Yeshiva System

Question 1

where were young jewish boys educated in the middle ages

Answer 1

local room חדר

Question 2

how would the local חדר work

Answer 2

one rabbi - taught everyone
boys were divided into groups based on age
and most ended their education ay 11 or 12

Question 3

what if a boy was talented and had financial stable parents

Answer 3

he would learn with the rabbi of the town

Question 4

what if the boy was REALLY good

Answer 4

would be sent off to learn w/ a greater rabbi in a diff town and he would continue from Rabbbi to Rabbi building his Torah knowledge and become a rabbi himself by 19 or 20

Question 5

what was the advantage of this system

how

Answer 5

no tuition

most boys were raking care of themselves when traveling place to place

Question 6

what did rav chaim volozhin send in 1803

Answer 6

a letter to Jewish communities of Lithuania, Bellarus asking for financial support

Question 7

what did rav chaim understand about haskilim and reform

what did he view his yeshiva as

Answer 7

1) will attract young jews

2) an alternative attraction

Question 8

First Goal of his Yeshiva (what should there be)

Rav Chaim of Volozhin

Answer 8

a central location for young men to study torah w/ and cirriculum

Question 9

Second goal of his yeshiva (what would the yeshiva be)
(what did he feel)
Rav Chaim Volozhin

Answer 9

Elitist - really bright, smart guys

that competition amongst the elite would produce great ppl

Question 10

third goal of his yeshiva (where did he feel torah was best learnt - what did this do)
Chaim of Bolozhin

Answer 10

in a large group in 1 room w/ a lot of noice which raised the level of learning

Question 11

Fourth Goal of his yeshiva (how shoud torah be learned - where is the greatest joy found)

Answer 11

BSIMICHA

IN TORAH KNOWLEDGE

Question 12

who was the head od the Yeshiva

what did say- how many times a week to who

Answer 12

1) Rav Chaim Volozhin

2) lectures 2x a week to entire student body

Question 13

who understood his lectures

Rav Chaim Volozhin

Answer 13

handful understood full

but everyone at least understoof something

Question 14

what was the yeshiva known for

Rav Chaim of Volozhin shul

Answer 14

devotion

Question 15

how long did a studnet learn for
(max)
how lpng did they sleep

Answer 15

1) 18 hrs
max - 36 hrs straight
3) 8 - 10 hrs

Question 16

what was the cirriculm of the yeshiva

Answer 16

entire talmud

Question 17

how long was rav chaim rosh yeshiva

who took over - what was he

Answer 17

1) 1825

2) his son, R’Yitzhack of Volozhin - defenders of teh jewish pll to the russian govt

Question 18

who were the two rosh yeshivas in the 1850s

Answer 18

1) R’Naftali Tzvi Yehuda of Berlin (The Netzin)

2) R’ Yosef Dov Solveitchik “The Bet Halev”

Question 19

after a period of time what became clear

what had they come to - results

Answer 19

that this partnership was not good 4 the yeshiva

panel w/ 4 great rabbis - that the Nitziv should be rosh yeshiva - Beit Ha Levy accepted this decision

Question 20

where di The Bet Halevy go

Answer 20

rabbi in brisk

Question 21

Name of Beit Levy son?
who did he marry?
became what>

Answer 21

1) R’ Chaim Solvachick
2) Granddaughter of the Netzivk
3) assistant rosh yeshivah

Question 22

at the height of the yeshiva how many students were there - out of how many were legal
how was this allowed

Answer 22

450
250
Govt was bribed

Question 23

what did the russian govt and the maskilim tried to force the yeshiva to do

Answer 23

teach secular studies

Question 24

what was happening for abt 10 yrs

Yeshiva system

Answer 24

secular studies were held in a seperate location - taught to a few studnets

Question 25

why was secular studies taught in a sperate room

Answer 25

to calm govt

Question 26

1892: at the investigation of who?
what was given to the yeshiva (go into detail)?
what did teh natziv do

Answer 26

1) Maskilim
2) Ultimatum - either teach secular subjects to everyone or close teh yeshiva
3) closed down yeshiva rather than give into russian govt

Question 27

as a result of the big yeshiva clsoing downn - what heppend

Answer 27

7 smaller yeshivas opened up w. the former students of volozhin

Question 28

why did the netzic die

Answer 28

within a year of this - prob broken heart

Question 29

in the city of pressburg, austria hungary what was there? founded by who

Answer 29

yeshiva

Chasam sofer

Question 30

how did emporer franz-joseph treat the jews

Answer 30

very good

Question 31

what class were the jews

Answer 31

middle

Question 32

why was emporer franz-joseph sympathtic towards the jews

Answer 32

he was catholic

viewed reform as protestant

Question 33

what was the chasam sofer a leader in

what did he start

Answer 33

the struggle against reform in austria-hungary and started his yeshiva in 1807

Question 34

what kind of yeshiva did the chasam sofer have

what was his goal

Answer 34

1) not as elitist

2) produe greater rabbis and be knowledge

Question 35

many communitie sgraduated form where
as who
what did this provide

Answer 35

pressburg yeshiva as rabbis

a great defense in austria against refrom