Today we begin Genesis Chapter 10.
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So Chapter 10 presents us with the Table of Nations that branched out from Noah’s three sons Shem, Japheth, and Ham.
There are two reasons we should be intensely interested in this information.
The first reason is that each and every one of us is a descendant of Noah.
The second reason is that the prophecies that Noah pronounced on his three sons are still in effect today and will continue to play their course until the coming of the messiah.
So let’s take a look at the descendants of Japheth who for the most part ended up occupying Europe.
Please be advised, however, that the following is by no means a 100% comprehensive record.
JAPHETH
In chapter 10, seven sons of Japheth are listed. They are Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Tiras and Meschech. Here is a quick snapshot of where they are today.
Gomer: The descendants of Gomer generally settled in what is today Wales and Great Britain.
Magog: The descendants of Magog became the Russian peoples.
Madai: The descendants of Madai became the Medes.
Javan: Generally speaking, the descendants of Javan became the Greeks. It is also interesting to note that one of Javan’s sons Tarshish has become what is today modern day Spain. Tarshish is mentioned in a prophecy in the Book of Isaiah 60:1-12.
Tubal: A bit of controversy on this one. However, I’ll go with Josephus’s take on the matter
who identified the descendants of Tubal with the Iberians, that is, the inhabitants of a tract of country between the Caspian and Euxine Seas, which nearly corresponded to the modern Georgia.
Tiras: From Tiras came a group of people known as the Thracians who became the Macedonians from whom Alexander the Great came,
Meschech: The descendants of Meshech were believed to have originated from the North-east of Asia Minor, particularly in the area that is now Turkey. Then they travelled north and settled in Rosh, which is modern day Russia.
The Welsh are the Cymru whos namesake is that of of an ancient Israelite King by the name of Omri.
This does not mean they are Jews. In fact Jews are not Israelites. They are the descendants of the Edomites, Canaanites and Khazars. In the Jewish Encyclopedia is says “World Jewry is Edom.”
An interesting note…Semites derives from Shem, one of Noah’s 3 sons. The others being Japheth and Ham. Ham was cursed by Noah for looking on and mocking his nakedness when he got drunk and passed out in his tent. It was in that curse that Noah proclaimed Canaan (son of Ham, meaning all Ham’s descendants) would end up as servants, legitimizing Israel’s takeover of the land of Canaan (as promised to Abraham) after they had wandered in the desert for 40 years.
The ancient Egyptians were descendants of Ham and they were not cursed. Neither were the Ethiopians. The early settlers to the USA justified this as basis for them to enslave Africans.
If you read the history of the American slave trade, the ships were primarily owned by three ancestors of modern day Jews. Slave markets in the US were also closed on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, not Sunday, the Christian Sabbath. The slave trade was not brought to America by Christians.
Where in the bible does is say Sunday is the Christian Sabbath? Also when God crated the Sabbath there were no Jews. The 7th day Sabbath the the Jews observe is THE Sabbath, the 4th commandment tells us to Remember it and to keep it Holy. The Sunday “sabbath” was created by Roman Catholicism under Constantine. The bible tells us we are to keep the commandments of God this includes His sabbath and not the catholic Sunday/1st day of the week Sabbath.
To Irwin: Saturday is the 6th day, and the sabbath. It might it interesting to read the scriptures during the time that Christ was Crucified. Christ rose on a Sunday, so Christians eventually worshiped on Sunday. The bible says not to let anyone judge you in food, drink or the sabbath. So we are obviously not judged for Sunday worship, but Saturday is the Sabbath, and really should be noted. Satan always tries to replace what God has made.
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The Sunday worship was not created by Constantine, Christians were meeting on Sunday hundreds of years before there was any man called Constantine. Jesus appeared to his disciples on Sunday…Paul the apostle preached on Sunday….Paul told the Christians in 1st Cor 16:1 to bring their offering for the poor saints on a Sunday morning.
