Torah Study Date Saturday, January 14, 2023 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 50:15-26 Next Session Saturday, January 21, 2023 Starting at Exodus 1:1 Last week we started with additional comments about the previous week’s readings, namely, that three possible reasons for Joseph asking permission to go up and bury his father are that he needed protection […]
The Death of Jacob
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 […]
Raiders, Bread, a Hind and a Bough or Wild Ass: Jacob Describes Gad, Asher, Naphtali and Joseph
Torah Study Date Saturday, December 10, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 49:19-26 Next Session Saturday, December 17, 2022 Starting at Genesis 49:27 Last week we discussed Jacob’s descriptions of Gad, Asher, Naphtali, and Joseph. We noted the stylistic element of alliteration (repetition of a sound) in the description of Gad (gad yegud yegudenu v’hu yagud […]
Jacob Blesses Ephraim and Menassah 2
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
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
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
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
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 […]
Joseph Stores the Grain
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 […]