Why did the Jews go to Egypt?
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At that time Egypt was a fertile, luxuriant land and the Pharaoh became friends with Joseph (son of Jacob, grandson of Isaac, great-grandson of Abraham) after Joseph had been exiled by his brothers.  Joseph interpreted Pharaoh's dream of the seven fat cows and seven thin cows, and as a reward, Pharaoh promised that Joseph and his people would be welcome in Egypt during the years of famine to come.  \n\nOver much time and many years later this attitude changed and the Pharaohs saw that the Jews had become numerous and decided to enslave them instead.\n\nOf course, reality might have been different but that's what is written in the Torah/Old Testament.
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First it started with their leader, Moses, who received the Ten Commandments. He felt that the people could not handle them --they just came out of Egypt and had been there for 430 years, being quite used to Egyptian ways [worshipping Baal, incest, etc.]. \n\nSo Moses asked if, rather than the people transgressing The Law during their cleansing period of 40 years in the desert [about two generations worth], if he could come up with 100 laws for his people --they became the Mosaic Laws that the Jewish people had to abide by. Moses was the Judge to make the final decisions. "Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth...", food selections, etc. that type of thing.\n\nMoses was not allowed to enter the Promised Land for his own transgression so Jacob took over and led the people across the River and into Jordan. Jacob became the Judge... then on and on and on, the other Judges followed the same Mosaic laws until the time of the Pharisees and the Sadducees who,  by the time of Jesus, had expanded Mosaic laws from 100 to 1,000 different man-made laws.\n\nOther than that, the Book of Judges talks about what followed next when the Jews entered the Promised Land. Then the prophet Samuel consecrated the first Jewish king, King Saul. Next, came David... and that would be under the Books of Kings. [Samuel I &  II; Kings I & II; etc.]\n\nHappy reading!
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Complex problems usually don't have simple answers (like 'they tried to throw the Palestinians out).\n\nFor over 3,000 years, Jews have held the Land of Israel to be their homeland, both as a Holy Land and as a Promised Land. The Land of Israel holds a special place in Jewish religious obligations, encompassing Judaism's most important sites — including the remains of the First and Second Temple, as well as the rites concerning those temples. [2] Starting around 1200 BCE, a series of Jewish kingdoms and states existed intermittently in the region for over a millennium. Recent archeological evidence suggests that the kingdoms of King David and King Solomon may have existed. [3]\n\nUnder Babylonian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and (briefly) Sassanian rule, Jewish presence in the province dwindled due to mass expulsions. In particular, the failure of the Bar Kochba Revolt against the Roman Empire resulted in widescale expulsion of Jews. It was during this time that the Romans gave the name Syria Palaestina to the geographic area, in an attempt to erase Jewish ties to the land. The Mishnah and Jerusalem Talmud, two of Judaism's most important religious texts, were composed in the region during this period. The Arabs conquered the land from the Eastern Roman Empire in 638 CE. The area was ruled by various Arab states (interrupted by the rule of the Crusaders) before becoming part of the Ottoman Empire in 1517.\n\nThroughout the centuries, the size of the Jewish population in the land fluctuated widely. Circa 1881, in the region approximating present-day Israel, the Jewish population numbered approximately 20–25,000 of a total population of 470,000.[citation needed] Since 1844, in Jerusalem the Jews have constituted the largest of several ethno-religious groups.[citation needed] By 1896, they were an absolute majority of the population\n\n\nThe rise of Nazism in 1933 led to a fifth wave of Aliyah. The Jews in the region increased from 11% of the population in 1922 to 30% by 1940. The subsequent Holocaust in Europe led to additional immigration from other parts of Europe. By the end of World War II, the number of Jews in Palestine was approximately 600,000.\n\nIn 1939, the British abandoned the idea of a Jewish national home, and abandoned partition and negotiations in favour of the White Paper of 1939, which limited Jewish immigration and restricted purchase of land by Jews. Its other stated policy was to establish a system under which both Jews and Arabs were to share one government. The plan was never fully implemented because of a combination of resistance from the Jews and Arabs and Britain's pre-occupation with Europe and World War II. However, the White Paper guided British policy until the end of the term of their Mandate. As a result, many Jews fleeing to Palestine to avoid Nazi persecution and the holocaust were intercepted and returned to Europe. Two specific examples of this policy involved the ships Struma and Exodus[4]. These attempts by Jews to circumvent the blockade and flee Europe became known as Aliya Beth.