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                                         The Rabbi's Study:
            "WHAT JUDAISM REALLY SAYS ABOUT JOSEPH'S SEED!"

                              By Rabbi Moshe Koniuchowsky

                                    Series 4 of 6: (Part 1 of 2)



                 What Judaism Really Says About Joseph's Seed!

                               By Rabbi Moshe Koniuchowsky

              Part Four In A Series On The Full Restoration of Israel

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Despite the denials of large segments of Messianic Judaism and the
blindness of major parts of Christendom, the ancient Jewish rabbis,
leaders and sages had understanding and revelation into the status and
whereabouts of the House of Joseph. There was very little mystery
surrounding the "ten lost tribes", as there seems to be today. These
sages understood that the House of Joseph, also known as the ten
tribes, were not only never lost, but had keen awareness of exactly
what had become of them. The very idea that they were lost, or that
somehow Yahweh could not trace them, was considered an anti-Semitic
doctrine, that sadly wished away the people of Israel. Most of the
ancient sages have based their insights on Scripture and therefore
they are to be considered most valid. Their extraordinary conclusions
in most cases, do line up with Scripture.

Those in modern day Messianic Judaism, need to reconnect with the past
understanding in this area, in order for other traditional Jews to
take them seriously as a legitimate form of Judaism. Almost all of the
great sages of our nation had some kind of virtual agreement regarding
the House of Israel or Ephraim, which became a separate nation from
the rest of the House of David officially in 921BC and remains so to
this day. The Scriptures that ancient Judaism used to validate
Ephraim's eternal chosen status and eternal existence, were found in
such clear texts as Psalm 60:9, where Ephraim (a term used for the
collective ten tribes of the north), is called the strength of
Yahweh's head. In order for the ten tribes to be lost, Yahweh would in
essence have to lose His strength or His very head!

Jeremiah 31:9 declared to the ancients that the nation of Israel was
His eternal son (Hosea 11:1) and that Ephraim would always be the
firstborn to Him. Later in Jeremiah 31: 20, Yahweh reminds all of us,
that despite His past pronouncements against His firstborn son
Ephraim, He earnestly and sincerely, remembers him and therefore will
have mercy on him.

This pronouncement by Yahweh, is in direct contrast to those within
modern religious circles, who have announced Ephraim as missing in
action, or dead on arrival and a mere figment of the imagination of
two-house proponents. If Yahweh remembers and recognizes them as still
being functional as individuals within the world (though never fully
reassembled as a distinct nation any time before Yahshua), we must not
forget that we as Messianic Jews, are in fact our brothers keeper.
Psalm 80:1 is a clarion call to those who consider themselves true
shepherds of Israel, to lead Israel as does Yahweh Himself, the one
who dwells between the cherubims.

Verses 1-3 of Psalm 80, state that in order to be a New Covenant
shepherd after Yahweh's own heart, the people that the shepherd must
lead are EPHRAIM AND BENJAMIN, not just Benjamin. If a shepherd of
Israel recognizes that the people of Israel he is leading are a
redeemed remnant from both houses, then that individual will be able
to minister to all the former lost sheep of the children of Israel.
From Scripture it is abundantly clear that Judahites and Ephraimites,
who have been redeemed by Yahshua's precious blood, both have
different needs to be met by loving pastoral care. These needs are
often very different. In order for Messianic leadership to dispense
the proper pastoral care, we must first recognize the differing needs
within the flock that is being led.

According to Psalm 80, that flock is identical to the one our Heavenly
Father Himself leads from heaven. Whether we fully understand this
biblical principle of two-house restoration through Messiah or not, it
is nevertheless incumbent upon us to realize that salvation is the
saving grace to all Israelites from both houses! Both houses are
represented within our flocks, for that is the way the Master Yahshua
has ordained it. We must adjust our leadership accordingly. Our
leadership must take on more of an acceptance and allowance for
Joseph's seed, just as did the ancient sages of the Jewish people.

