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December 5, 2002
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and to our Osher has been busy moving our website to a new location on the web. The site can still be reached through our domain name the-samaritans.com Osher has added our own guest- book, so we will not have to rely on another system. Please stop by and sign the guest book! You may find a couple links that may not work (few), this will be fixed soon. In the future the Updates will be moved to the new server also. Enjoy! Watch for the next Update that will include a printable Samaritan Mezuzah, that you can print and hang above your front door just like the Samaritans. Also watch for the Samaritan Translation of the Ten Commandments.
A Samaritan Passover Poster. Can you tell us who the High Priest in the center is? Click on the photo for a larger image.
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Rabbin and Veronica, a New Samaritan Couple
Photos by our staff Photographer- Eyal Cohen On Monday, November 11th, 2002, Rabbin Yehoshua made the final wedding step (nissu'in) and married Veronica, forming a new couple in the community of Holon. The wedding was at the Samaritan club in the Samaritan neighborhood in Holon, where Priest, Assaf Cohen read the Ketubbah (the marriage contract) to the public. A reception was held at a public Weddings Club near the neighborhood. Rabbin Yehoshua is a 34 years old, that works at a print factory. Veronica is 27 years old Russian immigrant, who came up to Israel some years ago. She met Rabbin three years ago and has lived in the neighborhood for the last year in order to learn Samaritans customs. After she agreed to become a Samaritan, they then agree together to marry ('erusin).
Assaf Cohen is Back This past Sabbath Assaf Cohen returned as the official cantor to the main synagogue in Holon after a recent heart attack. He is doing well! Thank God! International Conference: Mandaic und Samaritan Literature in Memory of Rudolf Macuch Berlin, 1.-2. October 2003 Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, It will be a year next July since the tenth year of Rudolf Macuch's death (1919-1993), of the important explorer of the Mandiac and Samaritan language and literature. In his honor, the institute for Semitic and Arabic where he had taught till 1992, would like to hold a commemoration ceremony in cooperation with the Institute for Iranistik. On this convention both the special fields- the Mandiac and Samaritantic- R. Mancuch had been working at most intensively ought to be focused in particulars. If you have a topic on one of these fields that you would like to report on, we would be grateful to let us have the title until the end of the year. An informed announcement would also be appreciated if you would like to be present at the meeting without any contribution of your own. The meeting (conference) are to be held in Berlin 1-2 October 2003. For both subjects one day is scheduled each. You will get further information in a 2nd letter from your enrollment. We hope for a presence in large numbers and for a good success. With best regards, Rainer Voigt Maria Macuch: semiarab@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Translated by Wolfgang Tornow) ----------- Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren! Im nächsten Juli jährt sich der zehnte Todestag von Rudolf Macuch (1919-1993), des bedeutenden Erforschers der mandäischen und samaritanischen Sprache und Literatur. Ihm zu Ehren möchte deshalb das Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik, an dem er bis 1992 gelehrt hat, in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Iranistik eine Gedenkkonferenz ab-halten. Auf dieser Tagung sollen insbesondere die beiden Fachgebiete, mit denen sich Rudolf Macuch am intensivsten beschäftigt hat, die Mandäistik und die Samaritanistik, im Mittel-punkt stehen. Wenn Sie ein Thema zu einem der beiden Gebiete haben, über das Sie gerne berichten möchten, wären wir Ihnen sehr dankbar, wenn Sie uns bis zum Ende des Jahres den Titel mit-teilen könnten. Eine formlose Anmeldung erbeten wir auch für den Fall, daß Sie ohne eigenen Beitrag an der Tagung teilnehmen möchten. Die Konferenz soll von 1. bis 2. Oktober 2003 in Berlin stattfinden. Für die beiden Fachgebiete ist jeweils ein Tag vorgesehen. Weitere Informationen werden wir Ihnen nach Ihrer Anmeldung in einem zweiten Brief zukommen lassen. Wir hoffen auf ein zahlreiches Erscheinen und ein gutes Gelingen der Tagung. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Rainer Voigt Maria Macuch Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church by Penrhyn Stanley-1884 Photos by Alvin B. Garley- 1930
Presently, suddenly, there appeared amongst the worshippers six[1]
sheep,
[1] Seven sheep is the usual number.- Domestic Life in Palestine, 250. [2] ‘The whole assembly shall kill it “between the two evenings”’ (Ex. xii. 6). ‘Thou shalt sacrifice the Passover at ‘evening at the going down of the sun’ (Deut. xvi. 6) [3] I have taken this incident from Professor Petermann (i. 238). ----- Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church. In Three Volumes, Vol I. Charles Scribner’s Sons New York, 1884, Pages 460-467, Appendix III, The Samaritan Passover. Pictured in the 1920 Passover photo are seven sheep. The whole article will soon appear on our web site!
