Session Sixteen’s topics:
Urban Legend:
“Singing Tehillat Hashem after Shir HaMa’alot is an anti-Zionist thing!”
Frauds, Fakes, Forgeries:
“The Besamim Rosh is by the Rosh but it wasn’t published until the 1700s!”
Street Torah:
“You’re not allowed to marry someone who has the same name as your parent!”
Factitious Fiction:
The Ten Commandments (1956): “Moses received the ten commandments in private!”
People Thought the Darndest Things!:
“An eighth-month baby isn’t viable!”
Misunderstood Text:
“The Kuzari says converts can’t be prophets, which is racist!”
Stranger Than Fiction:
The traditional prayer for the government has a concealed, subversive message.