The comments regarding Haym Salomon and the Great Seal of the United States are not correct. The final seal was designed by Charles Thomson and approved by the Continental Congress on 20 June 1782. When Thomson submitted his design, he included his "Remarks and Explanation" which describes what each symbol represents. The "Remarks and Explanation" was approved by the Congress and not one symbol represents, or was intended to represent Israel. The 1st US Congress ratified the design in 1789. You need to correct this information and issue an apology on your site for not verifying the historical facts. You can verify what I have stated by getting a copy of "The Great Seal of the United States" published by the US State Department, which is the keeper of the Seal.

R. H. Templeton

Mr. Templeton,

No one ever said that the symbols intended to represent Israel.

In fact if you read my article in its entirety, I am very clear about the fact that I don't believe the email I received about the link between the Hyam Salomon and any Jewish symbols in the one dollar bill.

Please read the article TO THE END - I clearly say:

"Well, I decided to do a bit of research (isn't the Internet great?) and found at least one article that questions the above."

And then I link to a story that clears any ideas and leaves no doubt:

"But I doubt that the "Great Seal of the United States" which appears on the dollar bill makes any hint to Salomon's contribution, or that George Washington had anything to say about it. "

So why exactly are you asking me to "correct this information and issue an apology on your site for not verifying the historical facts".

I did verify the facts, I did say I didn't believe the story and I certainly don't owe anyone an apology.

If anything, you owe me an apology for not reading the full article and being so agressive.

David

This dialog regarding the symbols on the dollar bill is very interesting. Common sense tells me that it is very unlikely Solomon's Seal is there without purpose.

As a gentile (and a Christian that treasures the history of Israel and jewish influence) it seems that Americans should do a better job of educating ourselves. James Madison (who was educated by his mother, a scholar in the Bible and Hebrew Law) and George Washington treasured the Bible.

Any open minded Jew or Gentile should strive to see that our young people know the truth about Hyam Salomon and his financial sacrifice to see that the colonies win their freedom from the oppressive 16th century British government.

Dear Mr. Melle,
Outstanding article -- Always searching for ways to bring honor and glory to God. I've passed this info on to my daught who attends a christian college.

Thank you!

A true manorah has 7 stems not nine like the eagle's tail, but after the church was destroyed they decided not to duplicate anything from it so they started using a six branched manorah which is what the bible say u r to build u can find instructions for building a manorah in Exodus 25:31-40( a 9 branched manorah is only used on jewish holidays)

Still researching Jewish influence on The Great Seal of the U.S. Evidently there is a great deal of substance to it. If you click on the web address below, you'll discover, as I did, that the symbolism on the Seal is derived from the symbolism as portrayed in the Old Testament. The number 13, of course, was significant (13 colonies) and the 12 tribes + 1 of Israel corresponded handily. The fact that the plumes at the bottom only number nine (9) lends some credence to the contention that when viewed upside down it's meant to resemble a Menorah. Otherwise why wouldn't there be 13 plumes? My only question now is: Did Washington insist on these symbols to honor the Jewish contribution to the American Revolution, or were these symbols applied to the Seal because of the deep religious convictions in the Old Testament held by our forefathers?
I hope you're finding this as fascinating as I am.

Click Here: http://asis.com/~stag/seal.html

The seven branch Menorah can be seen between the head and the tail when turned upside down.

Actually, one quick comment. Someone said the hanukkiah - The nine branched manorah is used in Jewish Holidays. That's sort of incorrect. It's only used in one holiday, which is Hanukkah. And really, yes, it has nine branches, but the center branch, the feeder candle, is not considered one of the 8 candles. Meaning, the hanukkiah consists of 8 candles and the feeder candle. The center branch is usually raised up above the other eight, and really doesn't even have to be in the center. But, it is only used during hanukkah. :)

Actually, I was astounded to find out THAT according to a website "angelfire" All these symbols are related to the the pagan gd Zeus-incarnation. and that the stars form a pythoagorean tetrakys. The eye supposedly on top of the pyramid stands for the eye of horus-the Egyptian deity and everything else is explained in similar associated terms. Has anybody heard of this?? That all these terms are Masonic in origin?

masonic in origin is the theory put forward in the book "The Biggest Secret" by David Icke. He has allowed his book to be downloaded off the net for free.

this is what " George Washington " said :

GEORGE WASHINGTON, in Maxims of George Washington by A. A. Appleton & Co.: They (the Jews) work more effectively against us, than the enemy's armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great cause we are engaged in ... It is much to be lamented that each state, long ago, has not hunted them down as pests to society and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America.

