“Mount Gerizim,
All the Days of Our Lives”
November/
December 2013
Vol. XIII - No 2
In This Issue ·
Events ·
Snow ·
Auction ·
Meaning ·
Return to Gerizim ·
In the News ·
New Publications ·
From the Editor ·
Meetings ·
Videos & pictures ·
Atlas cover ·
Biblio ·
Prayer book
Future Events
Tenth Month 3652 - Tuesday Evening, December 31, 2013
Eleventh Month 3652 - Thursday Evening, January
30, 2014
Twelfth Month 3652 - Friday Evening, February
28, 2014
First day of the First Month 3652 - Sunday Evening., March 30, 2014
Passover Sacrifice - Sunday, April 13, 2014
Festival of Passover. First Day of Matzos - Monday, April 14, 2014
Festival of Unleavened Bread - first Pilgrimage. – Sun. April 20,
2014
Festival of Weeks. Second Pilgrimage - Sunday, June 8, 2014
Snow News- Dec. 15
Unexpected heavy snow, not common in the middle of December
has fallen on Kiriat Luza, the Samaritan Neighborhood on Mount Gerizim,
Samaria, the Land of Promise. The last heavy snowfall was reported to have been
70 years ago. Electricity and water were cut for 48 hours and the situation was
still hard to handle when snow still heavily falling. Palestinian and Israeli
forces were drafted to help the trapped community with food and clearing the
main roads to the top of the mountain. The leadership of the Israelite
Samaritan Community on Mount Gerizim has paid her gratitude to the authorities.
~~~~~~~~~~
(Photo next page
from Huffington Post)
A Samaritan
priest clears the snow on the roof of his house at Mount Gerzim near the West
Bank town of Nablus, Monday, Dec. 16, 2013. A winter storm last week dumped
rare snow across the region and caused heavy disruptions in the West Bank,
where roads were blocked, schools were closed and electricity was out for two
or three days in many areas. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)
January 29, 2014, 7:00 PM EET- Jerusalem, Israel -Live
Auction
Lot 56: Collection of Samaritan Manuscripts / Booklets and Annotated
Editions of Prayer Books, Liturgical Poems and Torah - Samaritan Versions and
Jewish Versions
WHAT IT MEANS: "AND
YOU SHALL BIND THEM FOR A SIGN ON YOUR HANDS, AND THEY SHALL BE A TOTAFOT
BETWEEN YOUR EYES”? [DUET. 6:8]
By: Benyamim
Tsedaka
TOTAFOT = Memory
The Jewish Mishnah and Talmud sources admit, that they are careful commandments
more than the Jews understood the matter on loan spiritual context of
remembering the commandments: "And did you recall all the commandments of
God." In front of the Shehma. The verse: "and you shall bind them as
a sign on your hands and they will be a memorial between your eyes" [Ex,
13:9]. The written story of the Exodus is the source of the
commandment. So, Totafot = "Memorial". This is
the Samaritan Israelite understanding.
The binding: The Samaritan Israelites also understood this as a spiritual
connection as the connection between Jacob and Benyamim: "and his soul is
bound in his soul" [Genesis, 44:30]
In general, the link that practical Judaism regards of tying the tefillin on
the arm as a commandment is stated as the source of the Exodus from Egypt was a
complete freedom from slavery, and it is illogical, commanding the Exodus from
Egypt is interpreted related practical binding, that is a symbol of slavery and
had no connection to freedom .
Mezuzah?
Even doorposts were understood by Israelite Samaritans literally. They choose
verses with positive meaning, blessing or holiness of the Torah voluntarily,
and engrave the words of the Torah in ancient Hebrew on the panels of marble
and place them in their homes or who write them in artistic writing on
parchment paper and hanging them on the walls of their homes.
Separation of the Jews
Perhaps it was intended by
Judaism to distinguish itself from the Israelite Samaritans as other
regulations of the fixed Judaism of the Second Temple period to separate
themselves from the influence of the Israelite Samaritans. A few cities and
many villages drew Jews and Samaritans together or near them.
Regulations, such as a change in the Hebrew script into Aramaic,
"Pleasures of Shabbat", candle lighting, counting the Omer on the
morrow sabbatical, setting New Year at the top of the seventh month and ease
the laws of purity and impurity initiated by the Jewish Rabbis are not
contingent on complete separation during woman monthly period, Jewish women
continue to cook, taking care of their home and children.
