Shabbat Shalom to all the Hebrews in the current Diaspora of 2014

Shabbat Shalom and welcome to the Fresh Wind of Torah. We would like to encourage you to actively be a part of the exciting and wonderful work that the Father is doing in the earth today, that is the awaking of Zion for over 400 years of slumber and sleep. A sleep, that the father himself brought on our ancestors because of their disobedience to his covenant and his laws. Today the Ruach of the Holy one of Israel is brooding over the scattered Hebrew people and causing them to awaken and realize who they are as a nation of dispersed people. Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. Isaiah 52:1 The scattered Hebrews are those who were taken through the transatlantic Slave trade in the 1400 A.D. "The LORD will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I spoke to you, 'You will never see it again!' And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer." Deuteronomy 28:68

Lust For Gold When the Portuguese first sailed down the Atlantic coast of Africa in the 1430's, they were interested in one thing. Surprisingly, given modern perspectives, it was not slaves but gold. Ever since Mansa Musa, the king of Mali, made his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1325, with 500 slaves and 100 camels (each carrying gold) the region had become synonymous with such wealth. There was one major problem: trade from sub-Saharan Africa was controlled by the Islamic Empire which stretched along Africa's northern coast. Muslim trade routes across the Sahara, which had existed for centuries, involved salt, kola, textiles, fish, grain, and slaves. As the Portuguese extended their influence around the coast, Mauritania, Senagambia (by 1445) and Guinea, they created trading posts. Rather than becoming direct competitors to the Muslim merchants, the expanding market opportunities in Europe and the Mediterranean resulted in increased trade across the Sahara. In addition, the Portuguese merchants gained access to the interior via the Senegal and Gambia rivers which bisected long-standing trans-Saharan routes. Beginning to Trade The Portuguese brought in copper ware, cloth, tools, wine and horses. (Trade goods soon included arms and ammunition.) In exchange, the Portuguese received gold (transported from mines of the Akan deposits), pepper (a trade which lasted until Vasco da Gama reached India in 1498) and ivory. Shipping Slaves for the Islamic Market There was a very small market for African slaves as domestic workers in Europe, and as workers on the sugar plantations of the Mediterranean. However, the Portuguese found they could make considerable amounts of gold transporting slaves from one trading post to another, along the Atlantic coast of Africa. Muslim merchants had an insatiable appetite for slaves, which were used as porters on the trans-Saharan routes (with a high mortality rate), and for sale in the Islamic Empire. Origins of the trans-Atlantic slave trade By Alistair Boddy-Evans So here were are almost 614 years later or, 214 years after the official end of that Period of capturing and scattering. But we are still largely oppressed and afraid, some are angry some 70 years after civil rights. This is why many of the Hebrews do not really understand who they are and what really happened. The scriptures admonish us to study to show ourselves approved. Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2 Timothy 2:15 Once we start studying and discovering our true identity and the history of our people as we relate to the Most High then begin to humbly understand that ll these events happened to our people because of our ancestors willing disobedience. So it is up to our generation to correct the error and present ourselves to the Most High to understand his covenant and put it into active loving practice in our daily lives. Let’s do it together! 2 Chronicles 6:37-38 yet if they shall repent themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly; if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name: 1 Kings 8:47-48 yet if they shall repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;' if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name: Jeremiah 14:20 We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you. Hosea 5:15 I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly." Mark 1:15 and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News." Acts 3:19 "Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord, Acts 8:22 Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you. House of Judah and House of Israel the only way to find favor in the sight of the Most high is to REPENT and turn from our sins.

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The Work in Kenya with our Brother Pastor Martin

This is the work that bro. Martin Odiambo is doing in Kenya, as the work continues to grow, they are building and adding to thier congregation and the Most high is adding daily such as should be saved. Since this congregaton discovered thay they are Hebrews and have been learning how to obey the Torah more diligently, they have been blessed to receive land, chickens, cows and orphans are coming for help and support. Our Congregation Beth Shalom Meshiac supports this work! YOU can partner with us, by clicking the DONATE BUTTON on our blog to your right!

