The attached chapter, entitled “Halakhah” and written by Rabbi Levi Cooper is available as part of a new textbook that discusses thirteen different sources for the study of Hasidism: derashot, stories, writings of mitnaggedim, writings of maskilim, newspapers, archives, music, visual images, ego-documents, folk tales, big data, material culture, and halakhah.
Studying Hasidism: Sources, Methods, Perspectives, ed. Marcin Wodziński, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019 is available for purchase at Amazon or at Rutgers University Press.
Levi teaches Bible, Hasidut, Maimonides and Midrash at Pardes. Originally from Australia, Levi holds an LL.B., LL.M. and Ph.D. from the Law Faculty of Bar-Ilan University, and is a member of the Israel Bar Association. He is currently an adjunct professor in the Law Faculty of Bar-Ilan University and post-doctoral fellow in the Law Faculty of Tel Aviv University. Click here to read more. You can find books written by Levi by clicking here
