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Yeshiva Week is the informal term for a vacation period that occurs every year from mid to late January, in which many Jewish day schools and yeshivas afford time off for their students. [1] It is primarily a North American phenomenon. This week is also held to avoid possible halachic issues with the typical American winter vacation held from ...
For Hareidi Yeshiva students in Israel and the Diaspora, Bein Hazmanim is also seen as an opportunity to travel and spend time with family at home. Dating is another popular activity for Hareidi Yeshiva students during Bein Hazmanim. Given the increased amount of free time, students often take time to meet prospective marriage candidates.
The counselors provide Torah-oriented experience in an environment where they and the campers are strictly separated by gender. Project SEED pays most yeshiva students a stipend to defray much (but not all) of the cost of their stay at their destination, air-fare, room and board, trips and other transportation.
Shaar HaShamayim Yeshiva invites the public to participate in special yeshiva events during the year. The most popular is the Thursday afternoon prayer service held during the weeks of Shovavim (the weeks coinciding with the Torah readings of Shemot, Va'eira, Bo, Beshalach, Yitro, and Mishpatim, and, in a Jewish leap year, Terumah and Tetzaveh).
The yeshiva moved to Jerusalem in 1965 and entered its present location in 1971. As of 2013, Torah Ore enrolls approximately 300 undergraduate students and 600 kollel (married) students. [ 1 ] It has thousands of alumni, many of whom became prominent rabbis, rosh yeshivas, and lay leaders of Jewish communities around the globe. [ 2 ]
Visiting popular destinations during shoulder season can often mean smaller crowds. Shoulder season, between the peak and offseason, offers less congestion and lower travel costs.
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During the morning seder, Semikha students continue their Talmud studies, learning the same masechet as the rest of the Yeshiva, [56] often independently, but in many yeshivot, participating in the Rosh Yeshiva's shiur. (Rabbis, then, will have been direct "students of the Rosh Yeshiva" for their final four, or more, years of study.)