Torah Study Date Saturday, September 25, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 26:18 – 27:17 Next Session Saturday, October 2, 2021 Starting at Genesis 27:18 Last week we discussed Esau marrying two Hittite women, Judith and Basemath, and the general issue of marrying outside one’s group or religion, then and now, as well as the idea […]
Isaac Digs Up Abraham’s Wells
Torah Study Date Saturday, September 4, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 26:18-34 Next Session Saturday, September 25, 2021 Starting at Genesis 26:35 I wasn’t present at our last Torah Study but three angels—some interpreters say it was four angels–came to me and told me we discussed Isaac re-digging the wells that had been dug during […]
Isaac Becomes Very Great
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
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
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
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 […]
Isaac and Ishmael Bury Abraham
Torah Study Date Saturday, July 17, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 25:7-25:18 Next Session Saturday, July 31, 2021 Starting at Genesis 25:19 Last week, we discussed the death of Abraham, that he lived one hundred seventy-five years (but the text says one hundred years and seventy years and five years), that he is said to […]
Isaac and Rebecca Meet, Abraham and Keturah Marry
Torah Study Date Saturday, July 10, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 24:62-25:6 Next Session Saturday, July 17, 2021 Starting at Genesis 25:7 Last week, we discussed different interpretations of what Isaac was doing in the field toward evening (was he meditating? was he walking? was he praying?). The meaning of ‘suach’ is uncertain so interpreters […]
Gender Queer Rebecca
Torah Study Date Saturday, July 3, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 24:50-61 Next Session Saturday, July 10, 2021 Starting at Genesis 24:62 Last week we discussed Laban and Bethuel telling Abraham’s servant to take Rebecca to be wife to Abraham’s son since the idea of doing so came from YHVH. We discussed Laban being the […]
Eliezer’s Narrative
Torah Study Date Saturday, June 24, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 24:33-49 Next Session Saturday, July 3, 2021 Starting at Genesis 24:50 Last week, we discussed Abraham’s servant being so eager to fulfill his commitment to Abraham that he would not even eat until he had discharged it and also why midrash believes the servant […]