Study Programs

• Beginners
• Intermediate
• Advanced

Advanced Program:

In the advanced track, geared towards students with a strong text study background, you will gain spiritual insights into your Judaism, enhance your learning skills, further challenge yourself and widen your knowledge with new ideas and material. Specially formulated week-long courses in Tanach provide both methodology and scholarship. Classes are personal and interactive, enabling both an extensive interchange of ideas between students and teachers and also a unique opportunity to strengthen your study skills.

With the exception of short machshava and halachah classes which frame your day, all classes are chevruta based. In the mornings you will learn with outstanding women scholars immerse yourself in the world of Tanach and deal with topics related to our theme and to Bein Ha'Metzrim (The three week mourning period). Afternoons will be devoted to Torah Sh'Baal Peh, gemara and halachah on the issues of our relationship with the nations. This year you will also benefit from a morning series of special guest lectures by exceptional and learned women from different backgrounds with different perspectives on our theme.

Students study texts in the original Hebrew and Aramaic. The languages of instruction are Hebrew and English.

Texts are studied in the original Hebrew and Aramaic and some of the classes themselves will be taught in Hebrew.

Nishmat Summer Schedule - 2010