Re: Galusha/ Galuecia/Galucia/Galutia Origins
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Galusha/ Galuecia/Galucia/Galutia Origins
David V. Freeman 12/03/06
hello am Luke Galutia, i think that i may have found something very substantial about the galusha line...
the article i found comes from this website.
www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/babylonian_exile/
here is part of what i found.
"LIFE IN EXILE
While the Babylonians could be very cruel in their wars and conquests, their attitude toward the exiled Jewish community is “live and let live.” And life in Babylonian turns out not to be too awful.(3)
They even appoint a community leader who is the representative to the Babylonian authorities for the Jewish community, beginning not long after the exiled King of Judah, Jehoiachin (2 Kings 25:27). He is given the title of Resh Galusa in Aramaic. (4)
(Aramaic was the international language of the ancient Near East. It is a Semitic language, and it is closely related to Hebrew. It is the language in which most of the Talmud is written. The Jews of Babylon speak Aramaic and even when they return to the land of Israel, they continue to speak Aramaic.)
This word Resh Galusa means in Hebrew Rosh Galut, and in English, “Head of the Diaspora.” (Diaspora, incidentally, is a Greek word, meaning “dispersion.”) The Resh Galusa is a person who is a direct descendant of the House of King David. Even though he’s not a king in the land of Israel, he’s recognized as not only being the representative of the Jewish community in Babylon but also having noble status. As we shall see, over the next 1,500 years, 43 people will hold that title. They will all trace their ancestry back to Zerubavel son of Shaltiel son of King Yehoyachin (second to last of Judah) and all the way back to King David. This is a noble line that’s always preserved in Jewish history.(5)
In Israel there was a similar, but even more prestigious position to the Resh Galusa in Babylon—the Nasi —the president of the Jewish supreme court, the Sanhedrin. The position can be traced back to the sages who led the Jewish people after Moses, but the titled is specifically associated with the leaders of the Sanhedrin during the Second Temple period and after its destruction. From the time of the Second Temple onward (similar to the Resh Galusa in Babylon) the position will be hereditary and held by the decedents of Hillel until 429 CE, when it is finally abolished by the Byzantines.(6)
The oldest Diaspora community in the world is the Babylonian community. There’s no question that Jews have lived in Babylon way before the Iraqis. And when the Jews came back to the land of Israel in the late 1940s and early 1950s, there were many so-called “Bavli” Jews coming in from Iraq who could trace their ancestry all the way back to this time of the Babylonian exile.
Why they stayed there so long is because the Babylonians and later the Persians and the Ottomans made life in that part of the world relatively easy. (For example, when the Jews were expelled from Spain, Sultan Bazid welcomed them with open arms.)
This is not to say, however, that all was peaches and cream. The Book of Daniel tells the story of Jewish young men who refuse to eat non-kosher food or to bow to idols, and who are thrown into a fiery furnace by Nebuchadnezzar. They miraculously survive, causing Nebuchadnezzar to issue an edict forbidding anyone to blaspheme the God of Israel."
basically it is pointing to a Davidic Jewish blood line. it is a known fact that due to the despora that when a family earned a place of position that they changed their name to reflect that position. like names such as "Chazan" - " a cantorer", levi - a levite, Cohen - a preist. i think that the galusha line is a davidic kingship line.
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Re: Galusha/ Galuecia/Galucia/Galutia Origins
Kelly Hartmann 8/10/13