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Answer 1
Yes and they commonly do.
There is dispute as to whether the Ethiopian Jews are (as they claim) descended from the Tribe of Dan and there are some people (both Jews and non-Jews) who claim to be descended from the lost tribes. However, Jews that identify as Cohens or Levis are in essence saying that they belong to the tribe of Levi and other Jews who do not identify that way consider themselves to be of the tribe of Judah.
Answer 2
The answer is no (with the exception of Cohanim and Levis). The majority of Jews, roughly 90%+, identify themselves by default as being of the tribe of Judah, but not because they have specific family information to that effect. Since the ten tribes were exiled to Assyria some 2500 years ago and did not return with the later Babylonian Captivity, we Jews are, as stated above, roughly 90% of the tribe of Judah. That is generic historical knowledge; but few families still have family trees which definitively identify their tribe. There are small percentages of every one of the 12 tribes among us (see for example the Talmud, Pesachim 4a), but no one today can say who the approximately 5% are that come from the small remainder of the Ten Tribes that had mixed among the people of Judah before the rest of the Ten Tribes were lost.
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Which social or economic group do most of the poor people of India belong to?
i think mst of them belong to the schedule tribes and schedule class...
Most tribes located on the Atlantic coast of north America belong to a linguistic group known as?
eastern woodland
Whom do Jews belong to?
Judaism teaches that all people belong to God.Answer 2:From a genealogical perspective, most Jews are descendants of the 4th son of Israel, Judah. They include some without this heritage but who have the same beliefs.
What are the main tribes in Angola Africa?
Angola is a city in Southern Africa that borders the South Atlantic Ocean. Though all the people in Angola may identify as Angolan, most all of them will more strongly identify their own tribes. The major tribes of Angola are the Ovimnumdu (the largest one), the Mbundu, and the Bakongo.
How did the Hebrews come to be called Jews?
Prior to 586 BCE, the Hebrews were divided into 12 tribes. After the Babylonian Exile, most of the tribes assimilated into Babylonian culture and were lost. The surviving people were mainly from the Tribe of Judah. So they were called Judeans, which later became shorted to Jews.
What are the reasons most humans identify with a religion?
they need to feel like they belong to something or are apart of a group of people.
Where does it say the Jews now are the same as the Jews then?
Actually they have done scientific research about this. Have you ever heard of the 10 tribes? these were the children of Jacob and their descendant were the Jews. Scientists took a couple hundred men from a single tribe (there were a few lost tribes but there are some that are still intact and most people know what tribe they are from)and they took blood samples and they found out that they all had the same basic genes.
What countries have the most amount of Jews living there?
There is a strong debate as to whether the US or Israel has the largest Jewish population. While Israel has more individuals that the state identifies as Jews, it is argued that there are a number of Jews who do not identify on the US census and therefore the number of Jews in the US is larger.Israel.
What does messianic Judaism rabbi mean?
This is the title of a Christian minister who serves a Messianic congregation. Messianic Judaism is a form of Christianity where the congregants self-identify with Jews or the Jewish people, though most are not actually Jews by birth.
Were the Babylonians the first to expel the Jews from their homeland?
Yes. They expelled the entire Jewish population, which at the time consisted of the Tribes of Judah and Benjamin. 133 years earlier, the Assyrians had expelled most of the population of the land (the Ten Tribes), but the rest remained (Judah and Benjamin).
Are Cherokee Indians Jews?
Most Indians had a different religion including Cherokee. The theory that Native Americans came from the Ten Israelite Tribes is a fanciful myth, nothing more.
Do most Americans belong to the same political party?
No, most Americans do not belong to the same political party. The United States has a two-party system, with the Democratic Party and the Republican Party being the major political parties. However, there are also many Americans who identify as independents or belong to smaller, third-party organizations.
