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Angels Show Jacob the Way to the Heavens

October 16, 2021 Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abraham, Basemath, Bethuel, El Shaddai, Esau, Ishmael, Jacob, Judith, Mahalat, Nebaioth, Rebecca, Victor Majzner, YHVH

Torah Study Date Saturday, October 16, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 28:1-28:19 Next Session Saturday, October 23, 2021 Starting at Genesis 28:20 Last week, we discussed Isaac blessing Jacob and why he was blessing Jacob a second time (maybe because he was going on a journey), instructing him not to marry a Canaanite woman (following […]

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Esau Wants a Blessing, Too

October 9, 2021 Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abraham, Isaac, Ishmael, Jacob, Mahalat, Rabbi Yehuda, Rebecca, Siona Benjamin, YHVH

Torah Study Date Saturday, October 9, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 27:26-46 Next Session Saturday, October 16, 2021 Starting at Genesis 28:1 Last week we discussed Isaac continuing to try to figure out whether the one before him is Esau or not by asking him to come close and kiss Isaac, Isaac finding his smell […]

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Rebecca Has Twins

July 31, 2021 Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abraham, Esau, Harriet Finck, Isaac, Ishmael, Jacob, Rebecca, YHVH

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 […]

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Isaac and Ishmael Bury Abraham

July 17, 2021 Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abraham, Archie Rand, Ephron, Esau, Isaac, Ishmael, Keturah, Sarah, YHVH

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 […]

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Here I Am: God Tests Abraham

April 3, 2021 Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abraham, Abraham's Servants, Eden Morris, Hagar, Isaac, Ishmael, Sarah, YHVH

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 […]

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Hagar and Ishmael’s Departure, Abraham’s Pact with Abimelech

March 20, 2021 Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abimelech, Abraham, Hagar, Isaac, Ishmael, Menashe Kadishman, Phicol, YHVH

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 […]

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Ishmael Plays

March 13, 2021 Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abraham, Hagar, Ishmael, Sarah, Siona Benjamin, YHVH

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 […]

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YHVH Announces Isaac’s Birth, Abraham Laughs, the Men are Circumcised

January 2, 2021 Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abraham, anashim, Hagar, Isaac, Ishmael, Keturah, Midian, Miduh, Sarah, Shuach, Yakshon, Yishbak, Zimron

  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 […]

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Temple Sinai is a community that learns, cares for one another, and promotes Jewish practice, culture, and tikkun olam (healing the world).

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