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A global revolution has put yeshivos and kollelim in almost every corner of the Jewish world. Why not celebrate one of the most inspiring aspects of our lives by quantifying what place the Torah now has in Am Yisrael, in a “State of the Torah Union” project?
Easier said than done. In a world awash with data, it turns out that we can’t put a number on something at the top of our communal agenda. Israel collects (significantly varying) figures. Places like Lakewood or Gateshead have approximations, but in the rest of the big beyond, from France to Latin America, numbers are even harder to come by.
Put simply, there is no estimate of how many members of the Jewish People worldwide are involved in full-time learning.
So, if you’re a PhD student laboring over a breakdown of Torah world numbers, this is a direct call for help. And hopefully by next year, Mishpacha’s data analytics department will have run the math. But until then, here are five fragmented thoughts on the subject.
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