yeshiva
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)
- (Judaism) An academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts.
- 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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academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts
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yeshiva f (plural yeshivas)
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- “yeshiva”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.