About Aaron Asher
Aaron Asher is a longtime member of Temple Beth Am and has taught in a variety of settings within the community. His past sessions have included workshops on traditional practices such as making soft matzah, explorations of embodied prayer including prostration, and serving as Torah coordinator for one of the synagogue’s minyanim.
A dedicated student of Torah, Aaron approaches the text with intellectual rigor and deep respect for its internal coherence. His teaching reflects a sustained engagement with close reading and narrative structure, inviting participants to encounter familiar passages with renewed seriousness and clarity.
What the Bible Is Not Confused About is a learning series built on a simple but demanding premise: when the Torah appears unclear, inconsistent, or morally difficult, the difficulty may not lie in confusion within the text, but in the assumptions we bring to it.
Each session approaches the Torah on its own terms, paying close attention to structure, sequence, language, and narrative cues. Rather than correcting the text or smoothing over tensions, we ask: What questions does the Torah want us to ask? What kind of world is it building?
By reading carefully and patiently, we begin to see that many of the Bible’s most debated passages are not accidents or contradictions, but deliberate features of a deeply coherent vision
August 22 — What the Bible is Not Confused About: When Dreams Find Their Meaning
Joseph’s dreams seem to be about Joseph, but they do not fully make sense until he reaches Egypt. Pharaoh’s dreams seem to be about Pharaoh, but they may actually be the dreams Joseph needs in order to understand his own story. This class follows Joseph as the almost-firstborn who is not the firstborn, the dreamer whose dreams outgrow him, and the interpreter who discovers that the dreams of Genesis only come into focus when Joseph and Pharaoh finally meet.