\n\nIn 1947, following increasing levels of violence by militant groups together with unsuccessful efforts to reconcile the Jewish and Arab populations, the British government decided to withdraw from the Palestine Mandate. The UN General Assembly approved the 1947 UN Partition Plan dividing the territory into two states, Jewish and Arab, giving about half the land area to each state. Jerusalem was planned to be an international region administered by the UN to avoid conflict over its status.\n\n\nImmediately following the adoption of the Partition Plan by the UN General Assembly (on November 29, 1947), the Arab leadership rejected the plan and launched a guerilla war that included attacks on Jewish civilians. The Irgun Tsvai Leumi retaliated with attacks on Arabs, including Arab civilians.\n\nOn May 14, 1948, before the expiry of the British Mandate of Palestine at midnight of May 15, 1948,
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From the time that Cain and Abel made the first sacrifice to God, Jews, including Noah and Abraham, made animal sacrifices to God in many places.\n\nWhen the Jews received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, one of the new laws stipulated that Jews were no longer allowed to bring sacrifices to God just anywhere. \n\nThe Torah says, "You may not worship God in such a manner. This you may do only on the site that God will choose from among all your tribes to place His Name there. You must seek His Presence, and you must go there. You will bring there your elevated offerings, your eaten sacrifices, your tithes, your hand-delivered elevated gifts, your general and specific pledges, the first born of your cattle and flocks...." (Deut. 12:4-6). \n\nFurthermore, "You will not do then what we do here now, where each person does as he sees fit.\nFor you have not yet come to the resting place and to the inheritance which the Lord your God gives you. But when you traverse the Jordan and you settle the land which the Lord your God gives you to inherit, and when He gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety, then there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause His Name to dwell there. There you must bring all that I command you, your burnt elevated offerings, your eaten sacrirfices, your tithes, your elevated gifts, and all your choice pledges that you might vow to the Lord." (Deut 12:8-11). \n\nThe Torah continues: "Watch yourself! Lest you bring your burnt elevated offerings in any place you see fit. Only in the place that the Lord will choose, somewhere from among your tribes, there shall your bring your burnt elevated offerings, and there you must do all that I command you concerning this." (Deut 12:13-14) \n\nThus, once King Solomon completed and dedicated the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, animal sacrifices were offered only in the Temple. It would be a sin to offer sacrifices in any other place. And once the Temple was destroyed in 70 CE, no more animal sacrifices were offered.\n\nI know that christians used to burn witches and persecute jews and muslims...but I don't think they burn witches anymore.
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The name 'Gypsy' comes from the word Egyptian. They themselves claimed Egypt as their ancestral home, but more probably they originated in India and started to arrive in Europe during the second millenium BC. (Their language, Romany, derives from Sanskrit, the ancient language of India.) Over the first millennium AD, small bands migrated to the west and, when they reached what is today Palestine, they split, some going to the north, through Europe, the rest going south to Egypt and west across North Africa. They moved in small groups rather than a concentrated mass, gradually spreading, always shunned and forced to move on, living as second-class citizens on the fringes of society. During the fifteenth century, elements of each group reached Spain. \n\nThe number of legends that became attached to them during their long journey made them pariahs in medieval Christian Europe. According to some of these stories:\n\nThey were descendants of Cain, the son of Adam and Eve who killed his brother Abel. As a result, they were cursed to be nomads: "And the Lord said unto Cain ... now art thou cursed from the earth. … When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth" (Genesis IV, 9-12). Thus Gypsies could never become farmers, they were doomed to be wandering musicians and metal-workers, bearing the mark of Cain. (This is probably the Greek letter Tau, worn as a means of recognition, not a stigma.)\n\nGypsies forged the nails for the crucifixion of Christ, massacred the children of Bethlehem and advised Judas to betray Jesus. In punishment they were haunted by a red-hot nail and must wander forever. \n\nEzekiel's prophecy: "I shall scatter the Egyptians among the nations" (Ezekiel XXIX, 12) confirmed for them their own claim to have come from Egypt.\n\nSome regarded them as the descendants of the two lost tribes of Israel. Others said Gypsies had been cursed by God because they had refused to shelter Mary and Joseph on their flight to Egypt. The Gypsies, in trying to mitigate this charge, did not deny it, but said they were on a pilgrimage in penance for the crime, thus enhancing the legend.