With Temple Beth El, Riverside, CA
VERY SIMPLE THINGS THAT REALLY MATTER-OMENANA & OBI
VERY SIMPLE THINGS THAT REALLY MATTER-OMENANA & OBI Omenala Yoruba, Omenala Idoma, Omenala Germany don't exist. What exists is Omenala Igbo and Omenala Israel. Likewise the Igbo obi which means more than one thing do not have equivalents in the Yoruba, Idoma, German, English, Fulani and Arab cultures. I listened to Obi Onitsha Alfred Achebe infer that Yoruba have obi as we have. They do not. The center of life in Yoruba society are the kings palaces. In Ozubulu, Okwu Akpu (ou r central sanctuary/temple) is the center of society. My family is obi. Igidikwu Abbor Nando just called my attention that he met my 2nd cousin whose father, my 1st cousin is Obi of Egbema, Ozubulu. Our household is accordingly an important center, but no 1 is the temple (okwu akpu or okwu ana Ozubulu. RECKON-Bet Hamikdash was the center in biblical Israel. We, Hebrews merely recreated biblical Israel in West Africa, and developed the Hebrew Igbo Republics:
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