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Yeshiva Opens its Doors to Torah
Kollel Yom Rishon Program Initiated
Ira Ginsberg and Shuey Jacoby
Issue date: 12/6/04 Section: Features
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For most, Sunday morning is a time for relaxation, a time to catch up on house chores, maybe even a time for a weekly flag-football game in the local park. But ask Rabbi Yaakov Wasser, rabbi of the Young Israel of East Brunswick, and he'll tell you a different tale. Every Sunday morning, he travels with members of his congregation up to Yeshiva's Wilf campus to participate in a learning program. And he is not alone. With the creation of the weekly Kollel Yom Rishon program, many men take time off from their busy lives and spend their Sunday morning learning in Yeshiva's Beit Midrash, preparing for and listening to lectures from various Roshei Yeshiva.
On Sunday, October 17, the Max Stern Division of Communal Services (MSDCS) kicked off the revolutionary learning program. The idea, first proposed by Rabbi Meir Goldwicht, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) Rosh Yeshiva, presents the working Jewish man with a great opportunity. Free of both charge and registration requirements, people from all over the metropolitan area come and participate. With this effort, Yeshiva seeks to give something back not only to their large contingent of alumni, but to New York's Jewish community at large.
At first, the program was only advertised through email and word of mouth, but due to its success, MSDCS began a small advertising campaign in various Jewish newspapers in the metropolitan area. Also, each week, the program's schedule is announced on the JM in the AM radio show.
"Yeshiva University is striving to serve our communities with initiative aimed at strengthening Jewish life and learning- through Torah seminars, Kollelim (advanced Torah study), and opening our doors to all those who wish to learn with our rabbinical students, rebbeim, and Torah scholars," Yeshiva President Richard M. Joel was quoted by yu.edu.
Every Sunday, the program invites participants to begin their day by davening on the Wilf Campus at either 7:45 or 8:10 in Morgenstern Hall, and enjoying a free breakfast afterwards. At 9:00, participants enter the main Beit Midrash in Zysman Hall and spend forty minutes preparing for that day's ensuing lectures. Each week, there is one forty minute speech about Parsha (the weekly Torah portion) and another regarding Halacha (Judaic law). Over the course of the year, the lectures are to be given by a number of the RIETS Roshei Yeshiva. The list includes community leaders such as Rabbi Meir Goldwicht, Rabbi Yaakov Neuberger, Rabbi Michael Rosensweig, Rabbi Yonason Sacks, Rabbi Herschel Schachter, Rabbi Mayer Twersky, and Rabbi Mordechai I. Willig.
On Sunday, October 17, the Max Stern Division of Communal Services (MSDCS) kicked off the revolutionary learning program. The idea, first proposed by Rabbi Meir Goldwicht, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) Rosh Yeshiva, presents the working Jewish man with a great opportunity. Free of both charge and registration requirements, people from all over the metropolitan area come and participate. With this effort, Yeshiva seeks to give something back not only to their large contingent of alumni, but to New York's Jewish community at large.
At first, the program was only advertised through email and word of mouth, but due to its success, MSDCS began a small advertising campaign in various Jewish newspapers in the metropolitan area. Also, each week, the program's schedule is announced on the JM in the AM radio show.
"Yeshiva University is striving to serve our communities with initiative aimed at strengthening Jewish life and learning- through Torah seminars, Kollelim (advanced Torah study), and opening our doors to all those who wish to learn with our rabbinical students, rebbeim, and Torah scholars," Yeshiva President Richard M. Joel was quoted by yu.edu.
Every Sunday, the program invites participants to begin their day by davening on the Wilf Campus at either 7:45 or 8:10 in Morgenstern Hall, and enjoying a free breakfast afterwards. At 9:00, participants enter the main Beit Midrash in Zysman Hall and spend forty minutes preparing for that day's ensuing lectures. Each week, there is one forty minute speech about Parsha (the weekly Torah portion) and another regarding Halacha (Judaic law). Over the course of the year, the lectures are to be given by a number of the RIETS Roshei Yeshiva. The list includes community leaders such as Rabbi Meir Goldwicht, Rabbi Yaakov Neuberger, Rabbi Michael Rosensweig, Rabbi Yonason Sacks, Rabbi Herschel Schachter, Rabbi Mayer Twersky, and Rabbi Mordechai I. Willig.