MAPPING HUMAN HISTORY:
Discovering the Past through Our Genes Steve Olson has proven his abilities as
a geneticist at the Institute for Genomic Research and the National
Academy of Sciences. "Mapping Human History" celebrates the similarities
and differences of humankind that have developed over the past 150,000
years. If at times hypothetical, Olson's work draws from genetics,
linguistics, religion, and anthropology to explain why humans cannot be
subdivided into more than one race. Explaining the theories behind
everything from a mitochondrial Eve, the survival of Samaritans in Nablus,
and the intentions of Herman Hesse's Siddhartha, Olson dares to pull from
many sources across several generations. His ideas are compelling, his
research staggering, and his conclusion – that "we are members of a single
human family, the products of genetic necessity and chance" – reinforces a
belief in human equality and the possibility of world peace. (292 pp.)
By Elizabeth Armstrong Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co; ISBN: 0618091572; 1st edition (May 15, 2002) Commonly Known Plan of Mount Gerizim
This commonly known plan displayed above has been used for reference in many books concerning the Samaritans and their location of Holy sites, used on their pilgrimages. The site map has found it's place in Moses Gaster's book, The Samaritans, Their History, Doctrines and Literature, Appendix VI on page 199. This scanned photo is from Arthur Penrhyn Stanley's work, Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church, volume I, section of Appendix III, page 167. Today the Samaritan Passover is in a different location (toward the bottom of the map which would be north). The map is a little rough in the positioning but still informative. (Shomron) Thank you! We would like to thank you for visiting our website, the-samaritans.com in the past and hope you visit us again real soon. We ask you to forward this Update to your friends. The purpose at our web site is the education of the existence and history of the Samaritan-Israelites, descendants of the ancient Kingdom of Israel. Recently we have been working on expanding our web site. We do hope you enjoy visiting our site and recommend it to your friends. Again we thank you for visiting us at the-samaritans.com . Take care and may you be blessed from the Holy One from above. |
Article by Osher Sassoni
In the second
picture is Rabbin reading the story from the book of
Genesis, of the meeting between Rebecca and
Isaac, the night before the wedding.
We all wish Health
to his Father Benjamim, the elder of his family who fell and broke his
leg a few days prior to the wedding. May he have a speedy recovery.
Our
congratulations to Rabbin and Veronica, his father Benjamim, his
brothers and sisters: Yitshak, Rahel and Lea, may God bless them all.
the
whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the
evening.’ In a moment the sheep were thrown on their backs, and the
flashing knives rapidly drawn across their throats. Then a few convulsive
but silent struggles,- ‘as a sheep- dumb- that ‘openeth not his mouth,’
–and the six forms lay lifeless on the ground, the blood streaming from
them; the one only Jewish sacrifice lingering in the world. In the blood
the young men dipped their fingers, and a small spot was marked on the
foreheads and noses of the children. A few years ago, the red stain was
placed on all. But this had now dwindled away into 
by Steve Olson
