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Episode: MythBusting: Jewish Urban Legends & Misunderstood Texts with Rabbi Uri Cohen - Session 16
Description: Class description
Here are the topics for Session Sixteen:
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...