Torah Study Date Saturday, October 29, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 48:15-49:2 Next Session Saturday, November 12, 2022 Starting at Genesis 49:3 Last week we discussed Jacob blessing Joseph and wondered why it does not seem that he blesses Joseph but only blesses Joseph’s sons, Ephraim and Menassah (could this show that this event just […]
Joseph Swears to Jacob
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Abraham, Ephraim, Israela Lev, Jacob, Joseph, Menassah, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, October 15, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 47:29-48:2 Next Session Saturday, October 22, 2022 Starting at Genesis 48:3 Last week we discussed Jacob, in his hundred forty-seventh year (his seventeenth and final year in Egypt), telling Joseph to put his hand under Jacob’s thigh and practice kindness and faithfulness by not […]
Jacob Learns Joseph is Alive
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Abimelech, Asher, Benjamin, Ephraim, Harry Hurwit, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Menassah, Moses, Pharaoh, Serach, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, September 3, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 45:21-46:7 Next Session Saturday, September 17, 2022 Starting at Genesis 45:8 Last week we discussed the brothers getting ready to go home and bring their father, Jacob, back to Joseph in Egypt and wondered whether they were following Joseph’s instructions because they trusted him […]
The Brothers Feast in Joseph’s House
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Benjamin, Jacob, Joseph, Sarajevo Haggadah, Simeon, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, August 6, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 43:21-32 Next Session Saturday, August 13, 2022 Starting at Genesis 43:33 Last week we discussed the fact that Judah was changed by the death of his two sons and, as a result, is able to gain his father, Jacob’s trust that he will do […]
Judah and the Brothers Go Back to Egypt
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Benjamin, Gene Lowinger, Jacob, Joseph, Judah, Nathan Hilu, Reuben, Serah, Tamar, YHVH
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
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Avner Moriah, Benjamin, Joseph, Reuben, Simeon, YHVH
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 […]
Joseph Stores the Grain
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Abraham, Asenath, Ephraim, Joseph, Manassah, Pharaoh, Siona Benjamin, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, June 18, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 41:46-56 Next Session Saturday, July 2, 2022 Starting at Genesis 41:57 Last week, we discussed Joseph, during the abundant years, putting in each city the grain of the fields around it and noted that he did not store it all with the Pharaoh, showing […]
Joseph’s Change of Status
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Abram, Asenath, Atum, Baya, Isaac, Joseph, Marc Chagall, Meyer Schapiro, Pharaoh, Potiphar, Potiphera, Ra, Sarai, Sipta, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, June 11, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 41:36-45 Next Session Saturday, June 18, 2022 Starting at Genesis 41:46 Last week, we discussed previous famines in Genesis, the famine that led Abram and Sarai to go to Egypt (Genesis 12:10) and the famine that led Isaac to go to the Philistine city […]
Joseph Interprets Pharaoh’s Dreams 2
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Barbara Hines, Joseph, Pharaoh, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, June 4, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 41:14-35 Next Session Saturday, June 11, 2022 Starting at Genesis 41:36 Last week we discussed Joseph being rushed from the pit to interpret Pharaoh’s dream. We noted that Joseph shaved and changed his clothes, that that was a sign of his change in status […]
Joseph Interprets Prisoners’ Dreams
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Joseph, Michael Falk, Pharaoh, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, May 21, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 40:6-19 Next Session Saturday, May 27, 2022 Starting at Genesis 40:20 Last week, we discussed Joseph seeing that the drink-steward and baker were upset and the range of meanings for tzoafim (upset, distraught, sad, dispirited, sullen, angry, enraged) and Joseph asking them why they […]