Torah Study Date Saturday, November 12, 2022 Verses Covered NONE Next Session Saturday, November 19, 2022 Starting at Genesis 49:3 Last week, we learned from Rabbi Sara that there are three basic elements of Hebrew poetry, colon (the most basic unit—also called a monocolon), line (a grouping of cola, for example, a bicolon) and strophe […]
Jacob Blesses Ephraim and Menassah 2
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Abraham, Ephraim, Isaac, Issachar, Jacob, Joseph, Marc Chagall, Menassah, YHVH, Zebulun
Torah Study Date Saturday, October 29, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 48:15-49:2 Next Session Saturday, November 12, 2022 Starting at Genesis 49:3 Last week we discussed Jacob blessing Joseph and wondered why it does not seem that he blesses Joseph but only blesses Joseph’s sons, Ephraim and Menassah (could this show that this event just […]
Jacob Blesses Ephraim and Manasseh
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Ephraim, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Manasseh, Rachel, Reuben, Simeon, Zalmen Glauber
Torah Study Date Saturday, October 22, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 48:3-14 Next Session Saturday, February 19, 2022 Starting at Genesis 48:15 Last week we discussed Jacob saying that El Shaddai appeared to him in Luz in Canaan, blessed him, and said he would make him fruitful, multiply him and make him into a community […]
Joseph Swears to Jacob
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Abraham, Ephraim, Israela Lev, Jacob, Joseph, Menassah, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, October 15, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 47:29-48:2 Next Session Saturday, October 22, 2022 Starting at Genesis 48:3 Last week we discussed Jacob, in his hundred forty-seventh year (his seventeenth and final year in Egypt), telling Joseph to put his hand under Jacob’s thigh and practice kindness and faithfulness by not […]
Joseph Makes Egyptians Sharecroppers
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Alan Falk, Ephraim, Esau, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Menassah
Torah Study Date Saturday, October 1, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 47:17-47:27 Next Session Saturday, October 22, 2022 Starting at Genesis 47:28 Last session, we discussed Joseph exchanging bread for livestock, when the Egyptians lacked bread due to the famine, and then turning the Egyptians into serfs, when they had nothing left to offer but […]
Settling in Rameses/Goshen
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Ephraim, Jacob, Joseph, Menashe, Michael Falk, Pharaoh
Torah Study Date Saturday, September 17, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 47:2-47:16 Next Session Saturday, October 1, 2022 Starting at Genesis 47:17 In the last session, we wondered about Joseph selecting only five of his brothers to present to Pharaoh and thought he might have selected some that would guarantee that Pharaoh would not want […]
Jacob and Joseph Reunite
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Asenath, Asher, Benjamin, Bilhah, Dan, Dinah, Ephraim, Gad, Issachar, Jacob, Joseph, Judah, Leah, Levi, Marc Chagall, Menassah, Naphthali, Pharaoh, Reuben, Simeon, Zebulon, Zilpah
Torah Study Date Saturday, September 10, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 46:8-47:1 Next Session Saturday, October 1, 2022 Starting at Genesis 47:2 Last week we discussed the list of names of the Israelites who went to Egypt with Jacob: the sons of Jacob and Leah: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulon as well as […]
Jacob Learns Joseph is Alive
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Abimelech, Asher, Benjamin, Ephraim, Harry Hurwit, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Menassah, Moses, Pharaoh, Serach, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, September 3, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 45:21-46:7 Next Session Saturday, September 17, 2022 Starting at Genesis 45:8 Last week we discussed the brothers getting ready to go home and bring their father, Jacob, back to Joseph in Egypt and wondered whether they were following Joseph’s instructions because they trusted him […]
Joseph Reveals Himself
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Benjamin, Darius Gilmont, Joseph, Judah, Pharaoh
Torah Study Date Saturday, August 27, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 45:4-45:20 Next Session Saturday, September 3, 2022 Starting at Genesis 45:21 We started with a short discussion of last week’s session. Question – why retell the whole story of the brothers going back to Canaan and what they told their father? Our answer was […]
Judah Offers Himself in Benjamin’s Place
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Benjamin, Jacob, Joseph, Judah, Rachel, Ruth Weisberg
Torah Study Date Saturday, August 20, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 44:17-45:3 Next Session Saturday, August 27, 2022 Starting at Genesis 45:4 Last week we discussed Judah retelling the story of the brothers being sent home to get their brother, Benjamin, and bring him back to Pharaoh’s vizier (who actually is Joseph) and Jacob saying […]