Midreshet Lev
Neve Shamir, Ramat Beit Shemesh · Year after high school
We haven't found a video by the school or an openly licensed photo of it. Their own photos are linked further down the page.
A seminary in the hills of Ramat Beit Shemesh, partnered with Yeshivat Lev HaTorah, that pairs Torah classes with attention to each student's individual growth.
At a glance
- Outlook, in its words
- Religious Zionist Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Program
- Year after high school Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Location
- Neve Shamir, Ramat Beit Shemesh (Beit Shemesh area) Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Housing
- An eim bayit and madrichot are on campus; their site gives no further housing details. Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Price
- Not published. Ask what's included.
Not on their website when we checked: founding year, class size.
Learning, cost and credit
- What's taught
- Hilchot Shabbat, Kashrut, Parshanut, Machshava, Chassidut, Gemara, Aggadata, Jewish History, Mussar
- Who runs it
- Rav Boaz Mori, Rosh Midrasha
- Also on their site
- Partnership with Yeshivat Lev HaTorah
- Affiliated with Neve Shamir Beit Midrash L'Nashim
- B'not Sherut Bodedot track mentioned for after Shana Alef
- Price
- No price is published on their website. Ask the school, and ask what's included.
- Masa grants
- Their website doesn't say. Most year programs are registered with Masa, so ask. How Masa works
- College credit
- Their homepage links to the YU Israel Program and the Touro Israel Option. It is on Yeshiva University's list of Israel Program schools. How credit works
Photos and videos
We don't copy pictures from the school's website, so their own galleries and social pages are linked instead.
Where it is
Address on their website: 21 Roi Klein Street, Neve Shamir, Ramat Beit Shemesh
See it on the map
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Approximate: their website gives no street address we could place, so the pin marks the neighborhood, village or campus.
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Nearby
Straight-line distances, to give a sense of the area. Walking and driving routes are longer.
- Big Fashion mall, Beit Shemesh6.2 km · 3.8 mi
- Beit Shemesh train station6.4 km · 4.0 mi
- Gush Etzion Junction13.7 km · 8.5 mi
- Efrat14.9 km · 9.3 mi
- Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital15.6 km · 9.7 mi
- Ben Gurion Airport35.4 km · 22.0 mi
The area in pictures
These show the neighborhood, not the school itself.
The year in detail
As described on the school's own website. A missing heading means their site didn't say.
- Dates
- 5787 (2026-27): group flight August 31, 2026; arrival at the Midrasha September 1, 2026; Sukkot break September 24-October 5; second semester begins January 12, 2027; Pesach break April 8-May 2, 2027; Mesibat Siyum June 14, 2027.
- A typical day
- Per the posted 5786 second-semester schedule, Sunday to Thursday: Shacharit and breakfast, morning classes, lunch and an afternoon break, afternoon classes with mincha, dinner, and an evening session (chaburot, community chavruta, Beit Midrash) with one free night. Classes are two hours in the Beit Midrash program, with several choices in most slots.
- Shabbat
- The annual calendar lists a 'Shabbat Midrasha' roughly once a month (nine listed for 5787).
- Trips
- A Torat Eretz Yisrael program of tiyulim, shiurim and discussions; a Poland trip is on the calendar.
- Chesed and volunteering
- Chesed projects with local communities, hospitals and schools; students act as companions to seniors, organize food drives and run carnivals.
- Campus and housing
- Washers and dryers in every apartment (prepaid at $25 per month); a second facility used for workshops and a sports clinic; an Eim Bayit and madrichot on campus.
- Rules they publish
- All students must sign up for the school's TalknSave group cell phone plan, without exception.
- After the year
- Footer links to the Yeshiva University Israel program, Touro's Israel Option and Masa. A 'B'not Sherut Bodedot' program for lone National Service volunteers after Shana Aleph is listed as coming soon.
- Staff named on their site
- Rav Jonathan Schachter - Director of Education
- Mrs. Ariella Ginsburg - Director of Programming
- Dr. Tamar Halpern - Director of Student Welfare