An early Jewish work called the Zohar, stated that Israel (10 tribes),
is represented by a rose, the description of which represents the
Tudor Rose of England. In contrast, the rose among the thorns (Song of
Solomon 2:2), is said to be the full assembly of Israel (12 tribes)
among the nations. Just as the rose petals are red and white among the
thorns, all of Israel is dispensing a dual positive aroma of justice
and mercy among the gentiles. The Rose Of Israel is said to have 13
petals for the 13 tribes including Levi, but the English Tudor Rose
only has 10 petals. Why ten? The British Empire, dominated by the
predominant tribe of Ephraim, is composed of ten tribes! The rabbis
have confirmed that in the precincts of the two ancient Temples on Mt.
Moriah, was a special rose garden situated between the current wailing
wall and the actual temples (Mishnah Middott ch.1). According to the
ancients of Judah, this rose garden will have to be replanted when the
third temple is built. Since many believe that the USA is primarily
composed of Manasseh/Israelites, it is most interesting that there is
a rose garden in front of the White House in America, named America
according to many Jewish rabbis because of Machir, Manasseh's
firstborn son.

The Zohar also describes the future return of the ten tribes with the
House of Judah. Rabbi Eliezer of Pirkei Avot fame stated "Every prince
or great man that arose in Israel, was given the name Ephrati."
Ephrati is defined as one who is an aristocrat or noble man. The
Talmud believed that descendents of the House of Ephraim became noble
aristocrats wherever they were scattered. In the Talmud Yalkut
Shimeoni A77, commenting on First Samuel 1:1, Rabbi Raddak states that
"Ephrati is taken to mean someone from the tribe of Ephraim and of
noble birth." These rabbis understood that when the House of Joseph
was scattered around the world, they would turn up in the west as
nobles, aristocrats and monarchs. Rabbi David Kimchi who lived in
1157-1236, in his commentary entitled Radak, said, "in the mountain of
Ephraim means greatness and importance." Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Levi
states that "Ephraim means those who dwell in the palace, or an
extremely noble person living in Mt Ephraim. The implications are
clear. The ancient sages understood that the ten tribes would flourish
as noblemen every where they went. Nowhere is this truth found more
than in the former British Empire and her colonies, where the class of
nobility is separated from the commoners to this day.

The Talmud states in Yebamot 17 B, that the ten tribes of scattered
Israel in their places of exile, are legally "gentiles" for all
intents and purposes as far as keeping Torah and halachah are
concerned. This clear traditional rabbinical understanding stands in
direct opposition to much of Messianic Judaism, who swear by heaven
that saved gentiles returning (Acts 15:19) to the Sukkah of David,
cannot possibly be lost Israelites. This pontification stands in
direct contrast to Yebamot 17B which while not inspired by the Ruach
Hakodesh, does give us insight into the consensus of the traditional
Jewish rabbis. Malachi 4:4 reminds us, that in the restoration of
Israel all Israel will keep Torah, since Yahweh states that it was
given for all Israel, not just for Jewish Israel.

