#beta Yisrael

[psychologeek]

Happy Sigd!

Malkam Amet Vahl

(From today, the main event in Jerusalem)

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Sigd (Ge'z: ስግድ, "worship") also known as Mehel'la (ምህልላ, begging/plead), is a Jewish holiday unique to the "Beyta Yisrael" (house of Israel) community. It is based on a biblical event in the book of Nehemiah (9,1-3), of community fast and worship, in a plead to go back Home.

What is it?

An ancient holiday of Beyta Yisrael community (Jews from the diaspora of Ethiopia). This special day is based on the events in the book of Nehemiah, and the mass prayers - hoping that G-d would let them go back Home, to Zion. It is considered to be about 2,500 years old (unlike the diaspora in Babylon, the diaspora in Ethiopia hasn't returned after 70 years, during the Korach declaration.

This holiday, 50 days after Yom Kippur, has 2 main reasons:

To add another level of Heshbon Nefesh (HEB, lit. "soul accounting", in which one reflects on his previous actions and thoughts). If Yom Kippur is for private Heshbon Nefesh, then during the Sigd the public/community side is added. It's dedicated to restore the oath with G-d, and pray for the Geula.

Pray to go back Home, to Yerusalem. Many of the holiday's Piyutim (religion songs) are focused on Jerusalem, the desire ro get there, and wondering how it is.

What happens during that day?

People fast and wear white clothes. As a community event, there are mass gatherings.

In Ethiopia, they were gathering in 3 big mountains. They carried rocks or religion scrolls on their head, to show surrender in the face of G-d.

(Ambovar, 1984)

In Israel, there's a main event in Jerusalem. It was cancelled in 2023 due to security concerns, but this year is back!

2024: Due to the security concerns, in Gundar they didn't go up the mountain this year :(

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(I have a feeling I forgot something important. I'm sick so my brain not 100%. Lmk if you have questions, or want to know more)

[psychologeek]

This is why those who call out ethnic cleansing would never recognize the Exile from Arab countries.

I'm so frustrated by the fact that no one is even acknowledging how disastrous 1929 was. The impact it had, the very clear connections it had to 1948, and some of the atrocities that were made.

(The soldiers and commanders of 1948, were the children and babies of 1929)

I am frustrated by the way people would talk about how horrible it is to be forclly displaced. Will talk about keys and stollen homes and longing.

(Yet, not a word about Gush Etziyon and Silwan and everywhere jews weren't allowed to live anymore. And Yemen and Tunisia and- well, that's a different story.)

Not a word about WHY there were no Jews in the cities of Hebron and Gaza in 1948, despite having long Jewish history in those towns.

And if you really want to be petty, because I do, you can say that the first modern Zionist leader, and the leader ACTUAL FIRST ALIYA MOVEMENT - the one who encouraged people to move to Eretz Yisrael, to Zion, to Yerusalem - was Abba Mehari (Mehari Suthal).

After 3 years on the road, many of his crowd, the people he led on the journey, has died. At Sudan (or Egypt, depends on who you're asking), Abba Mehari relized that "it isn't time yet", and they went back to Ethiopia.

And this an important story. even though they didn't succeed, they didn't make it to the Promised Land, it was the ACTUAL first attempt.

From Ethiopia, in 1862.

Today was the Sigd. The Ethiopia Exile tasted 2,500 years. It didn't end, like the Babylon Exile, with the Koresh Announcement.

Sigd is based on the events of Nehemiah 9, 1-3. It's a day to restore the connection with G-d, and the connection to Zion and Yerusalem.

Whenever someone's talking about how The Longing For Eretz Yisrael (Zionism/Hibat Zion) is a white/European/Colonial thing, I remember people that prayed for over 2,000 years to go back Home. I remember my grandma talking about how her dad lay on the ground and kissed the dirt when they came (from Yemen).

I remember every Tisha B'Av, hearing about the horror of people who asked about Yerusalem, who walked for months, who lost loved ones, as they heard that Beyt Hamikdash is gone

(And had been, for 1900 years).

I remember אעלה בתמ"ר, based on the phrase from the bible. The people who just moved because the year was תרמ"ב, and so it's time to go Home.

(Yemen, 1882)

I don't know. Maybe it's just my history. My bloodline. My ancestors, who dreamed to go back Home, whispering in me as people try to deny my roots to this Land.

(All who were sold and exiled and murdered and enslaved. All who had their family and property stolen and had to accept it. All who spoke about Jerusalem, their will to return, in every prayer and Bracha, at least 3 times a day.)

The Slow Factory & Céline Semaan giving the game away:

“[The] erasure of Indigenous Levantine identity is colonial propaganda. Rewriting history serves the … delusion of manifest destiny and ultimate[ly] justifies genocide.”

