"Pshetl is always an attempt to find the dialectics in the most simple things, and this is what the talmudic scholars used to love." (source)

"why should our boys feel that it's ok for them to deviate and not lein or give a pshetel regardless of how uncomfortable he feels in the role of public speaking?" (source)

"At my bar mitzvah, my father went all out, so I prepared the parsha, which was a relatively short one, thank heavens, and memorized a 15 page lomdishe pshetl in yiddish. It took about 20-25 minutes to say. In middle of delivering the pshetl, one of my uncles asked me a kushya." (source)