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Since 2003, Midreshet Tehillah has provided an environment Machshevet Yisrael: At Midreshet The Tehillah Track is for students to discover unimagined depths in themselves and Tehillah, students develop a the classic Midreshet Torah. Our alumnae continue to expresshakarat hatov for what sensitivity to the depth, subtlety Tehillah program with a they gained from the school even years after graduation. They are and complexity of Torah. We engage lively classroom-based active in one another’s lives, and keep contact with staff. sources from Tanach, , interactive lecture/ Halacha, Midrash, Machshava, discussion format. With an average of 55 girls in Shana Alef, we give strong Chassidut, and Classes are focused individual attention to every student. to gain a nuanced understanding around a central of their underlying issues and text rather than the Our professional and experienced team combines strong implications. Our students come to unanchored opinions academic credentials and broad life experience with a genuine appreciate that, rather than a collection of insights, Torah presents us of the teachers, with desire to connect with talmidot. This results in an educational with a powerful, integrated vision of reality and self which transforms the text translated experience which is profound, yet practical and personal. our world. and discussed in the context of the group.

Personal Religious Growth: The Tehillah Track is At Midreshet Tehillah we designed for students who prefer this style of learning or for those guide each student to grow who do not yet have the skills to learn text on a sophisticated level religiously in a manner on their own. The track includes some Beit Midrash time to enable structured to her individual students to develop their skills, with flexibility to add more for character, strengths, and those who wish to put a stronger emphasis on this aspect of needs while enhancing her their growth. self-awareness, self-respect, and sensitivity to others. The Beit Midrash Track has a chavruta-based Beit Midrash format. Many classes (including Night Seder) have Klal Yisrael: At Midreshet Tehillah we encourage each talmida significant chavruta time, with teachers on hand to help guide to form her unique self in the context of her connection to and students through texts when needed. This track is designed for participation in Klal students with good skills Yisrael. Through chesed who are interested in commitments each student learning to derive meaning takes an active role in the life directly from sources, of the Jewish people. And Midreshet Tehillah is housed on the beautiful and spacious rather than hearing it through meeting families Neve Yerushalayim campus, which hosts numerous seminary already filtered through a and communities, classes, and college programs. It is a secure, gated facility in on teacher’s understanding. experiences, encounters, and the outskirts of Yerushalayim. Conveniently located near a major This style of learning covers endless conversations, they shopping area, the campus is just a short bus ride from the Kotel less material, but this is begin to gain a sense for how and the center of town. offset by the additional they want to live their lives depth and integration of Our talmidot are primarily from Yeshiva High Schools and and raise their families in today’s complex Jewish world. understanding that result out-of-town Beit Yaakovs. They come from the United States, from the effort and creativity that are invested in the text. We encourage our students England, Europe, Australia, South Africa, South and Central Eretz Yisrael: to view the opportunity to learn Torah and America, and Mexico. The group often includes Baalei Teshuva Students will significantly improve their basic reading, translation, live in Eretz Yisrael as a privilege, and an and NCSY students. All share a strong commitment to Halacha and and comprehension skills. More importantly, they will learn the incredible opportunity to experience our past growth, but bring a variety of perspectives to how that looks. The skills of independent Torah thinking: how to properly interpret as it meets our future. We want our students contrast allows students to understand themselves more clearly. texts in their wider context and develop their own original, high to bond with their Land by trekking its trails, Neve Yerushalayim’s presence adds another level of diversity to quality Divrei Torah. walking in the places where the Tanach they the campus. Though coming from very different backgrounds, study actually happened, and engaging the The Midreshet Tehillah Shana Bet Program allows students Neve students and Midreshet Tehillah students share a common issues that animate both their own lives and who have completed a Shana Alef program to take their studies direction of growth, and each group gains inspiration from the that of the modern State of Israel. to new levels of depth and, more importantly, to new levels of other. personal integration.