Sunday is not the Christian Sabbath, but the Catholic Church declaring it so to demonstrate their authority is greater than that of the Bible. At least that’s what they have documented in their publications. I think the literature trail is noted in this lecture, if not, another lecture in this same series (total onslaught): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNv-zzpIwBs
My DNA is ancient Egyptian. I have absolutely no African DNA in my blood. This is the case of most ancient Egyptian DNA. Modern Egyptian DNA also contain African DNA. Ancient Egyptians were not descendants of Ham they were descendants of Japath.
Hmmm… That’s interesting. My DNA is Hellenic-Cypriot (a.k.a. Greek from Cyprus), but I have an Aunt who is Egyptian from Alexandria and many Coptic-Egyptian friends and Cyprus was 400 years under Egyptian rule of Pharaoh Thutmose III (we have much proof in Cyprus of Egyptian relics and Egyptian civilization). Also when Cyprus was once a province of Egypt Cyprus was called Alashiya, or Alisia or in Hebrew Elishah. New scientific studies have revealed that there was much letters being sent back and forth between Egypt and Cyprus. I am wondering if there is also any ancestral DNA connection between our two countries and our people?
you have no african blood because your ancestors do not origin from africa. how slow are you? with all the data out there you still chose lies
A few interesting articles about how Egyptians feel towards certain Afro-centrists and their false claims of stealing other people’s cultures without any evidence whatsoever.
https://iwuzkang.wordpress.com/2019/07/12/how-do-egyptians-feel-about-afrocentrists-blackwashing-their-history/
Stella, by your name, I’m assuming you are female. If that is so, how do determine to be ancient Egyptian. Because, ancient Egyptian DNA is only traceable thus far from the tombs only two Egyptian pharaohs, Ramesses III or Tutankhamun. Their DNA(Y-paternal), are not passed from males to females, but from a continuous line from males to their descendant male offspring. For you to identify as being ancient Egyptian, you would have to have a DNA match from a wife of one of these pharaohs with their mtDNA(mitochondrial DNA).
Unless one of your male relatives(Dad, brother, Uncle, male cousins from an Uncle’s side of the family) has E-V38 as their haplogroup. If so, I can tell you much more than you could possibly imagine.
If you have ancient Egyptian DNA this means your ancestors were part of the group that left the Ark, settled around the area for a while, and finally traveled to Babel and had their language confused. The progenitor of the black race is Ham even though he was Hebrew, his wife had to be black in order to produce interracial people which were Cush, Canaan, Mizraim(Egypt), Put. This process had to take many years before the group who were all Hamites finally migrated to Africa which was void of people. This is why ancient mummies contain so much Asiatic DNA and very little modern African DNA. Japheth was not around, he traveled north into the Europe area right after the confusion of tongues. So your ancient DNA would mean you have Hamitic descent.
Egypt and Africa were the domain of Ham his descendants dwelled in those locations. Shem, Ham and Japheth’s descendants eventually ended up in each other’s domains. That is why many of the myths of the world associated with Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth merge with each other. Only 5% of the population of Egypt today is estimated to have a direct lineage to the ancient pharaohs of Egypt. Nobody living in the world today could be showing up 100% pure ancient anything there should be percentages of other ethnicities. All people living in Egypt today who could trace their line to the Ptolemy’s or ancient Egypt should not be showing up 100% anything ancient. Some of the Ancient Egyptians had European ancestry not all of them. None of us living today have a choice of which Ancient Egyptians we descend from since it’s been more then 3000 years most if not all humans on Earth would be descended from the Ancient Egyptians. All humans today descend from Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth regardless of skin color or location.
Egypt most definitely descended from Ham. Genesis 10:6. Just because you don’t have African in your DNA does not mean you are not descended from Ham. the Bible says you are.
Where do you get your research from? Ancient Egyptians were most definitely Africans. They belong to Ham, their ancient name is Mizraim. They were African people with broad nose and almond shaped eyes, and thick lips. They wore braids, bald heads, or dred locs, or wigs with those hair stlyes because it was so hot. Japeth lived in a climate where it had 4 seasons not like the burning hot sun of Egypt or around the equator in the Central and southern parts of Africa.Please do your research before you make bogus claims like this!
