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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On 27th of Adar the Yeshiva Gedola of Berlin was honored by a visit of the Touro College president - Dr Alan Kadish. After a short tour around the Yeshiva and the actual Chabad Center, Dr Kadish set down for a meeting with Rabbi Uri Gamson (the head of the Yeshiva Gedola) and Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal (the head of the Chabad Center). The meeting was about a special partnership program of the Yeshiva Gedola Berlin and Touro College that is to be launched in the beginning of the upcoming academic year.
A student in Yeshiva Gedola Berlin published an article for Tu BiShvat in Judische Allgemeine newspaper.
In 1999 a young man named Shlomo Bistritzky graduated the Yeshiva Gedola of Berlin with a rabbinical diploma. He was part of the first group of students that came to Berlin to study Jewish law and be ordained as rabbis. In 2003 R. Shlomo Bistritzky was ordained by the Chief Rabbi of Israel, Bakshi Doron, as a special rabbi to be active in Jewish diaspora. The same year him and his wife came to Hamburg to support the local Jewish community as the Shluchim (emissaries) of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
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.
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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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