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A Fresh Wake-Up Call fromt he Recent Past

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Secret Relationship between Orthodox Jews and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Persian: محمود احمدی‌نژاد, Mahmūd Ahmadinezhād [mæhˈmuːd(-e) æhmædiːneˈʒɒːd] ( listen),^[2][3][4] English: /ɑːkməˈdɪnɨʒɒd/; born 28 October 1956^[5][6]) is the sixth and current President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the main political leader of the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran, a coalition of conservative political groups in the country. An engineer and teacher from a poor background,^[7] Ahmadinejad joined the Office for Strengthening Unity^[8] after the Islamic Revolution. Appointed a provincial governor, he was removed after the election of President Mohammad Khatami and returned to teaching.^[9] Tehran's council elected him mayor in 2003.^[10] He took a religious hard line, reversing reforms of previous moderate mayors.^[11] His 2005 presidential campaign, supported by the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran, garnered 62% of the runoff election votes, and he became President on 3 August 2005.^[12][13]
Ahmadinejad is a controversial figure both within Iran and internationally. He has been criticized domestically for his economic lapses and disregard for human rights. He launched a gas rationing plan in 2007 to reduce the country's fuel consumption, and cut the interest rates that private and public banking facilities could charge.^[14][15][16] He supports Iran's nuclear energy program. His election to a second term in 2009 was widely disputed^[17][18] and caused widespread protests domestically and drew significant international criticism.^[19] In 2011 the presence of a so-called "deviant current" among his aides and supporters led to the arrest of several of them.^[20] 

So does Mahmoud Ahmandinjad really hate the Jews?????

WHAT DO YOU THINK????

The difference between Hebrews & Modern Jews

As we approach the year 2012, something very wonderful is happeing faster than a person has a chance to understand it. It's happening to people who have been called, "African Americans" and not just African Americans only, but this phenomenon is happing simultaneously all over the world in, India, South American, Europe, and Africa.

So, just what is going on? Well, seemingly, almost overnight, many people of color are simply starting to " wake up to the reality that we are the hebrew decendants written in scripture". Since I live in the United States, I will focus on what is happening here! Everyday, more and more African American's, Hispanics and Native American are starting to declare that they just awoke from a slumber and are studying the scriptures to discover that they fit in every detail, the of the conditions that are found in Deuteronomy 28 and Leviticus 26. 

When those scriptures are looked at carefully and slowly it is obvious that the Most High was prophesying the events of the TransAtlantic Slave Trade that became full blown around A.D.1611-1865.  This would be a little more than 1.5 days after the death of the promised Meshiach. Remember the scriputre tells us that 1 day with Yahuwah is as 1000 years and 1000 years is as 1 day.

Historically, it can be proven that the first enslavement that the Hebrew's expierenced did not last 400 yrs as has popularly been taught. The misunderstanding comes from this verse: GENESIS 15:13 Then He said to Abram: "Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. 14 And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions. 15 Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age." (NKJV) Please read this article for clearity

But the prophesy in Deuteronomy 28:68 And the Lord will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, “You shall never see it again.” And there you shall be offered for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you. Now you should do some research on the TransAtlantic Slave Trade to verify verses 16-68 of Deutoronomy 28. and Leviticus 26.

Food for Thought, if you have an American $1.00 bill, please look at the symbol of the Pyramid on the back signfiying that when the Hebrews were brought as slaves to the shores of America we were entering back into Egypt.  So, today the difference between the Hebrews and the Jews is a matter of origin. 

The modern Eastern European Jewish people were Khazars who converted to the Abrahamic faith in 747 A.D See: "The Thirteenth Tribe" by Arthur Koestler, Read Book Here.

Mr. Koestler was an Ashkenazi Jew and took pride in his Khazar ancestry. He was also a very talented and successful writer who published over 25 novels and essays. His most successful book, Darkness at Noon, was translated in thirty-three languages. As expected, The Thirteenth Tribe caused a stir when published in 1976, since it demolishes ancient racial and ethnic dogmas...At the height of the controversy in 1983, the lifeless bodies of Arthur Koestler and his wife were found in their London home. Despite significant inconsistencies, the police ruled it a suicide.

(BUT, IT IS OBVIOUS WHAT REALLY HAPPENED..) SEE THAT'S THE FUNNY THING, PEOPLE WHO WANT TO HIDE THE FACTS, CANNOT STOP THE TRUTH FROM COMING FORTH..BECAUSE THE MOST HIGH HAS THE FINAL SAY ON THE MATTER! 

 

Although being Jewish has become very popular in the later 20th and 21th Centuries, neither Eastern European Jews nor Judaism, should not be mistaken as the same as, the Biblical Hebrews or biblical worship. Hebrews are still scattered around the globe, in the same conditions discribed in those verses mentioned above.  I could go into many scriptures and historical documents to prove my case, but there are so many other Hebrew's doing such a good job of this already.

