Yeshivah

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | 548 words | Copyright

Yeshivah (pl. yeshivot). Institute of Jewish Talmudic learning. The term ‘yeshiva’ is applied to the academies of Jewish learning in Babylonia and Erez Israel Last in which the amoraim studied the Mishnah (see TALMUD), to the academies of Sura and Pumbedita in the geonic period, and to later local Talmudic institutions. By the mid-16th cent., many yeshivot were supported and governed by local community councils. The curriculum centred on the Talmud and its commentaries, although minhagim, posekim, and responsa were also studied.

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