(Yiddish: place of sitting) In Judaism: 1. An academy of Talmud studies. 2. The main educational institution of traditional Judaism, with an all-male student body usually ranging in age from early teens to mid-20s.
Jewish religious seminary.
School of traditional Jewish study. Although traditionally, only for males, today there are some yeshivot for females, as well.
(ye-SHEE-vah) n. Yeshiva; oldest institute of Jewish learning. Rabbinical seminary.
A Jewish school theological college.
College for the study of the Torah and Talmud
(pl. Yeshivas) Torah academy for advanced studies.
A school for studying Torah primarily, but may include other subjects such as math and history when the Yeshiva is the primary school for the community.
A Jewish School Of Learning
a Jewish religious study school
a Jewish school where young children study both Jewish learning and English
an academy of higher Jewish learning in the direct chain of the millenial academic tradition of the Jewish people
an Orthodox Jewish study school where portions of the Old Testament and Jewish writings, such as the Talmud, are studied and chanted
a place of Jewish religious study
a rabbinical school that produces rabbis of the Jewish religion
a school and the word derived from the root lashevet, which means to sit
a school to learn the skill of analyzing and asking probing questions
a school where we study the Torah
An academy for study of the Talmud.
A seminary of Jewish studies.
Talmudic and Torah academy
a Jewish day school for Orthodox boys. p. 100
(pl., yeshivot) Traditional rabbinical school for the study of Talmud (q.v.).
Yeshiva or yeshivah (Hebrew: ישיבה pl. yeshivot or yeshivos) is an institution for Torah study and the study of Talmud primarily within Orthodox Judaism and primarily attended by males. Yeshiva is the "generic" name for the entire system of schools that teach Torah, Mishnah and Talmud, to all ages.