BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.10//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:12993@tbala.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260829T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260829T123000 DTSTAMP:20260821T165019Z URL:https://www.tbala.org/events/kiddush-learn-series-what-the-bible-is-no t-confused-about-6/ SUMMARY:Kiddush & Learn Series: What the Bible is Not Confused About: When Prophecy Comes True\, Do We Still Get to Choose? DESCRIPTION:About Aaron Asher\n\nAaron Asher is a longtime member of Tem ple 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 prostratio n\, and serving as Torah coordinator for one of the synagogue’s minyanim .\n\nA dedicated student of Torah\, Aaron approaches the text with intel lectual rigor and deep respect for its internal coherence. His teaching re flects a sustained engagement with close reading and narrative structure\, inviting participants to encounter familiar passages with renewed serious ness and clarity.\n\nWhat the Bible Is Not Confused About is a  learning series built on a simple but demanding premise: when the Torah appears un clear\, inconsistent\, or morally difficult\, the difficulty may not lie i n confusion within the text\, but in the assumptions we bring to it.\n\nEa ch session approaches the Torah on its own terms\, paying close attention to structure\, sequence\, language\, and narrative cues. Rather than corre cting the text or smoothing over tensions\, we ask: What questions does t he Torah want us to ask? What kind of world is it building?\n\nBy reading carefully and patiently\, we begin to see that many of the Bible’s most debated passages are not accidents or contradictions\, but deliberate feat ures of a deeply coherent vision\n\n\nAugust 29 — What the Bible is Not Confused About: When Prophecy Comes True\, Do We Still Get to Choose?\n\nT his class asks what the Joseph story teaches about prophecy\, interpretati on\, and human agency. Can a prophecy be true while our interpretation of it is incomplete? And when the future finally arrives\, do we still get to choose what it means?\n\n CATEGORIES:Shabbat END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR