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Yeshivat Yesodei
Posted by Moishe Alexander
Yeshivat Yesodei HaTorah is a dynamic, innovative and unique institution which has quickly established its reputation as the yeshiva for students who want to learn how to learn on their own. By merging the Torah ideals of a traditional yeshiva with the cutting-edge educational methodology, Yesodei HaTorah is proud to have become an exemplary yeshiva, acclaimed by students, parents, and educators alike.
Discover one of the finest yeshivot in Israel – a yeshiva where you learn how to learn, where you analyze the classics of Torah Judaism, where your individual talents and goals are respected and celebrated, where you study with top-notch educators who give unmatched personal attention. Discover Yeshivat Yesodei HaTorah.
“Yesodei HaTorah” means “Foundations of the Torah.” Our carefully designed, systematic skills development curriculum builds the foundation of a life of independent Torah study. Without skills, independent learning is impossible.
We impart the Foundations of Torah – the skills and knowledge on which a Torah life is built.
Yeshivat Yesodei HaTorah is the yeshiva in which you become an independently skillful ben Torah. In addition to Gemara, you become closely acquainted with the other foundational texts of Torah Judaism. Our outstanding faculty will teach you the classics of Jewish Philosophy, Chumash with Rashi and Ramban, Nach, Mishnayot, and the central works of Halacha, enabling you to become a knowledgeable, skillful, and well-rounded Jewish adult.
Yeshivat Yesodei HaTorah is also well-known for its strong emphasis on your individuality. Every student at Yesodei HaTorah is treated as an individual who has his own unique Torah path, whose independent personality will be celebrated. The yeshiva’s goal is to help you become the finest, most educated Torah Jew you can be, while remaining true to your own individuality and personality.
Yeshivat Yesodei HaTorah boasts an exceptionally talented faculty, which prides itself on giving personal attention to every student, and on establishing lasting relationships with each individual in the yeshiva. Our small shiurim and extraordinary faculty-to-student ratio ensure that you become an integral part of the Yesodei HaTorah community.
Kupat Hair
Posted by Moishe Alexander
Kupat Hatzedoko Matan Beseter Elad distributes regular monthly grants as well as vouchers for food and clothing. From time to time the Kupat Hatzedoko awards a large sum of money to particular cases where danger to life is involved. The Kupa has a number of funds to support Kollel students, and large and single-parent families.
The Kupa has a special fund which subsidizes private lessons for children in distress or with learning difficulties. It also has a joint fund with Yad Eliezer and others, too. The Kupa recently set up a fund to help with urgent medical expenses and it has already been instrumental in saving lives.
Gedolei Yisroel have warm words of praise for the Kupat Hatzedoko of Elad. HaRav Aharon Leib Steinman reviews the work of the Kupa and from time to time HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, HaRav Shmuel Auerbach and other well-known rabbonim answer the halachic queries that arise.
The organizers have seen tens of miraculous stories that have occurred in the merit of donations to the Kupat HAIR.
The heads of the Kupa are proud of the fact that other charity organizations have chosen to model themselves on the Kupa of Elad!
“Giving tzedoko to Kupat HAIR Matan Beseter Elad is a big mitzvah,” according to HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, who warmly encourages those who support the Kupat Hatzedoko of the Torah city of Elad.
Vaad Harabbanim
Posted by admin in Aid Services, Alexander, HaGaon, Rabbi Efraim Levit, Torah on September 23rd, 2009
The Vaad Harabbanim has long been considered the symbol of charity for residents of Israel, and there is almost no one who hasn’t heard about its wonderful work, whether in establishing special funds for widows and orphans or rehabilitating broken families or helping children in distress and the desperately ill. It is hard to imagine how life in Israel would be without the existence of this most worthy organization.
Moishe Alexander was endorsed this charity and asks for the help of the community to help fund the Vaad Harabbanim
What is The Vaad Harabbanim?
The Vaad Harabbanim is an organization that was founded by Gedolei Hador, shlita, in order to supervise all charitable matters in Israel. Until its inception, there was no real control or organization to charitable donations and causes, with the very number of charitable funds being overwhelming, as well as problems like knowing if one’s donation really reached its goal, how monies were spent, reviews and audits of activities, and more.
As the economic situation worsened, it became even harder to ensure that charitable funds could be properly monitored, especially for large families in the Chareidi sector.
Understanding the scope of the problem, as well as the large number of unsupervised charitable organizations and the growing lack of trust among donors regarding their generosity’s destination, it was decided to establish a single, central organization that would be directed, operated, supervised and audited by dedicated and honest Rabbinical leaders. Each request for help would be carefully examined, criteria would be set, and every case would be followed up and reviewed to ensure honesty, transparency and that a person’s hard-earned donation reached its destination in full.
Thanks to its wide acceptance of the entire Chareidi world, the Vaad was able to establish a much wider donor base and therefore meet many more needs of an ever increasing poor and economically underprivileged population.
And so it was, the Vaad was established, rapidly becoming the largest and most central charity fund in Israel.
The Wheel of Fortune and Salvation
But the results surprised even the founders. Within a very short time, the Vaad’s reputation preceded it, and donations increased ten-fold, with the more veteran Gabbaim saying that the Israel before the founding of the Vaad is totally different than the Israel after the organization’s establishment.
The Vaad still serves as Israel’s largest charity fund, and has become the wheel of fortune and salvation for tens of thousands of tragic cases annually. The Vaad has helped countless widows, orphans, families and individuals overcome abject poverty, broken lives, broken families and dealing with fatal and near-fatal illness. In fact, the Vaad is so comprehensive and broad in its clientele base and so honest and efficient in its distribution of funds, that the Posek Hador Harav Hagaon S. Wozner, shlita, has said: “The Vaad Harabbainim is the very essence of charity in its fullest sense, unlike anything else in history.”
Whom to Give?
Naturally, some of the most difficult and tragic cases come to the Vaad for help, due to its size and scope. Even starving children are not an uncommon sight in the Vaad offices.
And it is certainly no pleasure when the Gabbaim enter a home to investigate a particular request and are greeted with peeling walls, disconnected electricity and phone, worn-out mattresses on the floor, and filthy children dressed in rags, not to mention empty cupboards and refrigerators or a father who works until late leaving a sickly and exhausted wife to cope with children and all the problems.
The only address for such cases is the Vaad, but the activities don’t stop there. Seeing its role as being the largest and most centralized charity fund, the Vaad also handles “regular” needs, like making sure a child receives proper dental care, psychological counseling and the like, which can be no less important than feeding a hungry child.