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Torah Umesorah – National Society for Hebrew Day Schools (or Torah Umesorah תורה ומסורה ) is an Orthodox Jewish educational charity [1] based in the United States that promotes Torah-based Jewish religious education in North America by supporting and developing a loosely affiliated network independent private Jewish day schools.
Torah study is the study of the Torah, Hebrew Bible, Talmud, responsa, rabbinic literature, and similar works, all of which are Judaism's religious texts. According to Rabbinic Judaism , the study is done for the purpose of the mitzvah ("commandment") of Torah study itself.
The community kollel movement was also fostered by Torah Umesorah, the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools. [8] [9] Currently, the term is applied in America to any stipend given for yeshiva study and is now a general term for the yeshivah approach to life. [4]
Founded in 2006 by Rabbis Shai Held, Elie Kaunfer, and Ethan Tucker as an institution for intense Torah study and as an advisory for congregations and minyanim looking to reinvigorate their prayer services, Hadar has since grown to include a unique array of offerings that reflect the true splendor—hadar in Hebrew—of Judaism. Hadar offers ...
Following is a listing of rabbinical schools, organized by denomination.The emphasis of the training will differ correspondingly: Orthodox Semikha centers on the study of Talmud-based halacha (Jewish law), while in other programs, the emphasis may shift to "the other functions of a modern rabbi such as preaching, counselling, and pastoral work.” [1] [2] Conservative Yeshivot occupy a ...
The first Jewish day school in North America was established in 1731 at the Congregation Shearith Israel. German Jewish immigrants who arrived in the 19th century establish day schools in their own communities, but this movement to establish Jewish day schools had lost momentum by the 1870s. [5]
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School (YCT) is a Modern Orthodox yeshiva, previously self-described as Open Orthodox, founded in 1999 by Rabbi Avi Weiss. [1]Currently located in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, New York, YCT's mission is to educate and place rabbis who are "open, non-judgmental, knowledgeable, empathetic, and eager to transform Orthodoxy into a movement that ...
Rosh yeshiva (Hebrew: ראש ישיבה, pl. Hebrew: ראשי ישיבה, roshei yeshiva, rashe yeshiva; Anglicized pl. rosh yeshivas) is the title given to the dean of a yeshiva, a Jewish educational institution that focuses on the study of traditional religious texts, primarily the Talmud and the Torah, and halakha (Jewish law).