When they tell you what they’re doing, even if they phrase it as an accusation, believe them.

Noa Cohen is Mizrahi. She was born in Israel. She’s visibly Middle Eastern in appearance. She does not and has never, according to any available information that I can find, live on any of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank or Golan Heights (settlements aren’t really where you go for acting opportunities). When they say “settler”, they meaning any Jew living anywhere in the land, even if they were born there, even if they are Mizrahi, even if they are indistinguishable from their neighbors.

Those who erase the Indigenousness of Jews, who rewrite history to insist that a Jewish woman who lived in first century Judea, nearly 19 centuries before the Palestinian identity was a twinkling in Khalil Beidas’s eye, was actually an Arab Palestinian and must be played by an Arab rather than a Jew, are pushing colonial propaganda.

The delusion that Jewish ties to the Levant began with Zionism and that the Levant belongs solely to Arabs is a colonial lie. It serves the goal of manifest destiny and ultimately justifying genocide against Jews.

[judaismandsuch]

A bit about Minhagim (particularly in relation to the terms Sephardic, Ashkenazi, Yemmeni, Mizrahi, Beta Yisrael, etc.)

I saw this post, and I realized that what I take for granted knowledge wise may not be so, and people rarely talk about the intricacies of Minhagim.

(btw, what I am saying applies to all the different groups but for the rest of the post I'll be mainly using the Sephardic and Ashkenazi b.c. I am lazy)

We use the terms "Ashkenazi" and "Sefardic" (etc.) to refer to where our ancestors came from (or more likely lived in 1500s or so), which is fine! But that not 100% accurate. Or at least it would be more accurate to say that that is a secondary meaning that is used a lot, but there is a primary meaning which can get confusing.

The primary meaning of these terms is "Which bundle of Minhagim do you follow?"

Now seeing as minhagim are traditions that carry the weight of a law, usually it is your ancestry, but not always!

We will take 2 obvious cases first, then talk about some other ones:

First Someone who converted. Now obviously since they converted they have no (halachically) relevant Jewish traditions. So what do they take? One might be tempted to say "whatever area their ancestors were from" but honestly that makes no sense. They don't have a tradition from those people, just geographical happenstance.

Rather they are to take on the traditions of the community/location where they converted. So a Polish person might become Sephardic, or a Italian person Ashkenazi.

The Second is marriage. When people get married (with some exceptions) the wife is supposed to take on the husbands traditions (don't @ me, we can discuss gender in Judaism another year). So, a Ashkenazi woman who marries a Sephardic man is now Sephardic (though they would usually say that they follow Sephardic customs to avoid confusion).

And it is worth noting that many people keep their exes traditions even after getting divorced.

Now to some more interesting ones:

A Jew who was raised not religious in any way has no tradition! So if they become religious later in life, they can take on any minhag they desire. Usually they do end up taking their ancestral one, or the one of the community they live in, but there is no need! (lpt for those becoming religious: 1 hour between meat and milk is a valid minhag that you can take!)

And finally: Moving. If a Ashkanzi Jew moves to a purely Sephardi area, they are obligated to take on Sephardic customs! This is actually the big one, all the others kinda fall from it, but on the other hand it is basically not applicable anymore.

Way back when, when travel was a big deal, you would probably be the only Sephardi in Poland, so you couldn't really keep it.

Nowadays that basically everywhere is uber multicultural that ruling isn't applicable, but still interesting!

N.B. Not my best write up, I may redo it completely later

[germiyahu]

If someone derails your conversation about Israel to be about Israel's treatment of this or that group, Mizrachim, Beta Israel, etc. you may just want to consider their motivations, and do a little digging into the kinds of subjects they normally talk about on their own blogs.

If someone who has staunchly antizionist views, like I'm talking thinly veiled genocidal fantasies about destroying Israel and reveling in the chaos that would bring, and having no concern for the future of 7 millions Jews, their concerns about Medinat Yisrael's treatment of minority groups are not valid.

This is Concern Trolling.

If someone is derailing you to accuse Israel, through accusing you, of sterilizing Ethiopian women, stealing Mizrachi babies and having them raised by "white" parents, trying to destroy Yiddish, all these alleged violent assimilationist policies that Israel employs against fellow Jews?

A non Jew barging into your space and bringing up intra-community issues and grievances is a red flag. Do not fall for the sealioning trap. Do not turn out your pockets. Do not fall for the concern trolling.

Because what is their solution to these problems? To eliminate Israel as a state? And what about these minority groups within Israeli society then? Their answer is the same as their answer for the Ashkenazim: who cares? They largely imagine all Israeli Jews can simply move to the United States or France or something. The fact that over 95% of Israelis cannot just go to the countries of their parents or grandparents is of no concern to them.

