mementos of the last<font color="#CCCCCC"> Jews</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of Chi</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Fang we thought is it possible that the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Manasseh of Indian</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Burma</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> are the</font> remnants of an unknown<font color="#CCCCCC"> exodus across</font> Central Asia and China<font color="#E5E5E5"> perhaps it was</font> time to<font color="#E5E5E5"> further investigate the Manasseh</font> claim [Music] since time immemorial<font color="#CCCCCC"> we long for this</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Israel and we have sympathy for Israelis</font> nobody told us to feel<font color="#E5E5E5"> like that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> don't</font> know how it<font color="#E5E5E5"> comes</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you know whenever</font> there is earthquake then the eldest man of the house<font color="#E5E5E5"> he will run out of the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">house</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and salt oh we children of mud</font> machine are alive<font color="#E5E5E5"> we children of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Mercia</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">life he will</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> serve the least importance</font> and the top of<font color="#CCCCCC"> his voice</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> then he will</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">company</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> then he said nobody don't worry</font> nobody<font color="#E5E5E5"> then he</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he will</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> tell us our</font> ancestor has shaken the<font color="#E5E5E5"> earth to find</font> out<font color="#E5E5E5"> whether he descend there are still</font> alive or not [Music] there's something very poetic<font color="#E5E5E5"> about</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> possibility that the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Benassi of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">north-east india are the descendants of</font> an unknown long-forgotten<font color="#E5E5E5"> israelite trek</font> across<font color="#E5E5E5"> china into</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> burma</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> finally ending</font> up in<font color="#CCCCCC"> india and when we were with the</font> elders of<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Manasi they pulled out a</font> map that<font color="#E5E5E5"> illustrated exactly the journey</font> we had suspected<font color="#E5E5E5"> showing them starting</font> in<font color="#CCCCCC"> israel going across Central Asia to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">China</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> down into Burma into India and in</font> fact they went<font color="#E5E5E5"> further and started</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">singing a song</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in an archaic form of</font> their language a song not of the unknown <font color="#CCCCCC">Exodus but</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> this time a song of the known</font> Exodus<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Exodus will with which we're</font> all familiar the exodus of the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Red Sea</font> parting the exodus of eating quail that <font color="#E5E5E5">falls from heaven water coming from the</font> rock and<font color="#E5E5E5"> the enemies of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the Israelites</font> drowning in the Red Sea soon Asuma [Music] in<font color="#E5E5E5"> Bakke overall the first verse is</font> telling<font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Big Red Sea is a part</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">than the second verse those who are</font> going on foot across<font color="#E5E5E5"> that part at sea</font> then the water came<font color="#CCCCCC"> up together again</font> and the enemies were being swallowed by <font color="#CCCCCC">the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> sea they were being guided by</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> flame at night and<font color="#CCCCCC"> cloud during the day</font> then this one<font color="#CCCCCC"> pointed that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you please</font> pick up those birds<font color="#E5E5E5"> being scattered</font> there and then draw the water which<font color="#E5E5E5"> is</font> flowing<font color="#E5E5E5"> out</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of the rock</font> though their history demonstrates that <font color="#E5E5E5">their ancestors passed through China the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">manasa insists that they are not</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Chinese</font> and that<font color="#CCCCCC"> they have preserved customs</font> which are distinctly biblical<font color="#E5E5E5"> if we</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> upon</font> China<font color="#E5E5E5"> then how come we are not following</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the religion of the Chinese people</font> Chinese people religion is<font color="#CCCCCC"> too broadly</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">two one is confusion</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and another one is</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Buddhist into an</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in-depth two religions</font> there is<font color="#CCCCCC"> no</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> animal sacrifice but when I</font> was a<font color="#E5E5E5"> small boy</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">we kill some animal then we put big</font> plate<font color="#E5E5E5"> the blood of the animal was sent</font> there then the<font color="#E5E5E5"> priest</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> took some bushes</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">branches and dip it and thus painted the</font> doorpost in 1894 Protestant missionaries came to these<font color="#E5E5E5"> hills although they thought they</font> were converting pagans<font color="#E5E5E5"> it seems that the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">people here were</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> easily persuaded</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> embrace Christianity<font color="#E5E5E5"> because they saw</font> elements of their own<font color="#E5E5E5"> history and</font> mythology<font color="#CCCCCC"> in the biblical stories told</font> to<font color="#E5E5E5"> them the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> manasa always believed that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">they were from a far-off land kept many</font> biblical practices and<font color="#CCCCCC"> worship</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in a</font> single God [Music] when we learned that<font color="#CCCCCC"> Manasa eat pork</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we</font> thought<font color="#E5E5E5"> these could</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> not be</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Israelites</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">but interestingly</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they mix the pork with</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> ashes</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and regarded as a meal of</font> shame to be eaten<font color="#CCCCCC"> outside the home these</font> are the ashes ashes and then they'll<font color="#E5E5E5"> put</font> water in<font color="#CCCCCC"> here but this is what I wear we</font> call it soul<font color="#E5E5E5"> inside this they used to</font> put pork meat inside it and then they ferment it<font color="#E5E5E5"> and then it becomes smelly</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">when it becomes smelly they take out</font> this<font color="#E5E5E5"> portion then then we take</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it and</font> then we<font color="#E5E5E5"> put it and then we boil it it's</font> not<font color="#E5E5E5"> the middle</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> morning but I think</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it</font> shows us that<font color="#E5E5E5"> we</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> have</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> been cursed the</font> reason why we have<font color="#E5E5E5"> been thrown out from</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the land of our ancestors but according</font> to our forefathers<font color="#CCCCCC"> once you make this</font> meat and<font color="#CCCCCC"> their pork in here that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> means</font> you<font color="#CCCCCC"> have made this thing</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> unclean if</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">people ask us how</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> long you've been</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">eating this thing</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> this has been a curse</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">from generation to generation so</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we are</font> still<font color="#CCCCCC"> using this so we're waiting for</font> shit over<font color="#E5E5E5"> to come and deliver us from</font> all<font color="#E5E5E5"> these things she lava will redeem us</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">now that's a very strange construction</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">because</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Jehovah is the God of Israel and</font> Shiloh Shiloh<font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Hebrew was the holy</font> place for<font color="#E5E5E5"> the northern tribes for the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Lost Tribes</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and she lava seems to be a</font> fusion<font color="#E5E5E5"> of those two terms</font> she lava will redeem and the same person who said that<font color="#E5E5E5"> appeared to us in a tallit</font> in a prayer shawl which looked identical to<font color="#CCCCCC"> the prayer shawls</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that the Jews were</font> all over the world this<font color="#E5E5E5"> shawl is known</font> as the loop<font