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 […]
Judah Offers Himself in Benjamin’s Place
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Benjamin, Jacob, Joseph, Judah, Rachel, Ruth Weisberg
Torah Study Date Saturday, August 20, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 44:17-45:3 Next Session Saturday, August 27, 2022 Starting at Genesis 45:4 Last week we discussed Judah retelling the story of the brothers being sent home to get their brother, Benjamin, and bring him back to Pharaoh’s vizier (who actually is Joseph) and Jacob saying […]
The Brothers Go to Egypt
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Benjamin, Gabriella Boros, Jacob, Joseph, Leah, Pharaoh, Rachel
Torah Study Date Saturday, June 25, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 41:57-42:17 Next Session Saturday, July 2, 2022 Starting at Genesis 42:18 Last week we discussed all the earth coming to buy from Joseph since the famine was strong in all the earth (and that “all the earth” probably meant the whole Fertile Crescent). Then […]
Joseph’s Dreams Arouse Hatred
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Bilhah, Dinah, Jacob, Joseph, Rachel, Shoshannah Brombacher, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, March 19, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 37:6-19 Next Session Saturday, March 26, 2022 Starting at Genesis 37:20 Last week we discussed Joseph’s first two dreams. In the first one, we noted, Joseph says, behold, when we were binding sheaves in the field, behold, my sheaf rose–and stood up, too—and, behold, […]
Jacob Favors Joseph
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Benjamin, Bilhah, Brian Shapiro, Esau, Jacob, Joseph, Leah, Levi, Rachel, Reuben, Simeon
Torah Study Date Saturday, March 12, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 37:1-5 Next Session Saturday, March 19, 2022 Starting at Genesis 37:6 Last week we discussed the fact that, though the text indicates we are going to hear the line of Jacob (after having heard the line of Esau in chapter 36), we do not […]
Birth and Death
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Abram, Benjamin, Esau, Isaac, Jacob, Moshe Castel, Rachel, Reuben, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, February 26, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 35:13 – 35:29 Next Session Saturday, March 5, 2022 Starting at Genesis 36:1 Last week we discussed God being on Jacob (“And God went up from on him…”) and wondered if that meant Jacob experienced God’s presence more than others (the shekhinah, the immanence […]
Sitting on the Gods
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Ben-Zion Weinman, Isaac, Jacob, Laban, Rachel, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, December 18, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 31:30 – 32:1 Next Session Saturday, January 8, 2022 Starting at Genesis 32:2 Starting with Genesis 31-29 –Laban says to Jacob, “I have the power to harm you, but the God of your father told me not to do you any harm.” We noted […]
Leaving Lavan
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Jacob, Leah, Rachel, Ruth Schreiber, Sarah, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, December 11, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 31:4 – 31:29 Next Session Saturday, December 18, 2021 Starting at Genesis 31:30 Last week, we discussed Jacob calling Rachel and Leah to the field and telling them that, seeing their father, Lavan’s face, and that he was not like he had been before, […]
Jacob’s Payback Scheme
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Esau, Jacob, Laban, Laban's sons, Leah, Rachel, Richard Elliott Friedman, Ruth Weisberg, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, December 4, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 30:33-31:3 Next Session Saturday, December 11, 2021 Starting at Genesis 31:4 Last week we continued to discuss Jacob’s scheme for ensuring that he gets the pay he deserves from Laban, the speckled-and-spotted-goat/brown-lamb scheme, in which he would only keep the latter from among the […]
Children Born and a Wage Strategized
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Bilhah, Dinah, Issachar, Jacob, Laban, Leah, Levy, Rachel, Rebecca, Reuben, Sarah, YHVH, Zalmen Glauber, Zebulun, Zilpah
Torah Study Date Saturday, November 20, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 30:17-30:32 Next Session Saturday, December 4, 2021 Starting at Genesis 30:33 Last session we discussed God hearing Leah, Leah conceiving, bearing and naming fifth and sixth sons, Issachar because God rewarded Leah and Zebulun because God gave her a choice gift and her husband […]
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