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 […]
Moses Flees Egypt and Settles in Midian
Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study Jethro, Moses, Pharaoh, Ra, Reuven Rubin, YHVH, Zipporah
Torah Study Date Saturday, February 11, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 2:14-2:23 Next Session Saturday, February 18, 2023 Starting at Exodus 2:24 Last week we discussed Moses’ reaction to seeing two Hebrews fighting, namely, asking the one who was in the wrong, why are you striking your companion? We wondered which Hebrew is in the […]
The Women Save Moses
Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study Aaron, Amran, Batya, Miriam, Moses, Nahum Halevi, Pharaoh, Yocheved
Torah Study Date Saturday, February 4, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 2:1-2:12 Next Session Saturday, February 11, 2023 Starting at Exodus 2:13 Last week we discussed the marriage of Moses’ parents; the birth of Moses; his mother’s concealment of him for three months; her making a wicker ark, putting him in it and it in […]
Shiphra and Puah Stand Up to the King
Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study Batya, David, Marc Chagall, Michal, Moses, Pharaoh, Puah, Saul, Shiphra
Torah Study Date Saturday, January 27, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 1:15-1:22 Next Session Saturday, February 4, 2023 Starting at Exodus 2:1 Last week we discussed whether “Hebrew midwives” means “midwives who are Hebrews” or “midwives to the Hebrews” with some, in accord with Abravanel, thinking they are midwives to the Hebrews and, hence, to […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Abraham, Sarah and Abimelek
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Aaron Freeman, Abimelek, Abraham, Ben-Ami, Gerar, Kadesh, Lot, Lot's daughters, Mamre, Moab, Moses, Negev, Pharaoh, Sarah, Sharon Rosenzweig, Shur, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, February 27, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 19:35 – 20:13 Next Session Saturday, March 6, 2021 Last week, we finished discussing the intercourse between Lot’s daughters and Lot and began discussing Abraham and Sarah’s encounter with Abimelek, king of Gerar. We discussed the daughters getting Lot drunk on wine for a […]
Violence and Protection in the Noah Story
Deborah Achtenberg 2020 Torah Study Moses, Nathan Hilu, Noah
Torah Study Date Saturday, July 4, 2020 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) Next Session Saturday, July a24, 2020 Starting at Genesis 6:11 We’re now in our second parsha, Parsha Noach! I think we’re benefiting a lot from our close, word-for-word reading of the text of the Torah–not to mention having the presence in our group of […]
1 2