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
Temple Sinai 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 […]
The Silver Cup in Benjamin’s Bag
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Benjamin, Joseph, Judah, Sheila Nemtin
Torah Study Date Saturday, August 13, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 43:33-44:16 Next Session Saturday, August 20, 2022 Starting at Genesis 44:17 Last week we discussed the brothers’ continued astonishment when, at the vizier’s (Joseph’s) direction, they were seated in order of seniority from the oldest to the youngest (how did he know?), Joseph continuing […]
The Brothers Feast in Joseph’s House
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Benjamin, Jacob, Joseph, Sarajevo Haggadah, Simeon, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, August 6, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 43:21-32 Next Session Saturday, August 13, 2022 Starting at Genesis 43:33 Last week we discussed the fact that Judah was changed by the death of his two sons and, as a result, is able to gain his father, Jacob’s trust that he will do […]
Judah and the Brothers Go Back to Egypt
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Benjamin, Gene Lowinger, Jacob, Joseph, Judah, Nathan Hilu, Reuben, Serah, Tamar, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, July 30, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 43:8-43:20 Next Session Saturday, August 6, 2022 Starting at Genesis 43:21 Last week, we discussed Judah urging his father, Jacob (referred to by the text as “Israel”), to let him and the other brothers take Benjamin back to Egypt. We noted Judah redeeming himself […]
The Brothers Return to Jacob in Canaan
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study
Torah Study Date Saturday, July 16, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 42:29-43:7 Next Session Saturday, July 30, 2022 Starting at Genesis 43:8 Last week, we discussed the nine brothers going back to Canaan and telling their father, Jacob, what had happened to them. They told him the lord of the land (who is Joseph but […]
Joseph Tests His Brothers
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Avner Moriah, Benjamin, Joseph, Reuben, Simeon, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, July 2, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 42:18-42:28 Next Session Saturday, July 16, 2022 Starting at Genesis 42:29 Last week we discussed Joseph testing his brothers by keeping one of the brothers in prison while the rest were to go back with grain, get the youngest brother, and bring him back […]
The Brothers Go to Egypt
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Benjamin, Gabriella Boros, Jacob, Joseph, Leah, Pharaoh, Rachel
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 […]