MythBusting: Jewish Urban Legends & Misunderstood Texts with Rabbi Uri Cohen - Session 14
Class description
Here are the topics for Session Fourteen:
Urban Legend:
“Newlyweds should have sheva berakhot every day of the first week!”
Frauds, Fakes, Forgeries:
“A pious rabbi found and published the long-lost rishon, the Sefer HaEshkol!”
Street Torah:
“A mourner in the first year should walk out for Yizkor!”
Factitious Fiction:
Nurses TV show: “Orthodox Jews can’t accept transplants from non-Jews!”
People Thought the Darndest Things!:
“A woman can get pregnant by taking a bath!”
Misunderstood Text:
“The Gemara says that the only wisdom for women is the spindle!”
Stranger Than Fiction…
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