The Maggid of Melbourne: Waving in Turkey Part 3 – Izmir

Posted by Levi Cooper on February 23, 2016
Topics: The Maggid of Melbourne

In part three of this series about a captivating Istanbul custom, Levi shares more evidence of the practice… this time from Izmir, Turkey.


The Maggid of Melbourne is an ongoing series by Rabbi Dr. Levi Cooper – teacher of Hasidut, community rabbi, lawyer, IDF reservist, father to six and native Australian – in which he shares some short Torah ideas on topics of current interest from his Pardes classroom, his research and from his shul in Zur Hadassa. To the Beit Midrash!

See www.elmad.pardes.org/maggidofmelbourne for more episodes in the series.

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