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 […]
Gender in Ancient Hebrew
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Benjamin, Ephraim, Gabriella Boros, Joseph, Manassah
Torah Study Date Saturday, December 24, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 49:27-49:28 Next Session Saturday, January 7, 2023 Starting at Genesis 49:29 We had an excellent visiting speaker last session, Dr. Ignacio Montoya, Sinai member and linguist in UNR’s Department of English. His main topic was gender in ancient Hebrew. We learned many things including […]
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 […]
Jacob Blesses Ephraim and Menassah 2
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Abraham, Ephraim, Isaac, Issachar, Jacob, Joseph, Marc Chagall, Menassah, YHVH, Zebulun
Torah Study Date Saturday, October 29, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 48:15-49:2 Next Session Saturday, November 12, 2022 Starting at Genesis 49:3 Last week we discussed Jacob blessing Joseph and wondered why it does not seem that he blesses Joseph but only blesses Joseph’s sons, Ephraim and Menassah (could this show that this event just […]
Jacob Blesses Ephraim and Manasseh
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Ephraim, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Manasseh, Rachel, Reuben, Simeon, Zalmen Glauber
Torah Study Date Saturday, October 22, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 48:3-14 Next Session Saturday, February 19, 2022 Starting at Genesis 48:15 Last week we discussed Jacob saying that El Shaddai appeared to him in Luz in Canaan, blessed him, and said he would make him fruitful, multiply him and make him into a community […]
Joseph Swears to Jacob
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Abraham, Ephraim, Israela Lev, Jacob, Joseph, Menassah, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, October 15, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 47:29-48:2 Next Session Saturday, October 22, 2022 Starting at Genesis 48:3 Last week we discussed Jacob, in his hundred forty-seventh year (his seventeenth and final year in Egypt), telling Joseph to put his hand under Jacob’s thigh and practice kindness and faithfulness by not […]
Joseph Makes Egyptians Sharecroppers
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Alan Falk, Ephraim, Esau, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Menassah
Torah Study Date Saturday, October 1, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 47:17-47:27 Next Session Saturday, October 22, 2022 Starting at Genesis 47:28 Last session, we discussed Joseph exchanging bread for livestock, when the Egyptians lacked bread due to the famine, and then turning the Egyptians into serfs, when they had nothing left to offer but […]
Settling in Rameses/Goshen
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Ephraim, Jacob, Joseph, Menashe, Michael Falk, Pharaoh
Torah Study Date Saturday, September 17, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 47:2-47:16 Next Session Saturday, October 1, 2022 Starting at Genesis 47:17 In the last session, we wondered about Joseph selecting only five of his brothers to present to Pharaoh and thought he might have selected some that would guarantee that Pharaoh would not want […]