Levi Cooper

Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law

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Faculty of Law

Ramat Gan, 52900

Israel

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1.

The Assimilation of Tikkun Olam

Jewish Political Studies Review 25, no. 3-4 (Fall 2013)
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 28 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2014
Levi Cooper
Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
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tikkun olam, Jewish Law, political activism, social justice, assimilation

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Culpability for Curses in Jewish Law and Mystical Lore
הארי פוטר בהלכה ובאגדה

Wizards vs. Muggles: Essays on Identity and the Harry Potter Universe, ed. Christopher E. Bell (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2016), 168-193
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 23 Jan 2017
Levi Cooper
Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
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Jewish Law, Harry Potter, Magic, legal education, Legal History, Law and Literature, Comparative law, popular culture

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רבנות, הלכה, למדנות: היבטים עלומים בתולדות הרב לוי יצחק מברדיטשב
Rabbinate, Law, Erudition: Unknown Aspects of the Life of Rabbi Levi Yitsḥak of Berdyczów

רבי לוי יצחק מברדיטשב: היסטוריה, הגות, ספרות וניגון, בעריכת צבי מרק ורועי הורן, תל אביב תשע"ז, עמ' 62 – 130
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 18 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2020
Levi Cooper
Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
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משפט והיסטוריה, ביוגרפיה שיפוטית, הלכה, חסידות, תולדות הדפוס

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Bitter Herbs in Hasidic Galicia

JSIJ 12 (2013), 1-40
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 09 Apr 2014
Levi Cooper
Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
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Jewish Law, Legal Historicism, Hasidism, Passover, Galicia

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‘But I Will Tell of Their Deeds’: Retelling a Hasidic Tale about the Power of Storytelling

Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 22, no. 2 (2014), 127-163
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 04 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2014
Levi Cooper
Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
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Hasidic Tales, Besht, Israel of Ruzhin, Martin Buber, S. Y. Agnon, Gershom Scholem, Haggadah

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Halakhah: Studying Hasidism - Sources, Methods, Perspectives "הלכה: חקר החסידות – מקורות, מתודות, פרספקטיבות"

Levi Cooper, "Chapter 2": Studying Hasidism: Sources, Methods, Perspectives, p.36-59 (ed. Marcin Wodziński, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019).
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 18 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2024
Levi Cooper
Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
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Jewish Law, Hasidism, Code, Gloss, Responsa, Legislation, Shtrayml [Fur Hat]

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Jewish Law, Hasidic Lore, and Hollywood Legend: The Cantor, the Mystic, and the Jurist
(הלכה, חסידות, והוליווד: החזן, המיסטיקן, והמשפטן)

Critical Analysis of Law 2, no. 2 (fall 2015)
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 01 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2015
Levi Cooper
Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
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Law and Literature, Jewish Law, Hasidic tales, Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt, The Jazz Singer, site-specific art

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Esotericism, Accessibility, and Mainstreamisation: Pre-Prayer Gesturing and the Evolution of Jewish Practice

Diné Israel, 32 (2018): 125*-158*
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 18 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2018
Levi Cooper
Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
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Jewish law, custom, gesture, prayer, kabbalah, mysticism, spirituality, synagogue, angel, unity, love, Istanbul, Izmir, Aleppo, nature reserve

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מאגרי שו"ת מקוונים: העם יקליד את דברוOnline Databases of Electronic Responsa: The People Will Have Their Say

מעשי משפט, כרך יב 2021. Ma'asei Mishpat: Tel Aviv University Journal of Law & Social Change, 12 (2021)
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 28 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2022
Levi Cooper
Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
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Jewish law, responsa, internet, SMS, database, trolling, satire, women

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מצה שרויה: הלכה, קבלה ותולדות החסידות Gebrokts: Halakhah, Kabbalah, and the History of Hasidism

