Rabbi Levi Cooper is a rabbi in Tzur Hadassah and teaches Jewish Studies at Machon Pardes and other university level programs in Jerusalem. Amongst its many contributions, the Hasidic movement gave birth to a literature expounding ideas about God and about humans, and...
Rabbi Levi Cooper is a rabbi in Tzur Hadassah and teaches Jewish Studies at Machon Pardes and other university level programs in Jerusalem. Spiritual pursuits are generally understood to be activities aimed at affecting the human soul, the inner self. They are often...
The writings of the remarkable Piaseczno Rebbe, z”l, reveal profound insights about how children learn, as Levi Cooper explains. The culturally rich pre-Holocaust Polish Jewish milieu has bequeathed a legendary figure whose stature as an educator and as an...
Levi Cooper (levi@pardes.org.il) teaches Jewish Studies at Machon Pardes and other university level programs in Jerusalem In the countryside of northeastern Poland, lies a sleepy village by the name of Tykocin. In days of old, two out of every three people in Tykocin...
“…Seven times three is twenty-one. Eight times three is twenty-four. …”* Many of us recall how we learned our multiplication tables by rote, repeating the lines until they were embedded in our memory. “Five sixes?” In a flash we respond: “Thirty,” with not so much as...
Our students access our tradition by encountering the Jewish bookcase. As educators we seek to promote a direct encounter – rather than a teacher-mediated encounter – between the student and the text. The educator is a facilitator, a guide, hoping to empower the...
The thirteenth century work by an unidentified Spanish scholar, Sefer ha-Hinukh, delineates the 613 mitzvot, associating each precept with a source in the weekly Torah portion. Preceding the introduction to his work, the author writes a short letter where we find the...
