See also: Yeshiva

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From Yiddish ישיבה (yeshive), from Hebrew יְשִׁיבָה (y'shivá, meeting).

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yeshiva (plural yeshivas or yeshivot)

  1. (Judaism) An academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts.
    • 1995 May 21, Steven Levy, “The Unabomber and David Gelernter”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      Nonetheless, in 1976, after graduating with a B.A. in religious studies, he entered Yale's doctoral program in the same department. A year later, he left Yale to study Talmud in a Manhattan yeshiva.
    • 2015, Will Self, ‘Diary’, London Review of Books, vol. 37 no.5:
      Shalom grew up in an Orthodox family in Stamford Hill. His father, who ran an office-furniture business, intended him for a synagogue cantor, and when Shalom finished school he was sent to the yeshiva.
    • 2019 August 7, Marissa Brostoff, Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents[2]:
      Last month, the Forward reported, a former student at Mechon Hadar—a co-ed egalitarian yeshiva in New York—emailed the school's listserv with a plea for the institution to cut ties with [Leslie] Wexner in light of the unspooling allegations against [Jeffrey] Epstein.

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yeshiva f (plural yeshivas)

  1. yeshiva

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