Why Yeshivat Drisha?

The mission of the Yeshiva is to enable women to achieve the highest levels of Torah learning by fostering their development as talmidot chakhamim and cultivating intellectual, religious, and personal depth.


We do that in the following ways:

  • We offer a Gemara curriculum of five sidrei iyyun and four sidrei bekiut a week. All classes include seder as well as shiur, where students first prepare the sources b’chavruta in the Beit Midrash before reviewing and enriching their understanding in class. 

  • Our leadership and core faculty are women, led by Rosh Yeshiva Hanna Godinger (Dreyfuss), and their deep and ongoing learning is a source of inspiration for all students.

  • Each student is personally mentored by Yeshiva staff to cultivate the development of strong skills and deep and nuanced understanding of the materials studied. This caring, pedagogical approach is core to our mission.

  • We are a small, intimate Beit Midrash community.  

  • Though the Yeshiva’s language of instruction is Hebrew, the Beit Midrash staff includes English-speaking faculty who meet with students, as needed, to support understanding and integration of the material learned in shiur. As such, supplemental review shiurim are provided in English to ensure that nothing gets lost in translation.

  • The learning culture of the Beit Midrash is anchored by young women who have been learning for several years.

All smiles in the Beit Midrash
Students and teachers shmoozing outside
Yeshiva students during Seder Boker

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