color="#CCCCCC"> 1 so this telephone</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> is</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> long traditional clothes worn<font color="#CCCCCC"> by our</font> forefather when they make a vow<font color="#E5E5E5"> suppose</font> if they make a vow of<font color="#E5E5E5"> a killing one</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">mitten or</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a tiger without</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> killing a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">tiger they will not come home once they</font> make<font color="#CCCCCC"> the vow with wearing this</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> shawl in</font> missile<font color="#CCCCCC"> Ptolemy never returned back</font> turning back<font color="#E5E5E5"> these are made with the</font> Bible commanded the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Israelites to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> tie a</font> blue<font color="#E5E5E5"> thread to the corners of their</font> garments yes this always a blue<font color="#E5E5E5"> thread</font> these people have<font color="#CCCCCC"> had a problem and that</font> the Jewish world couldn't relate to them <font color="#E5E5E5">no one answered their appeals no one</font> answered their cry<font color="#E5E5E5"> about</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> fifty years ago</font> a man named<font color="#CCCCCC"> cella</font> who was one<font color="#E5E5E5"> of their leaders they regard</font> him as a prophet told<font color="#E5E5E5"> them that the time</font> had come for them to return<font color="#CCCCCC"> to the land</font> of their<font color="#CCCCCC"> forefathers many got up and</font> were willing to<font color="#E5E5E5"> follow him</font> nobody said what land of our forefathers are you talking about<font color="#CCCCCC"> they all knew that</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the Holy Land</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was their ancestral people</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">call</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> my father a prophet and in a sense</font> he<font color="#E5E5E5"> was it was revealed to him that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we</font> were Israel but he wasn't a prophet<font color="#E5E5E5"> in</font> the sense that Jeremiah Ezekiel or Hosea <font color="#CCCCCC">were prophets no he wasn't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a prophet in</font> that way but in order for<font color="#CCCCCC"> us to realize</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">who</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we are</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he did have a revelation</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> God</font> did<font color="#CCCCCC"> not want us</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to be lost forever</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Daniel Benjamin's father was a follower</font> of<font color="#CCCCCC"> chala</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> like</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> charla</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he sought to</font> emigrate to Israel<font color="#CCCCCC"> the winner's lifetime</font> the Israeli authorities ignored<font color="#E5E5E5"> Daniels</font> father<font color="#E5E5E5"> he was buried facing Jerusalem my</font> father wanted very much<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> immigrate to</font> Israel it was in<font color="#E5E5E5"> fact one of the first</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> return to Judaism</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to start practicing</font> Judaism<font color="#E5E5E5"> in this part of India he was a</font> leader of<font color="#E5E5E5"> our community he also taught</font> me<font color="#CCCCCC"> a lot about Israel about Zionism</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">about</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Chuey</font> [Music] after<font color="#CCCCCC"> chela's death</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> some of his</font> followers concluded<font color="#E5E5E5"> that maybe they</font> should return to Judaism before <font color="#E5E5E5">returning</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to Zion since they were</font> reluctant<font color="#E5E5E5"> to completely abandon</font> Christianity<font color="#E5E5E5"> they opted for a homegrown</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">version of Messianic</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Judaism</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Jews for</font> Jesus type of worship but for some of the Manasseh<font color="#E5E5E5"> the call of their ancestors</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">eventually proved too strong to ignore</font> this picture<font color="#E5E5E5"> a picture which</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> shows how</font> the Torah is being brought from Ethiopia to<font color="#E5E5E5"> Israel see how great it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> Ethiopian Jews were like us they had great reverence<font color="#E5E5E5"> for the Covenant and</font> studied the Torah<font color="#CCCCCC"> with great dedication</font> they loved<font color="#E5E5E5"> Torah here they entered</font> Jerusalem<font color="#E5E5E5"> bringing their</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Torah with them</font> with great joy we too will soon<font color="#E5E5E5"> enter</font> Jerusalem thousands of manasseh have now forsaken <font color="#E5E5E5">Christianity and adopted Orthodox</font> Judaism<font color="#E5E5E5"> could these</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> people really be</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Menasha</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> because if they are we may have</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">identified as many as four</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of the Ten</font> Lost<font color="#CCCCCC"> Tribes of Israel Menasha</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> done being</font> the Ethiopians<font color="#CCCCCC"> in essa heart</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Naphtali</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> among the baharon Jews of</font> Central Asia<font color="#CCCCCC"> and if we were right to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">think of the blue herons as the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">descendants of Naphtali then maybe we</font> should be<font color="#E5E5E5"> looking</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> for Zebulon because</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Evelyn was the brother tribe of Naphtali</font> in<font color="#E5E5E5"> ancient Israel</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and history records</font> that<font color="#E5E5E5"> the same time as the nefta lights</font> were ruling Central Asia<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 1st</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> 6th<font color="#CCCCCC"> centuries</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> another tribe was ruling</font> parts of Afghanistan Pakistan and India this tribe was called<font color="#E5E5E5"> Zavala</font> [Music] so maybe we could find in<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Indian</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">subcontinent not on the border of Burma</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">descendants</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of the Zavala just as we had</font> found<font color="#CCCCCC"> descendants of the naphtha lights</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">in Central Asia</font> [Music] [Applause] in the course of<font color="#E5E5E5"> our research we</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">repeatedly came across a little-known</font> group<font color="#E5E5E5"> in India</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> could not be</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> easily</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">related to other Jews so we made our</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> way</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to Bombay in search of Zebulun</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Bombay is home to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 8 million Hindus and 1</font> million Muslims<font color="#E5E5E5"> here we found a</font> community numbering about<font color="#CCCCCC"> 5,000 that by</font> all accounts<font color="#E5E5E5"> should have assimilated</font> into the<font color="#E5E5E5"> dominant culture long ago and</font> though they do not<font color="#E5E5E5"> call</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> themselves by</font> any particular tribal name significantly <font color="#E5E5E5">like the Lost Tribes</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and unlike other</font> Jews<font color="#E5E5E5"> they call themselves the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> children</font> of Israel not Judah I am NOT<font color="#E5E5E5"> UD</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I am Ben</font> Israel<font color="#E5E5E5"> you</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> dis those Jews who migrated</font> to India<font color="#E5E5E5"> from Baghdad my family even</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Israel</font> [Music] [Applause] [Music] <font color="#CCCCCC">300 years ago a Jewish</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> merchant</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">travelling through</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the coastal region</font> was done to see Indian peasants<font color="#CCCCCC"> chanting</font> Jewish prayers fascinated he stopped inquire as to<font color="#CCCCCC"> how they knew these</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">prayers and was shocked when they</font> replied<font color="#CCCCCC"> that they were Israelites who</font> had lived in India<font color="#E5E5E5"> from ancient times</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">skeptical of these claims the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> merchant</font> visited the<font color="#CCCCCC"> village and presented the</font> B'nai Israel<font color="#CCCCCC"> with an assortment of fish</font> to be made into<font color="#CCCCCC"> a meal</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> some kosher some</font> not when he saw<font color="#CCCCCC"> that the villagers knew</font> which fish were kosher<font color="#CCCCCC"> he was convinced</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that they were an Israelite