A Day in the Life of Rabbi Moshe Brody

Rabbi Moshe Brody is the general studies principal at Mesivta Chasan Sofer in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn. He founded Limudai Chol Publications and the Limudai Yisroel Institute

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n Brief:

Best advice I ever got

To separate the problematic content from the main content in the curriculum — this allows each school to decide if they wish to omit it, and it makes a clear separation between that which is acceptable and even desirable to learn and that which isn’t.

Fun fact

I also put out versions for chassidish mosdos called The Mesivta’s Guide, which cover about 70 percent of Regents material.

My mantra

The Regents books are the sur meira — they keep yeshivah students from seeing or learning things we shouldn’t be looking at or learning. The institute is the next step, the asei tov — connecting Torah ideas to the curriculum.

What I do

I publish New York Regents exams study pamphlets for yeshivah students, and I create Torah-based curricula for general studies topics. I also train bnei Torah to be general studies teachers.