PS :I didnt make it up, search for it on the web and u will see

Please inform me when and who designed the pyramid symbol on the $1US bill. Or steer me in the right direction.

Actually, I haven't seen one posting here that is completely factual on the Great Seal. Why is there such a big effort and great importance in always trying to assert 'Jewish' influence in as much as possible? Fact of the matter is Benjamin Franklin, Geo. Washington and many other Colonial leaders were either leery of, or outwardly suspicious of Jews. These are the facts on the design of the Great Seal: Francis Hopkinson, Congressman from New Jersey, had designed the American flag and Congress then asked him to design a prominent seal of which to represent and affix to official government business. Before he could finalize a design, Congress asked Hopkinson what he wanted for his extra work in designing the flag outside of his regular congressional duties to which he replied, a barrel of wine, to which the congress agreed. When he later inquired when he would receive his wine the congress then reneged on their promise and summarily scolded him for demanding payment from the peoples purse. The congress then, most likely as censorship, or punishment, decided to ask several other people to contribute Great Seal designs of which the congress took parts from several of those designs and incorporated them into the final design we see today. Hopkinson, who is an ancestor in my family, can be credited with only a small contribution to the final design of the seal and never did get his wine. The American Flag was his design and his signature is on the Declaration of Independence.

so did american put the stars over on the the dollar cause of what isreal did for u.s in the past.

The ACLU recently threatened to sue the county of Los Angeles if they didnt remove a cross from among many other historical symbols on the county seal. I asked them if they intended to pursue the Star of David on the dollar bill with equal zeal. Thus far they have refused to answer.

B"H

It is indeed true that George Washinton was influenced by True Monotheism, and may well have been a Ben Noach. Sadly, other actibe forces were not so Judaic in their thinking, and while the top of the seal, the Eagle may have been G-dly; the hidden part of the seal, the Pyramid with the eye, was staunchly pagan. The American people and Israel uphold HaShem, as did Washington, while hidden conspirators whose goal has been to undermine Judaism had other plans. In spite of the fact that America and Israel both uphold the Ten Commandments, the Supreme Court demands that they be taken down (while the idolatrous "Cross" remains).

Eventually, the world view of Washington and the Founders was undermined by Social Darwinism and eugencisim, promoted by Skull and Bonesmen. Washington warned us that only Divine Law (which he may well have known was encapsulated in the Seven Laws of Noah) could save us. The "enemies to be hunted down" did NOT mean Jews, but other forces that were indeed subversive. Washington'a affiliation with Freemasonry was NOT of an occult nature. I do not excuse it, but it was not pro world socialism.

Jefferson and Franklin were not so discerning, and were taken in by those forces desiring world socialism. It was they who designed the "reverse" of the seal, the pyramid with the eye. I believe that Washington knew better, but could not get America founded as a Noahide Torah State but was over-ruled by the Scottish Rite Masons and their Jesuit allies who desired the commercial Republic. Sadly, Haym Solomon also refused to take a stand, being influenced by "Haskala" so-called.

The bottom line is that there is a difference between the Eagle and the Hexagram, which is Monotheist, and the pagan "reverse" of the seal. All the best,

A True Monotheist

Is it just me or did that last comment make you feel as if you had temporarily entered a badly written episode of "x-files". Though, if "the true monotheist" was joking, it was pure genius.

Get a grip- for intelligent people we are required to exercise the grey matter- whomever it was that told about the pagan references in the symbols, was an intelligent person, do some research, at length, find out the frightening truth about our fore Fathers. The people that are in the real know of what is really going on, and what they have in store for the uninformed masses of humanity. There is a terrible time coming, dear people, please study.But the great news is ,that in the long run, Truth and Holiness wins. We have a responsibility to our awesome Father in Heaven to spread the news and to inform.

See page 9
Fascinating article

http://www.bnainoah.net/MarchResearcherNewspaper.pdf

An article about him is in Arutz7

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=82226

LOL
READ THIS AND CHECK YOUR SOURCES NEXT TIME:

This quote is a recasting of something Washington did say, providing just enough of an aura of authenticity to sound believable. What Washington actually wrote (or, at least, what is attributed to him in Maxims of George Washington), regarding currency speculators who sought to profit by taking advantage of soldiers and others during the Revolutionary War, was:

This tribe of black gentry work more effectually against us, than the enemy's arms. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties, and the great cause we are engaged in. It is much to be lamented that each State, long ere this, has not hunted them down as pests to society, and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America.
Washington's private life and writings reveal no evidence of anti-Semitism, and his public attitude towards religious tolerance was well expressed on a 1790 goodwill visit he paid to Newport, Rhode Island, during his first term as President. When a goodwill address was presented to him by the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Washington responded by penning "the first presidential declaration of the free and equal status of Jewish-American citizens":

The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection, should demean themselves as good citizens.

