"You peered through the glass ceiling and observed the heavens smiling and beckoning above. So, without fanfare, confrontation or acrimony, you gently lifted open a window in the ceiling and taught the rest of us that the sky is the limit if your heart is with Heaven." Dr. Norman Lamm of Yeshiva University, upon conferring Programs of StudyNishmat students are serious about their Judaism. They expect to delve deeply into Torah learning. They aim to grow intellectually and spiritually. Nishmat unites native Israelis and Americans, Ethiopians and Europeans in a cohesive learning community. We seek to develop leaders to contribute to Jewish life. Nishmat offers intensive programs of text-based Torah study for beginners to advanced scholars. Whether you are probing your heritage for the first time, or have been learning Torah your whole life, Nishmat has a program for you. Click here to find out more. |
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Creating Leaders
Nishmat Founder Rabbanit Chana Henkin's pioneering efforts to open the highest reaches of Jewish learning to women have produced the Yoatzot Halacha, Jewish history's first women trained to address women's halachic issues. The Yoatzot have won widespread rabbinic support and public acclaim and are spearheading an enhanced contribution of women to religious life and leadership.
Nishmat's Women's Halachic Hotline, staffed by the Yoatzot Halacha, has received thousands of calls from Israel and abroad, on issues in taharat hamishpacha, intimate personal and family matters, as well as fertility and women's health. Under the supervision of rabbinical authorities, the Yoatzot contribute a woman's perspective to halachic questions, and enable women to feel ownership of their religious lives.
Click here to ask the yoetzet
Creating Educators
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YACHDAV: A new kind of Jewish educator. Nishmat's groundbreaking YACHDAV program is training a new kind of Jewish educator. Yachdav students are preparing to teach Jewish studies in Israel's secular schools and connect secular Israeli youth with their Jewish roots. They are also learning how to reawaken spiritual excitement among religious high school youngsters, and to enable them to experience personal ownership of their Torah learning in a bet midrash environment.
"When we prepare to teach Tanach and Torah in secular schools, we break stereotypes about each other. They learn to respect our tradition, we learn about their lives. Learning together bridges the distance between us."
Merav Blumberg, Nishmat Yachdav Student, Karnei Shomron, Israel
A Second Chance for Ethiopian Jews
As young children, many of Nishmat's Ethiopian students walked across the Sudanese desert from one century to another, to be airlifted to Israel in Operation Solomon. Sadly, many of their early dreams have given way to the deprivations of poverty. Nishmat's Ma'ayan program combines Torah learning and a second chance at high school matriculation and a better future. For more information, click here.
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Contact: NISHMAT 26a Berel Locker Street, Pat Neighborhood,Jerusalem 93282 ISRAEL
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Women's Halachic Hotline: +972-2-640-4343 Toll free from the United States and Canada: 1-877-963-8938