Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00465)

In a message dated 03/20/04 12:57:18 PM, bartl@sprynet.com writes:

>leonmaurer@aol.com wrote:
>> Your Jewish friend is perhaps an Israelite of the tribe of Judah who may 
have 
>> little understanding of the difference between the Kohanim descended 
directly 
>> from Abrahm or Abraham (who trace their origin back to the Aryan Brahmans
>> that migrated from India through Chaldea) and the Semites who were the 
bulk of 
>> the slaves that Moses took with him out of Egypt. Those Kohanim that were 
of the 
>> family of Moses, were not Semites originally -- although many of them are 
>> mixed today, due to intermarriage. But there are still some Kohanim 
families 
>> that are more or less pure Aryan from a racial point of view, since among 
them 
>> there are many blond and blue eyed Aryan types. These Kohanim (although 
now 
>> universally labeled Jews) consider themselves as followers of the Hebrew 
religion 
>> in its purest form. Thus, there is no "Jewish race" per se -- except in 
the 
>> minds of some of the ignorant followers of this (today, somewhat distorted)
>> religion (like most others), and equally ignorant anti Semites and other 
>> bigots -- who see no difference between race and religion, and lump 
everyone
>> in any group into one basket.
>
> Uhhhhh; I'm one of the "Kohanim", and much of that is news to me.
> 
> Bart

That's not surprising. Many Kohanim have little or no idea of their actual 
heritage. My information comes from a Kohane Rebbe and Kabbalist who claimed 
to be descended from both Moses and Aaron. He explained it as the result of an 
early intermarriage between cousins before it was forbidden, and that his 
heritage extends through both the male and the female lines before that was 
discouraged. The above was written simply to expand on the idea that Jews should 
not be considered from a racial point of view, and that there are distinctions 
between different lines of Judaism. Since I don't want to get too deep into 
such arcane discussions of religion publicly, if you wish to go on with it in 
any depth I suggest you write me personally.

Leon