The rabbis understood that Isaiah 49 was a clear reference to the
location of the ten tribes of Israel. In Isaiah 49:1, Yahweh speaks to
the isles and the people of Israel far away. These are the isles of
the Atlantic Ocean (Britain, coastlands of Europe, North America).
These places are mentioned in Isaiah 49 in direct correlation with the
tribes of Israel. The flag of Britain is called the Union Jack, or the
Commonwealth of Jacob. In Isaiah 49:5, Scripture states that the
Messiah would be formed (born) primarily to "bring Jacob back." Back
from where? According to verse 1, Israel will return from the
coastlands and islands of Britain, Northwest Europe and North America.
Isaiah 49:6 states that the Messiah, Yahweh's personification of all
that is Israel (Hosea 11:1), will be Yahweh's chosen and formed
servant to "bring Jacob back." The Messiah would lighten the nations
or gentiles, in order to rescue the preserved ones (notzrim) of Israel
and through this rescue, the restoration of the tribes would occur.
This includes all 12 tribes from both houses (verses 5-6). The phrase
ends of the earth in verse 6, indicates the location from where this
rescue of Israel's preserved ones will occur. According to the Jewish
sages, the term ends of the earth in verse 6 mean all the peoples who
dwell "in the geographical extremities of the continental land masses,
furthest away from Jerusalem, considered to be the earth's center. Rav
Shaul (Paul), confirms this midrashic interpretation in Ephesians
2:17-19, where he calls those returning FROM FAR or from the ENDS OF
THE EARTH, as reclaiming citizenship in Israel by Messiah's blood and
by His determined search and rescue mission for the ten tribes
(Ephesians 2:13)! The term "far off" or "ends of the earth", is not as
is commonly taught, a term for gentiles. Rather it is and has always
been a catch phrase, for scattered Israel amongst the gentiles, who
were said to be "far away" from Jerusalem, the geographical, cultural
and religious center of the globe. In Isaiah 49:8-9, this same servant
of Yahweh, is said to be given to the people of Israel as a "Brit-Am"
or a covenant of the people. The ancient rabbis understood this to
mean, that Messiah would restore the earth by causing the "covenant
people" of Israel, to inherit the world's desolate heritages. Through
colonialism, the peoples of Northwest Europe, the British Empire and
other places of Israelite dispersion (Denmark, Ireland, France, Spain
etc.), would inherit the former desolate heritages. These desolate
heritages include but are not limited to Australia, New Zealand, South
Africa, Europe and parts of North America. These desolate heritages
were positively influenced by the Brit Am or the Covenant People, that
Yahshua is said to be bringing back. Verses 9-11 of Isaiah 49, teach
us the stabilizing influence upon the desolate heritages, that ten
tribe Ephraim will exert, which will allow them to also inherit these
lands, by the theocratic freedom they will proclaim.

The midrashim Numbers Rabah 1:6, Eicah Rabah 2:9, (Jerusalem Sanhedrin
17:6,29) on these verses (Isaiah 49:9-11) comment as follows: Rabbi
Beracahiah and Rabbi Chelbo, in the name of Rabbi Shmuel Bar Nachman
said. "To three places was Israel (Ephraim) exiled. One to beyond the
Sambation River, one to Daphneh of Antioch and one to where the clouds
came down and covered them. In the same way that the tribes east of
the Jordan River were also exiled to three places (Reuben, Gad and
half of Manasseh). How do we know this? From the verse that says "to
the prisoners go forth" (Isaiah 49:9). These are those exiled beyond
Sambation. "To them that are in darkness, show yourselves", these are
those whom the cloud descended upon and covered. "Let them feed on the
ways and let their pasture be on all the bare hills." These are those
exiled to Daphne of Antioch."

Isaiah 49:10-11, speak of the fact that the ten tribes of
Ephraim/Israel will settle and return from an area not lacking in food
and water. Verse 11 states that their migratory path away from Israel
to far away places, would be primarily through mountainous terrain.
History shows (Josephus and others), that the bulk of the tribes of
Ephraim, were resettled north of Assyria in the Caucasus mountains.
These mountains provided the way towards their eventual migration
westward and Northwest into Europe. This is substantiated from
Scripture. In Hosea 11:10 when Ephraim/Israel learns to follow Yahweh,
they will roar like a lion. Obviously it is the Lion of the tribe of
Yehudah who teaches them to roar. They mimic His roar as a verbal sign
of the end of their Diaspora. When Ephraim puts forth the roar of
Judah's Almighty Lion, the sons of Ephraim/Israel, according to this
verse "shall tremble from the west." They can only come trembling from
the west if they have settled in the west (Europe, North America and
the Atlantic Ocean's coastlands).

Hosea 12:1 states that Ephraim in their rebellion, followed an east
wind, which blew them directly west of Jerusalem. When they return in
obedience through Judah's Lion, they will follow a west wind, which
will blow them and carry them back directly east to the Middle East
and into the land of Yisrael! According to Hosea 6:2, this return of
the House of Israel to the children of Israel, will occur two days or
two thousand years after Messiah's appearing, so that starting with
the third millennium AD, they can be raised up to zoe (abundant) life
in Messiah. The commencement of the third day (2001 AD), is destined
to bring renewed life to Ephraim/Israel and takes place at the close
of the second day, or the two thousandth year since Messiah's first
advent!