community</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and he helped them return to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Judaism</font> [Music] unique to<font color="#CCCCCC"> the bnei yisrael community is</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> melida ceremony</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> which is a kind of</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">offering of rice scented flowers and</font> fruit [Music] the shop<font color="#E5E5E5"> is the manager</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> God is</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> about</font> [Music] though they had<font color="#CCCCCC"> forgotten the reasons</font> behind some of<font color="#CCCCCC"> their practices the B'nai</font> Israel had clung to them as<font color="#E5E5E5"> something</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">precious to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> be passed through</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">generations</font> there were observing<font color="#E5E5E5"> certain rules and</font> regulations<font color="#CCCCCC"> of Judaism and when they got</font> an<font color="#CCCCCC"> opportunity of being told</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I said what</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> meaning was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of that particular thing</font> differed only<font color="#CCCCCC"> to happy</font> why should they lose<font color="#E5E5E5"> and nobody forced</font> us if they had said no you must become Hindu<font color="#CCCCCC"> no you must become mohammedans</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but</font> nobody ever cost us because<font color="#CCCCCC"> we were such</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">a minority in the whole population</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> India nobody<font color="#E5E5E5"> worried about</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> this but what</font> if they were<font color="#E5E5E5"> not</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> always a tiny minority</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">what if the mysterious rulers of</font> northern India in the 5th and 6th centuries<font color="#E5E5E5"> were indeed</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the Lost Tribe of</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Zebulun so</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> y'all chill ahem</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it's mom's</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">shit</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> beneath the Bene Israel</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> community's</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">own historian his name was high in Qarth</font> wrote a book about the Bene Israel at the turn of<font color="#E5E5E5"> the 20th century he believed</font> that<font color="#E5E5E5"> they</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> are descendants</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of the Lost</font> Tribes he thought the tribes were scattered<font color="#CCCCCC"> to the ends of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the earth and</font> some made their way to India he talks <font color="#CCCCCC">about various</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> practices they have and</font> compares<font color="#E5E5E5"> them to the rituals of the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">jerusalem temple</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> for example the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Malita</font> ceremony he argues that in an earlier <font color="#E5E5E5">period they even had sacrifices</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> like</font> those in<font color="#CCCCCC"> the temple</font> but these are all speculations<font color="#E5E5E5"> there is</font> no<font color="#CCCCCC"> documentation or proof</font> [Music] after<font color="#E5E5E5"> nearly three</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> millennia</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they may</font> not<font color="#E5E5E5"> be proof but there is a tantalizing</font> hint the holiest<font color="#E5E5E5"> site for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> denial of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">India is a rock outcrop 100 kilometers</font> south of Bombay [Music] <font color="#CCCCCC">gee honey</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> honey</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Malika shell Elia Ohana</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">be here we learned that the most revered</font> figure<font color="#E5E5E5"> for the B'nai Israel is not King</font> David or Abraham<font color="#E5E5E5"> or even Moses</font> it is the prophet Elijah the Jews in India believed that the prophet Elijah went to<font color="#E5E5E5"> heavens from this place the mark</font> of<font color="#CCCCCC"> his chariot</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> can be seen on the stone</font> rock that we are standing on<font color="#CCCCCC"> the hooves</font> can be seen laid down there and they said<font color="#E5E5E5"> that his</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> chariots</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> lived here and on</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> top of the mountains over there</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you</font> can see<font color="#CCCCCC"> another sign of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the hooves of</font> his horses [Music] using the rock as a kind<font color="#E5E5E5"> of altar</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Japanese</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I'll</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> make an offering of</font> coconut<font color="#CCCCCC"> on the mark of Elijah's chariot</font> this veneration<font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Elijah is suggestive</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">since Elijah was the prophet of the</font> Israelite tribes<font color="#E5E5E5"> that came to be lost</font> [Music] but how would they<font color="#CCCCCC"> have gotten</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> here the</font> community has its own<font color="#CCCCCC"> myths of origin</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">2,000 years ago</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> shift of Israel got</font> caught<font color="#CCCCCC"> in a swamp and the ship was erect</font> on<font color="#E5E5E5"> the course of Bombay and only seven</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">couples survived that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> particular</font> shipwreck and the seven copies landed at a place known<font color="#E5E5E5"> as now down and we are</font> supposed<font color="#E5E5E5"> to be the offshoot of those</font> seven couples the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Ori optional</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> makes</font> more<font color="#E5E5E5"> sense that those Israelites came</font> not directly from Israel<font color="#CCCCCC"> but from the</font> north<font color="#CCCCCC"> that is</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the area of the Silk Road</font> [Music] <font color="#E5E5E5">Israelites of the tribes exiled by the</font> Assyrians became involved in the silk trade trading<font color="#E5E5E5"> along one of the branches</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">of the ancient route that became known</font> as the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Silk</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Road</font> I believe that<font color="#E5E5E5"> these Israelites God as</font> far as Afghanistan<font color="#E5E5E5"> Pakistan and Kashmir</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">from there they got to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> where the Persian</font> Gulf meets the Indian Ocean<font color="#CCCCCC"> and then in</font> the course of<font color="#E5E5E5"> their trade they may have</font> sailed along the Indian coast [Music] whichever way they got here<font color="#CCCCCC"> double al</font> can still point<font color="#E5E5E5"> to the graves where the</font> survivors of<font color="#CCCCCC"> the shipwreck are said to</font> be buried it now seems<font color="#CCCCCC"> that we can draw</font> a plausible link<font color="#E5E5E5"> between the B'nai</font> Israel and seafarers coming<font color="#CCCCCC"> from the</font> north<font color="#CCCCCC"> but does this prove that the</font> ancient<font color="#CCCCCC"> rulers of northern India</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> had any</font> connection whatsoever<font color="#E5E5E5"> to the Lost Tribe</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">of Seville on</font> we have coins that say Java London<font color="#E5E5E5"> we</font> have recorded<font color="#E5E5E5"> history of the capital</font> city called boroughs which in<font color="#E5E5E5"> Hebrew</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">means blessed we know that the title of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">their King was mere hag Ola which in</font> Hebrew<font color="#E5E5E5"> means light of the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Exile and we</font> know the name<font color="#CCCCCC"> of the king their most</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">famous King was Torah</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> manna which in</font> Hebrew or Hindi means or seems to mean belief in the Torah<font color="#E5E5E5"> faith in the Torah</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">faith in the books of Moses</font> so unless<font color="#E5E5E5"> these were all coincidental we</font> could speculate that the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Zavala of India</font> and Pakistan<font color="#CCCCCC"> were really the lost tribe</font> of Zebulun as if responding<font color="#E5E5E5"> to an ancient call many</font> of the B'nai Israel of Bombay have returned<font color="#E5E5E5"> to their ancestral home</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in</font> Israel they gravitate towards Elijah's cave and continue to<font color="#CCCCCC"> demonstrate their</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">reverence for the biblical prophet</font> Elijah<font color="#CCCCCC"> Scaife</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> is in the old territory of</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Zebulun standing in this cave</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I must</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">confess that I felt