Gość: marcin
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22.10.03, 00:32
planowane są akcje ratowania (przywracania do pierwotnej wiary) z-
islamizowanych i z-chrystianizowanych
Samarytan
jak myślicie czy to się uda?
ten odłam Żydów, wyznający w zasadzie czysty judaizm, Jahudat Ha'Torah
bez Talmudu i tradycji powstałej w galucie
jest praktycznie esencją żydostwa, na równi z Żydami niesamarytańskimi
było ich 2 miliony......
teraz kilka tysięcy (te dane są nieprawdziwe w art.)
czy da się odnaleźć którzy "Arabowie" są byłymi Samarytaninami i przywrócić
ich do korzeni?
Levi Ben Abisha Ha'Cohen
High Priest of the Samaritans, 1920-2001
The High Priest of the Samaritans, Levi Ben Abisha Ha'Cohen, has died
at Mount Gerizim, on the West Bank, aged 81.
The 639 Samaritans, of whom 309 live with their High Priest on the West
Bank and the remainder near Tel Aviv, are one of the smallest ethnic
sects in the world. They are the remnant of the Israelite tribes Manasseh
and Ephraim, which broke with the Jewish majority in the fourth century
BC and constructed a temple on Mount Gerizim.
At its peak, the Samaritan community, which extended from southern
Syria to northern Egypt, numbered 1,200,000, but persecution and forced
conversions to Islam and Christianity brought it to the brink of extinction.
By 1917, there were just 146 Samaritans.
Throughout history, the Samaritans have clung to their traditions. They
have their own writing, the ancient Hebrew script, and speak their own
language, the ancient Hebrew dialect.
Levi Ben Abisha was born in Nablus in 1920, one of six children of the
High Priest.
For many years he worked as a chief clerk in a bus company in Nablus.
After his retirement, he devoted himself to the study of Samaritan
traditions and became deeply involved in directing the small community.
In 1993 he was the first Samaritan priest to visit the United States. In
1998, after the death of High Priest Yosef Ben Ab-Hisda, Levi Ben
Abisha succeeded him.
Recognising that his community was living in one of the most volatile
regions of the world, and split between Israel and the West Bank, he spent
much time establishing contacts abroad, particularly in America and
Britain, to safeguard the Samaritans' religious and social rights.
This became painfully relevant during his last year in office. With the
Intifada, the Palestinian uprising, in full swing, his followers near Tel
Aviv
were cut off from the West Bank and were often unable to travel to
Gerizim, the cornerstone of their faith and where they still practise animal
sacrifice, killing a lamb at the annual festival of the Passover.
Last December Levi Ben Abisha sent emissaries to the Foreign Office in
London, urging intervention with the Israelis and the Palestinian Authority
to enable his community free passage.
The British efforts were successful and the Samaritans were granted
relative freedom of movement.
Regarding himself as a true Jew, High Priest Levi Ben Abisha was bitterly
disappointed the Orthodox Rabbinate, Israel's governing religious authority,
did not recognise him as a rabbi. He had lodged an appeal at Israel's High
Court of Justice on behalf of himself and other priests in an attempt to
make their position equal in law to that of the rabbis in Israel.
He was an excellent writer of liturgical pieces, displaying a great gift of
expression and a rich knowledge of tradition.
Levi Ben Abisha Ha'Cohen is survived by his wife, son and three daughters.
The Daily Telegraph, London