That's why it's concern trolling. They're trolling you by pretending to be concerned, and baiting you into discussing an intra-community issue because they think that'll be the argument that finally gets you to disavow Israel. Because now you'll have no choice but to agree Israel is irredeemably problematic, because now it affects other Jews. So they are exhibiting a kind of bitterly envious brand of antisemitism. They think that all Jews believe in Jewish supremacy. They're quite mad about it. This is an aspect of the Chosen People canard.

But the main reason concern trolling is bad is because they don't care about these groups they bring up. They're not defending them, they're not championing their rights. They're trying to distract you and make you look like a hypocrite. When they cheer for Hamas raping and pillaging and spraying bullets into Israelis, they don't care if it happens to Beta Israel women who've supposedly been mass sterilized against their will. They cheer all the same. So much for their legitimate concerns that Israel is antisemitic in of itself I guess?

If the solution to a problem faced by a minority group within a country is "destroy their country which they also believe has saved them from ethnic cleansing and mass death, and figure out the rest later," you're not an ally to that group; stop pretending you are!

This is tied into pinkwashing, but from a sort of opposite approach. If any societal progress that Israel makes for minority groups is a psyop and a marketing ploy to cover up Palestinian Genocide, the concern trolling is antizionists holding Israel hostage to any societal progress it has not made. But they never intend on letting Israel improve these relationships. Israel is too nice to gay Jews, and not nice enough to African Jews. The only course of action therefore, is to let Hamas butcher them alongside straight Jews and "European" Jews.

So if you see someone trying to engage in this game, ignore them! Your time is worth so much more, and the vulnerable minority groups of Jews (both in Israel and the Diaspora) are much safer with Jews who discriminate against them than goyim who tout social justice rhetoric but want to see them dead. Plus, so many Jews are already doing the work, learning and listening, and trying to improve. This enrages the concern trolls like nothing else.

Call out Israel's bigotries, but you know, maybe don't trust the people who aren't affected by those bigotries invading your space and demanding your allyship to groups of people they'd be content seeing die en masse. Like "Israel is actually antisemitic against this vulnerable group of Jews!" and "All Israelis are settlers, none are truly civilians, and any form of violence against settlers is justified" are two stances that do not mesh very well...

Because at the very least, they're separating good Jews from bad Jews again, just based on what they perceive intra-Jewish oppression to be like. And they expect these good Jews to cheer and happily live as dhimmis in the absolute chaos that is a 100% inevitable Hamas-Fatah civil war and total societal collapse... and spit on the graves of their kinsmen.

And at worst, the concern trolls won't bother distinguishing these vulnerable Jews from their alleged oppressors anyway, and happily watch as they all flee with the clothes on their backs or get gunned down or enslaved by Hamas "Resistance" Fighters.

[aviad1b]

"ישנו עם אחד, מפוזר ומפורד"

"There is one nation, all spread out and divided." Those were Haman's (**noises**) words when describing the Jewish people. And as we say, not a single word is extra. "spread out" == diaspora, "divided" == mentally. Haman (**noises**) looked at the Jewish people and saw one nation, but divided. Not only by location but mentally as well.

I think it's safe to say that this saying has stuck with me ever since I first heard it. Because I see it. We have all "types and kinds" of Jews: Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrahi, Beta-Yisrael, Religions, Secular, Traditional, Reformm Orthodox, Israeli Jews, diaspora Jews, Jewish by ethnicity and religion, Jewish by ethnicity but not religion, Jewish by religion but not ethnicity, converts, Jewish-born, Zionists, and Elokim Sheyishmor I must have forgotten at least a couple tens or hundrends or who-knows-how-many.

I feel like in times like this, now more than ever, we need to remember that

this seperation is irrelevant.

We know our truth. We know what being an ethnoreligeon means and in the past couple of months we have been watching ourselves be denied our common identity and history on a global scale.

These times may have turned me somewhat pessimistic, but for this Purim, I am going to hold one vision:

That in the future, people will be able to look at us and say:

ישנו עם אחד,

מפוזר - אך מאוחד.

Purim sameah,

and 'am yisrael 'hai.

[psychologeek]

We celebrated it in high school, full with traditional meal and injara and all.

This power Jewish Ethiopian IDF soldier has something to say to the haters of Israel.

