A Shot of Torah: Hanukah – Why do we Celebrate for 8 Days?

Introduction

In this special edition of A Shot of Torah for Hanukah, Rabbi Dr. Levi Cooper discusses the most famous question about Hanukah: Why do we celebrate for eight days rather than seven days? Since there was enough oil for one night, so the miracle really lasted for only seven nights!


A Shot of Torah with Levi Cooper is the continuation of The Maggid of Melbourne Speaks. A Shot of Torah 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 elmad.pardes.org/a-shot-of-torah for more episodes in the series.

Levi Cooper

Dr. Levi Cooper is Senior Faculty at Pardes, teaching Jewish Law and Hasidut. He holds an LL.B., LL.M. and Ph.D from Bar-Ilan University, where he currently teaches in their Faculty of Law. Levi has been awarded multiple post-doctoral research grants, held academic visitor and educational advisory roles in Europe and Asia, and written extensively for academic publications.

Known as the Maggid of Melbourne, Levi hails from Australia. He currently lives in Zur Hadassa, where he has served as rabbi since 2005, co-founded the Lavi Primary School, and spearheaded other communal initiatives.