Torah Study at Temple Sinai
This is the blog for Temple Sinai’s Torah Study group. We are a mix of congregants and non-congregants, Jews and non-Jews, who meet on Shabbat mornings at 10am Pacific Time via Zoom. We are going through the Torah verse-by-verse. To catch up with us, please scroll through our summaries below. Many thanks to Deborah Achtenberg, the creator of this project and frequent author of our updates.
Torah Study
10:00 am Saturdays via Zoom
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Abraham, Isaac and the Ram
Torah Study Date Saturday, May 1, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 22:9-18 Next Session Saturday, May 8, 2021 Starting at Genesis 22:19 Last week we continued discussing the Akedah with Abraham and Isaac reaching Mt. Moriah, the place of which God had told them, Abraham building an altar, laying out the wood, binding his son, […]
Wrestling with the Akedah
Torah Study Date Saturday, April 10, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 22:7-8 Next Session Saturday, May 1, 2021 Last session, we went back to the question why Abraham did not argue with God about the command to sacrifice Isaac as he had argued about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Specifically, we wondered whether it […]
Here I Am: God Tests Abraham
Torah Study Date Saturday, April 3, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 22:1-6 Next Session Saturday, April 10, 2021 Last week we discussed God testing Abraham. We noted that God calling Abraham by name indicates something important is about to happen and that in the Samaritan and Greek texts Abraham’s name is called twice (“And God […]
Hagar and Ishmael’s Departure, Abraham’s Pact with Abimelech
This Session Saturday, March 20, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 21:14-34 Next Session Saturday, April 3, 2021 Recently, we discussed the fact that the word for playing in the discussion of Ishmael playing at Genesis 21:9 is related to Isaac’s name–as if the text said not that Sarah saw the son of Hagar playing but […]