Full-Year Yeshiva Track

Nativers in the Yeshiva Track have a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in a year of intensive study at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem. Over the course of the year, their Talmud and text study skills improve immensely as their passion for learning grows. Nativ Yeshiva students also participate in leadership training, as well as exciting travel and volunteer opportunities around Israel throughout the year.

The Conservative Yeshiva

The Conservative Yeshiva was founded in 1995 to meet the need for serious learning in a co-educational and open-minded setting. The Yeshiva quickly established an excellent reputation for its learned and supportive faculty, highly motivated students, in-depth learning, and welcoming community. Students at the Yeshiva come from many different backgrounds and from around the world. Some are professionals taking a year off from their careers to pursue Jewish learning. Others are students taking a year during or after college to come to Jerusalem and study in a Conservative Jewish setting. Each and every student is there to learn lishma, purely for the sake of learning, and has the opportunity to gain the skills and inspiration to continue Jewish learning and practice throughout their lives.

Classes: Learning Lishma

Nativers at the Conservative Yeshiva attend Talmud, Halacha, and Tanach classes with the other Conservative Yeshiva students and enjoy special classes exclusively for Nativ participants in Philosophy, Conservative Judaism, Zionism and Modern Israel. Students benefit from the unique setting of the Conservative Yeshiva, which offers a synthesis of traditional and critical methods of Jewish study, allowing Jewish texts and tradition to encounter social change and modern scholarship.

The Beit Midrash

The Beit Midrash is the focal point of the Conservative Yeshiva. In it, surrounded by a beautiful library of sifrei kodesh and reference books, students and faculty learn from one another as they engage with Jewish texts. The buzz of the Beit Midrash is a unique and stimulating sound.

Chevruta and Shiur

Nativers at the Yeshiva learn in a traditional setting, combining chevruta study and shiurim. Chevruta study is an age-old method of Jewish text study in which two students learn a text together. It gives students an opportunity to explore and struggle with the text together as they learn from one another, and often creates a unique bond between them. During shiur, teachers lead students through a discussion of the prepared text. Students raise questions and difficulties brought up during chevruta; teachers explain these challenging areas and aid the students in their struggle to understand the text. Additional resources are available in order to allow each student to get the most out of his or her learning experience.

Beyond the Yeshiva

Nativers on the Yeshiva track have the opportunity to immerse themselves in Israeli society in addition to pursuing their Yeshiva studies. Every few weeks, the group enjoys a special interest week, including tiyulim (trips) around the country, volunteer work in communities in Israel, leadership seminars, and special Shabbat programming.

Sample Yeshiva Schedule

Sunday:

• 7:00-7:15 - Halacha Yomit
• 7:20-8:15 - Shacharit
• 8:15-8:45 - Breakfast
• 8:45-12:30 - Talmud
• 12:30-1:40 - Lunch
• 1:40-2:00 - Mincha
• 2:00-3:15 - Ulpan/Later prophets
• 3:20-6:15 - Chumash/Advanced Bible
• 6:15 - Ma'ariv
• 6:30 - Dinner
• 7:00 - Women and Halacha

Monday:

• 7:00-7:15 - Halacha Yomit
• 7:20-8:15 - Shacharit
• 8:15-8:45 - Breakfast
• 8:45-12:30 - Talmud
• 12:30-1:40 - Lunch
• 1:40-2:00 - Mincha
• 2:00-3:15 - Ulpan/Nusach
• 3:20-6:15 - Advanced Midrash/Liturgy/Bekiut Mishna/Gemilut Hesed Project
• 6:15 - Ma'ariv
• 6:30 - Dinner
• 7:00 - Night Seder

Tuesday:

• 7:00-7:15 - Halacha Yomit
• 7:20-8:15 - Shacharit
• 8:15-8:45 - Breakfast
• 8:45-12:30 - Talmud
• 12:30-1:40 - Lunch
• 1:40-2:00 - Mincha
• 2:00-3:15 - Ulpan/Biblical grammar
• 3:20-6:15 - Zionism and Modern Philosophy
• 6:15 - Ma'ariv
• 6:30 - Dinner
• 7:00 - Modern Jewish Philosophy

Wednesday:

• 7:00-7:15 - Halacha Yomit
• 7:20-8:15 - Shacharit
• 8:15-8:45 - Breakfast
• 8:45-12:30 - Talmud
• 12:30-1:40 - Lunch
• 1:40-2:00 - Mincha
• 2:00-3:15 - Ulpan/Intro to Rabbinics
• 3:20-6:15 - Advanced Halacha/Midrash/Gemilut Hesed Project
• 6:15 - Ma'ariv
• 6:30 - Dinner
• 7:00 - The Learning Community

Thursday:

• 7:00-7:15 - Halacha Yomit
• 7:20-8:15 - Shacharit
• 8:15-8:45 - Breakfast
• 8:45-12:30 - Talmud
• 12:30-1:40 - Sicha with Rosh Yeshiva, Lunch
• 1:40-4:00 - Rambam, Mincha