Light skinned Egyptians were introduced into Egypt during the invasion and subsequent rule of the Hyksos. Prior to that, native Egyptians were dark-skinned and direct descendants of Ham. When the Hyksos ruled Egypt, many of the native Egyptians fled into Ethiopia. When Joseph, son of Israel was sold into slavery and taken to Egypt, it was during Hyksos rule.
So, ancient Egyptians WERE descendants of Ham, but were driven out by the Hyksos.
First, what is your evidence for saying that Egyptians descended from Japheth. My world history map says they descended from Ham. Japheth’s descendant, those that didn’t mix with Ham and Shem’s families went north, not south.
Africa actually doesn’t define a “race” (there are no races, just the human race). As all people descended from one family, we all came from one area. Egypt is in Africa, so you are African in the truest sense of the word. Nigerians are African, Egyptians are African … well, if you live in Egypt or Nigeria, at least. I am American not because I’m white, clearly, but because thar’s where I live. If I had to define myself the way that American minorities (I say that because in a world sense, I’m actually the minority) do, I’d have to say that I’m Northern European American. I’m completely Northern European in DNA, though I know that going back, I had family members with Middle Eastern ancestry, as we all did. But now it’s just Northern European.
Are you crazy? Egypt is literally part of Africa. So rethink what you are claiming! You are deluded.
Africans were not enslaved. They helped enslave the true Hebrews who fled roman invasion. Those Hebrews who fled Roman invasion from 66-70 AD are the true descendants of Shem. Africans were not enslaved in the USA it was the descendants of Shem and we are still in the land of our captivity and the rest of Israel is still scattered to the four corners of the earth. Deuteronomy 28 describes who we are.
Really? So where does the voodoo religion which we know for a fact was spread by slaves come from if they were “Israelites?”
In the Egyptian days of Israel’s son Joseph the whole region become enslaved because of Josephs dream reads…by the time Pharaoh had finished he took their money then their cattle then their land and their Labor and before you knew it their children were slaves and their children’s children…Pharaoh owned everything from Egypt to Canaan
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You must be smoking something the vast majority of people enslaved to America were african and were not Jews…Jews have never and will never forget who they are.
The black people grew up and didnt pass on anything to the their offspring.
The Israelites were in Egypt for a couple of hundred years and did not forget anything about their language or who they were.
they didnt forget who they were in Babylon or in Assyria
What you say is true. Also, if one re-reads the bible, (including the LXX Septuagint which is based on older non-existent more accurate Hebrew manuscripts), it says that the curse was put ONLY on Canaan, not Ham and NONE of the other descendants of Ham.
And also with the curse on Canaan, we read in Matthew 15:22-28 on the dialogue between Christ and the Canaanite woman where Christ says at verse 28:
“O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt”.
The below link is an interesting commentary on the Canaanite woman:
https://halifaxorthodox.org/sermon13.html
You are so wrong on this, Ham was not cursed it was Canaan.
Ham had four Sons all were not cursed, stop spreading propaganda
If Canaan was “Cursed” as you claim, then God could only have expressed annoyance or irritation towards Canaan. If you meant God “curse” Canaan which means a solemn utterance intended to invoke a supernatural power to inflict harm or punishment on someone or something. There is information that exists, and it points towards one of Ham’s nicknames actually being “Canaan”.
Ham was not cursed by Noah. Canaan was cursed by Noah. Therefore the curse only pertains to one of Ham’s sons.
that story that Ham got drunk and that God cursed him is not a true story. When you tell a story long enough people will believe. If i tell you that the Jews chnaged God’s word from their proper places places, you will not believe it. Its true! they even wrote another torah during ancient times. I am not trying to be disrespectful, but this is the absolute truth before God. Only the people of knowledge knowledge this. I myself is a student of knowlwdge and research. You should read professor Bart Ehrman’s book called Misquoting Jesus. How the copyist changed the teachings and his words.
Bart Ehrman is an atheist.
Noah cursed Canaan not Ham, Hamitess are NOT under any curse.
