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.
Israel didn't exist when our founding fathers were around.
Are you sure you are not a leftist? LOL
| Quote | I just looked at a dollar bill, all I see over the eagle is the 13 stars representing the original colonies. I do not see the "star of david" anywhere. |
Again, a stretch. The graphic artist has very few configurations for 13 stars in the space alloted.
See post #19 for a link to additional info on this subject.
It also means confederacy and is close to the word Constitution which would not have a direct Hebrew word.
Went to that site. Looks like some real kookburgers to me.
might be...I read the whole thing and found a lot of it quite interesting. But how do you know?
Probably because the Founding Fathers believed they had a Covebnant with God to found a new nation.
How DOES one know?
One can't.
Even in a pile of garbage, you can still find remnants of the truth.
exactly
BTW, I don't think the founders had diddly to do with designing our current one dollar bill.
The fact that the thirteen stars form a Star of David is so obvious you would have to be blind not to see it.
The freaky thing is that thirteen objects form a perfectly symetrical Star of David. Any connection to Kabbalist numerology? Masonic imagery?
And Europe is will soon be lands of the "Dar al Islam"
The Great Seal is the thing on the back of the one dollar bill
Now this is getting rich. We "founded" 13 original states to conform with kabbalist numerology.
I've got something else better to do.
A definite pattern. The first Great Seal still sits on the wall next to Washington's pew at St Paul's Chapel on Broadway in NYC (the same church used a control area for cops and firemen during the 9-11 attack). That seal has the stars disbursed. It seems there was a design here--and it does look like the Star of David. Washington was very thankful for the support of the small colonial Jewish community (3,300 people out of about 2.5 million total) whom (essentially) all were patriots.
Also in a related vein the US as the land of the covenent could aver to view by by nineteenth century Jews that the US constitution represented a covenant awarding the 'Promised Land' to the chosen. This view would have had a strong resonance for native American Christians and immigrant Jews. Thoughts?
All the sources I have read say "Yankee" is Dutch origin, even though "Yankel" is a common Hebrew diminutive for "Yaakov" (Jacob).
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