User:Stkamman

First: My lineage; I am a great great ... grandson of one of the twelve sons of Yaacov\Yisroel(Jacob\Israel respectively). {[Note Tribes 01: Each son of Yaacov becomes the Tribal Head of the people he fathers and of those that are fathered by them. [Note Tribes 01_a: There are quite a number of Laws and customs regarding "tribalness", tribal-hood and many other issues that I will not enumerate for this "User Profile".] So all the people that are ever fathered by a man that can trace his patriarchal lineage to one of Yaacov's sons is a member of that son's tribe.]} Yaacov is a son of Yitzchak, son of Avraham, son of Terach, son of Nachor, son of Serug, son of Reu, son of Peleg, son of Aver, son of Shelach, son of Arpachshad, son of Shem, son of Noach,... ADAM.

Now, as you may have noticed, Yaacov has two names; one is Yaacov, sometimes pronounced "Jacob" and the other is Yisroel, sometimes pronounced "Israel". This fact reveals, at least the revelation I am writing about here, Yaacov was the father of twelve sons that become the Twelve Tribes Of Yisroel. These Twelve Tribes, while living in Mitzraim (Egypt), become a nation - the Nation Of Yisroel. In time they receive a part of their inheritance from their great great... grandfather, Avraham, The Land Of Yisroel.

Oh, by the way, I have no idea which tribe I am from. My people have been in exile and scattered all over this planet for so long, that knowledge has been forgotten by most of us. So, I am called a Yisroely (Israelite). Or I am called a Yehudi, (this name is for a person of the tribe of Yehudah (Judah), the most famous of our tribes outside the land of Yisroel because this was the Tribe of our Kings). Or Yid, (shortened form of Yehudi). Or Jew, (the world's pronunciation of Yid).

Since I am from them, I am all of them. I am The Tribe, I am the Nation and I am The Land.