Orayta's College & Post-College Program is for men in their 20s looking for their first immersive yeshiva experience. Spend a semester or a year learning in the center of Jerusalem, on a schedule that leaves room for the rest of your life.
Orayta is a dati leumi yeshiva in the center of Jerusalem. Our diverse, dedicated rebbeim support our students' rigorous learning and holistic growth. The College & Post-College Program gives older guys a mature cohort of their own inside our beit midrash: their own shiurim and Shabbatot, plus everything the rest of the yeshiva offers.
Designed for men in their 20s, whether you're in college, a recent grad, or a few years into a career, and whether you're opening a Gemara for the first time or coming from day school.
Whether you can clear your calendar for a year or you're balancing a degree, a job, or dating, an immersive and transformative beit midrash experience awaits you at Orayta.
Morning, afternoon, and night seder. Every moment jam-packed with opportunities for learning.
Two full sedarim, then your evenings are free for a master's, a job, dating, or anything else going on.
Come for a semester, or stay for the year.
The goal is for you to find your chelek in Torah, the part of our tradition that becomes yours. That takes two things: the skills to open a text on your own, and enough exposure to know where you want to go deep.
From 9:15, you're in Gemara. You prepare a sugya with your chavruta, then take it apart in shiur. If the text is new to you, you start in the foundational shiur with Rav Corey Gold. If you have more background, you learn with Rav Yitzchak Blau.
The aim is fluency: reading the Aramaic, gaining the tools to understand the back-and-forth of the Gemara, and coming to shiur with your own questions. Learning stops being a spectator sport.
Torah that is
alive, deep, thought-provoking, connected, ethical, challenging, and yours.In one week you'll learn Kuzari with Rav Blau, Mussar & Personal Growth with Rav Judah, and Pnimiyus HaTorah with Rav Dovid'l. This is where you figure out what moves you. When something does, a rebbe will help you go deeper.
If you're learning a full three sedarim, night seder is where you build speed. It's Gemara bekiut: covering more ground at a quicker pace, so Torah she'be'al peh starts to feel familiar.
There's also time for your own learning and the personal projects you start during the day. Thursday nights you can catch the Rosh Yeshiva's parsha shiur, post-college bayit cham, or the JLIC mishmar.
Post-college students come from different schools, careers, and backgrounds. But together at Orayta, they share an eagerness to invest in their spiritual growth and avodat Hashem. Spending your days together in and out of the beis, you'll become a chevra in no time.
You add to the kol Torah of a bustling beit midrash alongside other Orayta students, join yeshiva for tefillot and kumsitzes, and have every opportunity to connect with our world-class rebbeim.
Your own shiurim, CPC-only Shabbatot, and tiyulim planned for the older chevra. A small group, so everyone knows each other. You live in a space of your own six minutes on foot from the beit midrash.
The Yeshiva is in the center of town, so Baka, Katamon, Rechavia, and Nachlaot, with their English-speaking shuls and JLIC Jerusalem, are all there for you to explore.
A few of the guys from the program's first year.
You'll have the program's own staff, plus the whole Orayta faculty. They come from different places in the Torah world, with different passions, and they're there to support you.
Rav Corey Gold
Program Director & Gemara Rebbe
Rav David Silverstein
Educational Director & Sgan Rosh Yeshiva
Rav Amitai Abouzaglo
Post-College Mashgiach
Rav Binny Freedman
Rav David Aaron
Rav Yitzchak Blau
Rav Judah Dardik
Sgan Rosh Yeshiva
Rav Dovid'l Weinberg
Ra'm
Rav Adi Krohn
Ra'm
Rav Gavriel Singer
Ra'm
Rav Noam Himelstein
Mashgiach, Ra'm
Rav Levi Morrow
Afternoon Rebbe
Rav Josh Weisberg
Afternoon Rebbe
Rav Joseph Dweck
Afternoon Rebbe
Rav Josh Botwinick
Ra'm
Rav Binny Davis
Sho'el U'Meishiv
Rav Nuriel Aaron
Mashgiach Ruchani
Rav Dani Bauer
Yeshiva Therapist
Nobody expects you to arrive knowing how to learn Gemara. The foundational shiur starts at the beginning, and you'll have a chavruta and a rebbe working with you every day.
