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CCAR Translation-in-Progress 3

November 17, 2023 Temple Sinai 2023 Torah Study Ethiopian Jewish Embroidery Project

Torah Study Date Saturday, November 11, 2023 Verses Covered NONE Next Session Saturday, November 18, 2023 Starting at Exodus 14:6 We continued our departure from our normal Torah Study and instead discussed parts of the draft of the Central Conference of American Rabbis new Torah translation-in-progress. Moses Parts the Red Sea (Ethiopian Jewish Embroidery Project) […]

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CCAR Translation-in-Progress 2

November 17, 2023 Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study Offenbach Haggadah

Torah Study Date Saturday, November 4, 2023 Verses Covered NONE Next Session Saturday, November 11, 2023 Starting at Exodus 14:6 We continued our departure from our normal Torah Study and instead discussed parts of the draft of the Central Conference of American Rabbis new Torah translation-in-progress. Red Sea (Offenbach Haggadah) Plagues (Offenbach Haggadah) Torah Study […]

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Translation Critique 1

October 28, 2023 Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study Phillip Ratner

Torah Study Date Saturday, October 28, 2023 Verses Covered NONE Next Session Saturday, November 4, 2023 Starting at Exodus 14:6 In a departure from our norm, we discussed parts of the draft of the Central Conference of American Rabbis new Torah translation-in-progress. Opening the Sea (Phillip Ratner) The Sea Closes (Phillip Ratner) Torah Study Blog […]

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The Long Way to Canaan

October 21, 2023 Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study Joseph, Marc Chagall, Miriam, Moses, YHVH

Torah Study Date Saturday, October 21, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 13:17-14:5 Next Session Saturday, October 28, 2023 Starting at Exodus 14:6 Last week, we discussed God leading the Israelites to Canaan the long way—not by way of the Philistines but by way of the wilderness of the Sea of Reeds because the former was […]

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Institutionalizing Practices of Judaism

October 7, 2023 Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study Moses, YHVH, Ze'ev Raban

Torah Study Date Saturday, October 7, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 13:3-13:16 Next Session Saturday, October 21, 2023 Starting at Exodus 13:17 We opened our session with verse 13:3 and immediately noticed an odd shift to the future. Moses was explaining why we celebrate the feast of Passover, when in fact in our narrative the […]

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Native and Sojourner

September 30, 2023 Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study Mordecai Colodner, Moses, YHVH

Torah Study Date Saturday, September 30, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 12:34-13:2 Next Session Saturday, October 7, 2023 Starting at Exodus 13:3 Last week we discussed circumcision at length in response to the text saying that a circumcised slave could eat from the pesach offering—but no settled or hired laborer–and that any other male who […]

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The First Israelite Practice

September 23, 2023 Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study Aaron, Birds' Head Haggadah, Moses, YHVH

Torah Study Date Saturday, September 23, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 12:34-12:44 Next Session Saturday, September 30, 2023 Starting at Exodus 12:45 Last week, Rabbi Sara reminded us that the Pesach sacrifice and meal is the first actual practice the Israelites are given and that they don’t even have Shabbat yet. God, she continued, is […]

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Death of the Firstborn

September 9, 2023 Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study Moses, Pharaoh, YHVH

Torah Study Date Saturday, September 9, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 12:24-12:33 Next Session Saturday, September 23, 2023 Starting at Exodus 12:34 Last session we discussed YHVH saying, you shall observe this thing as a law/statute for you and your children forever. What, R. Ben asked, is the thing to be observed? We thought it […]

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Holy Assembly and Destruction

September 2, 2023 Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study Golden Haggadah, Moses, Pharaoh, YHVH

Torah Study Date Saturday, September 2, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 12:16-23 Next Session Saturday, September 9, 2023 Starting at Exodus 12:24 Last week we discussed the holy assembly, the mikra kodesh, that YHVH tells us to have on the first and seventh day of the holiday of matza and pesach (halting, protecting). Rabbi Sara […]

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The Meaning of Pesach

August 26, 2023 Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study Moses, Victor Majzner, YHVH

Torah Study Date Saturday, August 26, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 12:10 – 12:15 Next Session Saturday, September 2, 2023 Starting at Exodus 12:16 Last session we discussed the detailed specificity of the instructions regarding the Pesach meal and wondered whether the meal might be an adaptation of some ritual meal that was common in […]

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