Torah Classes

Chp.24 verse 23 - chp. 25 verse 5: Rivkah takes Eliezer to her father's house, and we meet her brother Lavan. Eliezer retells the story of how he met Rivkah to her family and the family agrees to allow her to go with him to marry Yitzhok. Yitzhok goes out to the field to pray and she sees him. Chp. 25 begins with Avraham taking Keturah as a wife, and the names of the children she bore for him are recounted.

Chp. 24 verse 1 - chp. 24 verse 23: Avraham is now old and he sends his trusted servant Eliezer to find a wife for Yitzhok from his family in Aram Naharaim. He finds Rivkah at the well and she gives him and his camels water to drink.

Chp. 37 verse 23 - Chp. 38 verse 8: The brothers strip Yosef of his coat of many colors, they throw him in a pit, and then they sit down to eat. They then sell him to the Ishmaelites who sell him in Egypt. They dip his coat in sheeps blood and show it to their father, who mourns for the loss of his favorite son. Chp. 38, begins the story of Yehudah marrying and fathering three sons. The eldest son, Er marries Tamar but he sins and dies.

Chp. 38 verse 8 - chp, 39 verse 6: Continues with Onan marrying his brothers widow and he too dies for his sins. Yehudah tells his daughter in law to wait for his third son to mature so that he can marry her, but she sees that Yehudah has no intention of doing so. And so Yehudah's wife dies and Tamar dresses up as a harlot and seduces her father in law without him realizing who she was. She becomes pregnant from that relationship and Yehudah wants her killed for infidelity but then he realizes that he is the father. She gives birth to twins. Chp. 39, begins with Yosef being sold to Potifar, a minister in Pharaoh's court. Hashem blesses Yosef in all that he does in the house of his new master.

Chp. 39 verse 7 - Chp. 40 verse 23: Potifars' wife tries to seduce Yosef, but he refuses. She accuses him of rape and he is thrown in the royal dungeon. There he meets the Chief Baker and Chief Butler. They both have a dream which Yosef interprets correctly. The Baker dies and the Butler lives. Yosef asks the Butler to remember him to Pharaoh.

Chp. 37 verse 1-8: Begins with the story of Yosef and his dreams. He tells them to his brothers and they hate him.

Chp. 37 verse 9-22: Continues with the dreams of Yosef. Yaakov sends him out to the field to check on the brothers and the sheep. The brothers see him and plan to kill him but Ruevain convinces them to throw him in a pit instead, so that he can later save him.

Avram meets with malchizedek king of salem(shem). He returns all the captives to the king of sodom, but refuses to take any of the booty. Hashem then promises to protect avram and to give him many descendants. hashem then makes a covenant with him and tells him that his children will be enslaved and also redeemed. Sawra then gives her maidservant hagar to avram to bear him a child.

Abram at the age of 75 leaves haran with his wife and his nephew to the place that Hashem would show him.He stops in the land of cannaan and Hashem appears to him and he builds an alter to thank Hashem. There is a famine in the land and so he goes to egypt. He tells his wife to say that she is his sister to protect his life.

sawra is abducted and taken to the harem of pharoh. Hashem punishes pharoh and he releases her and gives abram many gifts and escorts them out of egypt.Lot and abram part ways, lot goes to sodom. then Hashem appears to abram and promises him the land and children. the war between the 4 kings and the 5 kings. lot is taken captive abram goes to war against the 4 kings to save lot and he is victorious