Yeshiva gedolah

Yeshiva gedolah, known in the United States as bais medrash, is a type of

where students are typically in the early teens.

History

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Israel and the United States

There are several differences between yeshiva gedolahs in Israel and the United States, the most obvious one being its name: in the United States, yeshiva gedolahs are referred to as bais medrash, the same name given to Torah study halls. Another difference is that while in most yeshivas in the United States, students graduate from mesivta after twelfth grade and then go on to yeshiva gedolah, Israeli mesivtas (known in Israel as yeshiva ketana or yeshiva tichonit) go until eleventh grade, after which the students graduate to yeshiva gedolah.

Structure

Seder

The day in yeshiva gedolahs (as well as in many

Thursday nights in yeshiva gedolahs often include Mishmar (or Seder Leil Shishi) where the students stay up the whole or most of the night learning. They also eat Shabbat food that night, including cholent.^[4]

Tracks

In larger yeshivas, the students are divided in tracks by age. The grades are known by the amount of years its students were in the yeshiva. For example, the youngest track which had just completed twelfth grade (and in Israel, eleventh grade) is called "first year," the grade above them is called "second year," and so on. Historically, the oldest grade was known as a "kibutz",^[5] and some yeshivas in Israel retain this tradition, calling their older grades kibutzs.

Shiur klali

Yeshiva gedolahs often include a shiur klali, meaning "comprehensive shiur", given by the rosh yeshiva to the entire yeshiva.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Jewish day school
• Mesivta
• Yeshiva

References