e-TiM: Online Program
e-TiM: The Sons of Rachel

Dates

October 27, 2025 to December 29, 2025

Time

Mondays 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Eastern

Next class

Monday November 24, 2025

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The Sons of Rachel

Tamar Weissman

This mini-series explores how Yosef, Menashe, Ephraim, and Binyamin embody the dark mystery, beauty, and danger of their mother, and how each's nachalot (tribal allotments) suit their tribal character.

Class 1: Menashe: From Galut to Geulah
Class 2: Nachalat Menashe: The Daughters of Tzelophad and Gideon's Ophrah
Class 3: Ephraim and Shiloh-Kol Ha'Roeh
Class 4: Yosef Through the Lens of Shechem (Part A)
Class 5: Yosef Through the Lens of Shechem (Part B)
Class 6: Binyamin, the Underhanded Tribe

Topics:

Tanach, Figures in Tanach

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The Sons of Rachel (Part 5): Yosef through the lens of Shechem (Part B)

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The Sons of Rachel (Part 6): Binyamin, the Underhanded Tribe

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Meet the speaker

Tamar Weissman

Tamar Weissman is a tour guide and lecturer in Tanach and Eretz Israel studies. Her first book, Tribal Lands: The Twelve Tribes of Israel in their Ancestral Territories, explores the personalities of the shevatim and why each was granted his specific nahalah. She has just finished her second book "The Bible's Wild Child," on midrashic patterns in the Book of Shoftim. Tamar and her family practice sustainable agriculture on their farm in the Galil. Follow her adventures on Instagram @weissmanfarm or Facebook @משק וייסמן

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