Yeshivat Sha'alvim is a hesder yeshiva, a kollel and a yeshiva high school for boys, located in

Kibbutz A kibbutz ( he, קִבּוּץ / , lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural: kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania. Today, farming h ...

Sha'alvim Sha'alvim ( he, שַׁעַלְבִים) is a religious kibbutz in central Israel and one of only two affiliated with Poalei Agudat Yisrael (Hafetz Haim being the other). Located near the city of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, it falls under the jurisdic ...

History

Yeshivat Sha'alvim was founded in 1961 by Meir Schlesinger, the rabbi of Kibbutz Sha'alvim. The yeshiva, like the kibbutz, was originally affiliated with

Poalei Agudat Yisrael Poalei Agudat Yisrael ( he, פועלי אגודת ישראל, , Agudat Yisrael Workers) was a trade union and Jewish political party in Poland and a minor political party in Israel. It was also known as PAI or PAGI, its Hebrew acronym (Hebrew: o ...

("Agudat Israel Workers"). Schlesinger was the

rosh yeshiva Rosh yeshiva ( he, ראש ישיבה, pl. he, ראשי ישיבה, '; 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, primar ...

for over 30 years. The yeshiva's campus includes a kollel (for ''rabbanut'' and ''dayanut''), a teachers college, a yeshiva high-school for boys, an '' ulpana'' high school for girls, an elementary school and a Talmud Torah. In the early 1990s a National Religious yishuv named

Nof Ayalon Nof Ayalon ( he, נוֹף אַיָּלוֹן, ''lit.'' Ayalon View) is a community settlement in central Israel. Located in the Ayalon Valley near Sha'alvim, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Gezer Regional Council. In , it had a population ...

was built around the Sha'alvim educational campus. Over 400 families live in the yishuv including many graduates of the yeshiva. The yeshiva also has a post-high-school seminary for girls from the United States and other countries, in Jerusalem. The yeshiva is headed by Rav Michael Yammer, son of

Max Jammer Max Jammer (מקס ימר; born Moshe Jammer, ; April 13, 1915 – December 18, 2010), was an Israeli physicist and philosopher of physics. He was born in Berlin, Germany. He was Rector and Acting President at Bar-Ilan University from 1967 to 1 ...

; the kollel is headed by Gidon Binyamin, rabbi of Nof Ayalon. In 2006 Yeshivat Sha'alvim took control of the

Isaac Breuer Isaac Breuer ( he, יצחק ברויאר; 1883–1946) was a rabbi in the German Neo-Orthodoxy movement of his maternal grandfather Samson Raphael Hirsch, and was the first president of Poalei Agudat Yisrael. Biography Isaac Breuer was born in ...

Institute (also formerly affiliated with Poalei Agudat Israel), which issues the scholarly quarterly ''HaMa'ayan''.

Overseas program

Yeshivat Sha'alvim has a program for students from countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Belgium, Hungary, South Africa and Australia. Over 100 students attend it annually. In 2004, Sha'alvim opened a women's division of its overseas program in Jerusalem. Approximately 80 young women attend the program annually and another 15 return for a second year of study.

Notable Alumni

Alumni of Yeshivat Shaalvim include: * David Hirsch,

Rosh Yeshiva Rosh yeshiva ( he, ראש ישיבה, pl. he, ראשי ישיבה, '; 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, primar ...

at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), an affiliate of Yeshiva University *

Yona Reiss Yona (Jonathan) Reiss (born 1966 in New York City) is an American rabbi, Torah scholar, attorney, lecturer, and jurist, and the current Av Beth Din of the Chicago Rabbinical Council (CRC). From 2008 to 2013 Reiss was the Max and Marion Grill Dean ...

, former dean of RIETS

References

External links

Yeshiva website
(Hebrew version)
Yeshiva website
(English version) {{DEFAULTSORT:Yeshivat Sha'Alvim

Educational institutions established in 1961 1961 establishments in Israel