LOL
You are completely incorrect about Washington's views. He was referring to CURRENCY SPECULATORS when he said that. look it up...

B"H

For excellent article on the canard that Washington hated the Jews, please see:
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/067460.php

Where you will find this link,
http://www.adl.org/special_reports/franklin_prophecy/franklin_documenting_fraud.asp

which thoroughly debunks that nonsense.

As to Chaim Solomon, here's a little info on him, and a few other Jewish patriots, without whom the USA would probably never have come to be.
http://www.mikvehisrael.org/TheCemeteries/
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/jewish/salomon.asp

The official US Gov history tells us that...
"He seems to have been drawn early to the Patriot side and was arrested by the British as a spy in 1776. He was pardoned and used by the British as an interpreter with their German troops. Salomon, however, continued to help prisoners of the British escape and encouraged German soldiers to desert. Arrested again in 1778, he was sentenced to death, but managed to escape to the rebel capital of Philadelphia,..."
and
"From 1781 on, Salomon brokered bills of exchange for the American government and extended interest-free personal loans to members of Congress, including James Madison."
http://www.nps.gov/revwar/about_the_revolution/haym_salomom.html

The following is from the website with the most complete info I could find, about Mr. Solomon.
"Solomon came to New York in 1772 and joined the Sons of Liberty. He was a brilliant financier and one of George Washington's personal friends."
and...
"He was the paymaster-general of the French military forces in the early years of the United States. It is asserted that more than $100,000 which he advanced was never repaid. He lent the young United States government about $600,000, and at his death about $400,000 of this amount had not been repaid. This was irrespective of what he had lent to statesmen and others while performing public duties and trusts. Jacob Bader Marcus wrote in Early American Jewry that the sum owed to Solomon was $800,000."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haym_Solomon

....ASIDE ON THIS LAST: Jews provide perhaps 1/2 the capital and many other resources, without which the USA would still be Brittish, and now the USA returns the favor by whittliing little Israel away, and feeding her limb by limb to the mortal enemies of us both. There's something seriously wrong with this equation.

As usual, the truth is more awsome than the myths; that is, unless one prefers tea-leaves by the light of a full moon.

B"H

Sorry if the following appears twice, but I am resubmitting because it didn't seem to go thru the first time.

B"H

For excellent article on the canard that Washington hated the Jews, please see:
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/067460.php

Where you will find this link,
http://www.adl.org/special_reports/franklin_prophecy/franklin_documenting_fraud.asp

which thoroughly debunks that nonsense.

As to Chaim Solomon, here's a little info on him, and a few other Jewish patriots, without whom the USA would probably never have come to be.
http://www.mikvehisrael.org/TheCemeteries/
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/jewish/salomon.asp

The official US Gov history tells us that...
"He seems to have been drawn early to the Patriot side and was arrested by the British as a spy in 1776. He was pardoned and used by the British as an interpreter with their German troops. Salomon, however, continued to help prisoners of the British escape and encouraged German soldiers to desert. Arrested again in 1778, he was sentenced to death, but managed to escape to the rebel capital of Philadelphia,..."
and
"From 1781 on, Salomon brokered bills of exchange for the American government and extended interest-free personal loans to members of Congress, including James Madison."
http://www.nps.gov/revwar/about_the_revolution/haym_salomom.html

The following is from the website with the most complete info I could find, about Mr. Solomon.
"Solomon came to New York in 1772 and joined the Sons of Liberty. He was a brilliant financier and one of George Washington's personal friends."
and...
"He was the paymaster-general of the French military forces in the early years of the United States. It is asserted that more than $100,000 which he advanced was never repaid. He lent the young United States government about $600,000, and at his death about $400,000 of this amount had not been repaid. This was irrespective of what he had lent to statesmen and others while performing public duties and trusts. Jacob Bader Marcus wrote in Early American Jewry that the sum owed to Solomon was $800,000."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haym_Solomon

....ASIDE ON THIS LAST: Jews provide perhaps 1/2 the capital and many other resources, without which the USA would still be Brittish, and now the USA returns the favor by whittliing little Israel away, and feeding her limb by limb to the mortal enemies of us both. There's something seriously wrong with this equation.