that I was in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Twilight Zone</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> because</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I was among people</font> who were acting<font color="#E5E5E5"> out a script that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was</font> written almost<font color="#CCCCCC"> 3,000 years ago and they</font> seemed to<font color="#E5E5E5"> be fixated</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> on the Prophet</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">warned the tribes of their exile and</font> promised them<font color="#E5E5E5"> Redemption</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in the end of</font> days<font color="#E5E5E5"> but there was a problem here</font> the prophecy<font color="#CCCCCC"> speaks of millions and this</font> was a small group<font color="#E5E5E5"> the biggest tribe we</font> had found<font color="#E5E5E5"> was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Menasha a million and a</font> half perhaps the clue was there<font color="#E5E5E5"> because</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the brother tribe of Manasseh was a</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">frying so perhaps we had to look for a</font> frame for<font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we had to go back</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to our</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">treasure map</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we had to go back</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to the</font> Bible in the<font color="#CCCCCC"> 8th</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> century BC the biblical</font> account of<font color="#E5E5E5"> the facts is fully reliable</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">about the reasoning about the wise and</font> and<font color="#E5E5E5"> house that is something else but</font> about what happened<font color="#E5E5E5"> we can fully trust</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> biblical account it is fully</font> parallel to what we<font color="#E5E5E5"> found in</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">archaeological excavations you miss</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">tequila that volume I look at</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> things as</font> a believer<font color="#CCCCCC"> for me the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> scriptures are</font> paramount<font color="#CCCCCC"> in the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> book of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Kings we find</font> in several places references to where the tribes were exiled also in the book<font color="#E5E5E5"> of Chronicles</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it says</font> in these texts<font color="#CCCCCC"> that they were exiled to</font> five places first<font color="#E5E5E5"> the mountains of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Medes this is in the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> direction of</font> Kurdistan<font color="#E5E5E5"> and the Caucasus second the</font> river goes in<font color="#E5E5E5"> third</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Halla fourth</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Jara</font> Jara<font color="#E5E5E5"> where are these places in modern</font> Syria there are places that roughly correspond to the biblical locations <font color="#E5E5E5">there is a river called hvar and nearby</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">there</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is a city</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> called goes on it's very</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">interesting few documents were found</font> recently in the in<font color="#E5E5E5"> the city on the river</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">hub or called rocket</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> limo a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> german</font> excavation and 1993<font color="#CCCCCC"> they were published</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">so only</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> four</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> documents</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I think and in</font> one<font color="#E5E5E5"> or two of them there are</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Israelite</font> names<font color="#CCCCCC"> one</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of them is Hezekiah Hezekiah</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">now the date is the first years here</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">dear to our what of Nebuchadnezzar so</font> that means they are<font color="#E5E5E5"> not Julian's</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> definitely<font color="#CCCCCC"> Israelites</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Israelites on in</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> area of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Kippur where they should be</font> today there<font color="#E5E5E5"> are no Israelites waiting by</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the river hvar but what if they moved</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">east</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> taking their place names</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> with them</font> [Music] one of the passes between Afghanistan and<font color="#CCCCCC"> Pakistan</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> is known to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> world as</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Khyber Pass</font> [Music] [Music] the Khyber Pass is one of the most <font color="#E5E5E5">lawless and dangerous places on earth it</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">is the heart of Pakistan's Northwest</font> Frontier<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Wild West of the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> East</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> first thing one notices<font color="#E5E5E5"> is that the</font> Pakistani government has<font color="#E5E5E5"> no real</font> authority<font color="#E5E5E5"> here the only</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> way to obtain</font> safe passage<font color="#E5E5E5"> is to travel with an armed</font> escort<font color="#E5E5E5"> from the ruling people in the</font> area<font color="#E5E5E5"> the path</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> ends</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they have guarded the</font> Khyber Pass for more than<font color="#CCCCCC"> 2,000 years</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">driving</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> away Genghis Khan the British</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Army and most recently</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the Soviets</font> in<font color="#E5E5E5"> Hebrew it's known as</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> hovel pass</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> same name as in the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Bible and next to</font> the Khyber Pass<font color="#E5E5E5"> there's a city called</font> Peshawar<font color="#E5E5E5"> in Pakistan Peshawar means the</font> same thing<font color="#CCCCCC"> the hover pass so we thought</font> could the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Khyber behave or in the Bible</font> if it is there should be here a river called Gaza<font color="#E5E5E5"> and right there flowing into</font> the Kabul River is<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> river Ghazni</font> if this is<font color="#CCCCCC"> hvar we thought there should</font> be somewhere<font color="#E5E5E5"> around here</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the city</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Hara</font> and<font color="#CCCCCC"> 300 kilometers away in Afghanistan</font> there's a<font color="#E5E5E5"> city</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Herat</font> [Music] the whole world knows this<font color="#E5E5E5"> area is a</font> hotbed of<font color="#CCCCCC"> Islamic fundamentalism there</font> are 15 million<font color="#CCCCCC"> paths</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> ends and not</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">single Jew</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> among them but</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we set out</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> investigate<font color="#E5E5E5"> whether under</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the Islamic</font> surface<font color="#E5E5E5"> lies an</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Israelite past</font> [Music] the first clue<font color="#E5E5E5"> was the fact that the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Pathan's claimed to descend from</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Afghan</font> son of King Saul of<font color="#E5E5E5"> Israel from their</font> perspective Afghanistan is an<font color="#E5E5E5"> Israelite</font> name at worship<font color="#CCCCCC"> is seem</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> like any other</font> Muslims on<font color="#E5E5E5"> studying</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the Quran however</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">they rocked their bodies in the manner</font> of Jews [Applause] to this day it is<font color="#E5E5E5"> an ancient code called</font> Putin<font color="#CCCCCC"> wali</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> rather than Islamic law</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> which</font> commands their ultimate loyalty<font color="#E5E5E5"> it is</font> edible for<font color="#E5E5E5"> tuna roll</font> Putin<font color="#E5E5E5"> is really as a fifth region itself</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">is not we have got our</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> own code</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font> conduct<font color="#E5E5E5"> and not</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that whatever</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> is</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Quran</font> says<font color="#CCCCCC"> Putin are believing</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that we don't</font> do much<font color="#E5E5E5"> other thing which</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> are</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that turn</font> red by<font color="#CCCCCC"> foreign really that's why