Session One’s topics:
Urban Legend:
“If you have a tattoo, you can’t get buried in a Jewish cemetery!”
An Unlikely Story:
“The Chofetz Chaim had an encounter from which he learned that you shouldn’t say Lashon HaRa even about yourself!”
Street Torah:
“Reclining at the Seder is to the left, because if you lean right you could choke!”
Folk Etymology:
“The phrase ‘bubbe mysehs’ is the Yiddish equivalent of ‘old wives’ tales’!”
Don’t Know Much About History:
“Jewish slaves built the pyramids!”
Misunderstood Text:
Pirkei Avot says “Don’t talk too much with a woman”!
Stranger Than Fiction:
A teacher accused a girl of lying when she said her father had composed Al HaNissim.