Yeshivat Hadar

Yeshivat Hadar is a traditional egalitarian yeshiva on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The Yeshiva offers both summer and year-long fellowships for students to learn full-time in the yeshiva setting. Prominent rabbis associated with the Yeshiva include co-founders Rabbi Shai Held, Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, and Rabbi Ethan Tucker. The goal of the Yeshiva is to teach future lay leaders, rather than to train rabbis.

In 2006, Rabbis Shai Held, Elie Kaunfer, and Ethan Tucker, established Yeshivat Hadar as an institution for Torah study and a resource for independent minyanim and congregations. With dynamic week-long seminars, robust databases of shiurim (lectures) and tefillot (prayer), and thoughtful lecture series, Hadar finds many outlets to spread Torah and engage a broad audience. In March 2017, Hadar celebrated its first 10 years with a year-long, weekly podcast on Pirkei Avot, a siyyum on Tractate Nezikin, and a National Shabbaton, which drew more than 500 attendees.

Yeshivat Hadar offers year-long and summer fellowships for full time study. Mornings are devoted to Talmud and afternoon courses typically cover topics such as halakha, midrash, mahshavah, and tefillah. In addition to learning Torah, fellowships include communal prayer, service, and community building activities. Since its founding, more than 500 students have studied in Hadar's full-time fellowships.

Yeshivat Hadar's leadership assists congregations in reviving their services and invigorating independent prayer. Groups wishing to found or re-energize their own prayer communities have turned to Rabbi Kaunfer's book Empowered Judaism. Joey Weisenberg, a Yeshivat Hadar faculty member also wrote a helpful book for independent minyanim, Building Singing Communities. Mechon Hadar’s website contains information and resources to help independent leaders enhance services. Yeshivat Hadar has a longstanding relationship with Kehillat Hadar, an egalitarian prayer community on Upper West Side of Manhattan, though they operate as separate institutions.

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