"Elohym shall enlarge Yaphet/Japheth,

and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem..."

 Be'ray'shyt/Genesis 9:27

 

 

 

 

 

Are Jewish People Edom?

 

Shalom  Beautiful Daughters of Tzyon,

 

This is the day that YAHWAH has made…REJOICE, REJOICE, REJOICE!!!

 

For years I have heard that the “Jewish” people are descendants of Edom/Esau, (the brother of Ya’qob/Jacob).  Many  Israelite congregations  teach this doctrine, but it is not Scriptural; it's just that, some Israelite congregations doctrinal teaching, which is in great error!!!  Let us take a look at Esau/Edom.  Let's go to Be’ray’shyt/Genesis 25:25, and it says "²⁵ The first came forth red, all his body like a hairy mantle; so they called his name Esau."  Many Israelites believe that Esau/Edom was a white/caucasian person because of how he was described from birth.  But actually, Esau was just a "light skinned" brother .  Also many teach this doctrine of Jews being Edom because of this verse as well: Be’ray’shyt 25:23, and it says "And YAHWAH said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples, born of you, shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the elder shall serve the younger."  They take this as "two races" instead of "two nations", which is great error!  Esau's name was changed to Edom because : "And Esau said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red pottage, for I am famished!" (Therefore his name was called Edom.)", not because he was "white."

 

Here is proof why Jews cannot be Edom:

 

1) Esau's parents were "black",  Ytzqakh and Reebkhah (Issac and Rebecca), his grandparents were black, Abraham and Sarah. 

 

2) Let's take a closer look at Esau.  Look at the women that Esau married, "When Esau was forty years old, he took to wife Yehudeet/Judith the daughter of Be-e'ri the Hittite, and Bas'emath the daughter of Elon the Hittite", the Hittites were "black."  Also, in Be’ray’shyt 28:9 "Esau went to Ish'mael and took to wife, besides the wives he had, Ma'halath the daughter of Ish'mael, Abraham's son, the sister of Neba'ioth".  We see here that Esau married one of Yshmael's daughters.  Now remember Yshmael was the son of Abraham and Hagar (the Egyptian). 

 

Now everyone knows that the majority of the ancient egyptians were a "jet black" people.  All of the wives of  Esau my sisters, were "black"; let's say that Esau was a "white" man, now with all the "black" wives that he had, there is no way that “all” his offspring today in 2008 would be "white"!!!  Especially with "black" being the dominant color!

 

There you see from Scripture, that Edom are not the Jews/or white!!!  Again, teaching that Jews are Edom is great error!!!  The Jews  are from "Yaphat/Japheth" the majority of them even refer to themselves as Ashkenaz, not from Shame/Shem.  Jews ARE NOT the Biblical Children of Ysrael!

 

"Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

 

The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

 

And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood". Be’ray’shyt/Genesis 10:1-3

 

I pray that this topic brings clarity to any and all erred teachings on who the descendants of Edom are NOT.  Truth can always be found in Scripture!

 

In Messiah,

AnaYah

 

 

So just who "are" Jewish people?  Let's take a peek shall we...

 

 

 

The Thirteenth Tribe   The Khazar Empire and its Heritage   Arthur Koestler  

This book traces the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern Europe, which in A.D. 740 converted to Judaism. Khazaria, a conglomerate of Aryan Turkish tribes, was finally wiped out by the forces of Genghis Han, but evidence indicates that the Khazars themselves migrated to Poland and formed the craddle of Western (Ashkenazim) Jewry...

The Khazars' sway extended from the Black sea to the Caspian, from the Caucasus to the Volga, and they were instrumental in stopping the Muslim onslaught against Byzantium, the eastern jaw of the gigantic pincer movement that in the West swept across northern Africa and into Spain.

Thereafter the Khazars found themselves in a precarious position between the two major world powers: the Eastern Roman Empire in Byzantium and the triumphant followers of Mohammed. As Arthur Koestler points out, the Khazars were the Third World of their day, and they chose a surprising method of resisting both the Western pressure to become Christian and the Eastern to adopt Islam. Rejecting both, they converted to Judaism.

The second part of Mr. Koestler's book deals with the Khazar migration to Polish and Lithuanian territories, caused by the Mongol onslaught, and their impact on the racial composition and social heritage of modern Jewry. He produces a large body of meticulously detailed research in support of a theory that sounds all the more convincing for the restraint with which it is advanced.

