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Ethiopian Jews
wonderfulgoy:
Ethiopian women do it for me. :)
But now listen to this: 'The Holy One, blessed be He, did not exile Israel among the nations for any other reason than that proselytes should be added to them.'
Since Israel will become the nation of priests to minister to the whole world, there will need to be a diversity of all sorts of Jews so as to be able to minister to differing cultures, languages, etc.
That being said, the mixing of seed for any other purpose is abomination in the eyes of the L-rd.
Carlyle:
Are you really sure that they are Jews?
Rabbis Moshe Feinstein, Elazar Shach, Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, and Shlomo Zalman Auerbach have all stated that the Jewishness of Beta Israel is seriously suspect.
DNA evidence confirms that the Ethiopian Jews are not descended from the tribe of Dan:
Gerard Lucotte and Pierre Smets in Human Biology (vol 71, December 1999, pp. 989–993) [15] studied the DNA of 38 unrelated Beta Israel males living in Israel and 104 Ethiopians living in regions located north of Addis Ababa and concluded that "the distinctiveness of the Y-chromosome haplotype distribution of Beta Israel Jews from conventional Jewish populations and their relatively greater similarity in haplotype profile to non-Jewish Ethiopians are consistent with the view that the Beta Israel people descended from ancient inhabitants of Ethiopia who converted to Judaism." [16] This study confirms the findings of an earlier study by Avshalom Zoossmann-Disken, A. Ticher, I. Hakim, Z. Goldwitch, A. Rubinstein, and Batsheva Bonné-Tamir titled "Genetic affinities of Ethiopian Jews," published in Israel Journal of Medical Sciences 27:245 (1991).[17]. A study of Y-chromosome biallelic haplotypes of Jewish and non-Jewish groups titled Jewish and Middle Eastern non-Jewish populations share a common pool of Y-chromosome biallelic haplotypes and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in June, 2000 suggested that "paternal gene pools of Jewish communities from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East descended from a common Middle Eastern ancestral population," with the exception of the Beta Israel, who were "affiliated more closely with non-Jewish Ethiopians and other North Africans." [18]. These Y-chromosome studies only speak to the paternal lineage (some ethnic groups are a product of one maternal lineage and a different paternal lineage, see Métis people (Canada)), but a study of the Mitochondrial DNA [19] (which is passed only along the maternal lineage) shows that the most common mtDNA type found among the Ethiopian Jewish sample was present elsewhere only in Somalia, furthering the view of most that Ethiopian Jews are of local (Ethiopian) origin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Jews#DNA_evidence
Mishmaat:
According to HaRav Ovadia Yosef they are Jews. HaRav Kahane, zt"l, also stated that they are Jews.
Shlomo:
They are Jews... ESPECIALLY those who went through the conversion process. How could one argue that?
Carlyle:
--- Quote from: Yirmiyahu on October 04, 2006, 01:08:29 AM ---According to HaRav Ovadia Yosef they are Jews. HaRav Kahane, zt"l, also stated that they are Jews.
--- End quote ---
I am Christian but why would they have more authority than Moshe Feinstein, Elazar Shach, Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, and Shlomo Zalman Auerbach?
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