Torah Study Date Saturday, July 3, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 24:50-61 Next Session Saturday, July 10, 2021 Starting at Genesis 24:62 Last week we discussed Laban and Bethuel telling Abraham’s servant to take Rebecca to be wife to Abraham’s son since the idea of doing so came from YHVH. We discussed Laban being the […]
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 […]
Ishmael Plays
Torah Study Date Saturday, March 13, 2021 Torah Study Date Saturday, April 3, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 21:7-13 Next Session Saturday, March 20, 2021 Last week we discussed Isaac growing and being weaned and Abraham making a big feast for him on the day of his weaning, that it might have been traditional in […]
YHVH Announces Isaac’s Birth, Abraham Laughs, the Men are Circumcised
Torah Study Date Saturday, January 2, 2021 Verses Covered Genesis (Bereishit) 18:1-5 Next Session Saturday, January 9, 2021 Last week, we reviewed some topics from the previous week and discussed that the Shadai in El Shadai also means breasts, that Abraham went through a complete transformation–of his name, to Abraham, of his body, with […]