Nishma is the only North American summer program that integrates university-level Hebrew study with intensive beit midrash-style learning of Torah. It is a four- to eight-week program housed in the Matthew Eisenfeld and Sara Duker Beit Midrash of The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), home to a joyous, supportive, and intellectually and spiritually stimulating community of enthusiastic Torah learn
ers. Using traditional methods of paired study (hevruta) and participatory seminars (shiurim), you will focus on rapidly improving your text skills in Mishnah, Talmud, Bible, and commentaries. You will also have the opportunity to work on Hebrew language skills. Together with senior JTS faculty, emerging young scholars, and advanced rabbinical students, you will build a firm foundation for an informed and enhanced Jewish life in the rich cultural landscape provided by a summer in Manhattan. Our celebrated faculty includes Rabbi Eliezer Diamond, the Rabbi Judah Nadich Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at JTS, and Rabbi Shmuel Lewis, former rosh yeshiva of the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem.
