Why Spend a Semester in Yeshiva?
Dear Rabbi,
I’m an undergrad at a private college, doing really w
ell and working hard to get into graduate school. I’m also very active with Chabad on campus. My Chabad rabbi has been bugging me to take off one semester to study in a yeshiva “some time before graduate school.” It’s still not clear to me what this yeshiva place is all about, and definitely not clear why I should take off in the middle of my studies to go there.
I really like this rabbi, I guess I’m just not getting it. Can you clarify some of this?
—A Student
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A student in Yeshiva Gedola Berlin published an article for Tu BiShvat in Judische Allgemeine newspaper.
All the members of the Jewish community of Nurnberg certainly have noticed that a Shabbat Parashat Vaera was different than any other Shabbat they’ve recently had. It is because on that Shabes the community hosted a Shabbaton of the Yeshiva Gedola of Berlin together with the Yeshiva Gedola of Frankfurt-am-Mein.
London, Vilnius, Frankfurt, Nurnberg, Munich – here are names of only a few of the cities, where students came from to participate in a wonderful Shabbaton that was arranged by the Yeshiva Gedola of Berlin on the Shabbat of Chanukah.
When the Yeshiva Gedola of Berlin together with Rabbi Gamson and his family arrived in the city of Nordhausen, it was a great joy for the local Jewish community. The Jewish community of Nordhausen is relatively small – only 30 families. So when a Yeshiva comes to town, it is a big and exciting event. The Shabbaton was made possible by the efforts of both the head of the community in Nordhausen, Mr. Yakov Egbone, and by the Rosh Yeshiva of the Yeshiva Gedola – Rabbi Uri Gamson.
Right before the Rosh Hashanah of 5772, the Yeshiva Gedola of Berlin was honored by a visit of Dr Dieter Graumann, who is the president of a Central Council of Jews in Germany, and the Secretary General of the organization - Herr Stefan Krammer.
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I took a little break from the university to come and study at Yeshiva Gedola Berlin. Learning Chassidic philosophy gave me a new aspect to life that I never had before. Judaism now is not only a tradition, but something live and exciting that gives me a special taste to life.
David Santana, Medicine, Erlangen University, Germany
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