Rashi, also know as Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchazki (lived in France in the
11th century), is perhaps the most revered Jewish commentator on
Scripture in the history of the Jewish nation. One would be hard
pressed to find a Hebrew Tanach (First Covenant), without his
commentary footnoted for every single verse on the bottom of every
page. Rashi's commentary on this verse teaches that Ephraim will
return in the days of the building of the third temple (third
millennium AD). Once that third temple is built, you and I can expect
to see the floodgates of Ephraimite/Christian/Zionist immigration,
spill over from tiny modern Israel, into the greater Israel, promised
to the patriarchs (Zechariah 10:10). These are those days my friends.
May they never end!

Isaiah 49:12 talks about Israelites coming from far away and
specifying this return as coming from the north, the west and the land
of SINIM. Sinim, according to Rashi and the Aramaic translation of
verse 12, is the land of "the south." The land farthest away and
furthest south from Israel is Australia! In the Latin Vulgate
translation of the Bible by Jerome, the word in verse 12 for Sinim is
Australi, or in English Australia! Rashi attributes the lost tribe of
Simeon to Australia, the "great Southland." Furthermore, the name
Sinim contains the root word for Sinai, both the mountain and the
entire Sinai Peninsula. The Sinai Peninsula hosted a large population
from the tribe of Simeon. In many respects Australia is similar to the
Sinai Peninsula. In verses 14-17 of Isaiah 49, we see ten tribe
Israel's response to their end time ingathering. They are commanded to
sing songs of Zion in verse 13 and to give up their old refrain of "we
are lost and forgotten." It is the Messiah Yahshua who puts a new song
in their heart, replacing the old "lost and forsaken" lament.

In verse 16 of Isaiah 49, we see that it is by the nail scarred
imprints in Yahshua's hands which He received on Golgotha, that this
restoration takes place. He reminds the scattered sheep of the House
of Israel to look at the nail scarred hands of Messiah and realize
that they have not been forgotten, lost, or forsaken. This passage has
to be referring to Israel (Ephraim), since Judah had not yet been
taken captive to either Babylon in 585 BC, or globally by the Roman
Emperor Titus in 70 AD, when Isaiah was written in 720 BC. In verse 18
of Isaiah 49, Yahweh tells His Son Yahshua to put on regathered
Ephraim as an ornament of Yahweh's remarriage to His people. In verses
19-21 of Isaiah 49, we see a major divinely mandated role reversal. In
Messiah's days, we see Ephraim's oppressors and captors being
tormented with global dispersion never to be regathered, while
Ephraim/Israel has been regathered back to the land of their former
destruction! Those who did the swallowing will take Ephraim's place in
the exile as the swallowed! This is exactly what historically has
happened to the now defunct Assyrian empire. Isaiah 49 verse 20 shows
that returning Ephraim, will be so numerous, that the land of Israel
as it appears today will not have enough room to contain Joseph's
seed! In verse 21 the amazed peoples of Ephraim, are flabbergasted at
the fact that their brethren (other lost Israelites) are not only
still extant, but in fact numerically multiplied, and prosperous,

"From where did THEY (other fellow Israelites) come?" The rabbis
understood these verses clearly. It is amazing how Messianic Judaism
does not. I guess Isaiah knew this, when he talked about both houses
stumbling through partial blindness (Isaiah 8:14, Romans 11:25). Rabbi
Bar Shalom compares Isaiah 49:21 to Genesis 48:8, when the patriarch
Israel turns to JOSEPH AND ASKS (about Ephraim and Manasseh), WHO ARE
THESE? Rabbi Bar Shalom by implication is saying that returning
(saved) Judah, will not recognize Ephraim and Manasseh, in much the
same manner that Israel the patriarch, the first Israelite, failed to
initially recognize his grandchildren, who were his Ephraimite
offspring and biological Israelites!

