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Rods and Dragons

May 27, 2023 Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study Aaron, Joel Silverstein, Moses, Pharaoh

Torah Study Date Saturday, May 27, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 7:5-7:14 Next Session Saturday, June 3, 2023 Starting at Exodus 6:15 Last week Rabbi Sara continued our master class this week on the topic of midrash. She explained that midrash is not a book (as the Talmud is a book) though it can be […]

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Insulting Pharaoh

May 20, 2023 Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study Aaron, Avner Moriah, Moses, Pharaoh, Ra, YHVH

Torah Study Date Saturday, May 20, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 6:28 – 7:5 Next Session Saturday, May 27, 2023 Starting at Exodus 7:6 Last week, Rabbi Sara continued to give us a master class on interpretive methodology. Specifically, she pointed out that the genealogy by way of clan heads (Exodus 6:14-6:25) is book-ended by […]

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Genealogy Master Class

May 15, 2023 Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study Aaron, David H. Aaron, Elisheva Nesis, Jacob, Moses

Torah Study Date Saturday, May 13, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 6:26-6:27 Next Session Saturday, May 20, 2023 Starting at Exodus 6:28 Last week, Rabbi Sara showed us a chart she devised of the genealogy we have been looking at in Exodus and gave us a master class both on genealogy in the Torah and […]

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A Genealogy to Prove Moses and Aaron’s Legitimacy

April 22, 2023 Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study

Torah Study Date Saturday, April 22, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 6:14 – 6:25 Next Session Saturday, May 13, 2023 Starting at Exodus 6:26 Starting with Exodus 6:14 we noticed a break in the storyline to insert a long genealogy. While at first, this interruption seemed out of place, we realized that this was a […]

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Moses’ Uncertainties and YHVH’s Redemption Plans

April 15, 2023 Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study Aaron, Abraham, Hispano-Moresque Haggadah, Moses, Pharaoh, YHVH

Torah Study Date Saturday, April 15, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 6:6-13 Next Session Saturday, April 22, 2023 Starting at Exodus 6:14 Last week we had a wide-ranging discussion of interpretive methodology. We discussed Exodus being the oldest book of the Torah and the idea that Exodus does not know Genesis but Genesis knows Exodus, […]

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Moses Wants to Know Why YHVH Has Not Rescued the Israelites

April 8, 2023 Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study Aaron, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Marc Chagall, Moses, Noah, Pharaoh, YHVH

Torah Study Date Saturday, April 8, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 5:19-6:5 Next Session Saturday, April 15, 2023 Starting at Exodus 6:6 Last week we continued discussing Pharaoh increasing the Israelites’ work. We discussed how the Israelite officers/overseers complain to Moses and Aaron about the Israelites having to make the same number of bricks each […]

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Pharaoh Contests YHVH by Making the Israelites’ Labor Heavy

April 1, 2023 Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study Aaron, Melita Kraus, Moses, Pharaoh, YHVH

Torah Study Date Saturday, April 1, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 5:1-5:18 Next Session Saturday, April 8, 2023 Starting at Exodus 5:19 Last week we discussed M&A telling Pharaoh that YHVH, the God of Israel, said to let my people go that they may celebrate a festival for me in the wilderness: that M&A begin […]

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God Toughens Pharaoh, Zipporah Saves Moses

March 25, 2023 Temple Sinai 2023 Torah Study Aaron, Eliezer, Elisheva, Elke Reva Sudin, Gershom, Moses, YHVH, Zipporah

Torah Study Date Saturday, March 25, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 4:20-4:31 Next Session Saturday, April 2, 2023 Starting at Exodus 5:1 Last week, we discussed Moses taking his wife and sons back to Egypt. We wondered about the plural since only one son has been mentioned, Gershom. Moses and Zipporah have another son, Eliezer, […]

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God, Moses and Aaron

March 18, 2023 Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study Aaron, Dikla Laor, Moses, YHVH, Zipporah

Torah Study Date Saturday, March 18, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 4:10-19 Next Session Saturday, March 25, 2023 Starting at Exodus 4:20 Last week, we had an extensive discussion of Moses’ attempts to avoid God’s selection of him as an emissary to Egypt. We began by discussing Moses’ description of himself as heavy-mouthed and heavy-tongued. […]

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God’s Hand

March 11, 2023 Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study Moses, Sarajevo Haggadah, YHVH

Torah Study Date Saturday, March 11, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 3:20-4:9 Next Session Saturday, March 18, 2023 Starting at Exodus 4:10 Last week we discussed the frequent appearance of “hand” (yod) and wondered about its significance. For example, God says the king of Egypt will not let them go and not/even by a strong […]

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