Diné Israel 35-36 (2022): 365-395 דיני ישראל, לה-לו (תשפ"ב), עמ' 365–395
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 30 Mar 2022
Levi Cooper
Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
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Hasidism, Custom, Law, Passover/Pesach, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi

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Mysteries of the Paratext: Why Did Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady Never Publish His Code of Law? ? סודות הפרטקסט: מדוע ר' שניאור זלמן מליאדי לא פרסם את שלחן ערוך הרב

Diné Israel 31 (2017): 43-84
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 02 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 22 Oct 2024
Levi Cooper
Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
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Codification, code, Jewish Law, paratext, Gérard Genette, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady, Shulhan ‘arukh ha-rav, Chabad, Lubavitch

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On Etkes' Ba'al Ha-Tanya

Diné Israel 29 (2013): 177-89
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 04 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2013
Levi Cooper
Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
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Legal history, Jewish law, Hasidism, Shneur Zalman of Liady

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Jewish Law in the Beit Midrash of Hasidism ההלכה בבית המדרש של תנועת החסידות

Diné Israel 34 (2020), 51-110
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 10 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2022
Levi Cooper
Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
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Jewish Law, Hasidism, Law and Religion, legal literature, legal history, jurisprudence

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Polish Hasidism and Hungarian Orthodoxy in a Borderland: The Munkács Rabbinate

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 31 (2019): 199-223 [pre-publication version]
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 11 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2022
Levi Cooper
Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
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Legal history, legal literature, rabbis, Munkács/Mukačevo/Munkatch, Jewish law, Hasidism, epistolary network, borderland, Subcarpathian Rus’, Carpathians

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Legislation for Education: The Munkács Regulations Enacted by Rabbi Tsevi Elimelekh of Dynów חקיקה לטובת חינוך: תקנות תמכין דאורייתא של הרב צבי אלימלך מדינוב

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 30 (2018): 43-72
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 23 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2019
Levi Cooper
Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
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Jewish Law, education, Munkács/Mukačevo/Munkatch, legislation, rhetoric

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A Remnant of Tiktin

Jewish Educational Leadership, vol. 4 (2005), pp. 42-46, Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 5063564
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 07 Jan 2025
Levi Cooper
Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
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Rivka Tiktiner, Women's Writing, Early Modern Poland, Meineket Rivka, Pedagogy, Education, Tiktin/Tykocin, Poland, Jewish Motherhood, Religious Education, Yiddish Literature, 16th Century Judaism, Female Jewish Scholarship, Jewish Educational History, Holocaust Studies, Jewish Women's History, Rabbanit (female rabbi), women’s voice, Jewish Law, Legal History

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Pandemics in the Promised Land: The Hasidic Experience

Australian Journal of Jewish Studies 33 (2020): 5-26
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 03 Feb 2021
Levi Cooper
Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
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Pandemic, Plague, Hasidism, Charity, Israel, Ottoman Empire, Eastern Europe

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המנהג בערוך השלחן והמנהג במשנה ברורה Custom in the ‘Arukh Ha-Shulhan and Custom in the Mishna Berura

דרכי דניאל: מחקרים בדת ובתרבות יהודית לכבוד הרב פרופסור דניאל שפרבר, עמודים 301-336 (הוצאת אוניברסיטת בר אילן, 2017) Studies in Jewish Studies in Honor of Rabbi Professor Daniel Sperber, ed. Adam Ferziger, 301-336 (Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2017).
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 30 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 17 May 2022
Levi Cooper
Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
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Jewish law, custom, codification, law-on-the-books, law-in-action, 20th century legal writing

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Rabbi Akiva Eger and the Second Cholera Pandemic: Legislation, Social Action, and Mysticism רבי עקיבא איגר ומגפת הכולרה: תקנות קהילה, אקטיביזם חברתי ומיסטיקה

Jewish law association studies, Ḥevrat Hamishpat Haʻivri
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 05 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 17 May 2024
Levi Cooper
Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
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הרמ"א והקודיפיקציה של ההלכה
Rabbi Moses Isserles and the Codification of Jewish Law