Rabbi Abba's commentary on this verse in Isaiah 49:21, is similar to
Rabbi Bar Shalom's. "What does this verse imply?" he asks. That the
Heavenly Patriarch of Israel (Yahweh), foresaw the assembling of
Israel before Him in the future." According to Isaiah 11:11 "In that
day Yahweh shall set his hand again the second time, to recover the
remnant of His people which shall be left from ASSYRIA, Mitzrayim
(Egypt), Pathros and form Cush (Black Israelites), from Hamamth and
from the ISLES OF THE SEA!" Rabbi Abba understood that the first time
Yahweh would call Israel home to the land, it would be Jewish/Israel.
The second call would be to Ephraim/Israel. Isaiah 11:12-13 states
that the restoration of the House of Judah is simultaneous to that of
the House of Israel. By definition the Jews cannot return to Israel
physically and Messiah spiritually, without a simultaneous retrieval
of the other House of Israel. Ephraim will be regathered as gentiles
until they come to know who they really are at a later period,
following gentle and loving instruction by regenerated Judah
(Zechariah 8:23). Jeremiah 31:18-19, Zechariah 10:6-12, speaks of
Israel's simultaneous return from among the nations as a return of
gentiles. Zechariah 6:15 talks about returning Ephraim as born again
Israelite-Christians (non-Jewish believers) and Christian Zionists,
who will rebuild the Hekel, or the third temple on Mt. Moriah! In the
clearest possible terms, Rabbi Abba and Rabbi Shalom both talk about
the returning Israelites, who will be RECONVERTED, REUNITED AND
RESTORED as one with Jewish/Israel!!

What is utterly fascinating is that later in this same Zohar verse, it
states that "they will divide from each other", which means that the
foreign non-Jewish believing element will voluntarily separate from
returning Israel, not wanting any part of it and its right of
circumcision (Torah). In other words, though some believers have the
scriptural opportunity to return as legitimate saved physical citizens
of the Commonwealth of Israel, they will disobey Yahweh and
voluntarily (because of Jew-hatred and poor teaching?), separate
THEMSELVES from Israel, even though Yahweh continues to view them as
Israel. Is there a better explanation anywhere in any rabbinical
literature, of the future status of the man-made separate entity
called "The Church?" Through rebellion they broke away from the New
Covenant twelve tribe remnant people of Israel and called THEMSELVES
"THE CHURCH"!

This separate entity moved the capital of New Covenant Israel from
Jerusalem to Rome and from Yahweh as the true Almighty, to the Pope
and his papal cohorts as false lords, who became hirelings over a
separate flock. Isaiah 56:3-8 strictly and soberly warns all believers
in Yahweh, NOT TO DISOBEY YAHWEH'S GRACE BY FORMING A SEPARATE ENTITY
OF ANY KIND, especially one so anti-nomian, anti-Semitic and
Judeophobic, as the current ecclesiastical church system.

It is amazing that the ancient sages of Israel, quickly picked up on
the fact, that some of returning Ephraim/Israel, along with some
non-Israelites (his companions), would not be satisfied with being
regrafted back into remnant and returning Israel. They foresaw that
many of those returning would, out of open acts of self will and self
rule, leave the olive tree that Yahweh planted (Jeremiah 11:16-17), in
favor of a dry tree, full of paganism and without any life to sustain
it! According to Isaiah 56:3, this separation results in total
spiritual dryness and depravity! Much of this separation was Ephraim's
desire to replace his brother Judah as the only Israel (replacement
theology) and to avoid living in harmony with him.

As previously mentioned according to the rabbis, the ten tribes wound
up in primarily three places. First, beyond the Sambation River,
second, under the clouds of darkness and third, in Daphne of Antioch.
Abraham Polok in his studies, says that the post-exilic Jewish writers
referred to the Don River as the Sambation River. The Greeks also
called the Don River the "Sambation" or river of Sabbath. The area
beyond, or north of the Sambation River became Scythe-Israelite
territory, which included Sakkiz the Scythian capital, named after
Isaac! From the river, all the way north to south Russia and west
Asia, the lost Israelites migrated and settled in droves, which
according to Josephus, "were an innumerable multitude", thus
fulfilling the promise of physical multiplicity to all the patriarchs
by the time of Messiah Yahshua. The second place of exile according to
the rabbis, was an area covered by dark clouds. The midrash Olam Rabah
(Great Universe) 17:16, says that "part of the exiled House of Joseph,
went to mountains of deep darkness."

