Learning Online
YU Torah started in 2006 as a repository for lectures at RIETS, the yeshivah affiliate of Yeshiva University. Rabbi Marc Spivak put his large personal collection of lecture recordings online, joining YU’s Center for the Jewish Future to continue growing the selection. It was a modest project that over the years has expanded into an enormous database of text and audio of anything Torah related from YU and beyond. Now maintained by Rabbi Robert Shur under the guidance of Rabbi Kenneth Brander, YU Torah contains recordings of many daily Talmud classes at RIETS, special lectures and events, and videos when available. It has a section of journals from the present going back in history and innovative projects like holiday Torah-to-Go booklets.
Beit Midrash of Yeshivat Har Etzion
In 1994, Yeshivat Har Etzion (Gush) began e-mail correspondence courses on a variety of Torah topics. Taught by experienced scholars, these free courses were serious and often innovative explorations of Tanach, Talmud, law and thought. VBM’s long-time director and editor-in-chief, Rabbi Ezra Bick and Rabbi Reuven Ziegler, respectively, have maintained the project’s quality and relevance. VBM was there from the beginning of the worldwide web, making the archives of these classes — currently numbering over 10,000 — available to nonsubscribers.
Hadran: Advancing Talmud Study for Women
Hadran Daf Yomi aims to inspire Jewish women’s interest in learning Talmud, providing them with unique, practical, women-taught resources to advance their learning at all levels and at their own pace.
