Torah Study Date Saturday, August 14, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 25:28-34 Next Session Saturday, August 21, 2021 Starting at Genesis 26:1 Last week we discussed Isaac loving Esau ‘because he put game in his mouth’ and Rebecca loving Jacob, that the love may have been of opposites since Esau was a crafty hunter while […]
Rebecca Has Twins
Torah Study Date Saturday, July 31, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 25:19-27 Next Session Saturday, August 14, 2021 Starting at Genesis 25:28 We had another fascinating Torah study last week, full of ideas and information. We discussed the record of generations from Abraham through Isaac competing with the previously given record of the generations coming […]
Isaac and Ishmael Bury Abraham
Torah Study Date Saturday, July 17, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 25:7-25:18 Next Session Saturday, July 31, 2021 Starting at Genesis 25:19 Last week, we discussed the death of Abraham, that he lived one hundred seventy-five years (but the text says one hundred years and seventy years and five years), that he is said to […]
Isaac and Rebecca Meet, Abraham and Keturah Marry
Torah Study Date Saturday, July 10, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 24:62-25:6 Next Session Saturday, July 17, 2021 Starting at Genesis 25:7 Last week, we discussed different interpretations of what Isaac was doing in the field toward evening (was he meditating? was he walking? was he praying?). The meaning of ‘suach’ is uncertain so interpreters […]
Eliezer’s Narrative
Torah Study Date Saturday, June 24, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 24:33-49 Next Session Saturday, July 3, 2021 Starting at Genesis 24:50 Last week, we discussed Abraham’s servant being so eager to fulfill his commitment to Abraham that he would not even eat until he had discharged it and also why midrash believes the servant […]
Rebecca, the Strong
Torah Study Date Saturday, June 19, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 24:17-32 Next Session Saturday, June 26, 2021 Starting at Genesis 24:33 Last week we discussed Rebecca as a strong figure, queering the text by taking an active role, a male role (for the gender expectations of the time), Rebecca not only giving Abraham’s servant […]
Rebecca, the Ensnarer
Torah Study Date Saturday, May 29, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 24:6-16 Next Session Saturday, June 19, 2021 Starting at Genesis 24:17 Last week, we discussed why Abraham did not want his servant to take Isaac back to where Abraham came from (Abraham was not sure Isaac would return? Abraham didn’t want Isaac to be […]
Abraham Plans a Wife for Isaac
Torah Study Date Saturday, May 15, 2021 Verses Covered Genesis 23:17-24:5 Next Session Saturday, May 29, 2021 Starting at Genesis 24:6 Last week, we discussed Abraham’s purchase of field, cave and tree being established as a purchase in the eyes of all the children of Heth (meaning that it was established widely and publicly as […]
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 […]