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MythBusting: Jewish Urban Legends & Misunderstood Texts with Rabbi Uri Cohen - Session 5


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Urban Legend:

“Some Orthodox Jews have sex through a hole in a sheet!”

An Unlikely Story:

“When Rav Preil’s daughters sang zemirot, Rav Baruch Ber walked out!”

Street Torah:

“You have to be forty in order to learn Kabbalah!”

Folk Etymology:

“The word ‘teiku’ stands for ‘Tishbi yitaretz kushyot ve’ibayot’ (Eliyahu will resolve all difficulties)!”

Don’t Know Much About History:

“Ellis Island officials made my family change their last name!”

Misunderstood Text:

“A midrash says that the first woman was Lilith, but she was too feminist for Adam!”

Stranger Than Fiction:

176 is the length of the longest parashah, the longest perek of Tehillim, and the longest masekhet.

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