A discussion on the historical and religious significance of the Ten Lost Tribes in Jewish consciousness.
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[Music] welcome to the seventh episode of the 10 lost tribes in Jewish Consciousness series here on sparm chatter and I'm naku Weinstein in this episode of the series we move on to the early modern period and explore the tribes in Jewish Consciousness in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries we discussed the role of messianism in the 10 lost tribes discourse the role of prester John who was discussed in last week's episode but we discuss it here as it relates specifically to the ten tribes in Jewish Consciousness we also follow up and mention red Jews the story of akamus we talk about D Reni who will be the focus of next week's episode of the series and much more uh we also talk about um schl MHO who is relevant to D Reni and for that there was an earlier episode with Dr Ben melik who's the author of A a terrific series hi everyone welcome to another edition of this Farm chatter podcast on this episode of the podcast I'm going to be joined once again by Dr MTI Ben melik who a senior lecturer in the history Department of heride college in EN SCH and we will be discussing the 10 L tribes H and in the early modern period so the 15th and 16th century and kind of Jews perception of them their the the Lost tribes kind of the Lost tribes in Jewish consciousness at the time period and again as with the ear this is another episode in the ongoing series on
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