You don't need to be fluent. You do need basic literacy: know the letters and be able to read and pronounce words, even if you don't understand them yet. Everything else we build together.
Come for the full year or a single semester, and you can start in either one. Fall semester runs September 8, 2027 to January 13, 2028. Spring semester runs January 18 to June 6, 2028.
Students in this program haven't had an immersive beit midrash experience before, like a gap year learning in yeshiva. In the sense that it opens serious yeshiva learning to older students, it resembles a gap year. But someone coming to learning at this stage of life has different needs than an 18-year-old. The program is built for motivated students who want to build fluency and literacy in our tradition and invest in their Torah learning.
Yes. The program is for men in their 20s.
$7,000 per semester, including room and board. If you're living on your own, email us about tuition-only pricing. Need-based scholarships and payment plans are available.
The program doesn't qualify for Masa, but you may be eligible for a partial flight stipend from Jeff Seidel's Jewish Student Center. If you're interested, fill out their form.
At the Heleni HaMalka hotel in the center of town, a six-minute walk from the beit midrash at Koresh 3. You share the building with Orayta's Shana Bet and hesder students but have your own space, and you're close to the English-speaking communities in Baka, Katamon, Rechavia, and Nachlaot. The dorm is optional: you can arrange your own housing and commute in. The $7,000 price includes room and board, so if you're living on your own, email us about tuition-only pricing.
Some Shabbatot are with the cohort or the whole yeshiva. For the rest, we help set up meals across Jerusalem and Israel, with rebbeim, Orayta alumni, and families who love having guests.
Yes. That's what the 9-to-5 track is for. You learn through the day and keep your evenings for a degree, a job, or whatever else you have going on.
Students come from a wide range of backgrounds. While you're in the program, we expect a commitment to halakha.
Fill out the online application and we'll set up a conversation about your goals. Admissions are rolling and spots are limited, so earlier is better.
Questions about the program? Email cpc@orayta.org.
The beit midrash is at Koresh 3, by the HaIriya light rail stop, right outside the Old City. You live about six minutes away, and Jaffa Gate is a few minutes past that.
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Choref zman 2026-27, Sunday to Thursday. Shiurim change from zman to zman.
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7:40 | Shacharit, then breakfast at 8:40 | ||||
| 9:15 | Morning seder: Gemara b'iyun with your chavruta | ||||
| 11:00 | Gemara shiur: Rav Corey Gold or Rav Yitzchak Blau | Nach Survey, Rav Noam Himelstein, or shiur klali with Rav Blau | |||
| 12:15 | Rav Gold's shiur: Nach Survey prep Rav Blau's shiur: Gemara shiur | Rav Gold's shiur: Contemporary Halakha, Rav Adi Krohn Rav Blau's shiur: Gemara shiur | Rav Gold's shiur: Hilchot Shabbat, Rav Corey Gold Rav Blau's shiur: Gemara shiur | Rav Gold's shiur: Gemara chazara Rav Blau's shiur: Gemara shiur | Philosophy of Halakha, Rav David Silverstein |
| 1:00 | Mincha, then lunch | ||||
| 2:00 | Mini-seder: Shnayim Mikra, Mishna Yomi, or Halakha Yomi | ||||
| 2:20 | Chumash Methodology, Rav Gavriel Singer | Aggadah: Method & Meaning, Rav Josh Weisberg | The Role of Covenant in Judaism, Rav Joseph Dweck | Where Gemara Meets Life, Rav Avichai Berkovits | Mussar & Personal Growth, Rav Judah Dardik |
| 3:30 | Hilchot Deot, Rav Binny Freedman | Kuzari & Rambam, Rav Yitzchak Blau | Pnimiyus, Rav Dovid'l Weinberg | Chazara and personal learning | Faith & Philosophy: Rav Soloveitchik, Rav Levi Morrow |
| 4:20 | Chazara and personal learning | Chazara and personal learning | Chazara and personal learning | Machshava, Rav David Aaron | Chazara and personal learning |
| 5:15 | End of day for the 9-to-5 track. Dinner at 6:30. | ||||
| 8:00 | Night seder: Gemara bekiut | Rosh Yeshiva parsha shiur, Bayit Cham, or JLIC mishmar | |||
| 9:45 | Maariv | ||||
