The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2732 page)

Yeshivah
(pl. yeshivot).

Institute of Jewish
Talmudic
learning. The term ‘yeshiva’ is applied to the
academies
of Jewish learning in Babylonia and
Erez Israel
Last in which the
amoraim
studied the
Mishnah
(see
TALMUD
), to the academies of
Sura
and
Pumbedita
in the
geonic
period, and to later local Talmudic institutions. By the mid-16th cent., many yeshivot were supported and governed by local community councils. The curriculum centred on the Talmud and its commentaries, although
minhagim
,
posekim
, and
responsa
were also studied.

 
Back
  -  
 
New Search

see
SURA (1)
.

 
Back
  -  
 
New Search

Yeshiva University
.

Jewish
Orthodox
institution of higher education. Yeshiva University was founded in 1897 in New York as the Rabbi Isaac Elhanan Theological Seminary for advanced
Talmudic
study.

 
Back
  -  
 
New Search

see
INCLINATION, GOOD AND EVIL
.

 
Back
  -  
 
New Search

Yez
d
s
,
also Yaz
d
.