A Shot of Torah: UN Partition Plan: November 29 or Chaf-Tet?

Posted by Levi Cooper on December 21, 2017
Topics: The Maggid of Melbourne

Why do Israelis address this date as Chaf-Tet B’November, and not in the usual manner used for other English dates. In this podcast, Rabbi Dr. Levi Cooper looks if there is another date in the calendar that has a similar fate? Seventy years on from that historic date in 1947, Levi ponders…

Mazal tov to Joshua Chadajo, Executive Director of Pardes North America, on celebrating his bar mitzvah anniversary at Pardes. With much love, Natalie, Emmanuella and Caleb.

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About Levi Cooper

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

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