it is</font> said it is<font color="#E5E5E5"> provoked</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they took</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to him</font> Quran nominee<font color="#CCCCCC"> Oh pocket opens up mazhab</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">do a talk</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to Wally</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the code</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of the</font> portal<font color="#E5E5E5"> and what is this poster Wally</font> it's basically Old Testament law in a kind of unforgiving way where you don't <font color="#CCCCCC">have any kind of rabbinical softening of</font> it<font color="#E5E5E5"> I for an</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> means I for an</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> literally</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">adultery you're finished if there is a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">conflict between your own Putin wali law</font> and Islam which is<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> path</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> times</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> choose</font> our customs are those of<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Poquelin or</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">pathology there are</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> eleven Pathan tribes</font> in the<font color="#CCCCCC"> crap we all have the same customs</font> the main law here is the Islamic sharia but we Pathan follow our<font color="#E5E5E5"> own specific</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">port and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> male customers for example</font> according<font color="#E5E5E5"> to Islam there must be</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">established evidence for the conviction</font> of adultery<font color="#CCCCCC"> you cannot convict anyone</font> without<font color="#E5E5E5"> sufficient evidence of fact but</font> according to booked and wali<font color="#E5E5E5"> if there is</font> even<font color="#CCCCCC"> the slightest</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> suspicion of an</font> illegitimate relationship between a man and a woman both are convicted<font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> killed the matter is closed<font color="#E5E5E5"> and there is</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">nothing left to discuss</font> as in the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Bible</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the path and still</font> engage in animal sacrifices<font color="#E5E5E5"> for</font> religious purposes<font color="#CCCCCC"> I am of the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> moose</font> ahem the people of Moses<font color="#E5E5E5"> we make</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> sacrifices</font> of sheep<font color="#E5E5E5"> for example at a wedding</font> festival our elders would<font color="#CCCCCC"> sacrifice for</font> sheep<font color="#E5E5E5"> today when times are</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> good a man</font> can<font color="#CCCCCC"> sacrifice 10 sheep we make these</font> sacrifices<font color="#E5E5E5"> to please God</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> people</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> too also</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> some people used</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to light oil lamps on Friday nights to</font> ask for forgiveness<font color="#E5E5E5"> and blessings from</font> God such are our traditions we are in a <font color="#CCCCCC">country that is supposedly dominated by</font> Muslims but not Muslims just<font color="#E5E5E5"> any Muslims</font> Muslim fundamentalism and yet we come<font color="#E5E5E5"> face to face with</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> people</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that say we are</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Musa hell we are from</font> the people<font color="#CCCCCC"> of Moses</font> [Music] and as we travel among these people<font color="#CCCCCC"> who</font> look like this stepped off the pages<font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> the Bible<font color="#CCCCCC"> somatic</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> faces long beards</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">biblical garbed prayer</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Schultz</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and as</font> the evidence<font color="#E5E5E5"> mounted we could not help</font> but feel that<font color="#CCCCCC"> maybe here among the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">patterns of Afghanistan and Pakistan</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we</font> would find the answers to our quest [Music] we were astounded<font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> learn</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that the</font> patterns adhere to biblical laws that were thought<font color="#E5E5E5"> to have disappeared</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">thousands of years ago as in the Bible</font> those accused of manslaughter<font color="#E5E5E5"> can escape</font> to designated cities of refuge it is mentioned<font color="#E5E5E5"> in our old books that if you</font> kill someone<font color="#E5E5E5"> and intentionally then you</font> can flee to a designated<font color="#E5E5E5"> place of refuge</font> our books tell us<font color="#E5E5E5"> that Moses ordered</font> Joshua to establish cities of refuge<font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">told the people</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they should honor</font> today we educated people<font color="#E5E5E5"> think it is</font> backwards to protect<font color="#E5E5E5"> a criminal in this</font> way but the people in<font color="#E5E5E5"> those areas</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Refuge</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> look upon the matter as</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> holy to</font> protect a fugitive is the sacred<font color="#E5E5E5"> job of</font> the elders they treat him<font color="#E5E5E5"> as the guest</font> it seemed the<font color="#E5E5E5"> path hands are trapped in</font> time tenaciously adhering to<font color="#E5E5E5"> their</font> ancient<font color="#E5E5E5"> ways they've literally created a</font> wall between themselves<font color="#CCCCCC"> in the outside</font> world<font color="#E5E5E5"> they live in these extended family</font> compounds<font color="#CCCCCC"> they're women</font> hidden inside as in the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Bible</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the Pathan women</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> observe</font> a code of<font color="#E5E5E5"> modesty which rarely allows</font> them to emerge I asked the pattern how could you have <font color="#CCCCCC">loved songs when you</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> keep your</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> woman</font> hidden<font color="#E5E5E5"> it's what a man</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> singing a song to</font> someone<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the kitchen</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> from the other</font> room<font color="#CCCCCC"> the dining room</font> he said no<font color="#CCCCCC"> he laughed and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> said all</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">our love songs</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> take place that dwells</font> the only legitimate place for a<font color="#E5E5E5"> woman in</font> modesty to be seen as at the well<font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">immediately it struck me that every one</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">of the biblical</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> romances happens that a</font> well Moses<font color="#CCCCCC"> means sapore a - well right</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Jacob meets Rachel and Leah</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> at - well</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Rebecca</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> for Isaac is</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> method - well it's</font> only that the<font color="#E5E5E5"> world</font> [Music] to enter the path and<font color="#CCCCCC"> marketplaces is to</font> step back in time defying all probabilities the path<font color="#E5E5E5"> and still live in</font> tribal<font color="#E5E5E5"> groups with</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> israelite names</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Rabbani is similar to the tribe of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">reuben Levani</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the tribe of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> levy and shin</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">wari</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the tribe of Shem on one path and</font> tribe known as<font color="#E5E5E5"> garden is very</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> small in</font> numbers not unlike the Lost Tribe of<font color="#E5E5E5"> God</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">interestingly the most numerous tribe</font> among the<font color="#E5E5E5"> path hands is Afridi and the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">most numerous tribe in ancient Israel</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">was a frame</font> [Music] [Music] there is even<font color="#CCCCCC"> a sub tribe called was</font> Erie known for wearing its hair long<font color="#E5E5E5"> in</font> biblical times <font color="#CCCCCC">nas Erie</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> such as Samson also did</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> not cut</font> their<font color="#CCCCCC"> hair</font> [Music] so you have<font color="#CCCCCC"> Reuven God Ephraim Shimon</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">four more tribes</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> so we'd actually</font> located<font color="#E5E5E5"> nine of the tribes or let me put</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">it differently</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we think we located nine</font> of the tribes<font color="#E5E5E5"> if we haven't</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> located nine</font> of the tribes<font color="#CCCCCC"> then it's a very strange</font> coincidence