Torah Study Date Saturday, June 25, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 41:57-42:17 Next Session Saturday, July 2, 2022 Starting at Genesis 42:18 Last week we discussed all the earth coming to buy from Joseph since the famine was strong in all the earth (and that “all the earth” probably meant the whole Fertile Crescent). Then […]
Joseph Stores the Grain
Torah Study Date Saturday, June 18, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 41:46-56 Next Session Saturday, July 2, 2022 Starting at Genesis 41:57 Last week, we discussed Joseph, during the abundant years, putting in each city the grain of the fields around it and noted that he did not store it all with the Pharaoh, showing […]
Joseph’s Change of Status
Torah Study Date Saturday, June 11, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 41:36-45 Next Session Saturday, June 18, 2022 Starting at Genesis 41:46 Last week, we discussed previous famines in Genesis, the famine that led Abram and Sarai to go to Egypt (Genesis 12:10) and the famine that led Isaac to go to the Philistine city […]
Joseph Interprets Pharaoh’s Dreams 2
Torah Study Date Saturday, June 4, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 41:14-35 Next Session Saturday, June 11, 2022 Starting at Genesis 41:36 Last week we discussed Joseph being rushed from the pit to interpret Pharaoh’s dream. We noted that Joseph shaved and changed his clothes, that that was a sign of his change in status […]
Joseph Interprets Pharaoh’s Dreams
Torah Study Date Saturday, May 28, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 40:20-41:13 Next Session Saturday, June 4, 2022 Starting at Genesis 41:14 Last week we discussed that Joseph presumably knew that Pharaoh’s birthday was in three days when he gave his interpretation of the three’s in the chief drink-steward and chief baker’s dreams, that Pharaoh […]
Joseph Interprets Prisoners’ Dreams
Torah Study Date Saturday, May 21, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 40:6-19 Next Session Saturday, May 27, 2022 Starting at Genesis 40:20 Last week, we discussed Joseph seeing that the drink-steward and baker were upset and the range of meanings for tzoafim (upset, distraught, sad, dispirited, sullen, angry, enraged) and Joseph asking them why they […]
Joseph Goes to Prison
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 […]
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 […]