Torah Study Date Saturday, May 13, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 6:26-6:27 Next Session Saturday, May 20, 2023 Starting at Exodus 6:28 Last week, Rabbi Sara showed us a chart she devised of the genealogy we have been looking at in Exodus and gave us a master class both on genealogy in the Torah and […]
Moses Wants to Know Why YHVH Has Not Rescued the Israelites
Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study Aaron, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Marc Chagall, Moses, Noah, Pharaoh, YHVH
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
Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study Abraham, Avner Moriah, Isaac, Jacob, Jethro, Moses, Noah, Pharaoh, YHVH
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 […]
A New King Who Did Not Know Joseph
Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study Batya, Hispano-Moresque Haggadah, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Pharaoh
Torah Study Date Saturday, January 21, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 1:1-1:10 Next Session Saturday, January 28, 2023 Starting at Exodus 1:11 Last week we discussed “b’nei Yisrael” (children of Israel) and noted that the phrase no longer denotes Jacob’s children but now denotes his descendants and that, in Exodus, we are moving from an […]
Joseph’s Brothers Fear Him
Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study Batya, Dura Europos, Jacob, Joseph, Miriam, Moses, Noah, Pharaoh, Push, Shifra, YHVH, Yocheved
Torah Study Date Saturday, January 14, 2023 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 50:15-26 Next Session Saturday, January 21, 2023 Starting at Exodus 1:1 Last week we started with additional comments about the previous week’s readings, namely, that three possible reasons for Joseph asking permission to go up and bury his father are that he needed protection […]
The Death of Jacob
Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study Abraham, Eliyahu Gorgi, Ephron, Isaac, Jacob, Jami, Joseph, Leah, Pharaoh, Potiphar, Rebecca, Sarah, YHVH, Zulaika
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 […]
Raiders, Bread, a Hind and a Bough or Wild Ass: Jacob Describes Gad, Asher, Naphtali and Joseph
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Asher, Betulah, Gad, Jacob, Joseph, Naphtali, Virgo, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, December 10, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 49:19-26 Next Session Saturday, December 17, 2022 Starting at Genesis 49:27 Last week we discussed Jacob’s descriptions of Gad, Asher, Naphtali, and Joseph. We noted the stylistic element of alliteration (repetition of a sound) in the description of Gad (gad yegud yegudenu v’hu yagud […]
Dan Judges and Issachar Creates a Land of Rest and Peace
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Dan, Issachar, Jacob, Marc Chagall, Naphtali
Torah Study Date Saturday, December 3, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 49:14-18 Next Session Saturday, February 10, 2022 Starting at Genesis 49:19 Last week we discussed Jacob’s poetic predictions about Issachar and Dan. We were impressed by the description of Issachar as a strong ass who, laying down among the hearths, saw that peace was […]
Jacob Discusses Judah and Zebulon
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Augsburg Women's Synagogue, Benjamin, Dan, Gad, Jacob, Judah, Levi, Reuben, Simeon, Tamar, Zebulon
Torah Study Date Saturday, November 26, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 49:8-13 Next Session Saturday, December 3, 2022 Starting at Genesis 49:14 Last week we discussed the a b a chiasmus of the parallels a-your brothers/a’-your father’s sons, a-will praise/a’-will bow down to with b-your hand/will be on the nape of your foes in the […]
Jacob Foretells the Future: Reuben, Simeon, Levi
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Benjamin, Dinah, Jacob, Levi, Reuben, Shechem, Shoshannah Brombacher, Simeon
Torah Study Date Saturday, November 19, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) Genesis 49:2-7 Next Session Saturday, November 26, 2022 Starting at Genesis 49:8 Last week we discussed R. Sara’s question about whether Genesis 49:2 is part of the poem or not and concluded that it is since it displays parallelism of meaning (assemble and listen/listen, […]