Session Nine’s topics:
Urban Legend:
“During Birkat Kohanim, don’t look or you’ll go blind!”
An Unlikely Story:
“The Chofetz Chaim woke up his daughter to go pay a tailor in the middle of the night!”
Street Torah:
“Women are exempt from positive time-bound mitzvot because they’re too busy taking care of their children!”
Folk Etymology:
“The word ‘afikoman’ means dessert in Greek!”
Don’t Know Much About History:
“The Netziv closed the Volozhin Yeshiva rather than allow any secular studies!”
Misunderstood Text:
“The Gemara says ‘Woe to someone whose children are girls’!”
Stranger Than Fiction:
A prominent rabbi gave haskamot to books that he himself had published anonymously.