The community of Petah Tikva is served by 300 synagogues, including the 120-year old Great Synagogue, eight mikvaot ( ritual baths ) and two major Haredi yeshivot, Lomzhe Yeshiva and Or-Yisrael ( founded by the Chazon Ish, Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz ).

His great grandson founded two yeshivot in his memory: Kaf Hachaim and Torat Yaakov.

Today most Sephardic yeshivot follow Lithuanian approaches such as the Brisker method: the traditional Sephardic methods are perpetuated informally by some individuals.

Each yeshiva ruled differently on matters of ritual and law, these divisions were accepted by the other yeshivot, and all three were considered equally orthodox.

Each congregation was expected to follow only one yeshiva to prevent conflict with different rulings issued by different yeshivot.

Although the Volozhin yeshiva was closed some 60 years later in response to demands by the Russian government, a number of yeshivot opened in other towns and cities, most notably Slabodka, Ponevezh, Mir, Brisk, and Telz.

The preeminent mussar ( ethical ) text studied in yeshivot is the Mesillat Yesharim (" Path the Just ") by Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto.

Before moving to Tiberias by 150, Jewish academies of learning, yeshivot, were also based there.

This is supported by Abraham ibn Daud's statement ( see above ) that Khazar students were studying at Spanish yeshivot during the 12th century.

Led by a thirst for Talmudic knowledge, he undertook in his youth extensive journeys to the prominent yeshivot of Germany and France.

The legal standing of yeshivot taking part in the Hesder program was regulated for years by orders of the Israeli Minister of Defense.

As a chronicler, he exposes monumental documented information about the rabbis and the Babylonian yeshivot.

Some scholars estimate more Jewish men are studying in yeshivot ( Talmudical schools ) and Kollelim ( post-graduate Talmudical colleges for married ( male ) students ) than at any other time in history.

The campus in Jerusalem, in the Bayit VeGan neighborhood, contains a branch of the rabbinical seminary and an office coordinating the S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program, a formal arrangement between Yeshiva University and 42 men's and women's yeshivot in Israel that enables students to incorporate study in Israel into their college years.

# Yeshiva ketana (" junior yeshiva ")-Many yeshivot ketanot in Israel and some in the Diaspora do not have a secular course of studies and all students learn Judaic Torah studies full-time.

In 1857 he moved to Germany, By this time his own students from Kovno had begun to set up their own yeshivot in Kelme, Telz, and elsewhere.

180 Homewood School, a zoned public K-8 school, receives many bussed-in students from other neighborhoods, including Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst, as most Borough Park neighborhood parents send children to Jewish private schools ( called yeshivot ).

Many of his students became prominent rabbis or heads of yeshivot ; his most famous student is probably Isaiah Horowitz ( Shelah HaKodesh ).

This was the staple food of the poor students of the yeshivot ; in richer families, meat was added to this soup.

With the assistance of his students, some yeshivot in Galicia added the study of Kabbalah to their curriculum.

It was not very common for German-Jewish students to study in Eastern-European yeshivot, but two of Shimon's brothers ( Moshe and Mordechai ) would later follow the same path.

Yeshivot Hesder typically have 150 – 300 students ; some of the larger yeshivot have up to 500 students while some have less than 100 students .‎

In Lithuania and Estonia, the Jewish masses lived mainly in densely populated towns where anti-kabbalistic ( mysticism ) rabbinical academic culture ( in the yeshivot ) flourished based on just the simple understanding getting deeper from there.

Apart from full-time Torah study as engaged in at schools and yeshivot or for the purpose of rabbinic training, there is also held to be an obligation on individuals to set aside a regular study period to review their knowledge.

However, following the dispute between the Hasidim and the Misnagdim, in which the Lithuanian academies were the heartland of opposition to Hasidism, " Lithuanian " came to have the connotation of Misnagdic ( non-Hasidic ) Judaism generally, and to be used used for all Jews who follow the traditions of the great Lithuanian yeshivot whether or not their ancestors actually came from Lithuania.

Another reason for this broadening of the term is the fact that many of the leading Israeli Haredi yeshivas ( outside the Hasidic camp ) are successor bodies to the famous yeshivot of Lithuania, though their present-day members may or may not be descended from Lithuanian Jewry.

Educated in Frankfurt am Main and in the yeshivot of Lithuania, he was rabbi in Ichenhausen, Bavaria, after immigration to the United States in Baltimore, and from 1958 until his death at Khal Adath Jeshurun in Washington Heights, Manhattan.

In order to deliver the final consignment, Manya disguised herself as a young rabbanit from Frankfurt, bringing eight cases of scriptures, a gift for the yeshivot of Ukraine.

There are ultra-Orthodox Haredim in a few yeshivot, Lubavitch focused on religious education, modern orthodox in Paris ( synagogue of Montevideo street and Agoudas Hakehilos Synagogue ), consistorian Jews who are the majority following the grand rabbi of France Gilles Bernheim ( elected for seven years on 22 June 2008 ), Masorti Jews present in Paris and following the rabbi Rivon Krygier, and other smaller groups.

Throughout the Geonic Period there were three yeshivot.

These were named for the cities in which they were located: Jerusalem, Sura, and Pumbedita ; the yeshiva of Jerusalem would later relocate to Cairo, and the yeshivot of Sura and Pumbedita to Baghdad, but retain their original names.

The yeshivot were financially supported through a number of means.

Likewise, the yeshivot of Sura and Pumbedita were dispersed following the Mongol invasions of the 13th century.

Famous European yeshivot were located at Worms, Fürth and Prague, which was considered to be among the best.

He built synagogues and yeshivot, brought in Jewish scholars, and rewarded them with gold and silver.

He built synagogues and yeshivot, brought in Jewish scholars, and rewarded them with gold and silver.

Rashi wrote several Selichot ( penitential poems ) mourning the slaughter and the destruction of the region's great yeshivot.

This kind of study reached its height in the 16th and 17th centuries when expertise in pilpulistic analysis was considered an art form and became a goal in and of itself within the yeshivot of Poland and Lithuania.

In yeshivot, this work is studied as a regular part of the daily talmud study.

ישיבות, yeshivot ) is a Jewish educational institution that focuses on the study of traditional religious texts, primarily the Talmud and Torah study.

The Geonim acted as the principals of their individual yeshivot, and as spiritual leaders and high judges for the wider communities tied to them.

Each Jewish community would associate itself with one of the three yeshivot ; Jews living around the Mediterranean typically followed the yeshiva in Jerusalem, while those living in the Arabian Peninsula and modern-day Iraq and Iran typically followed one of the two yeshivot in Baghdad.

There was however, no requirement for this, and each community could choose to associate with any of the yeshivot.

No organization ever came to replace the three great yeshivot of Jerusalem, Sura and Pumbedita.

Many prominent contemporary yeshivot in the United States and Israel are continuations of these institutions and often bear the same name.

Later Sephardic yeshivot are usually on the model either of Porat Yosef or of the Ashkenazi institutions.

# Baal teshuva yeshivot catering to the needs of the newly Orthodox.