Sfas Emes Yeshiva

Sfas Emes Yeshiva ישיבת שפת אמת
Address
5 Sfas Emes Street Mahane Yehuda Jerusalem Israel
Information
Established	1925
Rosh Yeshiva	Rabbi Shaul Alter
Affiliation	Orthodox

Sfas Emes Yeshiva is an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel, serving the Gerrer Hasidic community. Founded in 1925 in the Mahane Yehuda neighborhood of Jerusalem, it was one of the few Hasidic yeshivas in Israel in the early twentieth century.

The yeshiva was founded by the Hasidim of Grand Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter (Imrei Emes), the fourth Gerrer Rebbe, and was named after the Rebbe's father, Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh Leib Alter, (Sfas Emes). With the Rebbe's approval, the head staff included Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kasher, Rabbi Yaakov Henich Sankevitz, and Rabbi Nechemiah Alter (the Rebbe's brother).

The yeshiva opened with 25 students, who were soon joined by other students from Poland. All the Admorim in Israel sent their sons to it, as well. The yeshiva grew year by year.

In 1926, the Rebbe circulated a letter to his Hasidim on the day of his father's yahrzeit, expressing his support of the yeshiva:

In the holy city of Jerusalem a junior yeshiva has now been founded, in memory of my saintly father. It fills a need for the young students who live there, since the existing yeshivos cannot cater to all the applicants. Besides, the program of study followed by them is not in harmony with the spirit of learning prevalent in Poland.

The Rebbe visited the yeshiva for the first time on his third visit to Israel in 1927.

In 1940, after his escape from Nazi Europe, Rabbi Avraham Mordechai established his residence in the Sfas Emes Yeshiva. He prayed with the yeshiva students but did not conduct a public tish there. Within a short time of his arrival, hundreds of his Hasidim who had come to Israel before the war came to live in the neighborhood surrounding the yeshiva.

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