Where Torah, Israel and Chesed Come Alive! Midreshet Neve Michael - Pardes Hana, Israel Midreshet Neve Michael (MNM) Midreshet Neve Michael is something new on the Israeli landscape. Living Torah Located in Emunah’s Neve Michael The world of Torah is waiting for you. Children’s Village in Pardes Hana, Midreshet Neve Michael is a beacon of Torah light that will ignite your Israel, this bold initiative for highly curiosity and provide both religious, intellectual and creative stimulation. motivated religious Zionist young women is unique and offers an You will be enlightened with the wealth of knowledge that emanates from the innovative educational model. teachings of the Rambam, Rav Soloveichik, HaRav Kook and many other great Judaic scholars. Are YOU looking Torah classes will be conducted on a high academic level and include various for a life-changing learning styles. Midreshet Neve Michael encourages critical thinking and encounter? open dialogue with the texts, enabling you to achieve new levels of learning, and to reach new horizons of personal meaning and inspiration. MNM presents you with the opportunity to spend a year, There will be weekly Havruta with our Israeli Midrasha students and classes enrich your knowledge of will often include innovative projects like experiential evenings which will Torah, experience Israel exercise the body and nourish the spirit. and “hands on” chesed while living in Emunah’s Neve Michael Children’s Village in Pardes Hana. You will be 10 minutes from Zichron Yaakov and Caeserea in the lower Galilee, with the Carmel mountains to the north and Bet Shean Valley to the east. Sounds beautiful? It is. Experience Israel What a stimulating concept and experience: Walking in the footsteps of Jewish history as you explore Israel. Discover Midreshet Neve Michael’s fun and inspiring tiyulim that will strengthen your connection to the land of Israel and give you a better understanding of your place in the flow of our people’s history. Midreshet Neve Michael’s trips are organized in chronological sequence so that you will start in Biblical times and continue forward until modern- day Israel. You will embark on rich and rewarding educational excursions throughout Israel; for example, in the Carmel Mountains, Bet Shean, the Hula Valley and the Golan Heights. You will take field trips with Bible in hand and walks on the beach into breathtaking Mediterranean sunsets. Gemilut Midreshet Neve Michael’s Campus Imagine waking Chassadim up in the morning You cannot envision how this is in your air- going to change YOUR life. conditioned, modern bedroom Imagine living in and becoming part with an adjoining of this community, with 280 children bathroom and at risk who are waiting just for you to enjoying the become a part of their lives. availability of free wireless internet. In Emunah’s Neve Michael Children’s Home, you will be given an opportunity to The pathways of volunteer Sheirut Leumi style. You will become flowers and the lush involved in various aspects of the children’s daily green landscape lives; from meal preparation with the children in Emunah’s Neve to tutoring English, and from creating interactive Michael Children’s activities to tucking these children into bed at night. Village provides an esthetic and relaxing In addition, you will join the children in their environment. community outreach programs; such as meeting Holocaust survivors, volunteering in a home for children Your stay at with special needs, visiting the elderly in an old age Midreshet Neve home, distributing food to the needy, and more. Michael will include living In all of these experiences you will be able to utilize accommodations, your unique individual talents and explore your all classes, trips and resourcefulness in a framework where your efforts are outings, Shabbatot, most needed and the rewards for everyone will be 3 daily kosher great. lemehadrin meals Without a doubt, you will make a difference in the and snacks, 24-hour lives of Neve Michael’s children while at the same security and medical time enriching your individual world with acts of insurance. chesed and kindness. BEKIYUT - A review of Nevi’im and Ketuvim new growth and discovery within our hearts, TaNaKh and Current Events - Reading the news How can it be that millions of non-Jews have a minds, and souls. on a regular basis in Israel, we find a steady better grasp of the breadth of TaNaKh than that stream of stories related to the TaNaKh. Living What of Jewish day school graduates? Some parts of Art Midrash - How have visual artists and poets in the land of the TaNaKh provides for us with a Nach have not been studied at all and others throughout the centuries depicted Biblical constant flow of archaeological discoveries that merely once. This course remedies that gap while scenes? Are they accurately portraying