BETE ISRAEL aka FALASHA(Ethiopian black Jews in the Israeli army/air force. Yityish “Titi” Aynaw, Miss Israel 2013, is back in uniform for the IDF doing reserve duty for Israel JUDAHS RESTORATION (Historical facts. The return of the Ethiopian black Jews. From my book The weeping prophet A journey of an Ethiopian Messianic Jew into the spirit realm. A journey of an Ethiopian Messianic Jew in search of his Jewish roots The book of Jeremiah and Ezekiel talks about Gods promise of Judah restoration. These two books tells us the Lord will gather His chosen ones that had been scattered for thousands of years from every part of the earth and bring them to their home land Israel before the end times. This prophesies has been fulfilled. We saw state of Israel become a nation in 1948. The European Jews, the American Jews, the Russian Jews and recently about 120 thousand Ethiopian black Jews (Falasha) from the lost tribe of the house of Israel and tribe of Judah, from the land of the queen of Sheba has made it home to Israel after three thousand years away from home. Amazingly, they did not lose their identity, Judaism practice of Torah, worship or faith “Once they were kings. A half million strong, they matched their faith with fervor and out-matched the Muslim and Christian tribesmen around them to rule the mountain highlands around Lake Tana. They called themselves Beta Israel—the house of Israel—and used the Torah to guide their prayers and memories of the heights of Jerusalem as they lived in their thatched huts in Ethiopia. But their neighbors called them Falasha—the alien ones, the invaders. And even three hundred years of rule, even the black features that matched those of all the people around them did not make the Jews of Ethiopia secure governors of their destiny in Africa” (“Falasha: The Forgotten Jews,” Baltimore Jewish Times, November 9, 1979). For centuries, the world Jewish community was not even aware of the existence of the Jewish community of Ethiopia in the northern province of Gondar. The miracle of Operation Solomon is only now being fully understood; an ancient Jewish community has been brought back from the edge of government-imposed exile and starvation. But once they were kings. . . THE QUEST OF THE LOST ARK OF THE COVENANT. Discover the most shattering historical secret of the last three thousand years- the quest for the lost Ark of the Covenant. Beta Israel (the Falasha) lived in North and North-Western Ethiopia, in more than 500 small villages spread over a wide territory, among Muslim and predominantly Christian ruling populations. Most of them were concentrated in the area around Lake Tana (the source of the Blue Nile) and north of it, in the Tigre, Gonder and Wello regions, and among the Semien, Wolgait, Dementia, Segelt, Lasta, Quara, Belesa, and small numbers lived in the cities of Addis Ababa At one time or another, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity all had home here. All of them have flourished in the Axumite Empire the civilization that was once the mightiest power in all Africa. One of the powerful Ethiopian Christian beliefs is, they are the custodian of the lost Ark of the Covenant. Ethiopians believe the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon’s affair was genuine. According to Flavius Josephus a Jewish historian an aristocrat a Pharisee and a prophet who lived in Roman occupied Jerusalem in the first century AD in his Antiquities of the Jews, the prophet had described her as the Queen of Ethiopia. The bible said, she had traveled to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones. 1 King 10 The prophet lived In Ethiopia in the 70 AD. Also he witnessed the distraction of the temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD. The social and cultural evidence in Ethiopia itself very strongly supported that countrys claim to be the last resting place of the Ark. Since I now also knew that no other country or place had a strong claim, I am more inclined than ever to believe that the Ark really is there. Nevertheless, the final pieces of the jigsaw puzzle remained to be put in place. If the Queen of Sheba had not been Solomon lover, and if she had never borne him a son called Menelik (King of Ethiopia) as the legends claimed, then who in fact had brought the Ark to Ethiopia-and when, and under what circumstances? Each of Ethiopian 20,000 churches contained a replica of the Ark of the Covenant. I have been to several of them and saw the Ark myself. Ethiopia is the oldest Christian nation in the world and a land locked country formerly known as the “Abyssinian high land” and is the second mountainous country in the world next to Switzerland Isolated from the rest of the continent by its rocky-terrain land. Nearly all of the Ethiopian Beta Israel community, more than 120,000 people, resides in Israel under the law of return which gives Jews and those with Jewish parents or grandparents, and