Torah Study Date Saturday, January 7, 2023 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 49:29-50:14 Next Session Saturday, January 14, 2023 Starting at Genesis 50:15 Last week we discussed the death of Jacob. We noted the emphasis on being gathered: Jacob says he is being gathered to his people; the text says that when he finished speaking, he […]
Purification and Name Change
Torah Study Date Saturday, February 19, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 35:1-35:12 Next Session Saturday, February 26, 2022 Starting at Genesis 35:13 Last week we discussed God telling Jacob to go up to Bethel, live there, and build an altar to God. We discussed the significance of building an altar and wondered whether we have […]
Children Born and a Wage Strategized
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 […]
Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel
Torah Study Date Saturday, November 6, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 29:23-33 Next Session Saturday, November 13, 2021 Starting at Genesis 29:34 Last week we discussed the sex joke regarding Laban bringing Leah to Jacob and Jacob going into her, that it indicates the crude sexual act in which he does not see the woman […]
Jacob Loves Rachel
Torah Study Date Saturday, October 23, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 28:20-29:22 Next Session Saturday, November 6, 2021 Starting at Genesis 29:23 Last week we discussed the vow Jacob made in Beth El and its conditional nature (if God stays with me and watches me on my way, gives me bread and clothing, and I […]
Angels Show Jacob the Way to the Heavens
Torah Study Date Saturday, October 16, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 28:1-28:19 Next Session Saturday, October 23, 2021 Starting at Genesis 28:20 Last week, we discussed Isaac blessing Jacob and why he was blessing Jacob a second time (maybe because he was going on a journey), instructing him not to marry a Canaanite woman (following […]
Esau Wants a Blessing, Too
Torah Study Date Saturday, October 9, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 27:26-46 Next Session Saturday, October 16, 2021 Starting at Genesis 28:1 Last week we discussed Isaac continuing to try to figure out whether the one before him is Esau or not by asking him to come close and kiss Isaac, Isaac finding his smell […]
Does Isaac Recognize Jacob? Is Lying Ever OK?
Torah Study Date Saturday, October 2, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 27:18-25 Next Session Saturday, October 9, 2021 Starting at Genesis 27:26 Last week we discussed whether Isaac really did not recognize Jacob. Some of the reasons we gave for thinking he did recognize him were that a father would distinguish the voice of one […]
Isaac Blessing His Son
Torah Study Date Saturday, September 25, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 26:18 – 27:17 Next Session Saturday, October 2, 2021 Starting at Genesis 27:18 Last week we discussed Esau marrying two Hittite women, Judith and Basemath, and the general issue of marrying outside one’s group or religion, then and now, as well as the idea […]
Isaac Becomes Very Great
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 […]
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