Torah Study Date Saturday, November 26, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 49:8-13 Next Session Saturday, December 3, 2022 Starting at Genesis 49:14 Last week we discussed the a b a chiasmus of the parallels a-your brothers/a’-your father’s sons, a-will praise/a’-will bow down to with b-your hand/will be on the nape of your foes in the […]
Jacob Foretells the Future: Reuben, Simeon, Levi
Torah Study Date Saturday, November 19, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) Genesis 49:2-7 Next Session Saturday, November 26, 2022 Starting at Genesis 49:8 Last week we discussed R. Sara’s question about whether Genesis 49:2 is part of the poem or not and concluded that it is since it displays parallelism of meaning (assemble and listen/listen, […]
Jacob Blesses Ephraim and Manasseh
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 […]
Jacob and Joseph Reunite
Torah Study Date Saturday, September 10, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 46:8-47:1 Next Session Saturday, October 1, 2022 Starting at Genesis 47:2 Last week we discussed the list of names of the Israelites who went to Egypt with Jacob: the sons of Jacob and Leah: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulon as well as […]
Judah and the Brothers Go Back to Egypt
Torah Study Date Saturday, July 30, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 43:8-43:20 Next Session Saturday, August 6, 2022 Starting at Genesis 43:21 Last week, we discussed Judah urging his father, Jacob (referred to by the text as “Israel”), to let him and the other brothers take Benjamin back to Egypt. We noted Judah redeeming himself […]
Joseph Tests His Brothers
Torah Study Date Saturday, July 2, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 42:18-42:28 Next Session Saturday, July 16, 2022 Starting at Genesis 42:29 Last week we discussed Joseph testing his brothers by keeping one of the brothers in prison while the rest were to go back with grain, get the youngest brother, and bring him back […]
Judah Moves On
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 […]
Two Joseph Stories?
Torah Study Date Saturday, March 26, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 37:20 – 37:29 Next Session Saturday, April 2, 2022 Starting at Genesis 37:30 Last week, we continued with the idea, first presented to us three weeks ago by R. Sara, of gaps or inconsistencies in the Joseph cycle and the idea from some contemporary […]
Jacob Favors Joseph
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
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 […]
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