Torah Classes

Chp.6 verses 9 -16: Introduction, Torah praises Noach. He has three sons. Hashem sees that mankind has filled the earth with corruption and violence. He tells Noach that He intends to destroy the earth. He commands him to build an ark built to His specifications.

Chp. 1 verses 1 - 4: Introduction, G-d creates the heavens and the earth. The earth is empty and void, and darkness hovers over the face of the water. He creates light, and sees that it is good. He separates between the light and the darkness.

Chp. 4 verse 5 - Chp. 6 verse 8: Hashem did not accept Kayin's offering and he was upset. Kayin kills his brother and Hashem condemns him to wander for seven generations until he will die. Lemech kills Kayin. Adam reconciles with Chavah and she gives birth to Sheis. Mankind continues to increase. There are ten generations form Adam to Noach, which included two righteous individuals, Chanoch and Mesushelech. However, most of mankind practiced immorality and violence. Hashem questioned His decision to create mankind, however Noach found favor in His eyes.

Chp. 3 verse 7 - Chp. 4 verse 4: She eats from the tree and gets Adam to do the same. They hear G-d's presence and they hide. G-d asks Adam why he ate from the tree and he blames Chavah. She blames the snake. G-d punishes the snake. He tells Chavah what her punishment will be. Then He informs Adam of his punishment. Adam and Chavah are then banished from the garden and G-d places a fiery angel to guard the entrance. Chp. 4, They have two children, Kayin and Hevel. Kayin becomes a farmer and Hevel a shepard. Both bring sacrifices to Hashem and He accepts Hevel's offering.

Chp. 2 verse 5 - Chp. 3 verse 6: Hashem waters the earth so that vegetation can grow. He creates man and places him in the garden to work it and to guard it. He warns man not to eat from the tree of knowledge, least he die. Adam names all the animals. Hashem takes a rib from man and He creates woman. Adam names her woman since she was taken from man. Chp. 2, we are introduces to the snake, who begins a conversation with Chavah trying to convince her that she should eat from the tree of knowledge.

Chp. 1 verse 26 - Chp. 2 verse 4: G-d creates man in his image, male and female He created them. He commands him to be fruitful and multiply and have dominion over all of created things. G-d informs him that he is to be a vegetarian, and so too all living being. Chp. 2, on the seventh day Hashem "rested" from all His work, and He sanctified the day as Shabbos.

Chp. 1 verses 4 - 26: G-d calls the light day and the darkness nigth, and it was evening and morning one day. On the second day He creates the firmament and He separates between the upper waters and the lower waters. On the third day He gathers the waters exposing the dry land and vegetation. On the fourth day He creates the luminaries. On the fifth day He creates sea life and birds. On the six day He creates reptiles, animals, and finally man.

Chp. 33 verse 17 - Chp. 34 verse 12: Continues with Yosef, Zevulun, Yissachar, Gad, Dan, Naphtali, and Asher. Chp. 34, After he concluded his blessings he ascended Mount Nevo and Hashem showed him all the land that the tribes would inherit. Moshe died in the plains of Moav by the mouth of G-d. There he was buried and no one knows his burial site. The nation mourned for him for thirty days. The they turned to their new leader Yehoshua who would guide them in their conquest of the Land of Canaan under Hashem's supervision. The Torah concludes with the words that " There has not risen a prophet like Moshe, whom the L-rd knew face to face...."

Chp. 33 verse 1 - 17: Introduction, before his death Moshe gives his blessings to the nation and to each tribe individually, just like Yaakov before his death. Begins with Ruevain, then Yehudah, Levi, Binyamin, and Yosef.

Chp. 32 verses 17 - 52: He continues with his message. That in later generations they may turn to other objects to worship. Consequently, Hashem will repay their lack of appreciation with the denial of His favor. His punishments will be disease and the cruelty of the enemy. His only concern will be that the enemy should not gloat which will prevent the complete annihilation of the nation. Israel should then realize that their survival is totally dependent upon Hashem and their obedience. After completing this address Moshe was told to ascend Mount Nevo so that he would be able to see the Promised Land before he died.