Rabson:
there is something that troubles me whenever it comes to some of the ideas that feature in our listserv. in most cases when anybody from Africa, Middle-East, Far-East, India simply says my grandfather/mother told me that I am an Israelite or a Jew, if this is not proven true via any DNA engineering technique from America, Europe or Australia, the reaction is, 'Its not true, they simply copied the Jewish culture exposed to them by the Jews who lived among them when they were slaves or when they were passing-bye.' After all the history and culture of Israel, like the rest of Middle-East and Africa was orally transmitted. Our listserve has become too euro-centric. i know that each one of us is entitled to his own view, but ...
Kohen Kosinathi Imanuel bet Shmon Nyati
Yes we all have the right to expression! and healthy i think it is. We BetEl congregation have noticed and our Elders tried so hard to conscientise the world of how eurocentric the globe has become in everything it does. The way we see, look, act, sense, and even feel emotion is now eurocentric, with grave dangers in store.
Rusape Elders lead by "Kohenim" under Chief Kohen Maguwazah, descendants of the (Lozvi, Makoni) or (Levi, Koheni) of Zimbabwe "Va Tshangamiri" have said for generations. "Let (Us) not forget how all this came about then maybe (We) can find out something's about this historical phenomenon yet fact of nature. For it is quite clear from history that it was not always as so. Into history at a glance Middle-East Azania gulf of Aden, (Eden) of our ancestors, who roamed the fertile crest Nile/Tigris were a tall slim (Black) "Cauc-Asian" people spreading from Uganda to the "Cauc" mountains. High cheek bones, thin lips on some, thick on others and many big bridged noses i can tell you. The last of that genetic remnant still reside in Sudan/Ethiopia as proud fierce warriors the sons of Kush and Ham, founders of the first Empires and civilisations as Torah so well purports. Not as shy as (Us) Hebrews and Yisraelites their descendants from uncle/brother Shem who must have been just as black. For as long as academia discontinues to recognise this truth by persisting in Hellenistic or founder of western thought, that "original" Hebrews were blue-eyed, blond-hair "Viking-looking" or Roman-Greeks, no disrespect to any. Then i fear the dream of world citizenship, true heritage, as a covenanted passage to "lasting human inner peace" in ideals values and culture, shall remain but in the fleeting of illusion to be pursued, and never attained. Egos shall rule as Ego shall destroy civilisation, not promote it. Lest we forget this was the Hellenisation program philosophy in the name of progress and very soon after the name of "jesus" as part of that petty progress. The Light of Yisrael shines brightly but not blindingly nor blindly.
We original Eastern or Edenic, Yisraelim and Ivrit, accept our western brothers and sisters as the off spring of the original Edenic family stem but only in certain terms. Our cultural law history, explain how the fathers of many of our off spring were not Hebrews. For lack of knowledge which i doubt any how they did not pay the necessary bride-dowry as our culture demands. Thus their children remain to us as still being Hebrews though through the Hebrew mother. Only when a bride dowry is paid in (full) to the parents of a Hebrew woman, born of a Hebrew father we consider those children as still belonging to their Hebrew father and thus are Hebrews to us.
Any children born from the union of a Hebrew woman and a non-Hebrew father who has not paid a bride dowry is considered a Hebrew by us until the dowry is paid and paid in full, particularly before the marriage is consummated.
This cultural ethic also acted as a control valve for men both foreign or Hebrew to show a necessary commitment of insurance purposes before marrying any of our women. Our history quite sadly fails to show this dowry being actively paid by non-Hebrew men to us Hebrews for our women, specifically of Yisrael. On the contrary history clearly shows the systematic rape of our women, namely by Assyrians, Babylonians and later Greeks and Romans whose off spring we would still ethically consider Hebrews but only through their Hebrew mothers due to this special and extremely sensitive case of birth by rape. These are our children and we will not give them back to the rapist fathers full stop.
In our Torah clear examples of Yisak and Yakov paying full bride dowry either in material cash or in kind as acts of showing dedication and commitment to guaranty the release of a bride to her potential groom by her parents. We Eden Azania Yisraelim still call this action of bride dowry, "Lobola" or "Rowora" and when it is paid in full we say of the groom and his bride. "Va-tshatana" they are married or wedded. Rather close to hebrew "Khatana" wouldn't you say?
spokes person BetEl Zimbabwe
Shalom ale chem
Kohen Kosinathi Imanuel bet Shmon Nyati