Samaritan The Real Beni Israel

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritan

The Samaritans seem to be the actual children of Israel and not the European stock, they reject the talmud and are neutral to the issue of a Jewish state. They also reject the term "Jew" and use the term Beni Israel....very interesting indeed.

Religious beliefs
There is one God, the same God recognized by the Hebrew prophets.
The Torah was given by God to Moses.
Mount Gerizim, not Jerusalem, is the one true sanctuary chosen by Israel's God.
Many Samaritans believe that at the end of days, the dead will be resurrected by Taheb, a restorer (possibly a prophet, some say Moses).
They believe in Paradise (heaven).
The priests are the interpreters of the law and the keepers of tradition; unlike Judaism, scholars are secondary to the priesthood.
The authority of classical Jewish rabbinical works (the Mishnah and the Talmud) is rejected.
Samaritans reject Jewish codes of law.
They have a significantly different version of the Ten Commandments (for example, their 10th commandment is about the sanctity of Mt. Gerizim).
The Samaritans retained the Ancient Hebrew script, the high priesthood, animal sacrifices, the eating of lambs at Passover, and the celebration of Aviv in spring as the New Year. Yom Teruah (the biblical name for Rosh Hashanah), at the beginning of Tishrei, is not considered a new year as it is in Judaism. Their main Torah text differs from the Masoretic Text, as well. Some differences are doctrinal: for example, their Torah explicitly states that Mount Gerizim is "the place that God has chosen" for the Temple, as opposed to the Jewish Torah that calls Jerusalem "the place that God will choose." Other differences are minor and seem more or less accidental.


[edit] Relationship to mainstream Judaism
Samaritans refer to themselves as Bene Yisrael ("Children of Israel") which is a term used by all Jewish denominations as a name for the Jewish people as a whole. They however do not refer to themselves as Yehudim, the standard Hebrew name for Jews, considering the latter to denote only mainstream Jews.

The Talmudic attitude expressed in tractate Kutim is that they are to be treated as Jews in matters where their practice coincides with the mainstream but are treated as non-Jews where their practice differs. Since the 19th century mainstream Judaism has regarded the Samaritans as a Jewish sect and the term Samaritan Jews has been used for them.[16]