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 […]
Burning Bush and Holy Ground
Torah Study Date Saturday, February 18, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 3:1-6 Next Session Saturday, February 25, 2023 Starting at Exodus 3:7 Previously, we discussed the Egyptian King dying, the Israelites groaning under hard labor, God hearing them, remembering his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and knowing. Last week, we discussed Moses shepherding for […]
The Death of Jacob
Torah Study Date Saturday, January 7, 2023 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 49:29-50:14 Next Session Saturday, January 14, 2023 Starting at Genesis 50:15 Last week we discussed the death of Jacob. We noted the emphasis on being gathered: Jacob says he is being gathered to his people; the text says that when he finished speaking, he […]
Jacob Blesses Ephraim and Menassah 2
Torah Study Date Saturday, October 29, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 48:15-49:2 Next Session Saturday, November 12, 2022 Starting at Genesis 49:3 Last week we discussed Jacob blessing Joseph and wondered why it does not seem that he blesses Joseph but only blesses Joseph’s sons, Ephraim and Menassah (could this show that this event just […]
Jacob Blesses Ephraim and Manasseh
Torah Study Date Saturday, October 22, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 48:3-14 Next Session Saturday, February 19, 2022 Starting at Genesis 48:15 Last week we discussed Jacob saying that El Shaddai appeared to him in Luz in Canaan, blessed him, and said he would make him fruitful, multiply him and make him into a community […]
Joseph Makes Egyptians Sharecroppers
Torah Study Date Saturday, October 1, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 47:17-47:27 Next Session Saturday, October 22, 2022 Starting at Genesis 47:28 Last session, we discussed Joseph exchanging bread for livestock, when the Egyptians lacked bread due to the famine, and then turning the Egyptians into serfs, when they had nothing left to offer but […]
Jacob Learns Joseph is Alive
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’s Change of Status
Torah Study Date Saturday, June 11, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 41:36-45 Next Session Saturday, June 18, 2022 Starting at Genesis 41:46 Last week, we discussed previous famines in Genesis, the famine that led Abram and Sarai to go to Egypt (Genesis 12:10) and the famine that led Isaac to go to the Philistine city […]
Tamar and her Husbands
Torah Study Date Saturday, April 9, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 38:6-38:12 Next Session Saturday, April 23, 2022 Starting at Genesis 38:13 At the last session we discussed Judah getting a wife, Tamar, for Er, Judah’s first-born, and then YHVH killing Er. We wondered about YHVH and the killing or almost killing of sons, such […]
Birth and Death
Torah Study Date Saturday, February 26, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 35:13 – 35:29 Next Session Saturday, March 5, 2022 Starting at Genesis 36:1 Last week we discussed God being on Jacob (“And God went up from on him…”) and wondered if that meant Jacob experienced God’s presence more than others (the shekhinah, the immanence […]