Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 110b, Will the Ten Tribes of Israel return?
Posted on March 6, 2008
Filed Under Ephraim (Multitude of Nations), House of Joseph (Joes), House of Judah (Jews), Know Thyself, Talmud, Two House (Reality) Theology
The Babylonian Talmud (Mishnah) Sanhedrin 110b quotes the opinions of Rabbi Akiba ben Joseph and Rabbi Eliezer ben Hurcanus:
“THE TEN TRIBES WILL NOT RETURN [TO THE PROMISED LAND], FOR IT IS SAID, AND CAST THEM INTO ANOTHER LAND, AS IS THIS DAY: JUST AS THE DAY GOES AND DOES NOT RETURN, SO THEY TOO WENT AND WILL NOT RETURN: THIS IS R. AKIBA‘S VIEW. R. ELIEZER SAID: AS THIS DAY — JUST AS THE DAY DARKENS AND THEN BECOMES LIGHT AGAIN, SO THE TEN TRIBES — EVEN AS IT WENT DARK FOR THEM, SO WILL IT BECOME LIGHT FOR THEM.”
Read the entire tractate here: Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 110b
You can chose to believe YHVH is a liar like Akiva did, like many secular and religious scholars do today, OR you can be like Eliezer, who trusted in the Creator of the Universe and the promises spoken through His Prophets. Even so, your belief or non-belief isn’t going to bring the tribes back, for the Almighty said He Himself will gather them (Ezekiel 34.11-13). It isn’t up to you or me. The Great One will show Himself strong before all nations, even the resistant multitudes of Abraham and Ephraim.
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