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e-TiM: Breisheet Beit Midrash

Dates

October 20, 2025 to December 28, 2026

Time

Mondays 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM Eastern

Next class

Monday October 5, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash

Rabbi Zvi Grumet

This series we will do a deep, interactive, textual study of Sefer Breisheet. The goal is to understand the sefer and build skills in analyzing text. Each week we will ask participants to prepare and share their thoughts and observations in advance; these comments will provide the foundation for the shiur and discussion which will follow.

In the Fall semester we will be exploring the first half of Yaakov's struggles. First with Esav, then with his wives and Lavan, and even with himself. Where does he succeed, where does he falter, and to what will that wrestling lead?

Given the nature of this series participants are required to have their cameras on. Space will be limited.

Online discussion guide for this class

Topics:

Tanach, Parsha, Breisheet

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Meet the speaker

Rabbi Zvi Grumet

Zvi Grumet is a master educator and teacher of Tanakh. Rabbi Dr. Grumet has more than four decades of experience in formal and informal Jewish education, from high school through adult education, and in professional development for teacher and school leaders. He is currently Director of Education at The Lookstein Center of Bar-Ilan University, where he is Editor-in-Chief of Jewish Educational Leadership. He has published numerous articles in both education and Tanakh. His books include Moses and the Path to…

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Past classes of e-TiM: Breisheet Beit Midrash

Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 1): Breisheet: The Beginning of…

October 20, 2025

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 2): Creation in Stages

October 27, 2025

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 3): The Cycles of Creation

November 3, 2025

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 4): The Creation Challenge

November 10, 2025

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 5): Creation Without Creation

November 17, 2025

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 6): Creation. Again?

November 24, 2025

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 7): It's Not Good for Man to be by Himself

December 1, 2025

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 8): The Temptation to Know

December 8, 2025

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 9): Leaving the Garden

December 15, 2025

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 10): Family Life is Difficult!

December 22, 2025

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 11): The Search for Immorality

December 29, 2025

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 12): A Different Kind of Genealogy

January 5, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 13): The Good, the Great, and the Mysterious Awful

January 12, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 14): One Flood, Two Backgrounds

January 19, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 15): What was the Mabul?

January 26, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 16): A New World

February 9, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 17): Closing the Circle on the Mabul

February 16, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 18) Fill the Earth

February 23, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 19): Be Fruitful and Multiple and Babble the Earth

March 2, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 20): The Legacy of Terah

March 9, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 21): The Call to Avram

March 16, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 22): Getting Lost...

April 20, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 23): Abraham's Lost and Found

April 27, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 24): The Very First World War

May 4, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 25): The Aftermath of the First World War

May 11, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 26): The Covenant Between the Pieces

May 18, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 27): Sarai, Hagar, and Avram

May 25, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 28): What do You Want Now?

June 1, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 29): Three visitors come to Avraham's tent...

June 8, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 30): Abraham Challenges, and Negotiates with, God

June 15, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 31): Sedom and Lot

June 22, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 32): Avraham and Sarah in...Gerar?

June 29, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 33): Yitzchak and Yishmael

July 6, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 34): Avraham and Avimelekh — Round 2

July 13, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 35): The Binding of Yitzhak

July 20, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 36): Sarah is Gone

July 27, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 37): The Search for Yitzhak's Wife

August 3, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 38): The Wisdom of Avraham's Servant

August 10, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 39): Avraham's Final Chapter

August 17, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 40): Introducing! The First Covenantal Couple

August 24, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 41): Two Parents and two Children - two Visions?

August 31, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 42): Yitzhak in Gerar

September 7, 2026

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Breisheet Beit Midrash (Part 43): When we Assume...

September 14, 2026

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