Everything about Midreshet Lindenbaum totally explained
Midreshet Lindenbaum (מדרשת לינדנבאום), originally named
Michlelet Bruria, was one of the early leaders in the women's talmud study movement. Michlelet Bruria was founded in 1976 by Rabbi
Chaim Brovender as the woman's component of
Yeshivat Hamivtar. At Bruria, as in a traditional men's
yeshiva, women studied in
hevrutot (a traditional Jewish system of partner-based religious study) and learned
Talmud and advanced
Tanach.
In 1986, Bruria merged with Ohr Torah Institutions and was renamed "Midreshet Lindenbaum" after
Belda
and Marcel Lindenbaum.. It is currently located in
Talpiot,
Jerusalem.
Midreshet Lindenbaum continues to be a leader in Jewish women's education. Many of the teachers at
Matan,
Nishmat,
Pardes and other women's and co-ed yeshivas have studied there at some point. One of their most notable students include
Malka Binah, the founder of
Matan.
Midreshet Lindenbaum has also been a leader in developing women's role in
rabbinical courts in
Israel and in founding the first school dedicated to training women to serve as advocates in religious courts. known as
to'anot in Hebrew. They also operate a legal aid center and hotline which has taken an active role in advocating for a resolution to the
Agunah problem (an
agunah is a woman married according to Orthodox Jewish law who has been abandoned by her husband without receiving a Jewish divorce and as a result she may not remarry and is considered "chained" until such time as the husband delivers a kosher
get divorce document.)
Midreshet Lindenbaum also runs a
Torah study program for the
developmentally disabled.
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