Genesis 5787: The Work of Becoming
Our Torah Study for the weeks we read the Book of Genesis: a journey through relationships, responsibility, and the human condition.
Study Genesis online
While we read Genesis in the Torah cycle, our Saturday Torah Study follows these stories, and the same studies are here online for members. Read each story closely in Hebrew and English, hear voices from Jewish tradition, and answer for yourself. Our ancestors were not perfect people. They struggled, failed, loved, feared, wounded one another, and sometimes found the courage to change. Their stories invite us to ask who we are becoming.
For adults · rated PG-13
Like the Torah itself, these stories include violence and sexual content, and the study discusses them openly. It is written for adults.
New studies every week
At least one new study is added each week, all the way through the Book of Genesis. Open now, each with six encounters:
- Am I My Brother’s Keeper? Cain and Abel
- The Righteousness of Silence Noah and the Flood
- The Risk of Something Beautiful Abram, Sarai, Lot and Hagar
- When Love Refuses to Be Silent Abraham, Sodom, Hagar and Isaac
- What Love Leaves Behind Grief, remembrance and the love that continues
Your reflections are saved to your account, and you can print them or download them anytime.
- Format
- Online, with every source linked to Sefaria
- New studies
- At least one a week, all the way through Genesis
- Who can join
- Beth Israel members and JRoots Teachers, free
- Rating
- PG-13: for adults; contains violence and sexual content
- Taught by
- Student Rabbi Ben Russell
Beth Israel members: ask for your member code
Our online classes are free for Beth Israel members. To open them, create a free account on Student Rabbi Ben’s course site and enter the synagogue member code once. Please contact the main office for the member code: office@bethisraelms.org or 601-956-6215.