What hashkafic approach should I look for in a yeshiva?

When people would ask my rebbe, Rabbi Green, what the hashkafa or Torah outlook of our yeshiva was, he would often laugh? Why? Because he believed that, for many people the so-called search for a particular “hashkafa” was a codeword for, “I already have preconceived notions and I want to find a yeshiva that conforms to those notions”.

This, of course, bothered Rabbi Green. His belief is that one’s outlook should never be anything more than the conclusions derived from correct analysis of Torah sources, as opposed to being a collection of untested ideas from ostensibly credible Torah sources.

That being said, Rabbi Green would conclude that if the person really meant to ask how the yeshiva derives its Torah conclusions, then he has a simple answer. The yeshiva studies the Torah sources the way the rabbis taught us to learn them, in the tradition of the yeshivas that has been unbroken for all of Jewish history.

Rabbi Nissim Tagger, Rosh Yeshiva