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 and Joseph Reunite
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Asenath, Asher, Benjamin, Bilhah, Dan, Dinah, Ephraim, Gad, Issachar, Jacob, Joseph, Judah, Leah, Levi, Marc Chagall, Menassah, Naphthali, Pharaoh, Reuben, Simeon, Zebulon, Zilpah
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 […]
Joseph’s Change of Status
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Abram, Asenath, Atum, Baya, Isaac, Joseph, Marc Chagall, Meyer Schapiro, Pharaoh, Potiphar, Potiphera, Ra, Sarai, Sipta, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, June 11, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 41:36-45 Next Session Saturday, June 18, 2022 Starting at Genesis 41:46 Last week, we discussed previous famines in Genesis, the famine that led Abram and Sarai to go to Egypt (Genesis 12:10) and the famine that led Isaac to go to the Philistine city […]
Genealogies
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Esau, Jacob, Joseph, Marc Chagall, Meyer Schapiro
Torah Study Date Saturday, March 5, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 36:1-36:43 Next Session Saturday, March 12, 2022 Starting at Genesis 37:1 Last week, we discussed all of the genealogies of Genesis 36. We discussed that they make a nice transition from the story of Jacob to the story of his sons, particularly Joseph. We […]
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 […]
Abraham, Sarah and the Visitors I
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abraham, anashim, Marc Chagall, Sarah, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, January 9, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 18:6-13 Next Session Saturday, January 16, 2021 A topic we have discussed recently, in conjunction with Abraham laughing, was whether God laughs (infrequently, we think). Last week we discussed the three people who visited Abraham and a number of ways of interpreting the passages […]