All these regulations Rabbinic Judaism is completely contrary to the written
Torah of the Jewish and the Samaritan versions but have been modified by Rabbinic
Judaism in what Jews call the "Oral Torah" to be differentiated from
the Israelite Samaritans.
I smile once reading scholarly articles about "separation of the
Samaritans" from the Jews, written with a patronage ratio of these "scholars".
In the contrary this separation was set in Judaism toward the Samaritans, and
ignore the many commandments of the Torah showing that in the Mishna and the
Talmud period, the rabbis of the Jews moved away from the Samaritans and not
vice versa.
Today you can find quite a few rabbinic Jews, due to the patronizing attitude,
rejecting the Israelite Samaritans as they reject Jewish main streams behave
differently from them, but you will not find one Israelite Samaritan unconvinced
fact that Jews are an integral part of Israel.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
THE RETURN TO MOUNT GERIZIM – THE MOUNTAIN OF BLESSINGS
By: Benyamim Tsedaka
I returned last week to
Mount Gerizim – the domestic and eternal dwelling place of the Almighty - after
three months of absence, Holon holiday a month and two months of campaigns in Europe
and the U.S., I returned safely to the Land of Promise last Thursday - 26
December 2013.
I woke up in my heated summer house on Mount Gerizim on the first day of 2014,
to the ever- sunny morning and conserve heat. I went out into the
courtyard of my house and I immediately saw the results of the snow storm,
struck at the peak of the mountain and Kiriat Luza – the Israelite Samaritan
Neighborhood - more than anywhere in the country.
The trees around the yard were completely broken from the storm and
limbs were amputated. Their branches covered the yard and the stairs to
the house. In the yard were two piles of snow still not melted yet despite the
intervening two weeks since the snow storm.
I smiled to myself – I had quite nice weather in the middle of USA.
I enlisted promptly two workers from those moving around, cleaned up what
needed cleaning, collecting tree branches broken from the ranks of the roses
plants and revive the plants shaking easy. I asked the workers to cut part of
the lemon tree branches to prepare it to the upcoming spring bloom next month.
Shortly afterwards I visited some of my many friends and relatives on the
mountain. They told me excitedly the effects of the snow storm of the Sabbath
two weeks ago when the cut off electricity and water were off for 48 hours.
Meanwhile, Israel and the
Palestinians came to their aid. Palestinian Electric Company renewed its
electrical power, and the Council of Shomron Settlements sent snowplows and
food.
Isaac Altif, secretary of the Mount community committee told me about the long
hours that stressed all members of the community in which it was given, but the
snow storm he could not do anything, because it was Saturday. "Council of
communities in Samaria sent us food parcels, including oil, milk, bread, honey,
flour, rice and more. We have distributed the packages by list to every home in
Mount Gerizim even to the few Arab neighborhood families. The Samaritans were
very happy for the help,” said Isaac.
I went back to my house after I informed my friends of a possibility that a
storm may return in mid-January and possibly in February. The workers were still
cleaning my yard. Significant storms still excited the talk of the people, but
the warm sun rays take their toll calm. It seems that everything has returned
to normal.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Treasure found in ancient Byzantine garbage pit
"Among other things, more than four hundred coins were
found which are mostly Byzantine, including one gold coin, as well as two hundred whole and intact Samaritan lamps (among them lamps that were never used), rings and
gold jewelry," Tal and Ajami said in a statement from the IAA.
Photo: Rabbi Shaul
Praver with Samaritan Chancellor Benyamin Tsedaka on November 24.
Rabbi Praver had just been presented with The Samaritan Peace Medal.
On Sunday, November 24, Rabbi Shaul Praver was awarded the
Samaritan Peace Medal. This award was presented to Rabbi Praver, of
Congregation Adath Israel, by Samaritan Chancellor Benyamim Tsedaka, editor of AB
— The Samaritan News and
tireless world advocate of the Samaritan people and their rich historical
traditions. Continued reading
~~~~~~~~~~~~
New Publications
(Oxford-Warburg Studies) [Hardcover] January 31, 2014 0199682143 978-0199682140
The
Samaritan Version of the Book of Numbers With Hebrew Variants: A Close Textual
Study [Hardcover] By David Lee Phillips, Publisher: Edwin
Mellen Pr (January 15, 2014)
·
Lawrence
H. Schiffman
·
Shoshannat
Yaakov
·
Jewish
Studies
·
Publication Year :
·
10.1163/9789004235458_019
·
·
·
Biblical
Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection
2013
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/b9789004235458_019
Corpus Inscriptionum
Iudaeae/Palaestinae
A multi-lingual
corpus of the inscriptions from Alexander to Muhammad Volume 3 Southcoast: 2161-2648
A
multi-lingual corpus of the inscriptions from Alexander to Muhammad
[South
Coast: A Multi-Lingual Corpus of the Inscriptions from Alexander to Muhammad]
Ed.
