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If you are in middle school or high school, come learn with us this summer. If you are a college student and beyond, check out our summer Kollel in New York City, our vibrant Beit Midrash programming in Israel, and, of course, for year-round study, Yeshivat Drisha.
There are no seasonal festivities on the Jewish calendar between Shavuot and Rosh Hashanah. Because of this, Tisha B’Av is by default the major calendrical observance of the Summer months. Beforehand, we build up to it for Three Weeks, beginning on 17 Tammuz; afterward, we pivot from its themes of despair and lowliness to Elul & Tishrei’s more hopeful themes of repentance and rebuilding.
The haftarot assigned to the weeks surrounding Tisha B’av trace this path for us. Each Shabbat in the Three Weeks, we read one of the “Three Haftarot of Punishment,” prophecies of doom and well-deserved downfall that establish the seasonal mood.
As soon as the fast has passed, we move to a sequence of “Seven Haftarot of Comfort,” readings designed to reassure and revivify our spirits after the period of intense mourning. These latter haftarot hold our hand and bring us back from the brink of guilt and doom, shepherding us to the High Holidays and our chance at redemption.
Join us for ten sessions of text study and get more familiar with some of the most beautiful, evocative, and gripping — but also challenging — haftarot of the year.
Videos release each Sunday.
Join Rabbi David Silber for Mishnah Keilim! This course is a presentation of the Rifka Rosenwein Z”L Mishnah Division. And join Drisha’s Mishna Yomit community! Working with the most standard daily mishnah study schedule, you will join a group of committed learners who dedicate time each day for the study of 1-2 mishnayot. Over a period of weeks and months of regular study, you will complete Tractates and even entire Orders of Mishnah!
To anchor and support your individual learning, Drisha’s Mishnah Yomit program includes a Mishnah Yomit b’Iyun (in-depth) shiur. In this shiur, you will have the opportunity to review portions of recently covered material, and to go deeper into select elements of the text (e.g. core concepts discussed; how the mishnayot interpret and interact with the biblical background; the literary structure and reception history of the unit) — all within the context of a collaborative community of fellow learners.
Masechet Keilim will be covered in three class videos, one each month from June to August.
Drisha is excited to bring Rabbi Dr. Joshua Kulp’s popular “Daf Shevui” program under our umbrella!
Daf Shevui is a daily Talmud study program in which participants learn one daf (folio) of Talmud each week—a more manageable pace than the traditional Daf Yomi cycle. This program is ideal for both beginners seeking to enter the world of Talmud study and advanced learners looking to engage with the Talmud daily, while joining a vibrant community of students learning together at the same steady pace. We will begin September 7th with the second chapter of Bava Metzia, a chapter that address lost objects. Complete translation and explication for the first chapter is available upon request.
There are two ways to sign up:
Option 1: Emails ($5/mo). Six days a week an email will be sent that includes the original Hebrew/Aramaic, a translation and an explanation of one-sixth of the Daf being learned that week. In this way, the recipient will join hundreds of other students participating in this program on a daily basis.
Option 2: Live shiur and emails ($36/mo). In addition to the emails, participants will have the opportunity to join a once a week live, participatory, Zoom class with Rabbi Joshua Kulp during which the Daf will be reviewed, additional perspectives will be provided and questions addressed.