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 […]
Isaac Follows in His Father’s Footsteps
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abimelech, Abraham, Alan Falk, Esau, Isaac, Jacob, Rebecca, Sarah, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, August 21, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 26:1-9 Next Session Saturday, August 28, 2021 Starting at Genesis 26:10 Last week we discussed the famine in Gerar (after the previous famine in Abraham’s time), YHVH telling Isaac not to go to Egypt yet (in case he might think the exile to Egypt […]
Rebecca Has Twins
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abraham, Esau, Harriet Finck, Isaac, Ishmael, Jacob, Rebecca, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, July 31, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 25:19-27 Next Session Saturday, August 14, 2021 Starting at Genesis 25:28 Last week we discussed God testing Abraham. We noted that God calling Abraham by name indicates something important is about to happen and that in the Samaritan and Greek texts Abraham’s name is […]
Isaac and Ishmael Bury Abraham
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abraham, Archie Rand, Ephron, Esau, Isaac, Ishmael, Keturah, Sarah, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, July 17, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 25:7-25:18 Next Session Saturday, July 31, 2021 Starting at Genesis 25:19 Last week, we discussed the death of Abraham, that he lived one hundred seventy-five years (but the text says one hundred years and seventy years and five years), that he is said to […]
Gender Queer Rebecca
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abraham, Bethuel, Hagar, Keturah, Laban, Rebecca, Rebecca's nurse, Sarah, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, July 3, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 24:50-61 Next Session Saturday, July 10, 2021 Starting at Genesis 24:62 Last week we discussed Laban and Bethuel telling Abraham’s servant to take Rebecca to be wife to Abraham’s son since the idea of doing so came from YHVH. We discussed Laban being the […]
Rebecca, the Strong
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abraham, Abraham's servant, Dikla Laor, Isaac, Laban, Milcah, Nahor, Noah's Sons' Wives, Rebecca, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, June 19, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 24:17-32 Next Session Saturday, June 26, 2021 Starting at Genesis 24:33 Last week we discussed Rebecca as a strong figure, queering the text by taking an active role, a male role (for the gender expectations of the time), Rebecca not only giving Abraham’s servant […]
Rebecca, the Ensnarer
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abel Pann, Abraham, Abraham's servant, Isaac, Rebecca, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, May 29, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 24:6-16 Next Session Saturday, June 19, 2021 Starting at Genesis 24:17 Last week, we discussed why Abraham did not want his servant to take Isaac back to where Abraham came from (Abraham was not sure Isaac would return? Abraham didn’t want Isaac to be […]
Abraham, Isaac and the Ram
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abraham, angel, Eve, Isaac, ram, Sara Novenson, Sarah, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, May 1, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 22:9-18 Next Session Saturday, May 8, 2021 Starting at Genesis 22:19 Last week we continued discussing the Akedah with Abraham and Isaac reaching Mt. Moriah, the place of which God had told them, Abraham building an altar, laying out the wood, binding his son, […]
Wrestling with the Akedah
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abraham, Isaac, Simeon Solomon, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, April 10, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 22:7-8 Next Session Saturday, May 1, 2021 Last session, we went back to the question why Abraham did not argue with God about the command to sacrifice Isaac as he had argued about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Specifically, we wondered whether it […]
Here I Am: God Tests Abraham
Temple Sinai 2021 Torah Study Abraham, Abraham's Servants, Eden Morris, Hagar, Isaac, Ishmael, Sarah, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, April 3, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 22:1-6 Next Session Saturday, April 10, 2021 Last week we discussed God testing Abraham. We noted that God calling Abraham by name indicates something important is about to happen and that in the Samaritan and Greek texts Abraham’s name is called twice (“And God […]