The ten tribes will never be restored, for it is said (Deut. xxiii. 28), God cast them into another land, as it is this day." As this day passes away without return, so also they have passed away never more to return. So says Rabbi Akiva, but Rabbi Eleazar says, ( As it is this day implies that, as the day darkens and lightens up again, so the ten tribes now in darkness shall in the future be restored to light. The Rabbis have thus taught that the ten tribes will have no portion in the world to come; for it is said (Deut. xxix. 28), "And the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation.8 And he rooted them out of their land,8 that is, from this world, c<and cast them into another land,8 that is, the world to come. So says Rabbi Akiva. Rabbi Shimon ben