As the needs of our peoples survival changed with the onslaught of domestication, industry and commerce in the modern world it became more and more difficult to simply retain our beliefs and customs as well as preserving the ancient Hebrew and Aramaic languages that we used in ancient times. As our faith in The Creator and the observance of His Torah and its laws and devotion to prayer and scholarship took precedence within the Jewish communities in the Diaspora our knowledge of Abir
diminished with each passing generation.
Jews were held in contempt under
the watchful suspicious eyes of their host nations who often sought to
control them by limiting their mobility within the confines of a ghetto.
Jews were commonly denied the right to bear arms or own land and curfews
were often enforced upon them.
Collectively congregating to train in Abir® or
any form of Jewish combat arts would have been seen as incitement to
overthrow their hosts and an invitation to collective genocide. That
occurred often in our history without any provocation. These harsh
conditions were mirrored in Jewish Communities across Europe as well as in
Asia from the step and throughout the Middle East and Africa.
Bits and pieces of Abir® warrior arts were preserved to a greater degree by
the more exotic and distant Israelite communities. Hasidic dances of Ukrainian Jews as
well as similar steps and maneuvers by their brothers in Yemen and Kurdish
mountain Jews testify to a common warlike sequence More>>
