MythBusting: Jewish Urban Legends & Misunderstood Texts with Rabbi Uri Cohen - Session 20
Class description
Here are the topics for Session Twenty:
Urban Legend:
“On Tu BiShvat, you’re supposed to eat dried fruit!”
Frauds, Fakes, Forgeries:
“A Sephardic rabbi discovered the long-lost Talmud Yerushalmi on Kodashim!”
Street Torah:
“Chanukah presents are just a variation of the older custom of Chanukah gelt!”
Factitious Fiction:
The Rabbi Small Mysteries:
“Judaism doesn’t believe in an afterlife or petitionary prayer!”
People Thought the Darndest Things!:
“Eating fish with meat is dangerous!”
Misunderstood Text:
“The Mishnah Berurah says women don’t have to light Chanukah candles…
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