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Ninth Annual Yarchei Kallah


The Ninth Annual Yarchei Kallah:
"Educating Ourselves, Educating Our Children, Educating Our Community"
July 20-22, 2004
Hear Sound Clips of Shiurim | Previous Yarchei Kallah


The Program
Our Sages teach us that at the moment a child learns to speak we teach him the biblical verse, "Moshe has commanded us the Torah, an eternal heritage for the congregation of Jacob" (Deut. 33:4). Educating ourselves, our children, and our community is the paramount imperative of Jewish life.

Join us for our ninth annual Yarchei Kallah in which we will devote three days to a thought-provoking and inspiring multi-faceted exploration of this most central tenet of Judaism. We will learn why the art of learning Torah is the height of religious experience; we will confront the difficult challenges, both practical and conceptual, involved in Jewish education; and we will emerge newly energized to insure, through Torah education, a vibrant Jewish future.

We are once again grateful to the Himmelman family for sponsoring the Yarchei Kallah in memory of Bracha bat David (Bunny) Himmelman

Rabbi Zev Leff with sponsors Tzvi Michael and Ruth Himmelman
Opening Speaker Rabbi Zev Leff with
Yarchei Kallah sponsors Tzvi Michael and Ruth Himmelman

Listen to Short Sound Clips:
“The Imperative of Torah Education”
Rabbi Zev Leff - listen


"The Study of Torah as a Way of Life:
The Spiritual Legacy of the Lithuanian Yeshiva World"

R. Yitzchak Hirshfeld
- listen

"Parents as Educators"
R. Leib Kelemen - listen


"Aggada: Are We Ignoring the Soul of the Torah?"
R. Yehoshua Hartman
- listen

"Teaching Torah and Kiruv"
R. Reuven Leuchter
- listen

"Its Ways are Ways of Pleasantness: A Vision for Adult Education"
R. Shaya Karlinsky
- listen

Rabbi Yehoshua Hartman
Rabbi Yehoshua Hartman

Rabbi Shaya Karlinsky with Rabbi Leib Kelemen Rabbi Leib Kelemen
Rabbi Leib Kelemen (left - with Rabbi Shaya Karlinsky)
Opening Shiur
Opening Shiur with Rabbi Zev Leff

Photos by Jared Bernstein

Previous Yarchei Kallah:
"'A Kingdom of Priests and a Holy Nation':
Visions of a Torah State and Contemporary Realities"

Summer 5763 / 2003
See the full program & photos of speakers


"Individuality, Relationships and Marriage"
Summer 5762 / 2002
See the full program and related links


"The Power of Prayer"

Summer 5761 / 2001
Read about it in the Darche Noam Newsletter article, The Power of Prayer
See more photos from The Power of Prayer

"Fashioning the Torah Personality:
The Challenge of Character Development"

Summer 5760 / 2000
Read about it in Yarchei Kallah: Retrospective and Prospective

"Torah Im Derech Eretz"
Summer 5759 / 1999
(see Rabbi Breitowitz's Torah and the Professions)


"The Jew in the Marketplace: Jewish Business Ethics"
Summer 5758 / 1998
Listen to tapes "Dilemmas in Downsizing" and "Lifnim Mishurat Hadin"


"Parents and Children: Family Dynamics Through the Lens of Torah"

Summer 5757 / 1997
Listen to audio: Philosophical Significance of Honoring Parents


"Peace, Principles and Pluralism"
Summer 5756 / 1996
Listen to audio: Amalek: Race or Typology?