Yeshivat Hamivtar
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Yeshivat Hamivtar Orot Lev is a men's yeshivah located in Efrat, Israel, and focused on teaching post-college students. The Roshei Yeshiva are Rabbi Joel Zeff and Rabbi Shlomo Riskin.
Yeshivat Hamivtar's hashkafah (religious philosophy) is modern Orthodox Judaism and religious Zionism. The Yeshivah emphasises teaching its students how to become more independent learners especially in Talmud study to both 'Baalei Teshuvah' (plural of baal teshuvah) and to 'frum from birth'. The institution has a non-rabbinical and rabbinical track. Students who do not opt for the rabbinical tract often enter other Yeshivot or the workforce in various countries.
[edit] History
After the October War, Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Brovender founded Yeshivat Hamivtar in Givat Hamivtar, intending to create a unique learning center. At the time Rabbi Brovender had been teaching at Darche Noam Shapell's and left the yeshiva with a minyan of students following him to create the Yeshiva.
In 1985, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin merged his fledgling Yeshivah to Rabbi Broventder's Yeshivah in order to form an expanded yeshiva with an emphasis on university students and post-graduates from abroad. In the late 90's to the early part of the 21st century the yeshivah attempted to teach post high school students, but due to the different needs of post high school students conflicting with the needs of the post college students the attempt was abandoned in 2002.
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