Torah Study Date Saturday, July 29, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 10:1-10:8 Next Session Saturday, August 5, 2023 Starting at Exodus 10:9 Last week, we discussed YHVH telling Moses to go to Pharaoh. We discussed YHVH stating his purpose in making Pharaoh’s heart heavy, namely, to display YHVH’s signs among Pharaoh and his servants (he […]
Hail (continued)
Torah Study Date Saturday, July 8, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 9:29 – 9:35 Next Session Saturday, July 29, 2023 Starting at Exodus 10:1 Last week we discussed Moses telling Pharaoh that as Moses leaves the city, he will spread out his hands and the thunder and hail will stop so that you will know […]
Hail
Torah Study Date Saturday, July 1, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 9:17-9:28 Next Session Saturday, July 8, 2023 Starting at Exodus 9:29 Last week we discussed the plague of hail. We noted YHVH telling Moses to tell Pharaoh that he continues to be an obstacle to YHVH’s people by not sending them off. We discussed […]
Livestock and Boils
Torah Study Date Saturday, June 24, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 9:5-9:16 Next Session Saturday, July 1, 2023 Starting at Exodus 9:17 Last week we began with Marilyn Wasserman telling us about the ancient Egyptian leaders’ central role in creating Ma’at (order or harmony) and dispelling Isfet (disorder or chaos). We discussed Pharoah, in our […]
Insects
Torah Study Date Saturday, June 17, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 8:16-9:4 Next Session Saturday, June 24, 2023 Starting at Exodus 9:5 Last week we discussed the plague of insects. We noted YHVH telling Moses to station himself, early in the morning, before Pharaoh as he is coming out of the water and tell him […]
Blood and Frogs
Torah Study Date Saturday, June 3, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 7:16-7:29 Next Session Saturday, June 10, 2023 Starting at Exodus 8:1 Last week we discussed why YHVH tells Moses to station himself by the Nile in the morning and R. Sara said it is because Ra is the Sun God and would be at […]
Insulting Pharaoh
Torah Study Date Saturday, May 20, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 6:28 – 7:5 Next Session Saturday, May 27, 2023 Starting at Exodus 7:6 Last week, Rabbi Sara continued to give us a master class on interpretive methodology. Specifically, she pointed out that the genealogy by way of clan heads (Exodus 6:14-6:25) is book-ended by […]
Moses’ Uncertainties and YHVH’s Redemption Plans
Torah Study Date Saturday, April 15, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 6:6-13 Next Session Saturday, April 22, 2023 Starting at Exodus 6:14 Last week we had a wide-ranging discussion of interpretive methodology. We discussed Exodus being the oldest book of the Torah and the idea that Exodus does not know Genesis but Genesis knows Exodus, […]
Moses Wants to Know Why YHVH Has Not Rescued the Israelites
Torah Study Date Saturday, April 8, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 5:19-6:5 Next Session Saturday, April 15, 2023 Starting at Exodus 6:6 Last week we continued discussing Pharaoh increasing the Israelites’ work. We discussed how the Israelite officers/overseers complain to Moses and Aaron about the Israelites having to make the same number of bricks each […]
Pharaoh Contests YHVH by Making the Israelites’ Labor Heavy
Torah Study Date Saturday, April 1, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 5:1-5:18 Next Session Saturday, April 8, 2023 Starting at Exodus 5:19 Last week we discussed M&A telling Pharaoh that YHVH, the God of Israel, said to let my people go that they may celebrate a festival for me in the wilderness: that M&A begin […]