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 […]
Esau Wants a Blessing, Too
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 […]
Does Isaac Recognize Jacob? Is Lying Ever OK?
Temple Sinai 2021 Torah Study Esau, Isaac, Jacob, Rebecca, Sheila Nemtin, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, October 2, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 27:18-25 Next Session Saturday, October 9, 2021 Starting at Genesis 27:26 Last week we discussed whether Isaac really did not recognize Jacob. Some of the reasons we gave for thinking he did recognize him were that a father would distinguish the voice of one […]
Isaac Blessing His Son
Temple Sinai 2021 Torah Study Basemath, Dikla Laor, Esau, Isaac, Jacob, Judith, Rebecca, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, September 25, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 26:18 – 27:17 Next Session Saturday, October 2, 2021 Starting at Genesis 27:18 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 […]
Isaac Digs Up Abraham’s Wells
Temple Sinai 2021 Torah Study Abimelech, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Reuven Rubin
Torah Study Date Saturday, September 4, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 26:18-34 Next Session Saturday, September 25, 2021 Starting at Genesis 26:35 I wasn’t present at our last Torah Study but three angels—some interpreters say it was four angels–came to me and told me we discussed Isaac re-digging the wells that had been dug during […]
Isaac Becomes Very Great
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abimelech, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Marc Chagall, Rebecca, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, August 28, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 26:10-17 Next Session Saturday, September 4, 2021 Starting at Genesis 26:18 Last week we discussed Abimelech saying someone could have lain with Isaac’s wife (because Isaac lied and said she was his sister), who and how that might be (a rapist? Abimelech himself?), the […]
Isaac Follows in His Father’s Footsteps
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abimelech, Abraham, Alan Falk, Esau, Isaac, Jacob, Rebecca, Sarah, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, August 21, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 26:1-9 Next Session Saturday, August 28, 2021 Starting at Genesis 26:10 Last week we discussed the famine in Gerar (after the previous famine in Abraham’s time), YHVH telling Isaac not to go to Egypt yet (in case he might think the exile to Egypt […]
Exhausted Esau Prefers Lentil Stew to His Birthright
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Esau, Isaac, Jacob, Peter Asher Pitzele, Rebecca
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
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 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 […]
Isaac and Rebecca Meet, Abraham and Keturah Marry
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abraham, Abraham's servant, Esau, Isaac, Jacob, Keturah, Lynda Caspe, Rebecca, Sarah
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 […]