Torah Study Date Saturday, November 20, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 30:17-30:32 Next Session Saturday, December 4, 2021 Starting at Genesis 30:33 Last session we discussed God hearing Leah, Leah conceiving, bearing and naming fifth and sixth sons, Issachar because God rewarded Leah and Zebulun because God gave her a choice gift and her husband […]
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Leah and Rachel Make a Deal
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Asher, Bilhah, Dan, Gad, Jacob, Judah, Leah, Levi, Miriam Mehadipur, Naphtali, Rachel, YHVH, Zilpah
Torah Study Date Saturday, Novemberr 13, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 29:34-30:16 Next Session Saturday, November 20, 2021 Starting at Genesis 30:17 Last week we discussed Leah having a third and fourth son and that her hopes seem to be declining, that she names the third Levi because now Jacob will become attached to her […]
Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Bilhah, Laban, Leah, Rachel, Rebecca, Reuben, Simeon, Siona Benjamin, YHVH, Zilpah
Torah Study Date Saturday, November 6, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 29:23-33 Next Session Saturday, November 13, 2021 Starting at Genesis 29:34 Last week we discussed the sex joke regarding Laban bringing Leah to Jacob and Jacob going into her, that it indicates the crude sexual act in which he does not see the woman […]
Jacob Loves Rachel
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Isaac, Jacob, Laban, Leah, Nahor, Rachel, Raphael Abecassis, Rebecca, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, October 23, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 28:20-29:22 Next Session Saturday, November 6, 2021 Starting at Genesis 29:23 Last week we discussed the vow Jacob made in Beth El and its conditional nature (if God stays with me and watches me on my way, gives me bread and clothing, and I […]
Angels Show Jacob the Way to the Heavens
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abraham, Basemath, Bethuel, El Shaddai, Esau, Ishmael, Jacob, Judith, Mahalat, Nebaioth, Rebecca, Victor Majzner, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, October 16, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 28:1-28:19 Next Session Saturday, October 23, 2021 Starting at Genesis 28:20 Last week, we discussed Isaac blessing Jacob and why he was blessing Jacob a second time (maybe because he was going on a journey), instructing him not to marry a Canaanite woman (following […]
Esau Wants a Blessing, Too
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abraham, Isaac, Ishmael, Jacob, Mahalat, Rabbi Yehuda, Rebecca, Siona Benjamin, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, October 9, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 27:26-46 Next Session Saturday, October 16, 2021 Starting at Genesis 28:1 Last week we discussed Isaac continuing to try to figure out whether the one before him is Esau or not by asking him to come close and kiss Isaac, Isaac finding his smell […]
Isaac Becomes Very Great
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abimelech, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Marc Chagall, Rebecca, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, August 28, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 26:10-17 Next Session Saturday, September 4, 2021 Starting at Genesis 26:18 Last week we discussed Abimelech saying someone could have lain with Isaac’s wife (because Isaac lied and said she was his sister), who and how that might be (a rapist? Abimelech himself?), the […]
Isaac Follows in His Father’s Footsteps
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abimelech, Abraham, Alan Falk, Esau, Isaac, Jacob, Rebecca, Sarah, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, August 21, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 26:1-9 Next Session Saturday, August 28, 2021 Starting at Genesis 26:10 Last week we discussed the famine in Gerar (after the previous famine in Abraham’s time), YHVH telling Isaac not to go to Egypt yet (in case he might think the exile to Egypt […]
Exhausted Esau Prefers Lentil Stew to His Birthright
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Esau, Isaac, Jacob, Peter Asher Pitzele, Rebecca
Torah Study Date Saturday, August 14, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 25:28-34 Next Session Saturday, August 21, 2021 Starting at Genesis 26:1 Last week we discussed Isaac loving Esau ‘because he put game in his mouth’ and Rebecca loving Jacob, that the love may have been of opposites since Esau was a crafty hunter while […]
Rebecca Has Twins
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abraham, Esau, Harriet Finck, Isaac, Ishmael, Jacob, Rebecca, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, July 31, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 25:19-27 Next Session Saturday, August 14, 2021 Starting at Genesis 25:28 We had another fascinating Torah study last week, full of ideas and information. We discussed the record of generations from Abraham through Isaac competing with the previously given record of the generations coming […]