Sde Tzofim Yeshiva

Sde Tzofim Yeshiva is a yeshiva for Baalei Teshuva in the city of Beitar, israel.

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Baalei Teshuva encounter great difficulties on their journey, difficulties that are not limited to the inspiring journey to Yiddishkeit where they find that for which their neshama has been thirsting. A primary difficulty that they face after becoming Baalei Teshuva and marry is the lack of family, the lack of a natural support system.

Yeshiva Sde Tzofim [http://sdetzofim.org] has chosen to address this problem in a most innovative, wonderful way. Yeshiva Sde Tzofim, a Yeshiva that caters to Baalei Teshuva, is not just a Yeshiva. It is a Kehilla. The Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Oded Nitzani, himself a Baal Teshuva for over 30 years, realized that there was a pressing need to address the major problem facing his talmidim.

After spending several years teaching talmidim about Yiddishkeit, watching them take their first steps in shmiras hamitzvos and eventually becoming G-d fearing Jews, learned in Torah and impeccable about mitzvah observance, the time came for them to marry. After marrying girls of similar backgrounds they would embark on the next step in their journey, that of building families.

Slowly, it became clear to Rav Nitzani that his talmidim and their wives faced a seemingly insurmountable challenge.

They had married and began building families without a family support system or structure to assist them in overcoming the vicissitudes of life?It is relatively easy to be available for BaaleiTeshuva when they embark on the idealistic

path of Judaism. It is far more difficult, however, to take them to the finish line and help them truly feel part of Klal Yisroel,

They do not have family to support them, neither morally nor financially. They often have great difficulties finding their proper place within established charedi communities. These difficulties, coming after they have displayed such mesiras nefesh to become frum can often create a crisis in the lives of new Baal Teshuva families,

With the constant guidance and input of the Amshinover Rebbe, shlita, Rav Nitzani undertook a bold step to address this problem. He decided to establish his own Kehilla around the yeshiva.

The members of the Kehilla generally live in close proximity to each other. Rav Nitzani helps the yungeleit find jobs so they can be self supporting. The Yeshiva arranges set learning schedules for each of its graduates, who come morning and night, before and after work to learn and daven in the yeshiva. There are shiurim for both spouses ensuring that their spiritual growth not stagnate after leaving full time learning in the Yeshiva. The Yeshiva also has separate boys' and girls' schools for the children of budding young families.

Baruch Hashem the Yeshiva has met with tremendous success; the Kehilla is flourishing and the families truly feel as one large happy family under the guidance of Rav Nitzani and the Amshinover Rebbe.

We are proud to be endorsed by the leading Rabbonim of Eretz Yisroel and The United States.

Yated Neeman Feb. 28 2008