Neither was he blessed as was Shem and Japheth. Also, he committed the evil which provoked the curse on his son Canaan! Even though he was not directly cursed, he bore the anger of the father and was neglected to be blessed. So he was unblessed! Something almost similar to that of Esau, who had to beg for a little blessing from his father.
This is curious to me because, the pure unmixed race of Ham, the blacks are backwards! The mixed race white skin with higher Ham DNA do little fairly than the blacks. The Ham race is harming the world in idolatry, ungodliness and are very wicked. They are the globalists seeking to destroy the world! By their fruits you shall know them. All the races are mixed up now, so the person with a higher Ham DNA is a curse to the world.
Ham was never cursed. It was only Canaan his grandson who was cursed and for a very good reason. You will have to do a bit of extensive research to find out why. All of Japheth’s descendants and only Japheth’s descendants became known as the Gentiles. Genesis: 10:2-5. Japheth’s descendants spread all over the European Continent which included Russia, Spain, Turkey, Germany. France, Greece, Italy, Norway etc. after mixing with Esau’s (a Semite) tribe who mixed with the Caananites and Horites who were cave dwellers from the place that is was called Seir, but now Petra. After mixing, they spread to the European and joined with Japheth’s descendants. So now, Canaanite blood flows through the lines of both Japheth and Esau the cursed people. Hamitic people were and are not cursed.
Learn your history this is predjudice and false!!!! Ham was never cursed! Noah could not curse who THE MOST HIGH BLESSED! Read your scripture Noah cursed Canaan! All jams lineages were not cursed just Canaan!
These brothers were all melinated ppl m ancestors! Shem is the progenitor of the Negroes and the son whom the covenant was made with! Do your history
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Ham was not cursed by Noah his son Canaan was
Ham was not Curse. His son was cursed Genesis 9:25 Read your Bible carefully
Ham was not cursed by Noah. Ham’s other grand children are the Egyptians, the Ethiopians, and Lybians of Northern Africa. Ham’s son Canaan was cursed by Noah because he carried tainted DNA. Only Noah was “perfect in his generations”. Noah was a prophet of God and knew what Canaan’s descendants would become. They were the Amalekites the Hittites, the Jebusites, Gergashites to name a few, who troubled God’s people through their journey to claim Canaan’s land. They were of Nephilim blood . Remember the spies Joshua sent to Canaan and they encountered giants? God warned the Israelites to not marry into those tribes because of their tainted blood and heathenish practices. God’s goal was to keep the bloodline pure to bring the Savior into the world. Yet, Esau married Canaanite women, Arabian women and Horite women as God told him not to do. This is one reason why God “hated Esau”. Esau’s people then joined and married into Japheth’s line (gentiles) after being conquered by them and they became progenitors of the European nations. Read the book of Jasher, Jubilees and the Works of Josephus. They will reveal all. Some of Canaan’s descendants (the white Europeans) were enslaved by the Arabians at some point and raped the white European women. This is why Arabs are no longer as dark skinned as they were historically were being of Hebrew and Egyptian blood. Some Canaanites (Philistines) were enslaved by the Israelites after the take over of the land but were eventually wiped out altogether after the reign of King David. Their blood line only exists in Europeans through Esau’s marriages.
Hey, i got ocean front property in the desert of Palm Springs CA! thanks for a lot of laughs reading your nonsense!!!
Please don’t infer meaning from the Bible. You are correct, Noah did curse Canaan as a result of Ham ‘..seeing his Father’s nakedness’. Canaan does not mean all of Ham’s sons, and while we can make inferences to what Ham actually did with Noah, no one knows 100%. I am relatively certain, however, it was not mocking (something like pointing a finger and laughing at him), but much more severe.
Genesis 9:22-25
New International Version
22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.
24 When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said,
“Cursed be Canaan!
The lowest of slaves
will he be to his brothers.”
