This is my non Jewish Understanding of the 12 / 14 Tribes of Israel.

[jennifer_bloom]

The 12 / 14 Tribes of Israel

No G-d beside justice and charity // Zebulun (Dreams)

No image or status or standard worship // Simeon & Levi (Knowledge & Power)

Do not take the Lord’s name in vain // Reuben (Responsibility)

Keep the sabbath spiritual and righteous and reverent and holy // Gad (Self-Respect)

Honour your father and mother with actions and words // Manasseh (Forgiveness)

Do not murder // Ephraim (Faithfulness)

Do not commit adultery // Benjamin (Justice)

Do not steal // Asher (Collectivism)

Do not bear false witness // Dan (Self-Sacrifice)

Do not be jealous // Naphtali (Kindness)

Do not neglect the needy // Issachar (Sobriety)

Do not hold a grudge // Judah (Praise and Leadership)

Do not be boastful or proud // Joseph (Vision and Ephraim like Faithfulness)

[strateguy632]

i fail to see any connection between the name and the trait?

[joesheks]

Don’t conflate the Tribes of Israel with Jews. Two separate concepts.

[strateguy632]

to joe who do you think were ancesters of jews? obviously from the land called judea ruled by solomon dynasty.

[strateguy632]

to joe we usualy call people opinions "two cents" as unimportant but a bit of value but when someone who does not know history books such as Josephus flavius and others make a claim about history "separate" that is not even two cents. first read then talk.

[jennifer_bloom]

@strateguy632 So I read the blessings that Moses and Yakov gave his offspring in Genesis and Deuteronomy and I substituted words for each of the 12 tribes that would cause the tribes of Israel to make moral sense. I thought if you replaced, Dan with self sacrifice and the word rider with judgment, the blessing for Dan would make moral sense. If you replaced gad with self respect, the blessing for Gad would make sense.