The reason it is important to understand the difference between the two groups is because, just as the Most High scattered us (The Hebrews), he has promised to regather us, and bring us back to our own land. That is precisely what is happening, every week someone emails, or calls me and tells me that he/she "just woke up" I completely understand..this is not the work of any one man, it is the work of the Most High Yahuwah, so it cannot be stopped. The Hebrew people are like the sand of the sea in number, all the prophesy's will be fullfilled. It can only continue its rapid spread around the globe as we are witnessing each day.

It is truly fascinating because things are happening so fast to among the Hebrew people, customs, ways, patterns and abrupt changes in diet and worship; it is as if a genetic code suddenly got swtiched on inside every Hebrew descendant of the TransAtlantic Slave Trade. It is appropriate because we are comming to the "End of the Age" and it is at this time that the Most High promised to re gather his children. Isaiah 43:5-7 Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
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"Cochin Jews" India's Oldest Black Jews since 587 B.C.

It is so interesting to that in this day and time so much information is surfacing about the origin and color of the original Hebrews and the scripture is so clear that The Father would scatter his children to the four corners of the earth. Please enjoy you can also find this on Wikapedia.

Cochin Jews, also called Malabar Jews (Malabar Yehudan), are the oldest group of Jews in India, with roots dating to the time of King Solomon.^[2] Historically, they lived in the Kingdom of Cochin in South India,^[3] now part of the state of Kerala. Several rounds of immigration of the Jewish diaspora into Kerala led to an ethnic, but not a linguistic, diversity: the community was divided into White Jews and Black Jews, both of which spoke Judeo-Malayalam, a form of the Malayalam tongue native to the state.^[4] The vast majority of the Cochin Jews emigrated to Israel; the number remaining in Kerala itself is minuscule, and the community faces extinction there.

Biblical Account
The Bible contains the first mention of Jews in connection with India.^{[citation needed]} The Book of Esther, which dates from the second century B.C, cites decrees enacted by Ahasuerus relating to the Jews dispersed throughout the provinces of his empire from Hodu to Kush. Hodu is Hebrew for India^[6][7]; Kush is Ethiopia^[8]. Talmudic and Midrashic literature also mention spices, perfumes, plants, animals, textiles, gems and crockery which either bear names of Indian origin or are indigenous to the country.^[9][10]
Traders in King Solomon's time carried out regular sea voyages to the South Indian coast, bartering for ivory, apes, and silver, and the first Cochin Jews may have been the children of Israelite sailors and local women.^[11] Following the destruction of the First Temple in the Siege of Jerusalem (587 BC), some Jewish exiles came to India.^[12] But it was after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE that the first wave of large numbers of settlers came to Cranganore, an ancient port near Cochin.^[13] Cranganore, now transliterated as Kodungallur, but also known under other names, is a city of legendary importance to this community. Fernandes goes so far as to call it "a substitute Jerusalem in India"^[14] and Katz and Goldberg note the "symbolic intertwining" of the two cities.^[15]
St. Thomas, one of the disciples of Jesus, is supposed to have visited India, and many of the Jews who converted to Christianity at that time became Nasrani or Saint Thomas Christians.^[16]
Central to the history of the Cochin Jews is their close relationship with Indian rulers, and this was eventually codified on a set of copper plates granting the community special privileges. The date of these plates, known as "Sâsanam",^[17] is contentious, with local tradition setting it as long ago as 379 CE, although paleographic evidence suggests the mid-eighth century. Whatever the date, the Jewish leader Joseph Rabban was granted the rank of prince over the Jews of Cochin, given the rulership and tax revenue of a pocket principality in Anjuvannam, near Cranganore, and rights to seventy-two "free houses".^[18] The Hindu king gave permission in perpetuity (or, in the more poetic expression of those days, "as long as the world and moon exist") for Jews to live freely, build synagogues, and own property "without conditions attached".^[19][20] A link back to Rabban, "the king of Shingly" (another name for Cranganore), was a sign of both purity and prestige. Rabban's descendants maintained this distinct community until a chieftainship dispute broke out between two brothers, one of them named Joseph Azar, in the sixteenth century.
The oldest gravestone of a Cochin Jew is written in Hebrew and dates to 1269 CE. It is near the Chendamangalam Synogogue, now a museum^[21]
In 1341 a disastrous flood silted up the port of Cranganore, and trade shifted to a smaller port at Cochin (Kochi). Many of the Jews moved quickly, and within four years the first synagogue had been completed.^[22] The Portuguese Empire established a trading beachhead in 1500, and until 1663 remained the dominant power. They were not kind to the Jews.

