by Julia Blum | Feb 22, 2026 | Hebrew Insights
After my last Minute of Hebrew Insight, where I wrote about the tribes of Israel, one of you asked me a thoughtful question: Why is the tribe of Dan missing in Revelation 7?That question stayed with me—and from it, today’s insight was born. There are, of...
by Julia Blum | Feb 22, 2026 | Hebrew Insights
In Hebrew, the word for “tribe” is שֵׁבֶט (shevet). We usually translate it simply as tribe, but its meaning is far richer. A shevet is both a branch and a staff. At first glance, these seem unrelated. A branch speaks of life and...
by Julia Blum | Feb 22, 2026 | Hebrew Insights
… the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin … Mary[1] While today, almost everyone recognizes the Jewishness of Yeshua (Jesus), His mother Miriam (Mary), a 1st century Galilean woman from Nazareth, seems to be...
by Julia Blum | Feb 19, 2026 | Hebrew Insights
…but for Adam no fitting helper was found[1]. When we look closely at the creation story in the first chapters of the book of Genesis, we can learn many profound things about God’s plan and intentions for our lives – especially, as we have just seen,...
by Julia Blum | Feb 4, 2026 | Hebrew Insights
We all know the famous verse: “God created man in His own image.” Judaism teaches that God has no physical form, so this image cannot be a physical likeness. Yet after the Flood, when God made His covenant with Noah, He declared human life sacred precisely...
