Session Five’s topics:
Urban Legend:
“Some Orthodox Jews have sex through a hole in a sheet!”
An Unlikely Story:
“When Rav Preil’s daughters sang zemirot, Rav Baruch Ber walked out!”
Street Torah:
“You have to be forty in order to learn Kabbalah!”
Folk Etymology:
“The word ‘teiku’ stands for ‘Tishbi yitaretz kushyot ve’ibayot’ (Eliyahu will resolve all difficulties)!”
Don’t Know Much About History:
“Ellis Island officials made my family change their last name!”
Misunderstood Text:
“A midrash says that the first woman was Lilith, but she was too feminist for Adam!”
Stranger Than Fiction:
176 is the length of the longest parashah, the longest perek of Tehillim, and the longest masekhet.