nuances in shed light on Biblical issues and figures. providing inspiration for further in-depth study. the text? Did the sages and commentaries see the story the same way? How would you portray the Nevua: Then and Now - What is Nevua? How we will Parasha Be’iyun with Prof. Nehama Leibowitz emotion that is often not explicitly expressed in did prophets receive inspiration? What core z”l - An in-depth analysis of various topics in the Torah text? This is a truly hands-on course for messages did they share that impacted the entire Torah through the keen eyes of the classical all. There is no need to consider yourself an artist world? What can we receive from the Nevi’im? Is commentaries. What are the apparent problems to gain from this class. Nevua possible today? This is a deep look into the in the text? How does each commentator offer overall themes and the specific messages that we תנ“ך study? a solution? What caused them to take such Torah and Today’s World - Finding relevant encounter in studying Nevi’im. TaNaKh views? What do you think? The trailblazing messages to our contemporary lives. We will path Prof. Leibowitz explore: Family Dynamics in Bereishit - Themes Seasonal Selections and Meaningful Megillot initiated in TaNaKh include: Parent-child relationships; sibling rivalry; Selections from Yona - Following our missions; study gives her a love and marriage; etc. Sh’mot and Tekumat Possibilities of change; Universalism. Kohelet place amongst the Medinat Yisrael - compare and contrast ancient – The meaning of Life, Friendship, Happiness, most significant Egyptian and twentieth century anti-Semitism; etc. Mishlei - Advice for a life of wisdom, women in all of social and political themes which Shemot offers knowledge, understanding, Yirat Hashem. Esther Jewish history! to modern Israel; the struggles & difficulties along - Revealing the hidden. Shir HaShirim - Searching with achievements and triumphs in becoming for love, and more. Rut - kindness, modesty, Between The a nation; and experiencing Divine revelation transformation, etc. "Mount Sinai" courtesy of artist Yoram Raanan artist Yoram of courtesy Sinai" "Mount Lines, Midrashic in history. Holiness in Vayikra and in our Lives Journeys in Torah - What is holiness? What is purity? How does Eishet Hayil in Depth – An in depth and thorough and in Ourselves “Torat Kohanim” provide us with insight and analysis of the famous section from Mishlei. The Torah invites the inspiration as to living holy and pure lives? Crisis What does it mean on a simple level? What reader to dialogue and Leadership in B’midbar - How should we are the deeper meanings hidden within the with the text. We, learn from the models of leadership we see in pesukim? Who is it talking about? What are the with the guidance of this sefer? How can we learn from the various lessons for modern Jewish women? sages and teachers downfalls and the ways in which Am Yisrael throughout the bounced back? Devarim, Preparation for Eretz generations, and Yisrael - An examination of the speeches, mitzvot, Tehillim in Depth - Why is Tehillim so important our own unique songs, and blessings that pave the way for that it is from them that our prayers in times of perspectives, entrance into Israel. both celebration and tragedy are taken? We will contribute new examine overall themes and structures as well as understandings and Parashat Hashavua in Lashon HaKodesh a detailed analysis of some chapters of probably deeper meanings to Students will gain both textual skills and the greatest work of literature in the history of the the Biblical narratives. knowledge of Biblical and modern Hebrew while world! The Torah inspires studying the weekly Torah portion. Women in TaNaKh - We will Mishnayot Bekiyut - A fast-paced and learning skills that will Bein Adam LeHaveiro study as well as those with begin with the role of women in journey through Seder Z’raim and last a lifetime. We will also with an understanding some background. Why did Moed with a huge siyum at the explore the ideas that make of its development from the dean of a prestigious תורה שבעל פה the TaNaKh, and then embark on an extensive exploration of some end. In-depth analysis of various keeping Halakha more than the Gemara, Rishonim, law school say that students of the Biblical heroines that you The Wonderful mishnayot and perakim with a list of “do-nots”, but rather Hafetz Hayim, and P’ninei with a background in thought you knew well, and some interesting wording that impart a living expression of our Halakha. Students will Talmud study have an you may not know about at all. World of the Sages key messages, and that teach some faith and values. gain both knowledge and advantage? deeper values than learning skills that will last What timeless messages can they Hilkhot Kashrut from Lamdanut - Talmudic meet the eye. a lifetime.