[rotzaprachim]

obviously I think the tzahal mandatory recruitment policy is terrible and causes all kinds of problems on the national scale but switching to a U.S. style voluntary enlistment scheme without a genuine enacted long term political peace plan just seems like a possible source of all kinds of interesting and new problems, like, very much could see some kind of national-religious community-on-base intergenerational subculture or even more intensive recruitment of Druze and beta yisrael communities

[laineystein]

Hi! I hope you’re doing alright! I have a question that’s hopefully not too ignorant sounding lol. I think I saw you’re Ashkenazi? I am as well. I’ve been wondering, could you argue Ashkenazi could be descended from Sephardi Jews? If we argue that the Ashkenazi came from various parts of the Roman Empire as they moved north after the expulsion, they’d have started out with Sephardi customs right? Then Askenazi would develop over time out of I guess, original ideas and trying to fit with the new culture of the area, as well as general forced assimilation.

I have a hard time wrapping my head around the idea that Mizrahi Jews would make the trek up to the cold of Eastern and much of Western Europe, but it’s always possible.

Dredging the depths of my inbox and found this, sorry!

Alright, so I am a Jew but not an expert on *this* and with constant forced displacement the history of a lot of these migrations can be murky and contested. A simple way to look at it is that all of us originate in the levant, in Eretz Yisrael. When we were expelled, we all went to different places depending on when we were expelled and why, etc. We picked up customs once we were in those places and the groups of Ashkenazim/Sephardim/Mizrahim/Beta Yisrael are all Israelite Jews that adapted to specific regions and let those regions influence their customs. So if I’m understanding your question, I don’t think what you’re saying is accurate because it misunderstands the conception of Jewish ethnicities and their associated customs — but I think a lot of it comes down to semantics. Or maybe I’m misunderstanding your question completely. I’m a bit sleep deprived.

I’m sure there’s someone that follows me that studies this stuff so by all means, they can chime in and provide clarity if they’d like. 🙃

[psychologeek]

Official Memorial Day for Sudan Casualties

(Ethiopian Jews who perished on their way to Israel, via Sudan).

Tonight+tomorrow day (כ"ח אייר, Iyar 28th) is Jerusalem Day.

It is also the official memorial day to those who died during the journey from Ethiopia to Israel.

The date wasn't choose randomly. It came to represent the ancient connection, and the place they were yearning for.

This date is a memory of 4,000 People.

4,000 men, women and children that tried to reach Eret Yisrael and Yerushalayim (Yerusalem).

4,000 who didn't make it - but their families and friends did.

The official ceremony/service is in Har (mt.) Hertzel, in the official memorial, in Jerusalem.

Their bodies didn't make it, but their memories did.

I'm in my home, and I hear the ceremony in the local school.

And I'm sad.

But I'm also happy -

(We remember you)

There's something really powerful in hearing 600 kids (all kids in school) and their families singing.

"Oh, our brothers, all the people of Yisrael/

Who are in trouble, or in captivity, either in the sea or on land/

May G-d have mercy on them and deliver them from troubles to wealth.

And from darkness to light, and from enslavement to salvation,

Hashta Ba'agala Uvizman Kariv (Aramic: now, soon, in our time.)

Songs about the journey

NagashBeatz - Masa Shalem (full journey)

Gili Yalo - Salem

Shva Choir and Shlomo Gronich:

The Journey (to Eretz Yisrael) - video

Better quality

Hasida (stork)

Ba'Karavan

(I lived in one until I was 11, and everytime I talk about it, I automatically say it in a sing-song.)

Other songs

U-da - Ante Abate (you're my father)

Cafe Shachor Chazak - Yihiye Beseder (We'll be ok)

Climbing Up

Hanny Masele - Lambadina (light)

And obviously - The Project (of Idan Raichel)

Cabra Casay - Milim Yafot Me'ele (prettier words)

Im Telech (If you'll go) - despite not being sang by an Ethiopian singer, I do add it due to the background Amharic and the video.

Links for reading more:

Ethiopian Jewry heritage center:

Association of Ethiopian Jews:

(on guidestar)

They've been working for over 30 years, doing SUPER IMPORTANT JOB in multiple aspects, including (but not limited to): fighting racism, fighting over-crimilising of Black people, encouraging and increasing the number of Ethiopian jews in governmental and ministry positions. Help with immigration, housing, more.

[benevolentbirdgal]

Kind of a long shot, but Sigd related question(s): I've read from a few online sources there's a push for non Beta Yisrael/Ethiopian Jews to recognize or even celebrate something for Sigd from certain Quessim. Is this something the larger BY community would like, and if so, what are appropriate ways for non BY Jews to celebrate? What, if any, texts, rituals, or foods would be good choices for me to educate myself further and engage in solidarity with this portion of the Jewish community?

(I am in the U.S., if that is of any relevance).