\n\nTreatment\nNOTE: The following is a general summary which attempts to summarize the plight of gypsies in the world. Actual conditions varied from country to country and from time to time. More specific information is given in later paragraphs.\n\nMany parallels can be drawn between the treatment of Gypsies and Jews. Throughout their history, like the Jews of the Diaspora, Gypsies were feared and driven from country to country. Restrictions were placed on their dress and permitted occupations. Those who converted to Christianity were still regarded with suspicion as not being true to the Faith. Anti-Gypsy laws were issued in country after country. Banished from France, those caught were flogged and deported by force. Other countries followed suit, and the already nomadic people were forced into continuous migration. In Holland Gypsy Hunts were organized to round them up for deportation. After the Netherlands gained independence, Gypsies were given long prison sentences. (This loss of freedom was the worst punishment of all. They preferred to die, and many did.) Denmark did not revoke its deportation laws until 1849. The Gypsies there at that date could stay but no others could immigrate. In 1554 English law imposed the death penalty on Gypsies and all who associated with them. In 1560 Archbishop Petri of Sweden decreed: "The priest shall not concern himself with the Gypsies. He shall neither bury their corpses nor christen their children". In Paris, Christians who had their palms read by Gypsies were excommunicated. Until Louisiana was purchased from France by the United States, thousands were transported there. Spain and Portugal also sent many to their colonies in the New World.\n\nAn alternative to deportation was
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1. He wrote for the Israelites.\n2. Was his first language Egyptian?  The person responsible for his upbringing was his mother (The princess was led by Moses's older tosister to higher his mother as a nurse!)\n3.  As an Egyptian prince at the time, which language would he have used?  Aramean, the language of the general region?  Egyptian?  There had been a change of dynasties around that time due to external invaders - that's why that particular pharoah was so hostile to the Israelites:  he had taken the kingdom away from the line of pharaohs that had been friendly to Joseph and the Israelites' descendents.  There may have been several languages involved.
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Moses delivered the Israelites from bondage to Egypt. The reason that God freed them was so "that they may serve [God]." But shortly after they started their journey through the desert, the made a golden calf! So for their iniquity, they wandered in the desert for 40 years.\n\n2000 years ago, God sent His Son to deliver people from their bondage to sin & death. The purpose was NOT for liberty to do whatever ya wanna do (so that "Grace may abound"); it was so we would know what God's Word really is - to understand the Spirit of His Law (w/o the Pharisees' oral law/traditions... some of which conflicted with God's Law), to be able to seek to do His will "on earth as it is in heaven" without undue burden. It gives us the freedom to embrace the Torah (the written Word of God) and the liberty to live it as Yeshua the Messiah (the incarnate Word of God) demonstrated. He live a sinless life; He did not break any commandment of God; He followed the Torah (Sabbaths, Holy Days, clean food, etc... right down to the fringes on his clothes). And He told those who would have His Salvation: "Follow Me."\n\nBut history repeats. People do not find the narrow gate and do not stay on the straight path. For centuries upon centuries, people have been ignoring God's Law and practicing paganism - Constantine was a lifelong pagan who merely added some Christian elements to his sun god worship and called it Christianity. Almost all of the mainline Christian religions (Catholic, Protestant, non-denominational) desecrate the Sabbath which God gave as a gift to mankind, worship on Sunday (because Constantine & the Popes say-so), celebrate pagan holidays (Christmas & Easter), and in the most ironic iniquity, they eat ~Easter ham dinner~ a doubly abhorrent abomination to God! The Reformation was a failure....\n\nModern society is a moral desert we wander in because we are as rebellious as Eve was in the Garden of Eden. The proverbial log is in the eyes of the traditional institutional churches [leaders & members]; but they see specs in other heathens' eyes.\n\nGod is patient. As every parent knows, patience w/o limit is dysfunctional. Discipline & Judgment are looming over us. But "as in the days of Noah," [almost] no one cares.
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the jews know it...\na little complicated to explain.\nbut there definetly IS a reason and it's beautiful!!!
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It was a land bridge over the Bering straits, they traveled down the west coast and spread out from there.\nGreat Question, there is also speculation some Egyptians, sailed to the east coast, we have even seen signs of people from king Davids reign settled in the south, New Mexico.
