Katnut d'Katnut

The world of the old Anglo-Jews, who were a mix of the British Jewish way of being Jewish and the Anglican-style Englishness of loyalty to Queen and Empire, seems to be one of those lost worlds of the past. Reared on the poetic cadences of the Jacobean English of the King James Bible and the English literature such as Shakespeare was the inheritance of these generations of Anglo-Jews. It was a softer more dignified style of Judaism and Jewishness. Elliot's Daniel Deronda seems to embody this kind of English Jewishness. The Australian Anglo-Jews looked as much to England or Britain as their Mother Land as to Jerusalem. They looked down on the yiddish-speaking peasant Jews of Eastern Europe, yet now these two have both become part of the lost lands in the mists of history.

The earliest image of St Peter in which he has blonde hair and beard which was common among the Tribe of Zebulon to which he belonged. Found in the catacombs of St Tecla from the 4th century

In 1 Peter 1:1 the first Pope Peter (Sh'mon ben Yochanan bar Yonah) mentions the location of some of the ten Tribes of Israel in the Galut (dispersion). These locations are called Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia in the Greek translation of the Bible.

Yesterday I was reading from one of the Volumes of the Likutey Moharan of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov. In lesson 60 the Rebbe spoke of the second tablets of the Ten Commandments given to Moses which were made of Sapphire. 

What I found particularly interesting was that each tablet was six hand breadths by six hand breadths. Thus each tablet was 6x6 which equals 36 hand breadths. In our traditional imperial measurements this is about 3 foot by 3 foot.