[jewishvirtuallibrary-blog]

Yaros Shigot, a Major in the Israeli Defense Force and Beta Yisraeli Jewish woman who had made Aliyah to Israel in 1991 and was chosen for her excellence to light a torch in Israel’s Independence Day ceremony, at her father's grave site in Gondar, Ethiopia; 2017. x

There is an important Jewish tradition of visiting a love one’s grave site, as it is extremely important in Judaism to remember, honor, and celebrate loved ones who have departed. According to tradition, the first time that people are permitted to visit the cemetery following the burial is following the seven days of morning known as Shiva.  Sheloshim takes place exactly 30 days after the burial, and it is also common to visit the grave site during this time. 

After this, the mourning period should conclude for most mourners unless if you are mourning your parents, in which case in the Ashkenazi tradition it will continue for a full year until the Yahrzeit, or anniversary of the death, occurs.  The Yahrzeit is a common time for Jewish mourners to visit the grave site. It is also a custom on this day for a special candle to be lit, and to burn for at least 24 hours.  Jewish law stipulates that one should not spend too much time in mourning and instead encourages mourners, after the period of mourning is complete, to concentrate on bonding with life as opposed to dwelling on the deceased.

[jewish-privilege]

...As an Ethiopian Jew living in America, it can be frustrating having to constantly feel like your identity is under suspicion by not only other Jews but also people who have absolutely no knowledge of Jews or Judaism. I’ve complained alongside my Moroccan, Yemeni, and Persian friends countless times about the different microaggressions and plain ignorance of our fellow Jews and non-Jews alike; this can range from a friend’s grandparent making an inappropriate remark to being held up at the airport as the TSA agent looks over your last name once again. I remember in eighth grade history class, hearing my teacher profess how “the Holocaust was stupid because Jews are essentially white.” As a young person who still had no clue how to react when an authority figure behaved ignorantly, all I could do was sit there in silence.

I will not be silent any longer.

For a lot of people, the idea of “Jew” equals “white,” and that leads to a range of annoying to downright insulting encounters while navigating the spaces where we should feel we belong.

In America, many of us are faced with the threat of anti-Semitism that scars the whole of our community, but we’re also faced with the ingrained and monstrous beast that is racism. It happens like this: You overhear terms like “shvartze,” the Yiddish word for black that is considered a slur against Black people, whispered while meeting a friend’s extended family. Your mother is harassed by a random security guard as she picks you up from working Sunday school at the J.C.C. The police harass you following a cousin’s bar mitzvah. These are just some of the forms of harassment that I and my loved ones have experienced in spaces where all Jews are supposed to be able to safely congregate. More often than not, members of our communities are put in precarious positions in regards to dealing with bigotry that presents itself in spaces meant to for all Jews.

...Ashkenormativity is a unique form of eurocentrism that has found its way into Jewish culture. In a twisted way, the “whiteness” that became a hallmark of power due to European colonialism has been able to become a boon for white-passing Jews, in particular Ashkenazim. While in much of actual Europe, anti-Semitism is so deeply rooted that even having white skin doesn’t necessarily enable you with privilege, in the unique case of America, it allows for a situational point of privilege that changes based on the whim of the majority. The same way that in so much of society, we have defined white people as the “default” person, a similar sentiment has translated into defining the Ashkenazi as the “normative” Jew.

For Jews of Color — some of whom are Ashkenazi themselves though still face racism based on the color of their skin — we are not only asking for our fellow Jews to use the privilege they do have in non-Jewish society to better the lives of others; we are demanding to be equal members of our own Jewish communities.

This is not only an American issue. In Israel, even though our Jewishness is no longer seen as a threat, we still face the brutal realities of racism. The slayings of Solomon Teka and Yehuda Biadga last year have caused widespread communal outrage and have brought to the forefront the issues of racism and police brutality in Israeli society. Out of the six Ethiopian Israeli men murdered over the last five years, only the death of one was prosecuted and the sentence only carried the weight of three years. It took until this past January for Haymanot Judaism, the religious practices unique to Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews), to be fully acknowledged by the Chief Rabbinate as an authentic form of Judaism, despite the ruling of late Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in the early 1970s and decisions made in 2014 to recognize Haymanot Judaism. This means that for the last few decades, many Ethiopian Jews living in Israel either had to convert to Rabbinic Judaism or jump through hoops to be able to engage in major life events like marriage.

Systemic racism from both religious and policing structures in Israel have only worked to attempt to assimilate Ethiopian Jewry in a way that is grossly inappropriate. This includes incidents like the distribution of birth control to Ethiopian women without giving them full disclosure on the effects, throwing out blood donations given by Ethiopians, and sending Ethiopian teens off to boarding schools after settling into Israel. These were all on top of police practices like racial profiling as well as racism from fellow Israelis. Now we are seeing the younger generation taking an active and aggressive stance in protecting themselves and their rights as fellow Israeli citizens against the structures that their own parents couldn’t fight against.

