A branch of the

Telshe Yeshiva Telshe Yeshiva (also spelled ''Telz'') is a yeshiva in Wickliffe, Ohio, formerly located in Telšiai, Lithuania. During World War II the yeshiva began relocating to Wickliffe, Ohio, in the United States and is now known as the Rabbinical College ...

, the Yeshiva of Telshe Alumni is located in the Hudson Hill section of Riverdale, a neighborhood of

the Bronx The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New Y ...

New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Un ...

. It was founded in the early 1980s by Rabbi Avraham Ausband, a grandson of Rabbi

Avraham Yitzchak Bloch Avraham Yitzchak Bloch ( he, אברהם יצחק בלוך; 1891–1941) was the '' Rosh yeshiva'' of the Telz Yeshiva in Lithuania, and one of the greatest pre-Holocaust rabbinic figures. Early life Avraham Yitchak Bloch was born in 1891 and was ...

, the Telzer Rav; by Rabbi Yaakov Reisman, a son-in-law of Telzer Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi

Mordechai Gifter Mordechai Gifter (October 15, 1915 - January 18, 2001) was an American Haredi rabbi. He was the rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Telz Yeshiva in Cleveland, and among the foremost religious leaders of Orthodox Jewry in the late 20th century. Gifter st ...

; and by a talmid (Heb: student) of Rabbi

, Rabbi Yosef Chaim Libersohn, who came from Argentina for this purpose. The Yeshiva, with an enrollment of approximately two hundred, is currently headed by Harav Ausband Shlita. The Yeshiva building, located at West 249th Street and Independence Avenue, across the street from

Wave Hill Wave Hill is a estate in the Hudson Hill section of Riverdale in the Bronx, New York City. Wave Hill currently consists of public horticultural gardens and a cultural center, all situated on the slopes overlooking the Hudson River, with exp ...

, formerly housed the Manhattan Hebrew High School until it ceased operations at the end of the 1980–81 school year. The building at 640 West 249th Street was originally constructed around 1929 as a mansion for Anthony Campagna, a prominent real estate developer.

Learning style

The method of Talmudic study at the Yeshiva is based on the Rabbi Boruch Ber Lebowitz style of the

Brisker method The Brisker method, or Brisker ''derech'', is a reductionistic approach to Talmud study innovated by Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik of Brisk (Brest, Belarus), as opposed to the traditional approach which was rather holistic. It has since become popular ...

which is known for its hair-splitting "chilukim" (conceptual Talmudic distinctions) that are often hard to grasp unless one dwells on it for many hours. This style of learning can potentially greatly limit the number of blatt in the Talmud that will be studied during each semester. The Rosh Yeshiva, referred to as ''Rebbi'' by his students, delivers a daily Gemara

Shiur Shiur (, , lit. ''amount'', pl. shiurim ) is a lecture on any Torah topic, such as Gemara, Mishnah, Halakha (Jewish law), Tanakh (Bible), etc. History The Hebrew term שיעור ("designated amount") came to refer to a portion of Ju ...

, with a follow-up Shiur, called ''huddle'' by the students, after evening services. Students will then spend hours engrossed in analyzing the shiur to fully understand the Lomdus. The Yeshiva has a reputation for being one of the premier American yeshivas, in part due to its intensive and rigorous schedule, but also because of the carefully selected students, who are big "masmidim".

Magidei shiur

The maggidei shiur in the Yeshiva of Telshe Alumni are of the highest caliber. Rabbi Fromowitz is a ninth grade (''machlaka alef'', as it is called in Telz) maggid shiur. His main focus in

shiur Shiur (, , lit. ''amount'', pl. shiurim ) is a lecture on any Torah topic, such as Gemara, Mishnah, Halakha (Jewish law), Tanakh (Bible), etc. History The Hebrew term שיעור ("designated amount") came to refer to a portion of Ju ...

is to introduce the bochurim to the learning style of Brisk and lomdus in general. The tenth grade or Machlaka Beis Magid Shiur is Rabbi Avraham Swerdloff who learnt in Yeshivas Beis HaTalmud in his younger years. His brother Rabbi Elya Chaim Swerdloff is currently Rosh HaYeshiva in Paterson, New Jersey. R' Avraham Swerdloff often says torah from R' Nochum Partzovitz. The dean, Rabbi Ausband, gives the shiur for the second through fourth years.

References

Education in the Bronx Lithuanian-American culture in New York City Lithuanian-Jewish culture in New York (state) Orthodox yeshivas in New York City Riverdale, Bronx Jews and Judaism in the Bronx {{NYC-school-stub