dvar rosh hayeshiva

Yeshivat Birchat Yosef in Kiryat Herzog celebrated its 15th anniversary this past summer in a gathering of hundreds of emotion filled graduates.

Twenty years ago, the Rosh Yeshiva of the Tifrach Yeshiva, Rabbi Yaakov Friedman, shlit"a with encouragement from Rav Shach, zatza"l, chose two of his choice students: Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Segal, shlit"a and Rabbi Eliezer Tzur, shlit"a and along with Rabbi Avinoam Postvitsky, shlit"a a Ponevezh student established the Yeshivat Birchat Yitzchak in the development town of Ohr Yehuda. The town was a spiritual desert whose inhabitants were thirsty to hear the words of Hashem. The yeshiva prospered and grew in numbers and in its quality influencing the town to make positive changes without recognition.

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