The list of injustices goes on: Out of the many issues of disgusting racism that have occurred against the Mizrahi Jews, one of the most chilling is the disappearances of the over 1000 Yemeni children in the 1950s that until the last two decades went widely under-investigated. Systemic segregation was used as a weapon against many Mizrahi Jews who came to live in Israel. Segregation, religious intolerance, economic inequality, and harassment led to the formation of HaPanterim HaShhorim, the Israeli Black Panthers, in the ’70s to fight against the discrimination faced by Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews. Even today as society improves, there is an education and wealth disparity between Mizrahi and Ashkenazi Jews.

Historically, there has also been a bad habit of the Ashkenazim attempting to triumph their own traditions as greater or more authentic, leading to times when Ethiopian and Indian Jews have been pressured to “convert” as if they weren’t already Jewish.

Even the very way we define Zionism needs to change. Theodor Herzl, the Austrian Jew largely credited as “the father of political Zionism,” was an assimilationist. His viewpoint on what the Jewish state of the future would become was fashioned in a way that only took in the perspective of the non-religious Ashkenazim who frequented his circles. Herzl also supported the Ottoman government against the Armenian rebellion for independence, which resulted in the Armenian genocide.

The issue at the heart of the Zionism that dominates our culture is that the person who we are so quick to give credit to left out a huge portion of our people and didn’t intend on ever including us. Crediting a single person for the dream of Jewish liberation and sovereignty overlooks the fact that our culture, people, and faith thrives because of the fluidity and strength of our many traditions. We should instead credit our families, communities, leaders, and more importantly, ourselves, with the continued survival of our people.

We come from a tradition that calls for us to actively reinterpret what we were left to inherit. For our community to effectively come together, we need to have more hard discussions and push for change. At this point we should not have to ask; we demand our fellow Jews to give us an actual spot at the table.

[mishpacha]

Amazing how goyim trip over themselves to talk about racism in Israel against Beta Yisrael but they are completely unwilling to discuss institutionalized antisemitism in Ethiopia, the targeted murder of Beta Yisrael in Ethiopia, the antisemitic caricatures of Jewish people in Ethiopian society, how Ethiopian cemeteries refuse to bury Jewish people to this day, the central Ethiopian government’s continued program to keep remaining Jewish people landless and in poverty, and how the Coptic church of Ethiopia has deemed the Beta Yisrael community a threat now that they’ve started being open about their Jewish identity rather than accepting them as equals.

[queendeleona]

Itz MamaAfricaMonday... pt.2 of 3

[dog-day-morning]

WRONG MESSIAH WRONG PEOPLE Acts 1:1-14 Israel is run by gentiles who are not Israelite by blood. They call themselves Jews by declaration not by lineage. Jews are in the midst of casting out God's chosen people from Israel for fear of the prophetic word that states these Edomite gentiles, along with an admixture of the people of Alkebulan’s (Israel), whose DNA the Father anointed has blessed them will bow down, and worship at our feet. They fear the truth knowing we’ve determined the lies they’ve told us were intended to hide our identity from us, and the world out of hatred. The Jewish holocaust lasted for 4yrs whereas the curses of Deuteronomy have lasted 400yrs, and counting. No other tribe of people has suffered like the Israelites according to the curses, and accounts in Deuteronomy 28 save a peculiar people. And it shall come to pass, that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. This is why I don't worship other religious faiths or religions. I'm cautious when it comes to Christianity knowing the deviltry of man, and the depths he will go, and has in order to maintain his stranglehold on us as a people. What allows a person to never be held accountable for their sins on Earth, but makes a race or tribe of people the burden bearer for all of Earth's iniquity? The devil is an accuser whose minions are fearful of the word manifesting in this generation. What we see on display isn't just a show of rebellion, but a fear of an arrogant people losing their position in the Earth which was only meant to be temporary, but in truth it wasn't meant to be at all. If 5 Black males congregate on a street corner it puts fear, spite, and hatred in the hearts of the so-called fragile psyche of those who want to control us. They call the Police in the hope of getting innocent people arrested or murdered. But 200 members of the proud boys can march through Urban Philadelphia in a show of defiance with Police protection, and nobody confronts them except a different breed of Black, Brown, and white people who are not like their fathers of old who relish in the thought of sending Jethro back to the woods with the rest of the hood boogers. The Jewish cabal worships Satan in the literal sense. They are the Devils cronies who know their time is up. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. They understand that the God of our fathers isn't playing games. If you ascribe this to my person as I’ve done in theory, how can God's 2 faithful witnesses see the Son of God and His Father if their hearts hadn't been tried like some of you? Revelation 11:3-13 3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. 4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. 5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. 6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. 7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. 8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. 9 And they of the