Cymru means cunning; sly. fine; completely satisfactory; OK. given to or characterized by gross excess in drinking or eating! and it seems you imbibed too much here too…Jews are the Judeans, tribe of Judah and very much so Israelites because these were the 12 tribes to begin with. in Israel, there things got divided into the House of Judah to the south and the House of Ephraim in the north of Israel. Edomites are descendants of Esau, not Jacob! Canaanites were the indigenous Semitic ( not Jewish but semitic from Shem) population of the area before the Israelites. The Khazars were a Turkic folk, fierce horsemen settling in Russia, southern Ukraine, Crimea, and Kazakhstan in Europe coming out of Central Asia. i suggest AA to you
You are an idiot.
once you start looking at sub sahara africa as the holy land you will soon start making sense of all the lies we have been taught
That’s absolutely false. If you look at the data points we have researching mitochondrial DNA, you will see that.
Totally true.
Facts
far stretch from Mesopotamia for Abraham. obviously your geography is off. in the sub Sahara you will find nomadic Beduins of North African and Black African descent. i bet Palestinians would like this version though!
Ham had other sons as well, including Cush, Egypt and Put (Genesis 10:6). Nevertheless, it does make some sense that dark-skinned people could have come from Canaan. On the other hand, it might make more sense if dark-skinned people came from the other sons: Cush (modern day Sudan and other African nations), Egypt (obviously, modern day Egypt), and Put (modern day Libya).
Also, one caveat to this logic is that the land of Canaan is in the Middle East–not Africa. So, since Noah’s curse was specifically placed upon Canaan, and perhaps not on Cush, Egypt, and Put, then all of this seems somewhat reversed. In addition, there has been much scientific study as to what changes the pigmentation (color) of skin over the course of many generations. Many scientists believe that, in general, skin color is darker for those living closer to the equator, and lighter for those living farther from the equator. So, this could also explain the black skin of the African people.
Canaan was in Africa. It was divided away from Africa since the building of the Suez Canal.
i see you have no clue about geography!
Black ppl came from ham Shem and Japheth they were brothers! The only ppl on the earth that can give birth to all shades of brown and albino!
The ashkenazi Jews descend from Japheth! However they are not in covenant with the Most High Shem is
The Ashkenazi Jews are from Central and Slavic Europe, the Sephardic Jews from the Iberian peninsula, North Africa, and South America. All Jews are Semites, ergo from Shem! Arabs are semitic also so dont call antisemitic only when it pertains to Israel! AND God remains faithful to ALL His covenants!
Goodness. This is incorrect on so many levels. The only thing you did get correct is that Japheth, Ham, and Shem were brothers.
The Ashkenazi Jews were descendants of Shem. I know because I am a descendant of them, originally from the Tribe of Benjamin. Historically, the Tribe of Benjamin began separating from the other eleven Tribes of Israel after they were nearly exterminated following the battle at Gibeah. As a result of this, we are also the first “Gentiles”. You will need to read Judges to understand this in more detail.
There were quite a few that remained, and are listed in the remaining texts…Esther, King Saul, Saul/Paul. All Benjamins. However, many hauled “it” out of there, moving North. We were then the “Normans, French, Europeans”. I’ve successfully (with a lot of help) traced my DNA heritage back to England, ca. 1601, lineage (surname, not DNA) back to 1400’s, and immigration records (surname as Old English spellings) back to the 12th century.
Two important points (one personal, other general) I want to clear up:
1. Race is a man-made construct, really need to let that go. I have white (my family), black, asian…Benjamin(s). The time that we can get rid of this race card, people’s eyes will open and you will see who the real enemy is. I do.
2. Personally, anyone that states the Tribe of Benjamin was “absorbed” by Judah is incorrect…those tribes went town-to-town, literally wiped out some 26,000 men, women, and children. We weren’t sticking around unless called to do so by Yahweh.
Judy
You used only a part of scripture to say “the Bible says, let no man judge you in meat, or drink, or respect of an holyday, or of the new moon or of the sabbath days:” if you go to where this is in Col. 2:16 and finish the rest of the scripture pertaining to this subject you will notice that 17 says, Which are a shadow of things to com; but the body (is) of Christ. The is is added which makes this not even fit the above message. Thank KJV for italicizing added words. Now if you take the “is” out, which never belonged there in the first place, it makes for perfect understanding. If we are of the body of Christ we know that Christ would Never go against His, and Our Father’s will. Only the body of Christ is to judge this matter.. God commanded, Not the jews..