going on that you have all these people<font color="#E5E5E5"> with biblical names with</font> biblical practices with an Israelite memory exactly where they<font color="#CCCCCC"> should be</font> according to<font color="#E5E5E5"> the biblical map someone</font> can<font color="#E5E5E5"> come up</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> with</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> another</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> explanation I'm</font> open<font color="#E5E5E5"> to it</font> but I<font color="#E5E5E5"> couldn't understand it there are</font> people<font color="#E5E5E5"> living among the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> paths</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> hands who</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">claimed descent from the Assyrians and</font> still<font color="#E5E5E5"> preserve an oral tradition of the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">conquest of Israel our tradition is that</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">2,700 years ago my people conquered</font> Israel<font color="#E5E5E5"> and took the tribes there to the</font> areas we ruled Iran<font color="#E5E5E5"> Turkey Armenia</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> whose</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Becca</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> stands and Afghanistan the</font> Israelites were taken to all of these <font color="#E5E5E5">places they acted as our surface they</font> acted<font color="#CCCCCC"> as tutors for the Assyrian</font> children they were also used in<font color="#E5E5E5"> the army</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> help us earlier in warfare</font> when I was young and had no beard my grandfather's uncle died at the age <font color="#E5E5E5">of 115 we called him Baba or grandfather</font> he<font color="#E5E5E5"> used to say that we are</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> children</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of Israel I was young and that that age</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">people forget things they don't care</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">much about</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> history or talk of this kind</font> but now I would<font color="#CCCCCC"> like</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> know what are</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">our origins where do we come</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from our</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">grandfather's always told us</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that we are</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">from the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Bani Israel</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> children of</font> Israel<font color="#CCCCCC"> they said the Jews are as</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> pathan</font> as we are it's<font color="#E5E5E5"> clear that a Judaic</font> memory persists<font color="#E5E5E5"> but were there ever</font> people<font color="#E5E5E5"> here who openly identified with</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Judaism if you look up Herat</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">encyclopedia</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Judaica for example you'll</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">find one or two paragraphs</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> if you look</font> up a<font color="#CCCCCC"> western jewish community you'll</font> find pages<font color="#CCCCCC"> and pages and pages</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and when</font> you look up<font color="#CCCCCC"> Herat</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it says the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> jewish</font> community<font color="#E5E5E5"> may have</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> been in Herat for</font> somewhere<font color="#CCCCCC"> between a thousand</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and two</font> thousand years they're talking about<font color="#E5E5E5"> a</font> community that<font color="#CCCCCC"> lived somewhere for at</font> least a thousand<font color="#CCCCCC"> years and there's a</font> paragraph<font color="#CCCCCC"> or</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> two</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> on them what does this</font> tell<font color="#E5E5E5"> us it tells us that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they're lost or</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">consciousness that they've fallen off</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Western radar screen</font> [Applause] [Music] in Herat<font color="#E5E5E5"> we find this cemetery covered</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">with stars of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> david and hebrew script</font> for at<font color="#E5E5E5"> least a thousand years</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it served</font> one of the oldest continuous<font color="#E5E5E5"> Jewish</font> communities<font color="#CCCCCC"> in the world the Jews of</font> Herat are no more the<font color="#E5E5E5"> last of them left</font> in<font color="#E5E5E5"> the late 1980s following the Soviet</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">invasion the country is now torn by</font> Civil<font color="#E5E5E5"> War and yet</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a Pathan</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> tribesman</font> agrees to take us to one<font color="#CCCCCC"> of the old</font> synagogue [Music] so<font color="#E5E5E5"> Melissa</font> for hundreds<font color="#E5E5E5"> of years</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> people entered</font> this house of prayer<font color="#E5E5E5"> through the grand</font> doorways leading into<font color="#CCCCCC"> its beautiful</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">sanctuary today we enter</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> through an</font> artillery hole blasted<font color="#E5E5E5"> by Soviet shells</font> [Music] there is now a tiny community<font color="#CCCCCC"> of Afghani</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Jews in Israel</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> like the blue herons</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they</font> are largely<font color="#E5E5E5"> unknown here they remember</font> their former<font color="#E5E5E5"> Pathan</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> neighbors is not</font> quite Jewish but<font color="#CCCCCC"> perhaps related to them</font> in some<font color="#CCCCCC"> way they were the ones who wore</font> these prayer shawls<font color="#E5E5E5"> four-cornered</font> garments like<font color="#E5E5E5"> we do and they didn't</font> really<font color="#E5E5E5"> know what they were and they used</font> to<font color="#CCCCCC"> be surprised to see us</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> wearing</font> similar things they would<font color="#CCCCCC"> say to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> us</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">you're Jews how could you be Jews</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they'd</font> be surprised I remember them coming<font color="#CCCCCC"> from</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the border</font> areas from<font color="#E5E5E5"> the mountains from Pakistan</font> places like Jalalabad<font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I remember</font> people<font color="#E5E5E5"> said that to this</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> day they still</font> lit candles on the Sabbath<font color="#E5E5E5"> and they</font> would put the candles under<font color="#E5E5E5"> these</font> baskets and<font color="#E5E5E5"> didn't know why they were</font> doing it<font color="#E5E5E5"> they</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> had all these traditions</font> they didn't know the origins of except they said that is what our forefathers <font color="#CCCCCC">did did they think they were</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Jewish</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they</font> thought they were more Jewish than us the prophets say that equal numbers<font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> Israelites and<font color="#CCCCCC"> Judeans will herald the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Messiah interestingly the number of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> path</font> hands and Jews in the world<font color="#E5E5E5"> is virtually</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">identical</font> the prophecy also<font color="#E5E5E5"> foretells that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it is</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Menasha</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a frame that will take the</font> lead<font color="#CCCCCC"> in the return in India we had</font> encountered<font color="#CCCCCC"> the Menasha</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> if we were right</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">here among the Afridi we had come face</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">to face with a frame however before we</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">could</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> accept at the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> end of days was upon</font> us<font color="#CCCCCC"> we needed more proof on the road</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font> Armageddon<font color="#CCCCCC"> it now seemed appropriate</font> that<font color="#E5E5E5"> our journey take us through a</font> minefield we needed harder evidence that the path hands were of the Lost Tribes<font color="#E5E5E5"> so we went</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">to the Afghani city of Kandahar</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> where in</font> the 1950s a stone covered<font color="#E5E5E5"> an ancient</font> script<font color="#E5E5E5"> was discovered during the Soviet</font> invasion<font color="#CCCCCC"> this stone was buried under</font> rubble<font color="#E5E5E5"> and surrounded by mines here red</font> dots mark<font color="#E5E5E5"> undetonated mines which we</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">skirted to get to the site</font> [Music] <font color="#CCCCCC">2,300 years</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> ago the buddhist emperor</font> ashoka put our propaganda pillars throughout his empire<font color="#CCCCCC"> until the kandahar</font> discovery<font color="#E5E5E5"> it