Posted on 01/12/2005 5:00:05 AM PST by SJackson
Hebrew name for US "Lands of the Covenant" remains mystery Aaron Lerner Date: 11 January 2005
The United States is called "Lands of the Covenant" (Artzot Habrit) in Hebrew.
It is commonly thought that this name was given in order to avoid confusion with the Hebrew name for the United Nations.
IMRA asked Israel Radio's "Moment of Hebrew" program for the source of the name.
They find that the term appears in Hebrew papers as early as 1857 - in the Hamagid L'Israel weekly.
Check this out:
http://www.aish.com/literacy/jewishhistory/Crash_Course_in_Jewish_History_Part_55_-_Jews_and_the_Founding_of_America.asp
The work 'Yankee' might have also originated with the Iriquois word for white peole which was Yengee (spelling approximated).
Seems to be the Israeli designation for the United States would be a contemporary word. Proud to be so described, however.
I don't think so, they simply identified with the persecution and "exodus" to the new world.
(1) The colonists from the Mayflower were called "separatists" because they separated themselves from the Church of England, which they believed to be corrupt.
The term "separatists" designates Christians, specifically Christians who believed in a Calvinist interpretation of Scripture.
(2) There were no Jews on the Mayflower. The first Jews on American soil came not from England, but from Brazil and they arrived in New Amsterdam in January 1654. The Mayflower landed in America in November 1620.
You're just completely wrong on this one.
I don't think I'd rely on that source. Though strangers is mentioned in Bradford's diary, it's my understanding the Pilgrims didn't use that term. That there could have been 60+ Jews on the Mayflower is ludicrous. While it's possible, as Pharmboy noted, a converso could have been picked up along the way, if there were any credible evidence that happened there would be multiple sources referring to it, at least within the Jewish community.
We'll come out with a new translation, problem solved!
Yep...you've lived up to your screenname friend.
Good straightforward explanation in the article, though I've usually seen Thanksgiving related to Sukkot rather than Yom Kippur.
Catholic beliefs are Bible-based as well. So are Lutheran beliefs, which the pilgrims also rejected. So are Anglican beliefs, which the pilgrims also rejected. So are Presbyterian beliefs, which the pilgrims also rejected.
Pilgrims and Jews share the Old Testament.
As do Catholics and Anglicans and Lutherans and Presbyterians and Pentecostals and Eastern Orthodox, etc.
Pilgrims wanted a BIBLE based way of life and why they fled Europe.
No, they wanted a life based on their own personal interpretation of the Bible. When colonists like Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson interpreted the Bible differently from them, they expelled them from the community.
Being BIBLE based is why there is a love for Jews.
The pilgrims didn't love Jews, they in fact banned them from their colony. The first Jew to set up a business in the New World was Solomon Franco (he was not a colonist, since he was a Dutch citizen) in 1649. He was promptly expelled by the Massachusetts Bay colony.
Rhode Island, Maryland, the Carolinas and New York became the first colonies to permit Jews to residence and rights in the New World and that is why the first synagogue in America was in Rhode Island - Jews were not allowed to settle in Massachusetts.
They take the Old Testament to heart!
The Old Testament says that Israel must show mercy to the strangers sojourning among them because they themselves were wandering strangers. The Mayflower colonists apparently thought that this Scriptural teaching was completely inapplicable and meaningless.
(1) 41 committed Puritan believers.
(2) 40 regular Englishmen who just wanted to emigrate.
(3) 5 men hired by the colonists for one year to help them get started.
(4) 18 servants and apprentices.
If a committed Puritan referred to to "saints" and "strangers", he meant by "saints" people who shared his peculiar beliefs and by "strangers" he meant people who did not share his peculiar beliefs.
The Puritan Bradford, for example, would have called Jews by the term he usually used for Jews, which was "Jews".
And what did the Puritans think of the Jews? Worse than Catholics and Quakers, the same or better?
If there were Jews here prior to 1654, why are there no records of any synagouges? Why would the Spanish-Portugese Jewish community have no record of them (since these Jews would assuredly have been Spanish-Portugese, as all Jews in Amsterdam and England were at the time).
Furthermore, the Pilgrims fled for a specific kind of religious freedom -- their own. They were hardly tolerant of non-Puritans, making a voyage with Jews highly unlikely.
Fyi, my earliest ancestors arrived in 1616, but they were gentiles (one of my great-grandfathers was a WASP)
See my post on 132. There were Spanish-Portugese Jews in England (although not formally readmitted) and Amsterdam at the time of the Mayflower, but it is highly unlikely that they would have joined the Mayflower.
Go read up on the masons and masonic iconography then. There is no doubt as to what it is, it is the "star of david" -- and the five pointed stars are the "star of solomon".
Fascinating stuff. You have probably never heard of the Melungeons, a group of people in Virginia, believed to be of Portuguese descent. They are just grouped into "Indians" though where their blue eyes come from, nobody knows, but suspect Norway and/or Ireland
The Dutch and European trading companies that sponsored these trading and provsioning trips -- Minuet, May, the Mayflower, etc -- had Jews as directors. There were Jews in North America prior to that bunch from Recife -- they were not organized into a community like the Recife group, and thus are forgotten.
I was under the impression Jews weren't "re-admitted till the mid 1650s. Were they essentially underground or were they able to be openly Jewish?
Look again and you will see that the 13 stars are arranged to fit into and make the pattern of the star of David without a doubt. The Eagle holds 13 arrows and an olive branch with 13 leaves. The founding fathers and George Washington considered the 13 colonies to be the new Israel in may writings and well known documents.
They thought they were just as bad spiritually, but that they were less physically dangerous to the "saints", since unlike the Catholics they had no army and unlike the Quakers they were not allowed to own property.
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