Torah Study Date Saturday, June 17, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 8:16-9:4 Next Session Saturday, June 24, 2023 Starting at Exodus 9:5 Last week we discussed the plague of insects. We noted YHVH telling Moses to station himself, early in the morning, before Pharaoh as he is coming out of the water and tell him […]
Lice
Torah Study Date Saturday, June 10, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 8:1-8:15 Next Session Saturday, June 17, 2023 Starting at Exodus 8:16 Last week, we discussed the plague of frogs. First, we noted that YHVH speaks to Moses and tells him to speak to Aaron and tell him what to do (instead of YHVH just […]
Blood and Frogs
Torah Study Date Saturday, June 3, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 7:16-7:29 Next Session Saturday, June 10, 2023 Starting at Exodus 8:1 Last week we discussed why YHVH tells Moses to station himself by the Nile in the morning and R. Sara said it is because Ra is the Sun God and would be at […]
Rods and Dragons
Torah Study Date Saturday, May 27, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 7:5-7:14 Next Session Saturday, June 3, 2023 Starting at Exodus 6:15 Last week Rabbi Sara continued our master class this week on the topic of midrash. She explained that midrash is not a book (as the Talmud is a book) though it can be […]
Insulting Pharaoh
Torah Study Date Saturday, May 20, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 6:28 – 7:5 Next Session Saturday, May 27, 2023 Starting at Exodus 7:6 Last week, Rabbi Sara continued to give us a master class on interpretive methodology. Specifically, she pointed out that the genealogy by way of clan heads (Exodus 6:14-6:25) is book-ended by […]
Genealogy Master Class
Torah Study Date Saturday, May 13, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 6:26-6:27 Next Session Saturday, May 20, 2023 Starting at Exodus 6:28 Last week, Rabbi Sara showed us a chart she devised of the genealogy we have been looking at in Exodus and gave us a master class both on genealogy in the Torah and […]
Moses’ Uncertainties and YHVH’s Redemption Plans
Torah Study Date Saturday, April 15, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 6:6-13 Next Session Saturday, April 22, 2023 Starting at Exodus 6:14 Last week we had a wide-ranging discussion of interpretive methodology. We discussed Exodus being the oldest book of the Torah and the idea that Exodus does not know Genesis but Genesis knows Exodus, […]
Moses Wants to Know Why YHVH Has Not Rescued the Israelites
Torah Study Date Saturday, April 8, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 5:19-6:5 Next Session Saturday, April 15, 2023 Starting at Exodus 6:6 Last week we continued discussing Pharaoh increasing the Israelites’ work. We discussed how the Israelite officers/overseers complain to Moses and Aaron about the Israelites having to make the same number of bricks each […]
Pharaoh Contests YHVH by Making the Israelites’ Labor Heavy
Torah Study Date Saturday, April 1, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 5:1-5:18 Next Session Saturday, April 8, 2023 Starting at Exodus 5:19 Last week we discussed M&A telling Pharaoh that YHVH, the God of Israel, said to let my people go that they may celebrate a festival for me in the wilderness: that M&A begin […]
God Toughens Pharaoh, Zipporah Saves Moses
Torah Study Date Saturday, March 25, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 4:20-4:31 Next Session Saturday, April 2, 2023 Starting at Exodus 5:1 Last week, we discussed Moses taking his wife and sons back to Egypt. We wondered about the plural since only one son has been mentioned, Gershom. Moses and Zipporah have another son, Eliezer, […]