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 […]