Torah Ore
| Torah Ore Hebrew: ישיבת תורה אור |
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3 Sorotzkin Street Kiryat Mattersdorf Jerusalem Israel |
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| School type | Yeshiva and Kollel |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Orthodox Judaism |
| Founded | 1960 |
| Founder | Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg |
| Dean | Rabbi Simcha Scheinberg |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | Post-high school+ |
| Enrolment | 800 (2013) |
| Website | torahore |
Torah Ore (Hebrew: ישיבת תורה אור, "Torah is Light") is an American Orthodox post-high-school yeshiva and kollel located in the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Kiryat Mattersdorf. It was founded in 1960 in Bensonhurt, Brooklyn, New York, by Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg. The yeshiva moved to Jerusalem in 1965 and entered its present location in 1971. As of 2013, Torah Ore enrolls approximately 300 undergraduate students and 600 kollel (married) students. It has thousands of alumni, many of whom became prominent rabbis, rosh yeshivas, and lay leaders of Jewish communities around the globe. Scheinberg served as rosh yeshiva of Torah Ore for over 50 years until his death in 2012; he was succeeded by his son, Rabbi Simcha Scheinberg.
The yeshiva's name is derived from the verse in Proverbs: Ki ner mitzvah vTorah ore ("For the commandment is a lamp and the Torah is light"). (Proverbs 6:23).
After serving as mashgiach ruchani in Yeshivas Chafetz Chaim in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for 22 years, Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg decided to open his own yeshiva, with the assistance of his brother, Rabbi Shmuel Scheinberg, and his son-in-law, Rabbi Chaim Dov Altusky. Torah Ore opened in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, in 1960. The yeshiva opened with six students and grew steadily, enrolling many local Sephardi boys who were attracted by Scheinberg's Torah knowledge and warmth. Torah Ore was known both for its in-depth learning and the personal care extended to students by the rosh yeshiva and his wife, Bessie. The Scheinbergs paid the students' dental bills and raised money for their weddings.
In 1963 Bessie expressed interest in buying an apartment in the planned Haredi housing development of Kiryat Mattersdorf in Jerusalem, where her sister Ruchoma Shain also wanted to buy. Though Scheinberg was skeptical about relocating his family and his American yeshiva to Israel, he made a pilot trip to tour the development and decided that it could work. Rabbi Akiva Ehrenfeld, who was in charge of the construction and sale of the apartments, encouraged Scheinberg to move his yeshiva to Jerusalem by offering attractive terms for apartments and land for the yeshiva.
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