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Post High School
Beis Medrash

Located just above the Cardo in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, just minutes away from both the Kotel and the center of Yerusahalayim, Yeshivas Bircas HaTorah combines the historic beauty of the Old City with a modern ambiance. Serving both as a yeshiva for post high-school students looking for an intensive, student-centered program of learning, and adults with academic and professional backgrounds, Bircas HaTorah enables our talmidim to learn Torah in a rigorous and academically challenging, and genuinely warm, environment.

Learning at Bircas

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What makes Bircas an exceptional place to learn?

The Learning

Our interactive shiurim are not a place for the rebbi to say his chiddush and leave; they are a place for achieving clarity in Hashem’s Torah. Every maggid shiur, the Rosh Yeshiva included, welcomes kashas and shiur is a forum for debate. Our goal is to teach people how to develop their own thoughts in a way that enables them to give a shiur and teach others how to learn in a clear and succinct way. This learning builds the confidence of the talmidim, gives over precious analytical, thinking and reasoning skills, and truly allows us to “see Hashem on the page”.

The People

The Rosh Yeshiva is everybody’s Rosh Yeshiva. When you speak with him, he is only thinking about what is best for you, and not what is best for the yeshiva or anyone else. There is a high level of individual attention and connection with rebbeim, and the talmidim are attentive and enthusiastic. The yeshiva is ideal for a student that is looking for a place that will accept him for who he is. In Bircas, no-one ever gets lost in the crowd.

Personal Growth

Bircas HaTorah offers students, young and old alike, the opportunity to engage with students of all ages; post-high school talmidim, avreichim, semicha students and professionals together. Furthermore, the yeshiva is not a revolving door. Chanoch lanaar al pi darcho. Find each one their channel for growth. The yeshiva is a community where everyone is helping each other to grow; every person is working on improving their avodas Hashem, and the yeshiva only really cares about one thing – are you trying?

Meet the Rebbeim

Testimonials

"Life in Bircas has truly been a beautiful experience. Learning until now was always enjoyable, but I never felt I grasped what was really going on in a sugya. I now feel like I'm seeing the big picture of learning Gemara, because when learning here, no single word is taken for granted. The patience that the Rabbis have to explain every move and every step in the Gemara, and what's behind it all, is amazing. I feel like I relate to the Rabbaim, they are not out of touch, but very human who can understand us and work with who we are to connect to Torah."

- Tzvi Solomons     

"Coming to Bircas has been a life changer for me. I'm surrounded by Rabbis who actually care about me as an individual, whom I trust and feel close to. I'm empowered with a sense of self, and an ability to grow, in my own way and at my own speed, and I love every minute of it."

- Levi Haller     

 

"I was born in America and moved here when I was ten. Before Bircas I was learning in another Yeshiva and often felt like an outsider. Like most Americans, it was hard for me to adjust to a completely new mentality. It's fantastic to have a place like Bircas, where I can continue my development in an inspiring and warm Yeshiva environment."

- Yehoshua Rubin     

"I wanted to learn how to take apart a page of Gemara and analize it from every angle. Not only did Bircas give me the skills to accomplish this, but I never imagined that learning Gemara could be so much fun."

-  Avi Gordon

וְנִהְיֶה אֲנַֽחְנוּ וְצֶאֱצָאֵֽינוּ וְצֶאֱצָאֵי כׇל עַמְּךָ בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל
כֻּלָּנוּ יוֹדְעֵי שְׁמֶֽךָ וְלוֹמְדֵי תוֹרָתְךָ לִשְׁמָהּ

― Bircas HaTorah

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