people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. 10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. 11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. 12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. 13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. The God of Israel has decreed this. The Jews in Israel will suffer a harsh penalty for their crimes against the Nigerian, Igbo Israelites, the Ethiopian Beta Israelites, the Ugandan Abayudaya, and other sects of Israelite people including the American tribal people of Ghana Africa (Judah), Gad (Native American), Reuben (Aboriginal Australian), and Issachar (Mexican South American descendants.) They are deporting the Yisraelites in Alkebulan out of Yisrael as though this can inundate God's plan. You’re bringing God to a higher and greater glory, fulfilling the promises He made to His people in this day for this generation. Joshua 24:13 13 And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and olive yards which ye planted not do ye eat. It’s a shame to construct a global economy only to be denied the American dream; it's a nightmare. For those that cater to the State of Israel like some Congressmen, and women who are Edomite Jews that are not willing to put in place a reparations plan for the ADOS, FBA, and all indigenous people of North America based on the Western Nations financing of the temporary inhabitants of Israel is an injustice to humanity. Our oppressor isn’t going to give up his throne or authority willingly, he’s drunk with it. Look to God to deliver us not man, especially those who historically have shown their extreme distaste and revulsion for us. God tells us: If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. God foreknew, He's all knowing, and all seeing. If one of them were to cosign a reparations bill for Black people they would’ve been found dead inside their congressional office within days or maybe hours. When your own people who look as you do, but think according to their massa’s will, in order to live a season of sin with the wicked advocating for the gentiles who live off our promised inheritance, and this nonphysical, hidden, unseen, but shrewd, devious bit of craft called white privilege, that Black people who believe in Yeshua spiritually call favor with God. What this microwave generation has asserted, and addressed as privilege in actuality is sinister, and diabolical. It's a Janus-like, double minded, spirit of torment that has caused a lot of agony to a people they refuse to relinquish that will bring a harsh judgment to them and the Earth, and yes, I’m paying my price. The people of Canaan were destroyed after having knowledge of the true living God. The Father isn't one who relishes in the spilling of innocent blood. He will always send you a warning before calamity comes to your doorstep. He's been doing it for the last 2,000 years. Like the Egyptians they refused to believe in the God the Israelites praised, and worshipped thinking He finds favor in them who shed innocent blood. This is the situation we find the Earth in once more with the Israelites who this time are being forced out of their homeland waiting for a deliverer. The people that lived in Canaan were not ignorant of

the God of Israel. Many times the impression is given that God ordered the Israelites to swoop in and destroy innocent people. But these people were neither innocent nor ignorant. They had heard about the God of Israel; it was they who rejected Him. When the 2 spies were sent to spy out the Land of Promise they were told by Rahab the prostitute: Joshua 2:9-11 9 And she said unto the men, I know that the Lord hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you. 10 For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed. 11 And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the Lord your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath. They had heard of the true God but had rejected Him. Consequently, their entire society acted in a sinful way. The Apostle Paul spoke of these people: Though they knew God they refused to believe let alone acknowledge Him as the true living God. The Father let their minds become reprobate following their flesh. What comes good of the flesh people? Nothing. They were shapen in iniquity, and in sin did their mothers conceive them. Israel is the biggest Nation on Earth that supports the Trans community being led by a morbidly, corrupted government overrun with rampant homosexuality, and like Amerikkka they endorse pedophilia. Of all the Nations on the Earth, Israel ranks number one in unnatural sex, and relations more so than the United States of Amerikkka, and Amerikkka’s European counterparts. When Jews here in the states get arrested for unlawful sexual acts committed against children those who have convenient connections are able to seek refuge, and fly to Israel fleeing prosecution. Oftentimes this is warranted, by US gov’t protection agencies who assist them in their transition back to Israel. Larry Nassar whose last name is Jewish, but they claim him not. The faith he was raised in makes him a Catholic which reeks of corruption, and entitlement that exceeds the realm of sexually deviant malfeasance executed by this religious sect that historically has gotten away with the most egregious sins committed against God's innocent ones. The FBIs handling of his high profile case was a case study in buffoonery, and an insane margin of flexibility that cannot be explained to a person of a simple mind. Hopefully this gov’t will learn which is doubtful. Pray that the payoff of a high monetary lawsuit will make the US government look at this flawed system, and send Goober Pyle back to law school or a police precinct to learn how to do his job. This is not privilege, it’s sin. Romans 1:21-25 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four footed beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. The inhabitants of Canaan were neither ignorant nor innocent victims of an angry God. They were committing these terrible sins being fully aware of the true and living God. Because they rejected Him, God judged them harshly. How do you explain the people of Israel, Amerikkka, Europe, and the rest of the West in this day and time? You can't without condemning them, and the rest of humanity which the Father had all authority to do. Instead, He sent His Son to die for Yisrael whom we rejected giving the

gentiles a pathway to His Kindome. Why do you refuse to accept His truth? Forgiving a jackass is like storing wine in old wineskins or plastic garbage bags. The messenger has made your hearts cold, and bitter towards the Father, and His Son Yeshua? Learn from us, and prepare for a New World in its natural order of things because this right here ain't it. Good evening people, Elohim 9/25/2021