was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> thought that these</font> stones were always<font color="#CCCCCC"> written</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in Sanskrit</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">but the stone buried here is written in</font> Aramaic in other words the people<font color="#E5E5E5"> then living</font> here spoke<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the everyday language of</font> the Israelite tribes we came here with<font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> local elder in<font color="#E5E5E5"> the hope of photographing</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">it but in its present</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> state that proved</font> impossible<font color="#E5E5E5"> it's under here</font> the stone is<font color="#CCCCCC"> very big and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> there is</font> ancient<font color="#E5E5E5"> writing all over</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> same hard</font> surface as this one but no one<font color="#CCCCCC"> can get</font> to<font color="#E5E5E5"> it now this</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is definitely the place</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">there's no point in looking</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> any further</font> we did look further we were tipped<font color="#E5E5E5"> off</font> that across the border in Pakistan <font color="#E5E5E5">there was another stone rarely mentioned</font> by Western scholars here<font color="#E5E5E5"> the stone was</font> accessible to<font color="#CCCCCC"> our surprise</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we discovered</font> that it too was<font color="#CCCCCC"> not</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> written in Sanskrit</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">but in the Aramaic alphabet</font> I see all the letters<font color="#E5E5E5"> the olive the iron</font> and<font color="#E5E5E5"> I'm</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> standing in front of this twenty</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">three hundred</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> year old postcard from</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Lost Tribes and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> when we pack</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> up our gear</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we go and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I'm</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> like in shock</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> cuz I</font> didn't<font color="#E5E5E5"> expect</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> find it I was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> thinking</font> it's in ghandahar<font color="#CCCCCC"> I didn't know there</font> was<font color="#CCCCCC"> another one</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> here and there's two</font> more<font color="#E5E5E5"> in places we didn't go and one has</font> on it the Hebrew month<font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Elul</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> so then</font> this guy<font color="#E5E5E5"> comes up</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to me and they told</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> me</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">don't say you're Jewish don't say</font> anything<font color="#CCCCCC"> because people here</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> are very</font> Muslim they may not take kindly<font color="#E5E5E5"> to you</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">so he says why were you able to read</font> that and I feel<font color="#CCCCCC"> I don't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> want</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to lie to</font> this guy<font color="#E5E5E5"> and I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> said because</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I'm a Jew</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> this person who's</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> supposed to be my</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">enemy leans over</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> with tears in his eyes</font> embraces me and says<font color="#E5E5E5"> then you are my</font> brother so maybe it was happening<font color="#E5E5E5"> maybe the end</font> of time was unfolding<font color="#CCCCCC"> I was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> standing</font> there<font color="#E5E5E5"> and I got goose</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> bumps I said wait</font> a<font color="#CCCCCC"> minute is</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> this it</font> am I gonna am I making a film or am i turning<font color="#E5E5E5"> into the reporter from</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Armageddon</font> but then<font color="#E5E5E5"> something struck</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> me we never</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">found people who claim to be Cohen's</font> priests and that's a big<font color="#E5E5E5"> problem</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> because</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">if we're really analyzing prophecy</font> return of the tribes leads to messianic times messianic times leads to the rebuilding of<font color="#CCCCCC"> the temple of God in</font> Jerusalem<font color="#E5E5E5"> and that leads to the renewed</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">rituals that take place there</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and that</font> requires a ritually pure<font color="#E5E5E5"> cast of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> priests</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and there are none among the tribes and</font> in<font color="#E5E5E5"> western Jews none that can claim</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font> they are ritually pure descendants<font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">all of this priestly class so what's</font> going on here<font color="#E5E5E5"> on the one hand it seems</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that prophecy is unfolding and on the</font> other hand<font color="#E5E5E5"> key characters in the</font> biblical<font color="#CCCCCC"> drama</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> are missing</font> perhaps we had<font color="#E5E5E5"> stumbled on some kind of</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">eternal punishment</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> preserved in their</font> tribal units on the edges of<font color="#E5E5E5"> deserts the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">lost Israelites were waiting for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Redemption</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that would</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> never come</font> or perhaps<font color="#E5E5E5"> everything we thought we</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> had</font> found was a passing Mirage [Music] there was one lead we hadn't<font color="#CCCCCC"> followed</font> one tribe whose descendants we had not <font color="#CCCCCC">encountered the tribe of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Asher</font> since the Cohen priests were not living <font color="#E5E5E5">among the other tribes</font> perhaps if<font color="#CCCCCC"> we located</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Ashur we would</font> find the key to the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Cohen enigma</font> is it possible that there's little <font color="#CCCCCC">enclose</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> somewhere of pure</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> cones kept</font> there<font color="#CCCCCC"> until the blast of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the great horn</font> the tribes have come<font color="#E5E5E5"> home</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that heavenly</font> trumpets will call them out and say do your priestly duty for that we went looking<font color="#E5E5E5"> to the place</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that usher would be</font> there were seafarers and they were an alliance with the Canaanites they sailed the seas together<font color="#CCCCCC"> and the biggest</font> definition or<font color="#CCCCCC"> Canaanite colony was in</font> Carthage<font color="#E5E5E5"> modern Tunisia</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> so we went to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the one place we hadn't been to to look</font> for the one tribe that we had made no contact with and just<font color="#E5E5E5"> a few</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> hundred</font> kilometers down the<font color="#CCCCCC"> road</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> after coast of</font> Tunisia<font color="#CCCCCC"> there's</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> an island and on that</font> island<font color="#E5E5E5"> there's a community that are</font> being there since biblical times [Music] the name of the island<font color="#CCCCCC"> is Djerba</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it is</font> home to a Jewish community the Tunisians value for<font color="#E5E5E5"> its silversmiths most</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">historians</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> maintain</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the theory that the</font> Jewish community in<font color="#CCCCCC"> Juba is the oldest</font> community<font color="#CCCCCC"> in jewelry in the whole world</font> some of<font color="#E5E5E5"> them they say that the Jewish</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">community was established</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> even before</font> the construction<font color="#E5E5E5"> the first temple but</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we</font> now learned is<font color="#CCCCCC"> that the community split</font> into two distinct quarters<font color="#E5E5E5"> one for</font> Spanish Jews who arrived<font color="#CCCCCC"> here in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> 16th century and one made up not of Ash rights but of<font color="#CCCCCC"> Cohens and no one else</font> how's the<font color="#CCCCCC"> hostility</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> there is a small</font> quarter on<font color="#E5E5E5"> the island near</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the ancient</font> synagogue<font color="#E5E5E5"> there is a bigger Jewish</font> neighborhood called the