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Well, the Jews committed the heinous crime of rebelling against the Romans- at the height of the power of the Roman empire th Jews, led by Bar Kochba who was the disciple of Rabbi Akivah, they succeeded in defeating the Romans and re-establishing a Jewish state.\n\nTheir success wa short lived- the Romans sentr an overwhelming force to retake the area and after two years the rebellion was over and Roman power re-established.  The Romans wanted to make sure that nothing similar ever happened.  They killed Rabbi Akivah and all other seniour Rabbis that had a significant following, razed jewsih and destroyed the temple.  They then exiled the Jews, hoping to disperse them across the empire and prevent them form forming a cohesive unit.  The Jews left in Israel were impoverished and downtrodden- the Romans changing the name of the province to Philistinna to punish the Jews, as they knew that the Philistines were a historic enemy of the Jews.\n\nAs for HItler- he was a proponent of scientific racism- under that thinking various race groups had reached different levels of evolution.  In his thinking- the Aryans were the most advanced race, followed by the Japanese and the other Mongoloid races (Chinese etc.)  He put the "mud races' at the bottom- including Jews, gypsies and blacks- with the slaves and some other groups just above them.  For the "mud races" he advocated genocide since they could only contaminate the gene pool, the other less advanced races were to be relegated to slave labour.  racial anti-semitism has been disproved continuously- but there are still many neo-Nazis who like to follow it to give them a false sense of superiority (take a look at how many neo-Nazi and right wing organisations represent the poor/unemployed and failed member sof society!)
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It was something to do with Germany, in WW2.  I believe it was the official name for the law that made the Jews leave German territories.
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Yes, because the Hebrews got their customs while in Egypt which is and always been in Africa. Their was no such thing As Jew at that time. That was much later, they were call Hebrews are children of Jacob before god change Jacob name to Yisrael.
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If you remember your Exodus, it tells the story about the Jews being slaves in Egypt and then how God freed them and brought them back to Israel, where they had come from and gave them back the land. The seder is a way of remembering all of these events. It discusses the hardship of being slaves in Egypt, that pharoah would not let the men be with their wives to decrease their numbers, the ten plagues that God sent, the journey to Israel. Prayers are spoken thanking God for doing this. Admonitions against supporting slavery are spoken during this ceremony.
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Jews come from all ethnic backgrounds, white, mixed, black (there is a tribe of black jews in one of the african countries)
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Not only were the Jews there before the Palestineans, but they also purchased the land from Arabs when they settled there. The Arabs want to kill the Jews to take the land and they killed other Arabs who sold land to Jews. Originally the area of Palestine was divided by the UN into the Arab area of Jordan and the Jewish area of Israel. The rulers of Jordan wouldn't take the Palestinians into their country as they felt they would make trouble so they ended up in camps and were brought up to think they should kill the Jews to get the land from them. Many of them left Israel in 1948 when the state of Israel was created because in the broadcasts the other Arab countries told them that if they left and supported the Arab attackers that they could get the property of their Jewish neighbors after they were killed. When the Arabs lost, these people were stuck. The other Arabs did not give them a place to live. They left them there because they knew they would make trouble for Israel, they did not help them as fellow human beings and Muslims.\nThe Arabs who stayed kept their land, got modern medical care, plumbing and electricity and education, including college education. Villages were literally split in half in 1948 when the UN divided everything in half to form the two countries. In 1967 when the Israelis recaptured some of this land after being attacked by the Arabs, many of the Arabs on the Israel side of the border didn't want to have anything to do with the Arabs on the other side because many of them were uneducated and backward. \nThe land of Israel, by the way, was a desert and the Jews planted trees and irrigated it and made it a good place to live. They used to give jobs to the Palestinians, but they killed the Jews so they don't hire them anymore and are building a wall to keep them out so they don't come over and set off bombs in restaurants like they did yesterday. The Hamas, who are the government of the Palestineans, praised the bombing. If people were coming across our borders and bombing us, we'd build a wall too.\nWhen the Arabs ask for land back they also look at what's there. The Israelis had a five star famous resort on a little point of land called Taba that brought in a lot of money. The Egyptians asked for that and got it in 1988. They wanted it because it was a fancy resort that tourists flocked to from all over the world. There is nothing else there but the resort. The part of Jerusalem they want is full of very expensive nice condos, many over $500,000 that people paid for like we pay for our condos. I wouldn't want someone to give my house away.\nBy the way, the other Muslim countries also don't want the Israeli Arabs in their countries because the women are educated and have equal rights. They don't want them to spread ideas of equality to their women. In some Muslim countries women can't even drive a car.
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When Moses led the Children of Israel out of Egypt to the promised land. They were commanded to kill all the homosexual idol worshiping inhabitants before them.  They were instructed to not show mercy or spare anyone. Or in the latter days they would come back to hurt them.\n\nSo Israel went to Canna did not kill the homosexual worshipers of Baal and as you can see it has turned to their hurt.\n\n\nGo big Re Go
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I assume you refer to the 40 years they wandered through the desert prior to entering the promised land?\n\nTwo, as far as I can recall:  the true God and the "god" they asked Aaron to make for them in the form of a golden calf.\n\nFYI:  they weren't properly called "Israelites" at that time, but you're forgiven.