Torah Study Date Saturday, September 10, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 46:8-47:1 Next Session Saturday, October 1, 2022 Starting at Genesis 47:2 Last week we discussed the list of names of the Israelites who went to Egypt with Jacob: the sons of Jacob and Leah: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulon as well as […]
Jacob Learns Joseph is Alive
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Abimelech, Asher, Benjamin, Ephraim, Harry Hurwit, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Menassah, Moses, Pharaoh, Serach, YHVH
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 […]
Judah Offers Himself in Benjamin’s Place
Temple Sinai 2022 Torah Study Benjamin, Jacob, Joseph, Judah, Rachel, Ruth Weisberg
Torah Study Date Saturday, August 20, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 44:17-45:3 Next Session Saturday, August 27, 2022 Starting at Genesis 45:4 Last week we discussed Judah retelling the story of the brothers being sent home to get their brother, Benjamin, and bring him back to Pharaoh’s vizier (who actually is Joseph) and Jacob saying […]
The Brothers Feast in Joseph’s House
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Benjamin, Jacob, Joseph, Sarajevo Haggadah, Simeon, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, August 6, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 43:21-32 Next Session Saturday, August 13, 2022 Starting at Genesis 43:33 Last week we discussed the fact that Judah was changed by the death of his two sons and, as a result, is able to gain his father, Jacob’s trust that he will do […]
Judah and the Brothers Go Back to Egypt
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Benjamin, Gene Lowinger, Jacob, Joseph, Judah, Nathan Hilu, Reuben, Serah, Tamar, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, July 30, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 43:8-43:20 Next Session Saturday, August 6, 2022 Starting at Genesis 43:21 Last week, we discussed Judah urging his father, Jacob (referred to by the text as “Israel”), to let him and the other brothers take Benjamin back to Egypt. We noted Judah redeeming himself […]
The Brothers Go to Egypt
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Benjamin, Gabriella Boros, Jacob, Joseph, Leah, Pharaoh, Rachel
Torah Study Date Saturday, June 25, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 41:57-42:17 Next Session Saturday, July 2, 2022 Starting at Genesis 42:18 Last week we discussed all the earth coming to buy from Joseph since the famine was strong in all the earth (and that “all the earth” probably meant the whole Fertile Crescent). Then […]
Joseph Interprets Pharaoh’s Dreams
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Ephraim, Jacob, Joseph, Menassah, Nahum Halevi, Pharaoh
Torah Study Date Saturday, May 28, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 40:20-41:13 Next Session Saturday, June 4, 2022 Starting at Genesis 41:14 Last week we discussed that Joseph presumably knew that Pharaoh’s birthday was in three days when he gave his interpretation of the three’s in the chief drink-steward and chief baker’s dreams, that Pharaoh […]
Tamar and Judah (2)
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Archie Rand, Esau, Jacob, Joseph, Judah, Perez, Pharaoh, Potiphar, Potiphar's wife, Ruth, Shelah, Tamar, YHVH, Zerah
Torah Study Date Saturday, April 30, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 38:24 – 39:6 Next Session Saturday, May 7, 2022 Starting at Genesis 39:7 Last week we discussed Judah being told that his daughter-in-law Tamar had whored and was pregnant from whoring, Judah saying to bring her out and let her be burned and that […]
Judah Moves On
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Akiba, Er, Jacob, Joseph, Judah, Moses, Onan, Pharaoh, Potiphar, Reuben, Rosa Katzenelson, Shelah, Shua, Tamar
Torah Study Date Saturday, April 2, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 37:30 – 38:5 Next Session Saturday, April 9, 2022 Starting at Genesis 38:6 Last week, we discussed Reuben setting things up so that he could be the hero but not being able to because Joseph was gone when Reuben went to rescue him from […]
Two Joseph Stories?
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Benjamin, Dinah, Elke Reva Sudin, Gulienne Rison, Jacob, Joseph, Judah, Levi, Osnat, Reuben, Shais Rison, Simeon
Torah Study Date Saturday, March 26, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 37:20 – 37:29 Next Session Saturday, April 2, 2022 Starting at Genesis 37:30 Last week, we continued with the idea, first presented to us three weeks ago by R. Sara, of gaps or inconsistencies in the Joseph cycle and the idea from some contemporary […]