by Ameling, Walter / Cotton, Hannah M. / Eck, Werner / Isaac, Benjamin /
Kushnir-Stein, Alla / Misgav, Haggai / Price, Jonathan / Yardeni, Ada
Aims
and Scope
This
third volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae includes
inscriptions from the South Coast from the time of Alexander through the end
Byzantine rule in the 7th century. It includes all the languages used in the
inscriptions of this period – Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Aramaic, Samaritan,
Christian Palestinian Aramaic, and Nabataean. The 488 texts are classified
according to city, from Tel Aviv in the north to Raphia in the South. http://www.degruyter.com/view/serial/42316
~~~~~~~~~~~~
From the Editor
Recently I have completed one of my
projects with the kind help of Benyamim Tsedaka. It is called The Samaritan Hebrew
Version of the Book of Joshua written by the Samaritan priest Abisha b.
Phinas in the year 1326 Hijra [Muslim Calendar] 1909 C.E. (Photo to left Priest
Abisha)
You
can download the PDF and then magnify the image like any PDF to read it clearly.
Here is the link.
https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/Samaritan_Hebrew_Version_of_the_Book_of_Joshua.pdf
While working on
adding Biblios I ran across an odd thing, it went as follows: “Futuhi Medineti-l Behnesa.-
“History of the Conquest of Behnesa” [in Egypt], by the Associates of the
Prophets. In the fly-leaf at the end, there is a Note on the Samaritans.’ This
reference is in the book: Oriental
manuscripts purchased in Turkey by John Lee, London: Watts 1840. I wonder
what it could possibly have said?
Recently I located some digitized materials from the
collection of Moses Gaster of the John Rylands University Library, Manchester.
These include Samaritan Pentateuch MS2 (1328 CE), Samaritan text G 1- 1,
Samaritan text G2-1, Samaritan text G1-2, Samaritan text G2-2. They are located
at this link, just click on the image and it will forward you to the readable
pages that can be enlarged should you wish: http://enriqueta.man.ac.uk/luna/servlet/view/search?QuickSearchA=QuickSearchA&q=samaritan&search=Search.
Box list of Moses Gaster’s working papers at the
John Rylands University Library, Manchester
By Maria Haralambakis 2012
From my research I ran across a
Newspaper article wherein the 1954 article stated that
Edwin Whistlers of Spokane, Washington had shown a film, the article describes
is as this” The Whislers were entertained in the home of a Samaritan priest,
who displayed the scroll of the torah- a manuscript of the first five books of
the Old Testament.” So in my share time I will try to locate the film if
possible. The called it, “The Lands of
the Bible Speaks.”
Also “Beidan is noticed in the
Samaritan book of Joshua as being the place of purification of the hosts
entering Palestine to build the temple on Gerizim. The upper part of the great
Wady Farah, by which a host from beyond Jordan would naturally approach
Shechem, is called Beidan, and is well supplied with water
for the purifications described.” “Notes From Memoir” Palestine Exploration Fund London: January 1878 p.
20
An
interesting website is Inscriptions of Israel / Palestine, worth a visit.
Also I ran across two websites that declare
that they have an English translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch. Checking I
have determined that either is that reliable.
The
sites are:
https://sites.google.com/site/interlinearpentateuch/online-samaritan-pentateuch-in-english/genesis
Aleksandr
Sigalov (Van Nuys, Ca) is the translator
Also
see Downloads and Links for another Pentateuch
https://sites.google.com/site/interlinearpentateuch/downloads-and-links
Walton’s Polyglot was a
mammoth work compiled by Brian Walton, consisting of the Bible in Hebrew,
Aramaic, Syriac, Chaldean, Samaritan, Greek, Arabic, Ethiopic, Latin, plus
variant readings of Codices Alexandrinus and Vaticanus, in 1657!
Walton’s Polyglot, Part
1, Prolegomena & Variant Readings, PDF, 185 MB Here.