large quarter the larger quarter is mainly made up of Jews who arrived here<font color="#E5E5E5"> after their</font> expulsion from Spain also<font color="#CCCCCC"> are the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Jews</font> of various ethnic<font color="#E5E5E5"> backgrounds came to</font> live there the smaller<font color="#E5E5E5"> quarters on the</font> other hand is made up essentially of Cohen<font color="#CCCCCC"> three sets who arrived here</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> after</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the destruction of the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> first temple in</font> Jerusalem in biblical times<font color="#E5E5E5"> a new chief</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">queen</font> I am from the Joseph Cohen<font color="#CCCCCC"> family I have</font> it from<font color="#E5E5E5"> my father and my father's father</font> that our tradition is<font color="#CCCCCC"> that we came</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from</font> the priestly neighborhood we are<font color="#CCCCCC"> coins</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and it is two thousand years that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we</font> have<font color="#E5E5E5"> been living here in this tiny</font> island the story goes that this community<font color="#CCCCCC"> was</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">founded in biblical times</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> by temple</font> priests that quarreled with<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> religious hierarchy in Jerusalem here <font color="#E5E5E5">they found a place of refuge</font> setting up the<font color="#E5E5E5"> grievous synagogue which</font> locals still consider one of<font color="#E5E5E5"> the holiest</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">sites in Judaism</font> [Music] according to<font color="#CCCCCC"> the Cohen's tradition the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">greeba contains a treasure trove of gold</font> and silver<font color="#E5E5E5"> relics destined for use by</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Kohen priests in the future</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">jerusalem</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> temple to be erected after</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> apocalypse<font color="#CCCCCC"> the sacred</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> treasure is</font> supposedly<font color="#E5E5E5"> buried beneath the shrine in</font> a crawl<font color="#CCCCCC"> space under the main sanctuary</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">we did not find any relics what we did</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">find however is the foundation stone</font> whose original inscriptions<font color="#CCCCCC"> if there</font> were any had been covered by the black <font color="#CCCCCC">soot of countless candles very treasure</font> or not what<font color="#E5E5E5"> is clear is that the cones</font> of<font color="#CCCCCC"> Gerba have maintained a communal</font> priestly tradition<font color="#E5E5E5"> found nowhere else in</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the world</font> you know<font color="#CCCCCC"> Gerba</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> is the island of :</font> priests<font color="#CCCCCC"> all our Cohens</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> are</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you a corn</font> yes<font color="#E5E5E5"> and so is he</font> when<font color="#E5E5E5"> did you cons get here with Ezra the</font> scribe in biblical<font color="#CCCCCC"> times</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it's a heritage</font> passed on from generation<font color="#E5E5E5"> to generation</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">we are some of the very few</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Kohanim</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> who</font> have the<font color="#E5E5E5"> authentic Christian lineage</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">from those days</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> up to the present the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Ash rights</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> had eluded us but they did</font> lead<font color="#E5E5E5"> us to the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> counts</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it appears that if</font> needed<font color="#E5E5E5"> temple priests are available to</font> bring<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Messianic age ensuring that</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> return of the tribes would not be in</font> vain there is a divine promise<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the Bible</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that the tribes will return</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that they</font> will be<font color="#CCCCCC"> united</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that they will prosper</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and grow and this is a promise that was</font> uttered<font color="#CCCCCC"> by many of the prophets Isaiah</font> Jeremiah Ezekiel<font color="#CCCCCC"> in very flowery</font> language<font color="#E5E5E5"> in very nice metaphors like in</font> Ezekiel<font color="#E5E5E5"> but now there</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> flaw there is</font> a promise hanging there<font color="#E5E5E5"> which has not</font> been<font color="#E5E5E5"> fulfilled</font> if the divine<font color="#E5E5E5"> promises fulfilled</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">millions</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> believe that this place</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Armageddon will be</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> at the center of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">events</font> [Music] it is here that<font color="#E5E5E5"> long ago Israelite</font> tribes put up one of<font color="#CCCCCC"> their fiercest</font> battles against<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Assyrians but the</font> new age will<font color="#CCCCCC"> be heralded only when the</font> descendants of those ancient<font color="#E5E5E5"> warriors</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">return</font> [Music] Daniel Benjamin is one<font color="#CCCCCC"> of the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> few who</font> have made it from<font color="#CCCCCC"> the India Burma border</font> to Israel if he is from<font color="#CCCCCC"> the lost tribe</font> of manasseh<font color="#CCCCCC"> he is one of the first</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Israelites to serve in the Jewish army</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">in nearly 3,000</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> years the very first</font> time I came<font color="#E5E5E5"> here</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> all</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> my thoughts</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">everything</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> my mind was about</font> my<font color="#CCCCCC"> father</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Thoth</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> blessed</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Mary who passed to the</font> next<font color="#CCCCCC"> world</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> before</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he got the opportunity</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> come</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> here to our country so the first</font> time I arrived in<font color="#E5E5E5"> this place</font> I cried in<font color="#E5E5E5"> my heart my dream is that</font> every one of<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Bnei Menashe</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> at least a</font> million<font color="#CCCCCC"> two will come here</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> with God's</font> help our young people<font color="#CCCCCC"> will then go into the</font> army<font color="#CCCCCC"> and we'll build the Land of Israel</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the end</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Messiah will come and</font> rebuild the<font color="#CCCCCC"> holy temple I pray for this</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I pray that the ingathering takes place</font> and the Messiah leaders <font color="#E5E5E5">seeing Daniel praying next to an</font> Ethiopian Israeli<font color="#E5E5E5"> I couldn't</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> help but</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">wonder if the story had come full circle</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">if the tribes of Dan and Manasseh had</font> begun the long prophesied return of the <font color="#E5E5E5">lost Israelites the lost tribes of</font> Israel<font color="#CCCCCC"> are no longer lost the lost</font> tribes of Israel have never<font color="#E5E5E5"> been lost what was lost is</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">our consciousness</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> what was lost</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> is our</font> sensitivity<font color="#CCCCCC"> to parts of the world that</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">are not Western we were lost to them</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">they've</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> never been lost to themselves</font> [Applause] long<font color="#E5E5E5"> ago the Israelites were given the</font> prophetic promise that once atonement had been made there would be<font color="#CCCCCC"> a bright</font> messianic future and the staff of Judah would be rejoined with<font color="#E5E5E5"> the staff of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Joseph the tribes finally reunited these</font> people now<font color="#CCCCCC"> believe that there are nearly</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">three thousand year exile is over and</font> that<font color="#CCCCCC"> their redemption is at hand</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">celebrating with their rabbi they</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">proclaim not the beginning</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of the end</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">but the beginning of a new beginning</font> [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] <font color="#E5E5E5">you</font>
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