Ethiopian Jewery

Ethiopian Jews Airlifts It may be new information or it may be old information, but there is and were actually Jews in Ethiopia called Beta Israel, or House of Israel. The origin of these Jews is arguable, one opinion is that they are the lost tribe of Dan and that during the exodus from Egypt they wandered down to Ethiopia and there they started a life. (pbs) Another opinion is that they came from Queen Sheba and King Solomon because there is a legend that Queen Sheba went to Jerusalem to learn from King Solomon who had a dream after he met her that a son from her would be the next king of Israel. So they made a child together and Solomon sent her away to have the child. After the child, Menelik I, had grown up a bit he said he wanted to see his father, so Queen Sheba sent her Menelik I to Jerusalem. In Jerusalem Solomon told Menelik that he was to be king of Israel, but he did not want to live out of Ethiopia so Solomon made him king of Ethiopia. Menelik wanted a piece of Israel, so he took the Aharon Kodesh, which Hashem was O.K. with because he lifted Menelik and the people with him over the red sea with the Ark. (history of Ethiopia) How did were these Jews discovered? They were discovered by a Scottish explorer, James Bruce in 1769 when he was looking for the beginning of the Nile. That was when the western world’s first modern contact with Ethiopian Jews was. (Virtual library) The Ethiopians are a little different in the way that they practice their Judaism, because of the Sahara barrier. The Sahara was a block that split of the rest of the world from Ethiopia and the countries right next to the Sahara, so because of this Ethiopia was unaware of the rest of the world and how the world practices Judaism. The Ethiopian Jews had wandered to Ethiopia before anything was made except the Torah so they follow strictly pre- Talmudic Judaism. ( ibid) They do everything according to the torah which is not that hard because they are not