Israelites

Israelites or the Children of Israel, were a Hebrew-speaking ethnoreligious group, consisting of tribes that lived in Canaan during the Iron Age that were said to descend from the Biblical patriarch Jacob (later renamed Israel). Quotes All the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. Exodus, 10.23. May not the children of Israel find it necessary to derive their livelihood from one another! Judah b. Ezekiel. Talmud: Yoma, 53b. When the children of Israel came to the Red Sea, and Moses prayed long, the Holy One said to him: “My children are in trouble, the sea before them and the enemy behind them, and you stand here indulging in long prayers!” Eliezer b. Hyrcanus. Mefalta, to Exod. 14.15. The Lord said to Aaron: You shall have no inheritance in their land ... I am your portion and inheritance among the children of Israel. Numbers, 18.20. All the prophets complained of the silver and gold which went forth with the children of Israel from Egypt. Akiba. Gen. R, 28.7. It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever. Exodus, 31.17. Like dust, the children of Israel will be trodden; but as dust wears out even metal, so will Israel outlast the Powers. Akiba. Gen. R, 41.9. The self-restraint which Scripture imposed on the children of Israel in regard to Ammon, Moab and Seir [Deut. 2.5, 9, 19] carries a prohibition against all aggressive war. Nahmanides, Sefer HaMitzvot, #47. The Jew obtained a territory on the day he was imprisoned in these Jewries, and the Israelites lived since then exactly like a people that had a fatherland of its own. Lazare, Antisemitism, (1892) 1903, p. 259. Beloved are Israelites, for the Holy One encompassed them with precepts: tefillin on head and arm, fringes on clothes, mezuzot on door-posts. Talmud: Menahot, 43b. The Israelites are and have to remain a distinct nation, having essentially the prerogative of sanctifying life. Manasseh b. Israel, Nishmat Hayyim, 1652. Israelites, whose is the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law, the service, and the promises; whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ according to the flesh. New Testament: Rom., 9.4f. A true Israelite . . . looks upon all his property as only a means of doing what is pleasing in the sight of God. S. R. Hirsch, Horeb, 1838, chapter 13. External links Category:People from the Middle East