Mr. Koestler concludes: "The evidence presented in the previous chapters adds up to a strong case in favour of those modern historians - whether Austrian, Israeli or Polish - who, independently from each other, have argued that the bulk of modern Jewry is not of Palestinian, but of Caucasian origin. The mainstream of Jewish migrations did not flow from the Mediterranean across France and Germany to the east and then back again. The stream moved in a consistently westerly direction, from the Caucasus through the Ukraine into Poland and thence into Central Europe. When that unprecedented mass settlement in Poland came into being, there were simply not enough Jews around in the west to account for it, while in the east a whole nation was on the move to new frontiers" (page 179, page 180).

"The Jews of our times fall into two main divisions: Sephardim and Ashkenazim.

The Sephardim are descendants of the Jews who since antiquity had lived in Spain (in Hebrew Sepharad) until they were expelled at the end of the fifteenth century and settled in the countries bordering the Mediterranean, the Balkans, and to a lesser extent in Western Europe. They spoke a Spanish-Hebrew dialect, Ladino, and preserved their own traditions and religious rites. In the 1960s, the number of Sephardim was estimated at 500000.
The Ashkenazim, at the same period, numbered about eleven million. Thus, in common parlance, Jew is practically synonymous with Ashkenazi Jew." (page 181).

In Mr. Koestler's own words, "The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated."

Mr. Koestler was an Ashkenazi Jew and took pride in his Khazar ancestry. He was also a very talented and successful writer who published over 25 novels and essays. His most successful book, Darkness at Noon, was translated in thirty-three languages.
As expected, The Thirteenth Tribe caused a stir when published in 1976, since it demolishes ancient racial and ethnic dogmas...At the height of the controversy in 1983, the lifeless bodies of Arthur Koestler and his wife were found in their London home. Despite significant inconsistencies, the police ruled their death a suicide...

 

Here's an excerpt from the book...

 

"How important is that quantitive 'presence' of the Caucasian Sons of Japheth in the tents of Shem? One of the most radical propounders of the hypothesis concerning the Khazar origins of Jewry is the Professor of Mediaeval of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, A.N. Poliak.  His book Khazaria (in hebrew) was published in 1944 in Tel Aviv and a second edition in 1951. In his introduction he writes that the facts demand --

'A new approach to the problem of the relations between the Khazar Jewry and other Jewish communities and to the question of how far can we go in regarding this [Khazar] Jewry as the nucleus of the large settlement in Eastern Europe...The descendents of this settlement--those who stayed where they were, those who immigrated to the United States and to other countries, and those who went to Israel--constitute a large majority of world Jewry.'

This was written before the full extent of the holocaust, but that does not alter the fact that the large majority of surviving Jews is of Eastern European -- and thus mainly of Khazar -- origin.  If so this would mean that their ancestors came not from the Jordan but from the Volga, not from Canaan but from the Caucasus, once believed to be the cradle of the Aryan race; and that genetically  they are most closely related to the Hun, Uigar, and Magyar tribes than to the seed of Abraham, Issac and Jacob." (from the chapter, Rise, The Thirteenth Tribe, ppg 16 and 17)

 

 

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Russian archaeologists find long-lost Jewish capital

Posted Wed Sep 3, 2008 10:14pm AEST

Russian archaeologists say they have found the long-lost capital of the Khazar kingdom in southern Russia, a breakthrough for research on the ancient Jewish state.

"This is a hugely important discovery," expedition organiser Dmitry Vasilyev said from Astrakhan State University after returning from excavations near the village of Samosdelka, just north of the Caspian Sea.

"We can now shed light on one of the most intriguing mysteries of that period - how the Khazars actually lived. We know very little about the Khazars - about their traditions, their funerary rites, their culture," he said.

The city was the capital of the Khazars, a semi-nomadic Turkic peoples who adopted Judaism as a state religion, from between the 8th and the 10th centuries, when it was captured and sacked by the rulers of ancient Russia.

At its height, the Khazar state and its tributaries controlled much of what is now southern Russia, western Kazakhstan, eastern Ukraine, Azerbaijan and large parts of Russia's North Caucasus region.

The capital is referred to as Itil in Arab chronicles but Mr Vasilyev said the word may actually have been used to refer to the Volga River on which the city was founded or to the surrounding river delta region.

Itil was said to be a multi-ethnic place with houses of worship and judges for Christians, Jews, Muslims and pagans. Its remains have until now never been identified and were said to have been washed away by the Caspian Sea.

Archaeologists have been excavating in the area if Samosdelka for the past nine years but have only now collected enough material evidence to back their thesis, including the remains of an ancient brick fortress, he added.

"Within the fortress, we have found huts similar to yurts, which are characteristics of Khazar cities.... The fortress had a triangular shape and was made with bricks. It's another argument that this was no ordinary city."

Around 10 university archaeologists and some 50 students took part in excavations in the region this summer, which are partly financed by the Jewish University in Moscow and the Russian Jewish Congress.

 

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