Walton’s Polyglot, Part 2,
Genesis – Leviticus A, PDF, 100 MB Here.
Walton’s Polyglot, Part
3, Leviticus B – Judges A, PDF, 101 MB Here.
I
would also like to show a link for those that do not understand, for the word
used so much over the years, “schism”.
-
a
division among the members of a group that occurs because they disagree on
something
~~~~~~~~~~~~
2014
INTERNATIONAL MEETING
|
Vienna, Austria |
Meeting
Begins: 7/6/2014 Meeting Ends: 7/10/2014
Call for
Papers Opens: 10/28/2013 Call
For Papers Closes: 2/5/2014
http://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramUnits.aspx?MeetingId=24
|
San
Diego, CA |
Meeting Begins: 11/22/2014 Meeting
Ends: 11/25/2014
Call for Papers Opens: 12/20/2013 Call for
Papers Closes: 3/5/2014
http://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_CallForPapers.aspx?MeetingId=25
Description:
This unit is open to all papers that employ archaeology in all its aspects
(including survey, excavation, and epigraphic data) to understand the history
of the ancient Israelite kingdoms and/or the Hebrew Bible.
Call
for papers: This year the Program Unit Hebrew Bible, History, and Archaeology
will hold three sessions. The first session will be a Joint Session with the
Program Unit Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah with invited papers. The other two
sessions will be open sessions, accepting papers that address the history or
archaeology of ancient Israel and Judah through the use of texts, epigraphy,
archaeology, and anthropology.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Videos &
Pictures
Valley of the Shechem
[Film from the 1920. Samaritans start at 8:21
in the film]
http://www.travelfilmarchive.com/item.php?id=12802®ion_id=9&startrow=0&keywords=Middle+East
Clip #: TFA-199G- Length: 13:24 Color: B/W Sound:
Country: Palestine Subject: Religion Original: 16mm
Keywords:
1920s, Palestine, Israel, Sichem, Valley of Shechem, Tell Balata, Balata
al-Balad, ancient city, Bethel, caravan of pack donkeys in desert, old city
street scene, Jacob's Well, native men in traditional clothing walking on road,
Dothan, shepherd herding sheep, herd of goats, boys in traditional clothing
soaking feet in Jacob's Well water, men riding donkeys and leading camels on
road, camel caravan, camel train, valley, Joseph's Tomb, ancient city, Mount
Gerizim, Mount Ebal, tent settlement, temple on Mount Gerizim, tribe of
Samaritans, Samaria, Samaria ruins, city gate, Nablus.
Notes:
Shechem or Sichem was a Canaanite city mentioned
in the Amarna letters, and is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as an Israelite
city of the tribe of Manasseh and the first capital of the Kingdom of Israel
Samaritans Import Wives to Counter
Dwindling Gene Pool
21 October
2013 by Nir Alon
MyIsraeliGuide.com:
Benjamin and Samaria
http://myisraeliguide.com/benjamin-and-samaria/
Samaritans
on Mt Gerizim
http://www.abrahampath.org/discover/places/nablus/sites/samaritans-on-mt-gerizim/
Atlas Biblique Pour Tous.
Livre - Rp Luc H Grollenberg Op. - 01/01/1960 – 1968 Broché
Caractéristiques
Genre: Atlas
Etat: Utilisé
Titre: ATLAS BIBLIQUE
POUR TOUS
Auteur: L Grollenberg
Edition: Sequoia-Elsevier
Couverture: Autre
Langue: Français
Image of 50 years shows where from right to left
High Priest 'Amram b.
