User:Aron Brondo

Aron Brondo A descendant of the once powerful Abrabanel family of the Iberian Peninsula that traces their lineage back to the biblical Solomon and David.

See also: Abrabanel, Abravanel, Avravanel, Abarbanel, Barbanel, Barban, Borbon, Bordon, Brondo, Bart

During the reign of King Saul, app 890 BCE, there was dissention among the tribes of Israel, and their cousins the Cannanites, who had built a fortress around Har Moriah, the stone of creation, where G-d revelaed himself to Abraham, and made a pact with mankind through Isaac, and his descendants. The prophet Samuel was instructed to search for His moshiach (messiah/annointed), and Samuel set out until he finds David, the youngest son of Jesse, a sheep hearder. Samuel annoints David on the forehead and tells him that he will someday unite the tribes, and the Jebusites (Canaanites), who had preserved Moriah. As David grew, he became a fierce and ruthless warrior, and a staunch proponent of Ha Shem (the name = G-d). After slaying the legendary Goliath, Saul promises his daughter Michai to David and they marry. Shortly thereafter, Saumel, now dead, pronounces the end of Saul's reign by appearing to him in a dream. This infuriates Saul, who then instruct his army to eliminate David, that destiny might be thwarted. David, however, had grown up among the philistines, and knew their ways, as well as those of Saul, and eluded capture. When Saul himself was slain, and his head was exhibited by the philistines on a branch of cedar, David, in anger, unites the tribal warriors, and dessemates the philistines, and ascends as head of the tribes. To fulfill the prophecy, David needed to capture Moriah, which was surrounded by a fortress. Aravneh, the owner of the land around the stone, knowing G-d's design, sells the land to David, and tells him of the subterranian aqueducts leading into the wells that supplied what is now Jerusalem with water. David enters the city through these aqueducts and captures Moriah. On the stone of creation, going back to Abraham, he is crowned King of all the Tribes. This also gives birth to the notion of Divine right of Kings, because G-d chose David. David reigns 40 years until 837 BCE. In the course of his reign, he falls in love with Bathsheba, the wife of his general, Uriah. Knowing he would be killed, he ssends Uriah on an impossible campaign. It was the custom at the time that a battle Get (divorce) was granted, releasing the woman from her obligation, and in the event of death, she might remarry. Otherwise, the woman remained Agunoh (in limbo, untouchable). David seizes the opportunity and marries Bathsheba. She miscarries her first child, but her second is named Solomon. David favors Solomon over his other children, which causes animosity among them. David teaches Solomon the traditions held secret by each of the tribes, of Angels and Souls, the nature of life, stones, plants, trees, tehillin, letters, numbers, and purpose. This tradition is later passed on from generation to generation. Before his death, David chooses Solomon as his successor, and instructs Solomon to build the Beit HaMikdash over the stone of creation, which he does. Solomon reigned until app 796 BCE. Toward the end of his life, anticipating reprisal from his brothers, and dissent and scism between the tribes, Solomon sends some of his children, along with other descendants of David through Egypt and beyond, that they might find a safe haven. They settle in the Iberian peninsula. Solomon also instructed the builders, from the tribe of Naphtali, to extract a piece of Moriah, and set out across the mediterranean to also find safe haven, they settle in what is now Provence. Anticipating possible destruction of David's city, with his heirs and the stone, a new kingdom might be established. Parts of the two groups would eventually meet in Ferrara. Eventually others would make the same journey to Iberia and Provence. Although Jewish blood is passed on by the mother, as people began to adopt names, those with an inherited memory became Abrabanel: Ab (father) Rab (teacher) El (Him). It is believed that G-d reposed his love in 10 vessels, principles, which could not hold the intensity of His love and shattered. From the ensuing chaos came physical creation. In His plan, the original sin was envy. A soul is merely a being of pure love, animated by the emanation of His. There are those who envied, those who remained firm, and those who for a mere moment, doubted or questioned. We are those who doubted. The soul descends into a world of kelipot (shells), and the supernal soul is tied to a physical form alongside its animal soul. They are in constant conflict onewith the other. The first law of encarnation is "el olvido del pasado", the conscious unawares of the past. The Abrabanel are Humanist, who believe that although Keter (crown), was placed on the Jewish people to bring G-d and Torah to the world, this 'crown' is also placed on many throughout history, whose burden it is to uplift the status of mankind. We are meant to receive from above proportionate to what we elevate; the true meaning of David's star. From fathers to sons, to daughters to sons with knowledge comes burden, and obligation.