Genesis | A Parsha Companion

Author: Rabbi David Fohrman How are we meant to wrestle with a story like the Akeidah, Abraham’s fateful journey to offer Isaac back to God? If you were Rebecca’s lawyer, how might you defend her choice to command her son to deceive his father? Is it possible that the sale of Joseph was the greatest crime…never committed? In this first of five Parsha Companions, Rabbi David Fohrman delves into these and other intriguing conundrums, using a unique set of tools. He asks questions that, in hindsight, seem like they were staring you in the face the whole time. He discerns nuance. He detects patterns in the original Hebrew that – once you see them – seem to leap off the page. And he shows how many of these discoveries, astoundingly, aren’t really “new" at all – but were suggested, thousands of years ago, by the ancient sages of the Talmud and Midrash themselves. Underneath Rabbi Fohrman’s way of approaching biblical text lies a simple conviction: Inasmuch as reading a book is like having a