European Jews arrive

Black jew of cochin with Payot

The Paradesi Jews, also called "White Jews," settled in the region at about this time. In the sixteenth century, Jews in many parts of Europe faced religious persecution under the Inquisition, and were exiled from countries where they had been living for centuries, such as Holland and Spain. They brought with them the Ladino language and their Sephardic customs. They found the Black Malabari Jewish community quite different, and tensions between the two communities existed from early on, according to Mandelbaum^[23] The European Jews had good trade links with their countries of origin, and useful languages to conduct international trade, which helped their position both financially and politically.
In 1524, the Muslims, backed by the ruler of Calicut (today called Kozhikode and not to be confused with Calcutta), attacked these wealthy Jews of Cranganore on the pretext that they had an advantage with the pepper trade. The Jews fled south to the Kingdom of Cochin, seeking the protection of the Cochin Royal Family (Perumpadapu Swaroopam). The Hindu Raja of Cochin, Bhaskara Ravi Varman II (979— 1021) gave them asylum. Moreover, he exempted Jews from taxation but bestowed on them all privileges enjoyed by the tax-payers.^[24]
Shortly thereafter, the Portuguese occupied the Kingdom of Cochin and suppressed the Jews until the Dutch displaced them in 1660. The new Protestant rulers were more tolerant of the Jews than the Catholics had been. (See the Goa Inquisition for the situation in nearby Goa.)

Traditions and way of life

An Indian Jewish family in Cochin

Group of Cochin Jews

The 12th century Jewish traveler Benjamin of Tudela wrote about the Malabari coast of Kerala: "The inhabitants are all black, and the Jews also. The latter are good and benevolent. They know the law of Moses and the prophets, and to a small extent the Talmud and Halacha."^[31] Maimonides (1135–1204), the preeminent Jewish philosopher of his day, wrote, "Only lately some well-to-do men came forward and purchased three copies of my code [the Mishneh Torah] which they distributed through messengers...Thus the horizon of these Jews was widened and the religious life in all communities as far as India revived."^[32] (The Baghdadi Jews came to India in the 18th century, and it was only then that the Bene Israel Jews of India were "discovered" and taught mainstream Judaism by the Cochinis and Baghdadis,^[33] so Maimonides must be referring to the Cochini Jews.)
Further support for the Mishneh Torah circulating in India comes in the form of a letter sent from Safed, Israel to Italy in 1535. In it David del Rossi claimed that a Jewish merchant from Tripoli had told him the India town of Shingly (Cranganore) had a large Jewish population who dabbled in yearly pepper trade with the Portuguese. As far as their religious life, he wrote they: "only recognize the Code of Maimonides and possessed no other authority or Traditional law."^[34] According to Katz, Rabbi Nissim of Gerona (the Ran) visited the Cochini Jews, and they preserve in their song books the poem he wrote about them.^[35] In the Kadavumbagham synagogue, there was a yeshiva (school) for both "children's education and adult study of Torah and Mishnah."^[36]
The early twentieth century Jewish Encyclopedia states, "Though they neither eat nor drink together, nor intermarry, the Black and the White Jews of Cochin have almost the same social and religious customs. They hold the same doctrines, use the same ritual (Sephardic), observe the same feasts and fasts, dress alike, and have adopted the same language Malayalam. ... The two classes are equally strict in religious observances,"^[37] and prominently featured is a black Cochin Jew with his entire head shaved, save for his very prominent peyot. According to Chemana, the Jews of Cochin "coalesced around the religious fundamentals: devotion and strict obedience to Biblical Judaism and to the Jewish customs and traditions ... Hebrew, taught through the Torah texts by rabbis and teachers who came especially from Yemen...".
It is notable that the Jews of Cochin did not adhere to the Talmudic prohibition against public singing by women (kol isha), and therefore have always had a rich tradition of Jewish prayers and narrative songs performed by women in Judeo-Malayalam.^[38][39][40] (However, this Talmudic prohibition is not absolute; there are in fact traditional Orthodox interpretations which sanction certain kinds of singing performances by women before men, and other historical Jewish communities besides the Cochini one relied on this lenient interpretation.^[41])
Benedicta Pereira, a Paradesi Jew, writes, "Mostly the older people prohibited the use of milk and meat the same day in the house[;] and to scare the young Jew's[,] [sic] so as not to be inspired by the culture[,] there were stories of bad Omens for those who dare[d] to think even of milk and meat together