Rashi himself identifies these mountains as the mountains of Mannae
(named after wilderness Manna ), while others equated them with the
nearby Caucasus Mountains. This dark mountainous area is due north of
the Sambition River and Israel proper. In this area of mountainous
darkness, the ten tribes who were exiled, emerged briefly thereafter
as the Scythians, Goths and Cimmerians, named after Samaria the fallen
northern capital.

Homer the Greek poet stated "the Cimmerians live in the deep sea of
Oceanos (Atlantic), which is the world's boundary, where night is
forever spread over these unhappy mortals." Homer attributed the
Cimmerians, who lived under darkness, to have moved to the shores of
the Atlantic and Orphic Argonautica ca. 500 BC, thus placing them in
the British Isles after migrating from the mountains of darkness. "The
Cimmerians were hidden from the sun rising by the mountains of Ripaeus
in Britain near the vicinity of Hades", according to Homer! In other
words, mountain darkness followed them regardless of where they
migrated!!

From the initial mountains of darkness, the tribes migrated a little
further east into Daphne or Asia. This Antioch in Syria (Asia), was
the first city where lost Ephraimites were called Christians (Acts
11:26). Antioch was teeming with Ephraimites at the time of the
Shaliach Shaul. Antioch, though on the Syrian coast, was considered
part of greater Israel and thus part of the promised land. Therefore
the Israelite prisoners taken there, were not really exiled but merely
relocated there for later exile. Obviously, many remained there and
got saved there. These early Messianic believers had children and
multiplied. Thus the early believing community was filled with the
offspring of these Antioch /Ephraimite believers! 2000 years later,
many of those descended directly from the early believers and apostles
are still with us as believers! These Israelites have multiplied over
two millennia and have settled comfortably into the body of Yahshua!

Daphne was a city within a city or within Antioch of Syria. Another
Daphne was once the center of the tribe of Dan in the Galilee. The
site of the golden calf in Dan, was also called Daphne. Chaim Bar
Derma, an Israeli scholar, said in 1958 "that the ancient Israelites
under David and Solomon, controlled the entire Middle East, including
Syria and the city of Antioch." Daphne of Antioch was a long held city
of Israel and thus became a major area of resettlement for the House
of Joseph. Thus we see that the early Jewish sages knew exactly where
Joseph's seed was and it was a matter of lament, rather than a matter
of mystery!

Isn't it amazing how we of Messianic Judah can become so focused on
how to keep a kosher home and raise up a culturally Jewish family,
that we forget the weightier matters of the Torah, such as justice,
equality and mercy towards Ephraim! True faith in the Scriptures will
teach us the same things they taught our ancient sages about the House
of Joseph.

Would to Yahweh that Messianic Judaism should take its collective head
out of the sand and look for Ephraim, before concocting and
perpetuating a make believe fairy tale entitled "The Reunion That Took
Place In The Village Of Anatevkah In The Days Of King Josiah." The
rabbis of our Jewish nation did not for one single minute, put up with
that folly and neither will this author. We have never been FULLY
reconstituted as a united 12 tribe theocracy since the days of Solomon
and it is for that reason that we trust and need Yahshua to do just
that. We have not missed the reunion of our people as some teach,
because the reunion did not begin until Yahshua was anointed at the
age of thirty and has continued ever so slowly until this very day.
Josephus the Jewish historian, who was a contemporary of Messiah
Yahshua said "the ten tribes are beyond the Euphrates River till now
and are an immense multitude, not to be estimated in numbers." From
Josephus we learn that the supposed reconstitution of all Israel under
the Josiah Revival around 600 BC, is a religious myth propagated by
those who would rather wish Ephraim away, then have to deal with him!
According to Josephus the ten tribes were still in exile, 600 years
after the King Josiah Revival! From Josephus, we further learn that it
was common knowledge that the patriarchal promise of physical
multiplicity was already being fulfilled through the ten tribes, not
through tiny Judah!

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