What’s it like to have a seminary experience that goes on not for a year, but for decades? To be not the one thirstily drinking in wisdom and inspiration, but the one trying to impart it? To have a mere nine months to attempt to make an indelible impression on the souls of dozens of girls? Family First spoke with numerous seminary mechanchim and mechanchos to discover what the seminary experience is like for them.
“I never had to leave seminary” echoes Dvora Beckman* a veteran teacher in a number of different institutions. “I tell people I’m in ‘shanah yud-tes.’ Watching my students make courageous changes in their lives obligates me to move upward in my own life.”
Shulamis Leibenstein a long-time teacher currently in Meohr Bais Yaakov calls sem education a “thrilling experience.”
“I consider it an honor and privilege to be able to impact girls at such a pivotal stage. It is enormously gratifying to help my students mold healthy wholesome futures.”
Rabbi Menachem Nissel a renowned teacher in several Jerusalem seminaries and author of Rigshei Lev: Women and Tefillah: Perspectives Laws and Customs (Targum 2001) shares a thought from his rebbi Rav Moshe Shapiro shlita on chinuch at the seminary level.
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