Your Torah is Dynamic

Our Shabbaton in nature known as “Shabbat Ba-Teva” is applied halakhah at its best! As we build and cook on a mishnaic oven and prepare for Shabbat in nature under the stars, we apply all that we learned in the beit midrash about shehiya, hatmana, grufa, ketuma, tohen, hazarah, eruvin, hafrashat hallah, and tons of hilkhot kashrut.

Your Torah is Creative

In our Safrut (Scribal Arts) sessions, we look at the mystical and midrashic meanings of the alef-bet and their physical structures, crafting the letters ourselves with quill, ink and parchment, with a master Sofer and spiritual mentor. Spending most of our days focused on Torah texts and ideas, Reb Dov provides us with a simultaneously tangible and profound relationship with the letters that make up the texts with which we constantly engage.

Your Torah is Alive

Museum Tanakh class is held once a week, off-campus, at the Bible Lands Museum, where the latest archaeological discoveries bring Tanakh to life as we stand in front of the actual objects described in the text, giving us new perspective and fodder for analyzing it.

Your Torah is in Your Hands

One of the highlights of the year at Amudim is the time we spend preparing for and leining Megillat Esther.

Your Torah is Active

After learning about about the historical, scientific, and halakhic challenges of identifying the dye known in Tanakh and Hazal as tekhelet, we take part in the chemical process of producing the dye from the Murex Trunculus snail.

Your Torah is Personal

Where else but at Amudim is fruit-picking a halakhic, spiritual, intellectual, and personal experience? After learning the halakhot associated with the arba minim and crash course in choosing an etrog, we head out to the orchard and pick our own etrogim for Sukkot.

Your Torah is Giving

Bringing the values of the beit midrash into the real world, students take up once-a-week internships in fields such as medicine, STEM, academia, archaeology, the arts, animal care and more.

Your Torah is Multifaceted

Classes regularly take place at the National Library of Israel where we have the opportunity to examine kitvei yad (original manuscripts) and compare different versions of texts we study in class.

Your Torah is Diverse

From celebrating the Ethiopian Sigd holiday and talking through controversial topics with Haredim in Bnei Brak to debating Karaites in Be’er Sheva and engaging Israelis and Palestinians in discussions about some of the most pressing issues that would ostensibly divide them, we meet and discuss ideology, politics, history and philosophy with people from all walks of life.

Your Torah is Eclectic

Coming together at Amudim are the seemingly disparate topics of mesorah and dentition, and their roles in recent kashrut controversies, such as the ones surrounding bison in the States, and the zebu, red deer, and the water buffalo in Israel.

AND THE LIST GOES ON AND ON………