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Support Yeshivah Learning for Ba'alei Teshuva

Providing Essential Funding for Yeshiva Scholarships & Aid

Help the Yeshiva Embrace Every Ba'al Teshuva

Ba’alei teshuva often come from families that are not observant, and they therefore often do not have the understanding and financial support of their families to engage in full-time, yeshivah-level learning. Through the support of the Jewish community, however, we are able to provide the funding for yeshiva scholarships and aid needed for ba’alei teshuva to sit and learn, without concern for material needs. Your support in this great area of need makes you a partner with HaShem in returning these souls to Him, His Torah, and His people. And whoever saves one soul, it is though he saved the entire world.

Gap Year Program Photo - Programs for Baalei Teshuva

Timeline

This is a yearly campaign to raise the maximum finances possible for scholarships and aid for needy ba’alei teshuvah. The more we raise, the more students.

Goal

Approx. 2,180,000 USD for yearly tuition, a shared bedroom, meals, additional stipends for material needs, and quarterly trips for 100 students from the diaspora.

Donate

If able, please consider sponsoring the tuition of one student for one year for 12,600 USD, aid for material needs for 9,200 USD, or both for 21,800 USD. 

Partner With the Foundation in Providing Scholarships and Aid

Your support will help the Foundation to…

    • Provide scholarships for ba’alei teshuvah
    • Pay for the rooms and meals for yeshivah bachurim 
    • Provide bachurim with money for material needs
    • Finance quarterly trips across Israel for bachurim

“I am so grateful for my time at Diaspora Yeshiva, and I look forward to being there again soon.”
– Yehudah

Why Its Needed

Scholarships

Including three seders of learning a day, personal space in a shared bedroom, and three meals a day in the yeshiva on Mount Zion, Jerusalem. 

Material Needs

Ba’alei teshuvah require significant material support to sit and learn Torah, including tefillin and tallis, clothing and laundry, haircuts and toiletries, and more.

Quarterly Trips

The Yeshiva takes its students on regular trips around Israel, at considerable expense, from bus and driver to food and accommodations.

“…they will be able to be an example — a moral example — for the whole world, to keep morality, justice, love, care, that the world is looking for, that the world is searching for the Jewish nation, for the Jewish state, to show them in the world.”

The Rebbe, Rabbi Mordechai Goldstein zt”l
Founder of the Diaspora Yeshiva
Father of the Ba’al Teshuvah Movement

Some Features of Yeshiva Life
on Mount Zion, Jerusalem

King David's Tomb

The Yeshiva is located beside the Tomb of King David, where they have weekly classes, and Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur services.

Chamber of the Holocaust

The main study hall of the Yeshiva is located atop Martef HaShoah, the original Holocaust Museum Memorial.

Minutes to the Kotel

The Yeshiva is right outside the Old City’s Zion Gate, minutes to the Jewish Quarter and less than ten minutes on foot to the Kotel (Wall).

Sports Pavilion

Overlooking the Temple Mount, the Yeshiva’s Sports Pavilion provides a perspective to fitness like no other.

Close to the Center

The Yeshiva is a short walk and train to the center of Jerusalem, plenty of amenities, and to public transit across Israel.

Trips Across Israel

From Tzfas in the North to Eilat in the South, the Yeshiva’s students spend significant time learning Torah around the Holy Land.

Help us support the work of the Yeshiva

Your donation can make a real difference in the lives of the Jewish men that are reunited with HaShem and His people through His Torah, through the work of Diaspora Yeshiva Toras Yisrael.