Torah Study Date Saturday, May 14, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 39:19-40:5 Next Session Saturday, May 21, 2022 Starting at Genesis 36:6 Last week we discussed Joseph’s lord getting angry when his wife said Joseph had assaulted her but that the text does not say at whom or what the anger was directed (was he […]
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Joseph: Hesitation and Resistance
Torah Study Date Saturday, May 7, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 39:7-39:18 Next Session Saturday, May 14, 2022 Starting at Genesis 39:19 Last week we discussed Potiphar’s wife telling Joseph to lie with her, that the text describes her as his (Joseph’s) master’s wife perhaps indicating the power relation that would make it inadvisable for […]
Tamar and Judah (2)
Torah Study Date Saturday, April 30, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 38:24 – 39:6 Next Session Saturday, May 7, 2022 Starting at Genesis 39:7 Last week we discussed Judah being told that his daughter-in-law Tamar had whored and was pregnant from whoring, Judah saying to bring her out and let her be burned and that […]
Tamar and Judah
Torah Study Date Saturday, April 29, 2022 Verses Covered B’reishit (Genesis) 38:13-23 Next Session Saturday, April 30, 2022 Starting at Genesis 38:24 Last week we discussed Judah going up to Timnah to his sheepshearers and thought he was not just going for the sheep shearing but to meet women, too, since his mourning period was […]
Tamar and her Husbands
Torah Study Date Saturday, April 9, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 38:6-38:12 Next Session Saturday, April 23, 2022 Starting at Genesis 38:13 At the last session we discussed Judah getting a wife, Tamar, for Er, Judah’s first-born, and then YHVH killing Er. We wondered about YHVH and the killing or almost killing of sons, such […]
Judah Moves On
Torah Study Date Saturday, April 2, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 37:30 – 38:5 Next Session Saturday, April 9, 2022 Starting at Genesis 38:6 Last week, we discussed Reuben setting things up so that he could be the hero but not being able to because Joseph was gone when Reuben went to rescue him from […]
Two Joseph Stories?
Torah Study Date Saturday, March 26, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 37:20 – 37:29 Next Session Saturday, April 2, 2022 Starting at Genesis 37:30 Last week, we continued with the idea, first presented to us three weeks ago by R. Sara, of gaps or inconsistencies in the Joseph cycle and the idea from some contemporary […]
Joseph’s Dreams Arouse Hatred
Torah Study Date Saturday, March 19, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 37:6-19 Next Session Saturday, March 26, 2022 Starting at Genesis 37:20 Last week we discussed Joseph’s first two dreams. In the first one, we noted, Joseph says, behold, when we were binding sheaves in the field, behold, my sheaf rose–and stood up, too—and, behold, […]
Jacob Favors Joseph
Torah Study Date Saturday, March 12, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 37:1-5 Next Session Saturday, March 19, 2022 Starting at Genesis 37:6 Last week we discussed the fact that, though the text indicates we are going to hear the line of Jacob (after having heard the line of Esau in chapter 36), we do not […]
Genealogies
Torah Study Date Saturday, March 5, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 36:1-36:43 Next Session Saturday, March 12, 2022 Starting at Genesis 37:1 Last week, we discussed all of the genealogies of Genesis 36. We discussed that they make a nice transition from the story of Jacob to the story of his sons, particularly Joseph. We […]