Session Thirteen’s topics:
Urban Legend:
“Adam and Chavah sinned by eating an apple!”
An Unlikely Story:
“93 Bais Yaakov girls killed themselves so the Nazis wouldn’t get them!”
Street Torah:
“The Second Beit HaMikdash was destroyed only because of sinat chinam!”
Folk Etymology:
“The word ‘helpmate’ is a reasonable translation of ‘ezer kenegdo’!”
Don’t Know Much About History:
“World War I started on Tisha B’Av!”
Misunderstood Text:
“The Rambam says girls and women are too dumb to be taught texts!”
Stranger Than Fiction:
Elvis Presley was a Shabbos goy for his Orthodox neighbors. But according to his mom, he was in fact halakhically Jewish.