As usual, the truth is more awsome than the myths; that is, unless one prefers tea-leaves by the light of a full moon.

Thank you for the exceptional infomation on Chaim Solomon. Do have a separate article on him? I am involved in a research effort about him. Please,e-mail me an article as noted above if available.
Alan

Hyam is a mispelling of Haym.

Idiocy. The Symbols on the dollar are masonic symbols.

Whatever..the fact is that the Jewish people have given to the world way beyond their numbers. Just one example: Jews have given to the world...Jesus, Moses,Einstein,Freud,Medicines,entertainers, scientists, educators....

Our American public school books do not include information about the contribution of Haym Solomon to the American revolution without whom we would undoubtedly have lost the war with the British. He is a true American hero. He is a Jew.
It seems American public school hisorians have their own agenda in withholding this information from the American student body.

I am currently researching a story about Haym Solomon. I am told that it is a Jewish custom for men to fold their tallits in a triangle. I am also told that Washington was the first to fold an American flag into a triangle in honor of Solomon. Can anyone confirm or deny?

Concerning the actual, historical figure of Chaim Salomon and how he, almost single-handedly, saved the American Revolution from collapse, the best source of information on his life and work is "Chaim Salomon and the Revolution," by Charles Edward Russell, Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, New York, 1930. It is well-written, well researched, and thoroughly documented.

Quoting from the last pages of the book (299-300):

"But for the truest monument to Chaim Salomon is the imperishable result of his labours. If he had done no more than to keep James Madison and James Wilson in the public life he would have marked American history indelibly, if not unostentatiously, for these men were among it's makers and directors.

If had done no more than to keep Robert Morris solvent and the credit of the United States from ruin that would have been enough, for if the Revolution had collapsed when it was most beset in 1781 there would have been no United States. But he did even more. He testified to the world that Americanism is not a matter of so-called race or birthplace or descent but full of faith and faith alone. It's truest exponents might have be born anywhere and still be its undisputable sons"…." No reward was of glory or eminence or praise or position waited upon his part and, so far as we can discover now, he considered them not at all.

He wore no uniform, clanked no sword, bore no title and had no acclaims as he went through the streets. He was never a member of Congress; from the rights and privileges of all the other citizens he was, even in liberal Pennsylvania, largely debarred. But beyond any doubt, he toiled like a man on a treadmill and gave all his possessions for the thing he believed in. We know that rare and high spirits in this world find in service something that exceeds in value all applause or fortune. This man seems of that order."

Daniel Greenhill.

I feel we should emulate the state of Israel. I am not learned in history but the country of Israel was not in existence for 1800 plus years I believe they have more than paid for their sins on earth. They are God’s chosen people and we should stand by them always.

Thumb through your Old and New Testaments just to find the name "Israel" and then the name "Jerusalem". You will discover that FOREVER God will hold Israel in His protection, no matter how foolish that seems as we view their plagued history. Israel is still "the apple of His eye". You'd better bless 'em, because He says so. Look it up! Nothing has happened to them that was not predicted in Scripture centuries ago, and, amazingly, everything happened just as God had His prophets describe it. I'm a Gentile, and Christian believer, and Jew-lover.

Secret symbols? Hardly. Don't bother squinting for hidden items on the back - check out www.jewdollar.com

B*H

You do realize that Wikipedia is editted by the masses. That mistakes in Wiki are common, and it is NOT a credible source of information.
Regarding the '$600,000' that he 'loaned'.
It was actually the amount of Bills of Exchange (for France) that he SOLD, and MADE made 2.5% on each sale. A myth grew up that he had lent the young United States government about $600,000. He did NOT.

Well, what about the Illuminati theory? I don't know if I'm the only one here, but according to many sources, the first image (unfinished temple with all seeing eye) is an Illuminati figure, and the Great Seal greatly resembles the bird, representing the Freemasons, especially with its 32 feathers on the left wing and 33 feathers on the right. It has much more depth to it than a simple design, or even anything about Israel. The 9 tail feathers represent the Masonic 9 degrees of the York rites. Keep in mind that most of the presidents were actually Freemasons. Even the owl on the front of the bill (top right corner in front) supports the dollar being a product of Freemasons. As for the 13 stars forming a hexagram, 13 is a favored number of the Masons and the hexagram it forms is also one of their symbols. There is much more about the dollar bill that complies with the Illuminati "conspiracy theory" such as "annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum" which means "announcing the birth of the new world order." Weird stuff, no?
Although I admire Israel for being such a great nation that has been able to survive admist the battles and also for fearing God, it is not because of them that our dollar is like that.