Yitzhaq [1889-1980], High Priest 1961-1980
His deputy Priest Asher
b. Matzliach [1894-1982], High Priest: 1980-1982
His brother Priest
Tsedaka b. Yitzhaq [1894-1971]
His nephew [The
"kid"], Priest Shalom b. 'Amram [1922-2004], High Priest 2001-2004;
Member of the Palestinian Parliament 1996-2004
صورة من 50
عام يظهر فيها
من اليمين الى
اليسار
الكاهن
الاكبر عمران
بن اسحاق
الكاهن الاكبر
واصف بن توفيق
الكاهن
صدقة بن اسحاق
و الصبي
الصغير عمران
ابن الكاهن
الاكبر سلوم
~~~~~~~~~~
Biblio
Box list of Moses Gaster’s working papers at the
John Rylands University Library, Manchester By
Maria Haralambakis 2012
En Torno a dos manuscriptos Arabes
Biblicos Ineditos by Juan Pedro Monferrer Sala 2000
Palestine of the Mandate, Illustrated. By W. Basil Worsfold, London:
Adelphi Terrace. 1925
Dating the Biblical Chronology by Gerard GERTOUX
Die Ketubbah bei den
Samaritanern by Moses Gaster
Before the God in
this Place for Good Remembrance:
An Analysis of the Votive Inscriptions from Mount Gerizim
PhD Thesis by Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme
The Geniza Fragment
of a Samaritan Chronicle in the light of the St. Petersburg MSS Disjecta Membra by Harutyun
S. Zhamkochyan
Preliminary
Remarks on CUA 5284: a Hoard of Tetrarchic Bronze Coins from Nablus in
Palestine by
Grimm, Joseph
#1986 Die Samariter und ihre Stellung in der Weltgeschichte.
(Mit besondererRucksicht auf Simon den Magier).Munchen: J.G. Weib,
1854 by Joseph Grimm
The Formation of the
Jewish Cannon by Timothy H. Lim, Yale University Press, New Haven; ISBN
978-0-300-16434-3 ©2013, $45.00, p. 287, including appendices and index
Scholar
analyzes process by which Bible was canonized
By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. (Review)
~~~~~~~~~~~
A
Samaritan Passover Prayer Book for Sale
Description of manuscript:
Rosary blessed time of
Passover, Unleavened Bread Sabbath time and days of Unleavened Bread.
Genuine leather cover
painted red, with typical seal and triple tongue mark the place in the book.
Cover Size: 320X203 mm
(12 5/8” x 8”); Page Size: 205X155 mm (8” x 6”); Area Writing: 130X90 mm (5” x
3 ½”).
Old school the lesser
and largely new part. Pages are not numbered. Total 219 pages (438 pages). Ago
Description page count:
Pages: 1 of 9 on
Passover night service date - Passover offering.
Page 10 A - empty.
Pages: 10 - 27 a -
Prayer Night Passover sacrifice when sheep were roasting ovens.
Pages: 27 in 64 in
[the old part of the book] - The first part of the morning prayer of the date
of Passover.
Pages: 65 A at -68
[new part] - completing the prayer said.
Page 69 A - Painting
of a circle whose content is not complete with the new copier intended to write
the verses of the Torah called Raising called aggregated "and
Iángeo."
Pages: 69 in 76A on
Passover prayers outside Lhargrazim.
Pages: 76B -98 [in the
old part of the book] - poems sung on the table during the Passover holiday, or
even at the time of Passover - the first day of the seven days of Unleavened
Bread.
Pages: 99 A -129A:
Continue poems [new part].
Page 129 - 199 A -
Sabbath prayer time Unleavened Bread [ new part ] and at the end of the book
completes testimony in Arabic, on Tuesday, the second dark 'news' (Ramadan)
1288 Hijra year = 1872 AD.
Pages 199B to 215 (page
212 is blank) - Prayers nights and days of Unleavened Bread controllers.
On pages 215 -219 on
Arabic description of the events of the Passover offering in 1293 Hijra (1876).
Summary: Shlomo Ben-
old father - Skoh Hdnfi (Amshallemah b. Ab-Sikkuwwa) clan leaders, acclaimed
poet and commentator, who lived in the late 17th century to the first third of
the 18th century, the collection known ancient prayer books wonderful
handwriting, including prayers cycle all year in its entirety, the 13 parts,
library of Topkapi in Istanbul from hundreds of other Jewish manuscripts.
Write cycles also
Topkapi completed by the High Priest Jacob ben Aaron ben Solomon (1840-1916),
as did the book do Slfneino and completed in 1872.
If so, the pages of
the old part copied by Shlomo Ben- Av - Skoh and the newer part by the High
Priest Jacob ben Aaron.
The manuscript is
currently in Israel for asking price contact Israel Mizrahi http://judaicaused.com/
~~~~~~~~~~~~
The
Samaritan Update is open to any articles that are relative to Samaritan
Studies. Submit your work to the Editor. The
Editor
~~~~~~~
TheSamaritanUpdate.com, is a Bi-Monthly Internet Newsletter
Editor: Larry
Rynearson. Contact: The
Editor
Copyright
© 2013-2014 All Rights Reserved