מתוך האטלס ההיסטורי של יהדות גליציה ובוקובינה, בעריכת נתן שיפריס, יהודית קליק ולוי יצחק קופר (התקבל לפרסום)
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 21 Oct 2024 Last Revised: 08 Nov 2024
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Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
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Shtrayml: An Ethnographic Tale of Law and Ritualisation שטריימל: סיפור אתנוגרפי של משפט, הלכה וריטואליזציה

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 33 (2021), 117-149, Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 26 Apr 2024
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הערמות ופיקציות בהלכה:תהיות ושתי תבניות נפשיות Loopholes and Legal Fictions in Jewish Law: Religious Dispositions that Respond to the Discomfort


דיני ישראל, כרך לח (תשפ"ד), עמ' 273-233
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 29 Aug 2024
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מעמד ברכת החמה בחצרות חסידיות (The Blessing Over the Sun Ceremony in Contemporary Hasidic Courts)

Daat 77 (2014): 183-207
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 06 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2019
Levi Cooper
Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
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liturgy, Hasidism, ritual, Lubavitch, Munkatch, Boyan, tradition, creativity

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Kaddish During COVID: Mourning Rituals During a Pandemic

Contemporary Jewry, volume 41, issue 1, 2021, Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 5009307
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 05 Nov 2024 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2024
Levi Cooper
Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
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Kaddish, Ritual, Prayer, Mourning, Community, Corona, COVID-19, Pandemic, Jewish Law

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נגד זרמי המים הזידונים: האדמו"ר ממונקאטש ר' חיים אלעזר שפירא Against the Flow of the Raging Waters: The Hasidic Master of Munkács Rabbi Chaim Elazar Shapira

The Gdoilim: Leaders Who Shaped Israeli Haredi Jewry
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 03 Feb 2025
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Hasidism, Jewish Law, Zionism, Customary Law, Leadership, Hungary, Galicia, rabbinate, forgery, polemics, redemption, education, miracles, חסידות, הלכה, משפט עברי, ציונות, מנהג, הנהגה, הונגריה, גליציה, רבנות, זיופים, פולמוס, גאולה, חינוך, ניסים

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A Sin for the Sake of Heaven: Vigilante Heroes in Law and Culture. An Old-New Paradigm עבירה לשמה: גיבורים נוקמים במשפט ובתרבות

Probing Human Dignity: Exploring Thresholds from an Interdisciplinary Perspective, eds. Stephanie N. Ariel, Levi Cooper, and Vanessa Hellmann
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 03 Feb 2025
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Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
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Law, Jewish Law, Human Dignity, Vigilante Heroes, Sin for the Sake of Heaven, Righteous Transgression, Hard Cases, Popular Culture, German Law, משפט, משפט עברי, משפט גרמני, כבוד האדם, גיבורים נוקמים, עבירה לשמה, תרבות

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ייבוא רבנים, ייבוא תרבות – רבני מונקאטש כמקרה־מבחן למטא־נרטיב של יהדות הונגריה Importing Rabbis, Importing Culture: The Munkács Rabbinate as a Case Study for a Hungarian-Jewish Meta-Narrative

תמיד הונגרים: יהודי הונגריה בתמורות העת החדשה Always Hungarian: The Jews of Hungary through the Vicissitudes of the Modern Era
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 30 Jan 2025
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rabbi, rabbinate, Hungary, Galicia, Munkacs, Munkatch, Mukachevo, borderland, empires, responsa, Jewish law, Hasidism, רבנות, הונגריה, גליציה, מונקאטש, מרחב גבול, אמפריה, שאלות ותשובות, שו"ת, משפט עברי, הלכה, חסידות

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D.I.Y. Mikveh: The Challenge of Encouraging Commitment

