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A typical Beth Midrash, Yeshivas Ner Yisroel, Baltimore Zal, Toras Emes Yeshiva, Jerusalem Beth Midrash – Machon HaGavoah LeTorah, Bar-Ilan University A beth midrash (Hebrew: בית מדרש, "House of Learning"; pl.: batei midrash), also beis medrash or beit midrash, is a hall dedicated for Torah study, often translated as a "study hall". [1]
The Jewish Teachers' Training College, Gateshead (also known as Beth Midrash Lemoroth) [1] is an all-girls school on Bewick Road in Gateshead, England. [1] [2]It is also commonly known by most people as "Gateshead Old" due to another seminary that opened later in Gateshead which is referred to as "Gateshead New".
Beth Medrash Govoha is a successor institution to Yeshivas Etz Chaim, which was located in Slutzk, in what is today Belarus. That institution was led by Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer and by Rabbi Aaron Kotler, until it was forcibly closed by the Soviet Revolution of 1917, which banned all forms of Jewish studies.
Midrash is increasingly seen as a literary and cultural construction, responsive to literary means of analysis. [47] Frank Kermode has written that midrash is an imaginative way of "updating, enhancing, augmenting, explaining, and justifying the sacred text". Because the Tanakh came to be seen as unintelligible or even offensive, midrash could ...
The Beth ha-midrash synagogue (Hebrew: בית המדרש, Czech: synagoga Bet ha-midraš) is a former Jewish synagogue and bet midrash, located in Prostějov, in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic.
In 2007, BMH merged with Beth Joseph, an Orthodox congregation founded in 1922, to become Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol-Beth Joseph. [9] [10]Prior to resigning its affiliation with the Orthodox Union (OU) at the end of 2015, it was the only OU affiliated synagogue in the country without a mechitza, thus allowing men and women to sit together.
The Nomer Tamid Synagogue (Polish: Synagoga Nomer Tamid w Białymstoku; Hebrew: בית כנסת נומר תמיד, lit. 'Synagogue of the Eternal Flame'), also known as the Nomer Tamid Beth Midrash or Ner Tamid Beth Midrasz, was a former Orthodox Jewish congregation and wooden synagogue, that was located in Białystok, in the Podlaskie Voivodeship of Poland.
Among Beth Medrash Elyon's graduates are Rabbis Yisroel Belsky, J.D. Bleich, Yosef Goldman, Nosson Scherman, Moshe Leib Rabinovich (current Munkatcher Rebbe), and Brooklyn Law School Professor Aaron Twerski. Dovid Schustal studied there and his father Rabbi Simcha Schustal was the Rosh kollel.