what is a black Hebrew Israelite?

Answer 1

A Hebrew Isralite who happens to be black, or white, or....

Answer 2

Judaism seems to have originated in Ethiopia. Those Ethiopians who still practice were one day air lifted out of war torn Ethiopian and brought to Israel where they still live practicing their ancient rituals which no modern Jew can understand any longer. They have a difficult time fitting in with modern Judaism

Answer 3

Bete Israel traditions claim that the Ethiopian Jews are descended from the lineage of Moses himself, some of whose children and relatives are said to have separated from the other Children of Israel after the Exodus and gone southwards, or, alternatively or together with this, that they are descended from the tribe of Dan, which fled southwards down the Arabian coastal lands from Judaea at the time of the breakup of the united Kingdom of Israel into two kingdoms in the 10th century B.C.E. (precipitated by the oppressive demands of Rehoboam, King Solomon's heir), or at the time of the destruction of the northern Kingdom of Israel in the 8th century. Certainly there was trade as early as the time of King Solomon down along the Red Sea to the Yemen and even as far as India, according to the Bible, and there would therefore have been Jewish settlements at various points along the trade routes. There is definite archaeological evidence of Jewish settlements and of their cultural influence on both sides of the Red Sea well at least 2,500 years ago, both along the Arabian coast and in the Yemen, on the eastern side, and along the southern Egyptian and Sudanese coastal regions.

According to Jacqueline Pirenne, the spread of Sabaeans across the Red Sea to Ethiopia began in the 8th or 7th centuries BCE when considerable numbers of Sabeans crossed over to Ethiopia to escape from the Assyrians who had already devastated the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, and were extending their raids further south. She further states that a second major wave of Sabeans crossed over in the 6th and 5th centuries BCE to escape Nebuchadnezzar; this wave included Jews fleeing from the Babylonian takeover of Judah too. These theories of an early Jewish presence in Ethiopia are generally dismissed, however, for a later ethnogenesis of the Beta Israel and presence of Judaism among Ethiopians.

It also appears that there was a significant movement of Jews into the Sudanese and Ethiopian-Somali coastal areas, and the Arabian and Yemeni coastal areas, following the Roman repression of the various messianic movements that culminated in the destruction of the Second Commonwealth of Judaea in the first century C.E. There is also evidence from the second century C.E. of Jewish flight southwards from the Fayyum of Egypt. Survivors fled up the Nile, perhaps to the general region of the Sudan.

Though the 13th century Kebra Nagast and some traditional Ethiopian histories have stated that Yodit (or "Gudit"), a 10th century usurping queen, was Jewish, it's unlikely that this was the case and it's more likely that she was a pagan southerner or a usurping Christian Aksumite Queen.

According to the Kebra Negast, the Jewish rulers traced their lineage back to Moses and the tribe of Dan, just as Beta Israel continue to do to this day. The 9th century Jewish traveller Eldad ha-Dani also claimed descent from this tribe and commented about Jewish Kingdoms around or in East Africa existing during his time. Some see his writings as the first mention of the Bete Israel, but his accuracy is uncertain, however, and others doubt his work, pointing to a lack of firsthand knowledge of Ethiopia's geography and any Ethiopian language, the area that he claims as his homeland.

Answer 4

A dark jewish man who lives in Israel (and who probably looks much like the real Jesus).

Answer 5

A black person who lives in Israel and is Jewish.

Answer 6

Generally an Ethiopian Jew living in Israel.

Answer 7

A jew that jumped the fence.

Answer 8

exactly that