Nadene Goldfoot
Moses, born way before in 1391 BCE, to Jochebed and Amram from the tribe of Levi, the 3rd son.so he is closely related, the closest brother to Judah. Joshua, the successor of Moses, was from the tribe of Ephraim, who was the younger son of Joseph, of the tribe of Judah. Aaron, the brother of Moses, became the high priest, decided by Moses, and the DNA of this line of the tribe of Judah is called the Cohen line or J1 of which we also find in Arab men. As centuries pass by, the DNA picks up little mutations in the dna, making it easy to follow from father to son, so Arabs do have a few dna changes from the Jewish line because of the time difference today, as their dna tests are read. This direct line goes back to Noah and from Noah to Enoch.
Jacob's AKA was Israel. The name change happened after an experience. Through this wrestle with an angel, Jacob proved what was most important to him. He demonstrated that he was willing to let God prevail in his life. In response, God changed Jacob's name to Israel, meaning 'let God prevail. He was married to Leah, the older sister of Rachel. His father was Isaac and Jacob's brother was Esau, who joined the other people and parted from his tribe. That's how Arabs are distant cousins of the Jews. Isaac was the son of Sarah and Abraham, so since then, their male descendants have carried the same DNA segments that show their paternity origin. It's how science and the genetic history of our ancestors agree.
Our ancestors of Judah were from the son of Leah and Jacob's 4rd son, Judah. It was he who received his father's patriarchal blessing. The area he was assigned to by Joshua was one of the largest in Canaan and it eventually absorbed also, the inheritance of Simeon in the Negev. From him came his clan before it became tribe, and that tribe came to include of the the tribe of Benjamin in the days of King Solomon, maybe even before. In 721 BCE, the Assyrians had attacked the 10 northern tribe and had carried away over 1,000 people. The southern end of Israel was Judah, who remained untouched, with some of Benjamin.
Joseph was the 11th son of Jacob by Rachel, her first son. He would also be of the tribe of Judah.
Benjamin was the 12th son of Rachel and Jacob, her 2nd, and then Rachel died in childbirth. Benjamin's tribe occupied territory between Ephraim and Judah which included Jerusalem. Saul, 1st king of Israel, was a Benjamite. That means that Saul and David were cousins.
David, king of Judah from 1010 BCE to 970 BCE was of the tribe of Judah, made up of people of Judah, Simeon and Benjamin. Since his DNA is passed down from father to son, Solomon was also from Judah. Jews come from the tribe of Judah. It's said we're all 30th cousins.
Hillel, born in 1st century BCE, comes from the dynasty of our Patriarchs. Many of us claim our heritage from Hillel. He was a Jew of ancestors that were taken from Judah to Babylonia in 597 and 586 BCE in another great attack that also took prisoners with them. Hillel was born in Babylonia but returned to Jerusalem, working as a laborer while going to school to learn all he could about Judaism. He was such a good student, becoming a rabbi, that he became the president of the Sanhedrin.
RASHI or Rabbi Solomon Yitzhak ben Isaac was born in 1040 in France, studying in the Rhineland, and died in 1105. Lots of today's Jews also have him on their tree. He's known for his many comments on the Bible and Talmud.
Albert Einstein b: 1879-d: 1955 born in Ulm, Germany, educated in Switzerland was a physicist and deemed having the highest IQ of 180. Average IQ is 100. He was an active supporter of Zionism. His interest in Israel was its scientific institutions, especially the Hebrew University which he was a trustee. After Weizmann had died in 1952, he was offered an invitation to stand for election as the next president, but he turned that job down. He's known for his theory of relativity. Y-DNA analyses with various members of Albert Einstein's paternal line were able to determine his haplogroup. The result also confirmed his Jewish ancestry. Albert Einstein belonged to haplogroup E (subgroup E-PF1952) in his paternal line. This is a very large Jewish haplogroup, and in my family, the 2 I know of are very musical. They are connected somehow to the Cohen line which seems to be the largest group.
Kirk Douglas b: 1916-d: 2020, Douglas was born Issur Danielovitch Belarusian: Іссур Даніелавіч, Russian: Иссур Даниелович) in Amsterdam, New York, on December 9, 1916, the son of Bryna "Bertha" (née Sanglel) and Herschel "Harry" Danielovitch. His parents were immigrants from Chavusy, Mogilev Governorate, in the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus),and the family spoke Yiddish at home. Douglas was the fourth child of seven children and the only son born to his parents. He had six sisters, three older and three younger: Pesha “Bessie”, Kaleh “Katherine”, Tamara “Mary”, Siffra “Frieda”, Haska “Ida”, and Rachel “Ruth”. Douglas embraced his Jewish heritage in his later years, after a near-fatal helicopter crash at the age of 74. He lived to be 104.
One thing I notice is that this line produces some outstanding people. They show their intelligence in many ways, being leaders in many fields, though they have shrunk in size, not in brains. Almost half of todays Jewish population live in Israel with 45.3% of it. There are only 15.2 million Jews in the world which is 0.02 of the world population.
About 5 or 6 million live in the USA which is 2% of the population. For such a small group of people, they are suffering from a great amount of anti-semitism these days, I note mostly happening on the East Coast of the USA. To combat hate, the best thing is to know the history of your people, and be proud of it and yourself for it. Like they say, I'm okay and you're okay.
Resource;
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
https://www.jns.org/jewish-world-population-rises-to-15-2-million-45-3-live-in-israel/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwjbyYBhCdARIsAArC6LIdVD5EyAK9HK73_kj_QxiB-45MAvzI3tQnPGW1Iz6ln8zBnkUKc50aAk50EALw_wcB
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