[jewish-microwave-laser]

"sefardic jews … are from the iberian peninsula, so spain and portugal. sometimes the term sefardic also refers to north african and some middle eastern jews, mostly because the sefardic culture was really proliferated through that area"

not really a refutation, i'm just adding that this is due largely to the expulsion of jews from spain in 1492; many jews ended up fleeing to north africa because life under muslim rule was less oppressive than life under christian rule. this is what happened to important figures like maimonides (who, importantly, became the central figure in many yemeni traditions)

askenazi jews were bonded through their common use of hebrew and yiddish

famously, the only ashkenazim that knew hebrew were the men who studied torah regularly, and it was NEVER used colloquially. it only became a common language through the haskalah

mizrahi jews are the jews we would most think of as being ancestrally and genetically tied to the land of israel

i have no idea who thinks mizrahim are somehow more tied to eretz yisrael, but whoever does, generally, is wrong. ALL major jewish populations studied are found to have genetic ties to eretz yisrael. here are some studies that are publicly accessible: x, x, x; and here are some that require institutional access (i have pdfs saved, dm me if you can't access them yourself) x, x

i also want to note that this idea of genetic ties to a culture is. fucking stupid. as we've seen with discussions around blood quantum and as is very lovingly discussed by wc anderson in "nation on no map," genetics should not be regarded as the end all and be all of a cultural claim

israel’s settler colonial policy has really prioritized immigration and settlement of ashkenazi jews—not sefardic jews and not mizrahi jews. it’s also really important to note that ethiopian and black african jews were really excluded from immigration efforts to israel

if we're measuring "immigration efforts" in terms of literal airplanes sent to a land to pick jews up from a place and bring them to eretz yisrael, this is completely, blatantly wrong. for ethiopian jews alone we got operations x moses x, joshua x, and solomon x, the latter of which ended up getting a world record for most people on a flight x. this could and should be a series of posts in and of itself so i'm just gonna link the wikipedia page to the jewish exodus from the SWANA region, x; it's a good starting point lmao

given that like 50% of israelis are mizrahim and/or sefardim x, if the baby state of israel didn't want them to immigrate, they really failed in realizing that lmfao

there have been some really harmful eugenicist policies in israel, like the nonconsensual (forced) sterilization of ethiopian jews who immigrated there. the israeli ministry of health actually admitted to the nonconsensual sterilization of ethiopian jewish women in 2013

nope. that's simply wrong. x, x, x. tge moment in 2013 that a lot of people say is medinas yisrael "admitting" to this, is actually them saying that if there is any doubt in the person's level of consent, then the shot should not be given. basically, the cause of the decline of birthrates of beta yisrael are in dispute, and if it was due to the administration of depo shots, it wasn't out of malice but rather out of miscommunications and grey areas. it's important to note that the original report only spoke to 30 women, not a great sample size

also, if medinas yisrael wanted to decrease the number of black jews in its midst, why all the covert operations to save ethiopian jews specifically?

the differentiation between mizrahi jews and sefardic jews would have helped to legitimize their ancestral ties and genetic ties to the land of palestine

all jewish communities have genetic and ancestral ties to eretz yisrael. see above. also, the history of mizrahim is way more complex than this. they didn't just spring into existence because the state of israel willed them to. many of these communities are (were) the oldest jewish communities in the world (before they were forced from their homes by pogroms)

my family is ashkenazi—we are ethnically polish, with a little bit of lithuanian—which is how i know that our origins are not in palestine

ALL JEWISH COMMUNITIES HAVE ANCESTRAL AND GENETIC TIES TO ERETZ YISRAEL HOW DO YOU THINK THE JEWS GOT TO POLAND AND LITHUANIA???

[my grandfather’s] genetic origins were in poland, where my father was a rabbi. like, look at my face, look at my skin, look at my freckles. i am not genetically mizrahi, i do not have ancestral ties to palestine

please be so for real right now. you are lITERALLY DOING RACE SCIENCE ON TIKTOK TO INGRATIATE YOURSELF TO ANTISEMITES WHO WANT TO ERASE JEWISH HISTORY. YOUR PEOPLE'S HISTORY