2016-03-19 18:53
Torah Study with Rabbi Marder - 29 June 2013
Genesis 38:1-8
Naomi Rosenblatt [Wrestling with Angels, pages 327ff] on Joseph’s adolescence – did he ever grow out of it? … Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
Torah Study with Rabbi Marder 6 July 2013
Recall Judah’s “descent” spiritually and physically, paralleling Joseph taken down to Egypt.
38:6 – And Judah took a wife f… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
25 May 2013
Genesis 37: 25 - 28
What is absent from this text?
Brothers’ dialogue in Chapter 42 with an Egyptian official, not knowing that he was Joseph. Evidently, J… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
11 May 2013 Torah Study with Rabbi Marder
Rav Joseph Soloveitchik writes about the Joseph story, paying tribute to the Mizrahi (founder of the Israel religious Zionist movement, as opposed… Read More
2013-05-09 04:35
4 May 2013 – Rabbi Sarah Weissman
37:12 - And his brothers went to pasture their father's flocks in Shechem.
37:12
Hirsch on middle of verse - brothers’ angst is because… Read More
2013-05-02 06:05
27 April 2013, Rabbi Adam Rosenwasser
37:9 - And he again dreamed another dream, and he related it to his brothers, and he said, "Behold, I have dreamed another dream, and behold, the sun… Read More
2013-04-18 05:02
Torah Study 4/13 - with Rabbi Marder -
Genesis 37:1-6
· A righteous person is never “settled.” Instead, life is a series of c… Read More
2013-04-04 05:36
Howard's Notes from Torah Study 3/30 with Rabbi Marder
· General comments on the style of this chapter (Genesis 37):
* … Read More
2013-03-14 12:55
Torah Study with Rabbi Marder - 9 March 2013 - (Howard's notes)
· Philosophical and theological problem – why so much verbiage on this family th… Read More
2013-03-07 05:35
Torah Study with Rabbi Marder 2 March 2013
· Why such detail in verses 1-15ff when other pieces of Torah legislation are so terse? Sages say this… Read More
2013-02-21 06:00
(Howards Wonderful Notes from our class with Rabbi Marder 2/16!)
Who is the worthy author that will write a novel based on this episode? Watch out, Anita Diamant!
· &nb&hell…Read More
2013-02-07 06:08
35:16-20 on Rachel’s birthing of Benjamin and her death.
· 35:16-17
- הָ”……Read More
2013-01-31 05:08
Torah Study
Genesis 35 13-15
Pillar of stone. Beth El
Marking the place where God has made manifest,
God departs...goes up.
What does this mean?
Midrash... Even God takes Gods leav… Read More
2013-01-20 03:05
Torah study 1-19 Rabbi Sarah Wolf
Jacob goes back to BethEl. The text mirrors the previous time he was there
Genesis 35: 1-2
Plural form of God...confusing because they just told the… Read More
2013-01-13 19:48
Torah Study 1-12 with Rabbi Sarah Wolf
Backing up...the massacre...it is unsatisfying because there are no answers about why this happened in Torah...what are the repercussions? Fin… Read More
2013-01-10 06:21
Genesis 35:1-
End of the Jacob narrative. Shift to the stories around Joseph.
Birth of Benjamin...
Theme focus on purity and holiness...
Chapter 34 is rape and destruction. No… Read More
2013-01-03 16:39
Genesis 34:15-24
How would Hamor convince the men to circumcise themselves?
Hamor says They need to be circumcised to gain the value of
Jacobs family..
Focus on identity ...individual… Read More
2012-12-27 04:22
Torah Study. Genesis 34:8-12. 13
Shechem begs for Dinah as his wife...
Negotiations, bride price
Hamir. Shechem's father negotiates to merge the people...
V13: how the sons of Jacob… Read More
2012-12-05 05:54
Howard's notes:
1 December 2012 – Rabbi Jon Prosnit
Roots of “Dinah”
“Din” – judgment
Leah’s last known child – “Dayanu”… Read More
2012-11-21 04:48
11-17 Torah Study with Rabbi Sara Wolf
Genesis 33:12-17
Reunion ends... And they go separate ways
Esau wants Jacob to travel with him...Jacob declines.
Gifts... Both say they don't need any… Read More
2012-11-08 15:25
Howards notes!
3 November 2012
27. And he (the angel) said, "Let me go, for dawn is breaking," but he (Jacob) said, "I will not let you go unless you have blessed me."
More on 32… Read More
2012-11-08 06:24
Genesis 32:27-33
Blessing of the angel. Name change.
damage to his thigh...
Don't eat the part of the thigh muscle of an animal.
Jacobs opponent only can fight at night. Connec… Read More
2012-10-31 12:42
27 October 2012
25. And Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until the break of dawn.
Art inspired by this event
Chagall, Rembrandt – their work represents a type of Mi… Read More
2012-10-25 02:38
(Howard's notes)
20 October 2012
“Dark night of the soul” – separated from God, spiritual struggle, crisis of faith
21. And you shall say, 'Also, behold, your s… Read More
2012-10-18 04:53
13 October 2012
Genesis 32:12 – Jacob fears seeing his brother again; he prepares for this encounter with gifts (appeasement), prayer (humility?), and anticipating war (dividing the c… Read More
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