all of their spouses, the right to settle in Israel and obtain citizenship. The Israeli government has mounted rescue operations, most notably during (Operation Moses) in 1984 and in 1991, (Operation Solomon) for their migration when civil war and famine threatened the Jewish populations within Ethiopia. Some immigration has continued up through present day. Today 81,000 Ethiopian Israelis were born in Ethiopia, while 38,500 or 32% of the community are native born Israelis. The absorption of the Ethiopians into Israeli society marks a unique and mostly successful attempt to incorporate a nonwhite group as equal citizens with full rights as part of a western predominantly white country. Are you not like the people of Ethiopia to Me, O! Children of Israel?” says the LORD. Amos 9:7(NKJV) The Falasha has been widely regarded as true Jews since the early nineteenth century- though they were not formally recognized as such by the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem until 1973. Two years later the Ashkenazim Chief Rabbi followed suit, opening the way for the Israeli Ministry of the Interior to declare that the Ethiopian black Jews were entitled to automatic citizenship of Israel under the term of the Law of Return. Ironically the main reason that rabbinical recognition was so long delayed was the pronouncedly Old Testament character of Falasha religion which did not in any way incorporate or refer to the Talmud (the authoritative body of Jewish law and lore accumulated between( 200 BC and AD 500.) This made the Falasha seem quite alien to many Israel and other Jews; it was later accepted, however, that ignorance of Talmudic precepts was simple a function of the fact that the Ethiopian arm of the faith must have been cut off from the evolving body of word Judaism at some extremely early date. The same isolation also explained the Falasha continuing adherence to practices that had long been forbidden by the rabbis, notably animal sacrifice. The important point -which weighed heavily when official recognition was finally granted in the 1970s- was that the social and religious behavior of the black Jews did clearly and unambiguously conform to the teaching of the Torah (Old Testament ) Moreover, within the Torah, as one would expect of pre-Talmudic Jews whose religious beliefs were genuinely ancient, they showed the greatest respect for the Pentateuch (I.e.) the five books believed by the orthodox to have been written by Moses himself, namely Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy) This fundamentalism within Falasha religion was typified by their strict observance of the food restriction enumerated in the books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy and by their refusal to eat any animal- clean or not- that had been slaughtered by a Gentile. It was also recognized that they paid meticulous attention to the Mosaic laws of cleanliness and purity. Special huts, for example, were set aside for those members of the community considered to be temporary in stats of ritual impurity -such us menstruating women, who were segregated for seven days in line with a Levitical edict. Falasha circumcision ceremonies (gezrat) were equally traditional, taking place on the eighth day after the birth of a male child, exactly as stipulated in the Pentateuch. As an Ethiopian Jew, I myself was circumcised accordingly after eight days of my birth. Likewise Falasha Sabbath procedures were rigorously orthodox with all fires being extinguished before sunset on Friday, and on the Sabbath itself no work of any kind being done, no water being drawn, no fire being lit, no coffee being boiled , and only the consumption of cold food and drink being permissible. Grownup I have witnessed that my grandmother Tsehaitu (sun shine) followed all the Jews traditions meticulously. She was a dedicated woman of God that gave most of her life serving the Lord in the temple of God. Falasha have neither synagogues nor rabbis; instead their places of worship are called Mesgid and their religious officials’ kahenat (singular Kehen, meaning priest), The Mesgid (place of worship) is identifiable by the Star of David on its roof top. The Falasha populations are found in the Semian mountain of the northern part of Ethiopia not far from the sacred place Axum where the Ark of covenant believed to be. Axum was once the capital city of the Queen of Sheba. Most of the Falasha are identified by the tattoo (mark) of the Star of David on their forehead, chest, and hands and by the necklaces of the Star of David. I myself as a Messianic Jew wear one with a cross center of Star of David. Falasha”s reading is from the five book of Torah. Growing up as a little boy, I have traveled and lived in different places of the Tigray and Begemider provinces with the Falasha exercising and practicing my Judaism faith along with my families.
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