Shiurim & Classes

Our shiurim are designed to help students develop the skills needed to study Torah on an advanced level. Reishit's shiurim are known for their crisp and systematic presentations, for the wealth of information that is conveyed, and for the many lively and entertaining discussions that take place every day. Most importantly, every rebbe is focused on presenting all ideas with the highest degree of clarity possible; every phrase, nuance, and idea is defined, explored and crystallized.

Students are encouraged to challenge, probe, and to question. There exists an exceptional openness to theological inquiry that enables every talmid to discover not only what the Torah says, but philosophical ideas underlying these concepts.

Gemara, Chumash, Navi, Mishnah, Practical Halacha, Philosophy, Tefillah, Mussar, and Chassidut all play an integral part in Reishit's broad academic schedule. Reishit also maintains an unusually low talmid-to-rebbe ratio, thereby enabling all students to participate fully in the shiurim, as well as engendering close and lasting friendships between the students and the rabbeim.

Gemara

Masechet Pesachim B’Iyun (Morning Shiur)
Masechet Brachot BiKiyut (Afternoon Seder)
Masechet Pesachim BiKiyut (Afternoon Shiur / Shana Bet)
B’Iyun Shiur / Sugyot (Rav Mendel Blachman)
Masechet Tamid (Night Seder / Rav Simcha Hochbaum)
Bekiyut Incentive Program (Rav Elie Marcus)
Gemara Methodology (Rav Moshe Benovitz)
Sugyot / Lomdus Chabura (Rav Shalom Rosner)
Daf Yomi Review (Rav Doni Marcus)
Shas Survey (Rav Ari Marcus)

Tanach & Commentaries

Weekly Haftorah Portion (Rav Moshe Benovitz)
Survey of Nevi'im Rishonim (Rav Simcha Hochbaum)
Table Talk/ Parshat Hashavua (Rav Yehoshua Landau)
Weekly Review of Rashi’s Commentary (Rav Avi Perlowitz)
Insights on Sefer Tehillim (Rav Moshe Benovitz)
Parshat Hashavua (Rav Doni Marcus)
Shivat Tzion / Sefer Ezra & Nechmiah (Rav Simcha Hochbaum)
Parsha Points to Ponder (Rav Dov Lipman)
Sefer Mishlei w/ Commentary of Vilna Gaon (Rav Raphael Willig)

Halacha / Jewish Law

Sefardic Halacha (Rav Moshe Yeshurun)
Daily Halacha Shiur- Orach Chaim (Rav Ari Marcus)
Halacha and The State of Israel (Rav Jay Marcus)
Mitzvot of the Land of Israel (Rav Danny Myers)
Sefer Minchas Chinuch (Rav Raphael Willig)
Hilchot Shabbat (Rav Shalom Rosner)
Sefer HaMitzvot of the Rambam (Rav Chayim Soloveichik)
Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (Rav Mendel Schulman)
Topics in Contemporary Halacha (Rav Daniel Myers)
Mishnah Berurah Shiur (Rav Yosef Bronfeld)

Torat Eretz Yisrael

Zionism, Politics & Halacha: Daily Update (Rav Jay Marcus)
Halacha & The Jewish State (Rav Moshe Yeshurun / Rav Jay Marcus)
Weekly Course on Zionism & Israeli History (Prof. Ze'ev Ben-Shachar, The David Project & Yavneh Olami)
Mitzvot of the Land of Israel (Rav Daniel Myers)
Writings of Rav Kook & His Students (Rav Judah Mischel)
Shivat Tzion (Rav Simcha Hochbaum)
Ulpan (Bi-Weekly) (Yossi Bienenstock)
Jewish History from 1948 (BCE) to 1948 (Rav Elie Marcus)
Sefer Ayelet Hashachar (Rav Judah Mischel)
"Kum Hit’halech B’Aretz": Tiyulim & Special Programs

Jewish Philosophy & Chassidus

Weekly Va'adim in Machshevet Yisrael (Rav Doni Marcus)
Shiur Klali on Topics in Jewish Philosophy (Rav Mendel Blachman)
Jewish Philosophy Survey (Rav Dov Lipman / Rav Avi Fertig)
Kuzari (Rav Daniel Myers)
Chovot Halevavot (Rav Ari Marcus)
Nefesh HaChayim (Rav Mendel Blachman)
Thought of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov (R. Yosef Karduner)
Sefer Netivot Shalom (Rav Simcha Hochbaum)
Selected Writings of Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik (Rav Moshe Yeshurun)
Leket Amarim of Rav Yakov Meir Shechter (Rav Elie Marcus)
Chovat HaTalmidim - Piasetzna (Rav Judah Mischel)
Fundamentals of Faith (Rav Mendel Schulman)
Chasidic Masters on the Weekly Parsha (Rav Elie Marcus)

Jewish Ethics / Mussar

Weekly Sicha (Rav Elie Marcus)
Medical Ethics (Dr. Alan Jotkowitz)
Guided Study in Messilat Yesharim (Rav Moshe Benovitz)
Messilat Yesharim Chabura (Rav Elie Marcus)
Sefer Alei Shur (Rav Yehoshua Landau)
Pirkei Avot (Rav Doni Marcus, Rav Avi Perlowitz)
Rabbeinu Yonah on Avot (Rav Soloveichik)
Sefer Orchot Tzadikim (Rav Judah Mischel)
Development of Mussar Movement (Rav Avi Fertig)
Weekly Chabura- Assorted Topics (R. Dan Wurtzberger)

Prayer

Sefer Hishtapchut HaNefesh- Breslov (R. Yosef Karduner)
Biyurei Tefilla (Rav Simcha Hochbaum)
Siddur Insights (Rav Judah Mischel)
Halachot of Davening (Rav Daniel Myers / Rav Ari Marcus)

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