Jewish Educational Leadership 9, no. 2 (2011): 58-63 , Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 5083748
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 07 Jan 2025
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Jewish Law, Halakha, Legal history, Legal monograph, Religious observance, Tradition, Innovation, Jewish education, 20th century, North America, Mikveh, Hygiene, Ritual, Ritual immersion, Water, DIY religion, Sermon

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‫‬הלל בלילי חג הפסח: סיפורי חסידים בתור נרטיב משפטי של מאבקי נוסח התפילה
Hasidic Tales as Legal Narrative: The Battle over Prayer Rites in Poland and in Hungary

מאור ושמש: היסטוריה, הגות סיפורת ומורשת, בעריכת לוי יצחק קופר, אריאל אבן־מעשה וצבי מרק, רמת גן תשפ"ד, עמ' 289—332
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 02 Dec 2024
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חסידות, הלכה, מאור ושמש, נרטיב, נרטיב חלופי, נוסח התפילה, פסח, הלל, קרקוב, קראקא, הונגריה

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ציונות מעומק המסורת הג'רבאית:דרשתו של ר' כלפון משה הכהן Zionism of R Khalfon Moshe Hakohen of Djerba

השילוח, 19, ניסן תש"פ, אפריל 2020, עמ' 182-192 Hashiloah, vol 19, April 2020, pp 182-192
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 15 Jan 2025
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Zionism, Djerba, Tunisia, Sermon, Modernity, Tradition, League of Nations, Balfour Declaration, Herzl, Land of Israel, First World War, Aliya, Tel Aviv, rabbi, customary law, responsa, ציונות, ג'רבה, תוניסיה, דרשה, ברית כהונה, פרשת השבוע, שואל ונשאל, חבר הלאומים, הרצל, ארץ ישראל, הצהרת בלפור, מלחמת העולם הראשונה, עלייה, תל אביב, שאלות ותשובות, שו"ת, מנהגים, רבנים, Hebrew, עברית

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הכשרת פוסקי הלכה בג'רבה: פרק מתוך משנתו החינוכית של הרב כלפון משה הכהן Training Jewish Law Decisors in Djerba: A Chapter from the Educational Philosophy of Rabbi Khalfon Moshe Hakohe

הרב כלפון משה וחכמי תוניסיה בעת החדשה: עיונים ביצירתם, פועלם והשפעתם, בעריכת צבי זוהר ורונאל עטיה, תל אביב תשפ"ד, עמ' 319-364
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 30 Oct 2024 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2025
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The Choreographed Seder Night

Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 01 May 2025
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Passover, Pesach, Seder, education, Jewish education, experiential education, Judaism, ritual, Hasidism, Jewish Law, tradition, adolescent education, pedagogy, Four Questions, children, family, parents

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The Last Will and Testament of Rabbi David Friesenhausen

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 19 Mar 2025
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Will, Testament, Jewish Law, Hasidism, Torah and Science, ethical will, theology, science, education, shamanism, foreign language, religion, Judaism, Hebrew, women, englightenment, Haskalah, Hungary

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Challenges of Commemoration

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 19 Mar 2025
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Holocaust, Commemoration, Education, Jewish Law, Tradition, Jewish calendar, Remembrance, Kaddish, mourning, Shoah, Yom Ha-Shoah, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, persecution, grief, memory, Israel, State of Israel

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A Baghdadi Mystery: Rabbi Yosef Hayim and Torah Lishmah

Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 30 Apr 2025
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Jewish Law, Iraq, Baghdad, forgery, responsa, Yosef Hayim of Baghdad, Ben Ish Hai, legal history, anachronism, Yehezkel Kahali, pseudonym, pseudepigraphy, machine learning, responsa, articifical intelligence, AI

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Towards a Judicial Biography of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady

Journal of Law and Religion, volume 30, issue 1, 2015[10.1017/jlr.2014.38]
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 10 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2024
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Admor-Posek, Chabad, codification, Hasidism, Jewish law, Lubavitch, Shulḥan ‘arukh ha-rav