Posted on 09/25/2011 7:13:32 PM PDT by Just4Him
You gave accurate facts — THAT is worth praising.
but since this is a Christian little girl they'll just rap e her and then sell her as a slave -- the tolerant Izlamic scum
Those are ancient Israelites -- descended from Naphtali, right?
I find it funny that they are clubbed with the Middle East, and of course the Arabs laugh at them
The only place out of their five constituent countries they have succeeded is West Panjab. -- really? the Punjabis have given up their culture -- what sad folk Mozlems are...
under the Tughlaks etc. the language of government was Persian or Turkic (Chagatai)
The Mughals too used Farsi like Akbar
Urdu/Hindi only came into being around 1800 and was the official language of British Indian only from the 1830s as Hindustani
Most of what you say is accurate but not this part.
Farsi was indeed the official language of government for most of Mogul rule. But Hindustani (Urdu/Hindi) was the vernacular language of most of North India for this whole period.
The British simply "officialized" the vernacular, much as when Europe switched from Latin to the various vernacular languages during the Renaissance and Reformation. Or when the English dropped French as the language of government for English.
that was kind of my point. She’ll be lucky to even survive.
I don’t know if they’re from Naftali, but they generally come from around Uzbekistan. My chavruta in yeshiva was a Buchara born in Uzbekistan, and he never mentioned any claim of descent from a lost tribe.
From what I had read, the Bukharan jews date back over 2000+ years and some traditional accounts are that they are descended from Naphtali
Well, live and learn. I never knew. So that makes three known lost tribes. The Bnei Menashe are now in Israel from Northeastern India. The Bnei Dan are here from Ethiopia, and now we have Bnei Naftali from Uzbekistan and Samarkand.
I wonder about the Bnei Menashe — wasn’t there some controversy that they don’t have the Israeli gene?
Never heard of it. Do provide a link, please.
They were living in rural isolation in India, keeping the laws of family purity, praying three times a day, having a Cohen offer the Passover sacrifice of a lamb on an altar, and observing many other of the minutiae of Jewish religious life, and with a history of their exile 2,700 years ago.
Even so, they and the Ethiopians were required to convert before becoming citizens. That is SOP for highly isolated, though ancient, communities, and actually is a favor, so that the tangled question of mamzerut (children born to adulterous relationships, such as where a divorce was not really valid, but the spouse remarried anyway) is completely preempted.
But before becoming Pentecostalist they were headhunters, animists.
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