Posts by Julia Blum

Do you remember Joseph’s tears in the inner room – tears that the brothers do not see, but we the readers do: and he went into his chamber and wept there?   Do you remember also what Joseph did upon leaving this chamber:  he washed his face so that his tears would not be seen – […]

When we read the Bible in English, the whole story of the brothers returning to Joseph after the Benjamin “theft” – their speech, their repentance, and then Joseph revealing his identity – seems like one uninterrupted story. Not so in Hebrew, however. The Hebrew Torah, along with chapter divisions, also has divisions into Torah portions […]

INTERNET’S WORD FOR THE NEW YEAR The closer to the New Year we become, the louder is the voice of those many websites “prophesying” the coming of Messiah in 2017. The English sites are full of articles about Rabbi Judah ben Samuel and his prophecy about 2017. A simple Google search can find thousands of webpages […]

Christmas and Hanukkah fall on the same day this year – this is only the fourth time this has happened in 100 years! Even though they are always very close in time, I believe that this year’s special occasion requires special reflections. Hence the name of this post: Hanukkah Reflections for Christmas.     The […]

  In the story of Joseph in Genesis 42, we read about his first meeting with his brothers: 7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to […]

Not long ago, we spoke about Key Number Four – how Yeshua  was recognized while breaking the bread: “As He sat at the table with them, … He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.  Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him”[1] We said that this recognizing Him as Messiah had […]

Today, we are opening Lock Number Three – and therefore we will be using Key Number Three: as though. In Luke 24:28 we read: he made as though he would have gone further. This is a very remarkable word and a very remarkable key indeed:  there are not many places in the Bible where God […]

We are coming close to the Thanksgiving Day – and since a great many of my readers are from the United States, first and foremost, I would like to wish everybody Happy Thanksgiving! I think it is a wonderful celebration, it used to be my favorite holiday when I lived in America, and even though […]

Do you remember our KEY NUMBER TWO:  making the latent image visible?  We spoke about developing photographs in the past: a film would be placed in a special solution, the developer, and sometime later a picture would begin to appear.  At first the contours would appear, and then the finer details of the image, and finally […]

Finally, we are Acherei Hachagim – after the Holidays – here in Israel. Many institutions and courses only begin their annual activity after the Holidays (for instance, the Fall semester in most of the universities in Israel starts after the holidays, and sometimes, like this year, it is very late). Other courses and schools just go […]