Who were the three men Abraham saw? What can we learn from the cheese burger of the Bible? What is the meaning of the name Isaac? Was the sin of Sodom really homosexuality? Was Ishmael scoffing, mocking, or something else altogether? The Torah clearly states that human sacrifice is an abomination to God, how then are we to understand the command to Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac? “In your seed all the nations of the earth may be…grafted”?
This weeks discussion covers the Torah portion of Lech Lecha, Genesis 12:1-17:27. The trio revel in the extraordinary drama of Abraham’s epic: a call from heaven, famine, war, plagues, dreadful and great darkness, bisected animals, flaming torches, battles with vultures, sister wives and kings. Then the cliffhanger—the God-who-sees promises to make an everlasting covenant with a yet-to-be-conceived son, and to make him the father of 12 princes.
Was there a Law code during the time of Noah? What was the sin of Ham? What is the significance of the rainbow? What was the purpose of the tower of Babel? Who was Nimrod? Was Hebrew the spoken language before the Babel incident? Who is the “us” in Genesis 11:7?
What is the annual Torah Portion and how did it begin? What period of time is between verse one and verse two? How are we to understand that the Spirit “hovered” over the waters? What is the secret meaning behind the “aleph-tav,” pronounced “et,” and what is it’s grammatical function? If everything God created was good, then what’s with the serpent?
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