Bneï-Moshé

Bneï-Moshé ( בנימשה - “wire of Brace”) is the name of an internal order to the movement of the Amants of Sion.

Its role was to prepare the new generation of the Jewish people to fulfill the functions of national leaders. Bneï-Moshé is created on the initiative of Ahad HaAm and Yéhoshoua Barzilaï in 1889, the day to which the Jewish tradition attaches the memory of the birth and of died of Moïse. The biblical patriarch is in their eyes a symbol, to which the name of the order pays homage.

It is Ahad HaAm which, the first, puts forward the idea of a group of people chosen, ready to dedicate themselves to the cause of the realization and national and spiritual alarm clock of the Peuple of Israel. Bnéï-Moshé, by their internal organization and the way in which they choose and introduce their future members, have a certain similarity with the Franc-maçonnerie. The basic writings of Bneï-Moshé are written by Ahad HaAm, become the spiritual leader of the order. The objectives are then defined: “ To bring to the Jewish people the idea need for the Ground of Israel and its establishments, language of our fathers and their writings, memory of our aïeux and their life… ”. Bneï-Moshé are committed contributing “ to the good of the material state, the cultural level and the moral aspect of Ground the Yishouv of Israel, with going to the front of all those which wish to settle there, to transform Jewish nationalism into ideal of morals, to inculcate the love of Israel like principal ideological value ”.

The official entry of a member within Bneï-Moshé consists of a “secret” ceremony, during which the receipt lends allegiance to the laws fixed by the order, whose existence should not be revealed. The members of Bneï-Moshé express in Hebrew. The hierarchical top of the order is composed of 5 members depending on a president and several advisers. The central office of Bnéï-Moshé sits at its beginnings with Odessa in Russia, then is transferred to Warsaw and in 1893 settles with Jaffa. Ahad HaAm is then the president.

The members of Bneï-Moshé are counted among the founders of Rehovot, like the pioneers of Hebrew teaching out of Ground of Israel and Diaspora, the founders of the newspaper Hashiloah and the creators of many publishers in the country. It is in Jaffa that the order opens the doors of the first public school of Hebrew language.

In the absence of convincing practical results, it is decided to dissolve Bneï-Moshé which will disappear definitively with creation from the world Organization Zionist in 1897.

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