In addition to my previous comment to Judy.. I believe there’s nothing wrong with choosing to worship on Sunday or any other day of the week as far as worship goes. Have a Blessed day…
You can choose to worship on any day you please, but that is not God’s wish or commandment.
The Bible is clear, “Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy”. Worship on the Sabbath day (Saturday) is ordained and blessed by God. The Bible also states that we will be worshipping on the Sabbath after the second coming.
100% agree, Gerry.
Sabbath is the 7th day of the week according to the 4th commandment. That is God’s Law.
The Papacy changed the day of worship to Sunday.
Who do they think they are to change God’s times and Laws.
Respectfully, this is not correct, but it is very common to make inferences to biblical text. 1. “Remember” the Sabbath and “keep it holy” does not mean to worship on the Sabbath. Literally, it means to remember that there is a Sabbath day, and to respect others that may be observing it. Jesus Christ was the new covenant, please remember that.
2. Sabbath also does not mean Saturday. Sabbath comes from Shavat, meaning “cease” or “desist”. Loosely translated, it means ‘day of rest’.
3. Finally, the Bible does not state that we will be worshipping on the Sabbath after the second coming of Jesus Christ. That is a “…shadow of the things to come”. I’ll include reference below to assist understanding.
Finally, pray, worship every day. He deserves it.
Colossians 2 (NIV)
16Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. 18Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. 19They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.
To Brad,
Hello, I just have a question about the 7th day Sabbath; What does holy convocation mean to you?
According to the Torah, Leviticus 23:3 (KJV translation) states: Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
The Hebrew phrase translated as “holy convocation” is “miqra qodesh” which literally means “a sacred calling together.” It refers to holy meetings or gatherings that were set apart and dedicated to the Lord. That sounds like worship to me.
All praises to the Most High Only!
The difference here is worship! every day should be a worship day! not just one….the Sabbath though is a memorial to His Creation, a perpetual Holy Day, an appointed time by God He commanded! and grafted into the House of Israel through Messiah you also must submit to His Will! And dont forget the Father willed it but the Son spoke it into being! Dont go by your own understanding!!!
“What?! Did we just become best friends?!”
Its a line from Step Brothers…first thing that came to mind. =)
This comment thread is ridiculous. A lot of hatred for Christ’s people.
Almost everyone’s DNA is completely mixed up now. Especially if you’re European.
European DNA is very mixed up with Asian and African DNA at this point because of importation of slaves, expansion of Empires and invasions into the European continent, most notably by Genghis Khan. My father looks more nordic than my mother, yet his Y chromosome DNA traced back to Central Asia and my mom who has dark features for a European, traced back her mitochondrial DNA to the European group.
North Africa, Western Asia, and Southern Asia are also very mixed. There is a lot of African and European DNA in Southern Asia, and of course Asian. Western Asia has been the hub of the three continents since the beginning of human spread, so of course that is going to have all kinds of people going through it.
So, racial purity doesn’t exist. We have a vague idea where our cultures and distinctions may have come from based on the story in the Bible and it’s neat to look at. People didn’t need the Bible to justify slavery. Slavery was normal, and the Arab Muslims were selling them, so people bought them and did horrible things until the Christians took a stand against the Darwinists claiming that Africans are more ape-like. Evolution was used to justify slavery. Watch the documentary “Human Zoos”. It explains what happened pretty well.
Nailed it. =)
To Meredith’s point, Ishmael’s people sold Joseph to the Egyptians. So, a descendant of Isaac was caught and sold by the descendants of Ishmael…both sons of Abram/Abraham.
This is to be Messianic teaching? the comments here are absolutely ignorant of any Bible truth, or any factually basis! Who corrects the ignorance here? who explains the difference? and who steps in to clear up the truth about Israel, her people, her descendants, her history, her authenticity? i find all comments here abhorrent to anyone who spiritually connects with Israel, the Jewish people, and their affairs! Shabbat Shalom Am Israel Chai!
The comments may be ignorant, but not the actual teachings here.
Be blessed.