A bet midrash of the worldly tradition
Learn Torah anytime, anywhere.
Classes in Miqra, Halakha, Talmud, Jewish thought, and history from teachers across the world, online and in chapters on four continents.
- Students
- 2,000+
- students worldwide
- Countries
- 20+
- countries
- Classes
- 600+
- classes in the library
Online and in chapters worldwide
Teachers who have taught at the Ḥabura: Rabbi Joseph Dweck, Dayan Ofer Livnat, Professor Moshe Halbertal, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, Rabbi Dr Marc Shapiro, Dayan Yitzhak Berdugo, Rabbi Ḥayyim Sabato, Rabbi Ratson Arussi, Rabbi Dr Joshua Berman, Rabbi David Fohrman, Rabbi Hayyim Angel, Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum, Dr Lenn Goodman, Professor Eric Lawee, Rabbi Dr Abraham Levy, Rabbi Yosef Zarnighian, Professor Zvi Zohar, Rabbi Uri Sherki, Rabbi Ḥayyim Amsalem, Dr Jeremy England, Rabbi Dr Samuel Lebens, Rabbi Shlomo Brody, Rabbi Yamin Levy, Rabbi Daniel Bouskila, Rabbi Elie Abadie, Rabbi Dr Richard Hidary, Professor Tzvi Langermann, Professor Robert Brody, Rabbi Professor Moshe Amar, Rabbi Yiṣḥaq Shilat, Rabbi Yosef Bitton, Rabbi Abe Faur, Rabbi Aharon Qafiḥ, Dr Henry Abramson, Rabbi Daniel Rowe, Rabbi Chaim Rapoport, Rabbi Dr Edward Reichman, Professor Matt Goldish, Professor Ronnie Perelis, Rabbi Hanan Benayahu, Rabbi Ilan Acoca, Dayan Daniel Kada, הרב יצחק שוראקי, Dr Aryeh Tepper, Eli Shaubi, Rabbi Yohai Makbili, ד"ר אלנתן חן, הרב יהודה שלוש, חכם ד"ר חזי כהן, Freddie Grunsfeld, Jackson Gardner, JJ Kimche, Rabbi Shmuel Phillips, Rabbi Yonatan Halevy, הרב יצחק בן דוד, Rabbi Amrom Nemeth, Rabbi Chaim Eisen, Rabbi Joshua Maroof, הרב אחיה שלמה אמיתי, הרב הראל מקייס.
Who we are
A Worldwide Bet Midrash
- What we do
- We teach Torah to adults: Miqra, Halakha, Talmud, Jewish thought, and history, with rabbis and scholars from around the world.
- Why we learn
- We strive to know God by engaging with His world through the lens of Torah. Science, philosophy, and history all belong in the bet midrash, and Torah gives every one of them its purpose.
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Four Ways to Learn With Us
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Online
Video and audio classes every week. Public classes are free; members' series come with membership.
Browse the library →The Podcast
Our public classes as a podcast, for the commute, the kitchen, or a walk. Free on every podcast app.
Listen to The Ḥabura →In Person
Chapters meet in London, New York, Jerusalem, and further afield.
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Books and Journal
Read Principles, the journal of the Ḥabura, and classic works of the worldly tradition in English from our partners at Da'at Press.
Read and download →In person
Learning Together Around the World
Study groups, classes, and gatherings in synagogues, homes, and gardens, wherever our members are.
Our chapters: London · South Florida · New York · New Jersey · Mexico City · Jerusalem · São Paulo · Amsterdam. To join one, write to thehabura@gmail.com.
Small groupsExploring Genesis @ The ḤaburaDiscussion groups of up to twelve on Bereshit, in person in New York or online, with the Jewish Wisdom Society.Join a group →
Where we come from
The Journey of the Tradition
The Ḥabura belongs to the worldly tradition, a way of learning carried from the Land of Israel to the academies of Babylonia, through North Africa to Sepharad, on to Provence, Egypt, Yemen, and Italy, and after 1492 to Morocco, the Ottoman lands, and Amsterdam, before coming home. In every generation its scholars handed it on to the next. Follow it here.
1 of 15 · Until c. 400 CE
Land of Israel ארץ ישראל
The Mishna and the Yerushalmi
The Oral Torah is taught in the study houses of the Land of Israel. Rabbi Yehuda ha-Nasi gathers it into the Mishna around 200 CE, and the academies of Tiberias and Caesarea complete the Jerusalem Talmud. Every later generation reads back to these texts.
- Hillel and Shammai
- Rabban Yoḥanan ben Zakkai
- Rabbi Aqiba
- Rabbi Yehuda ha-Nasi
Press play to watch the tradition travel from generation to generation, or step through it yourself: tap a place, the timeline, or Next generation.
Learn by Subject
Every class is tagged, so you can pick up a thread and follow it.
Members' Series
Courses that run over several weeks, in video and audio. Every membership opens all of them.
Membership
A free book every year with every membership
Every members' series, the private podcast, the members' discussion groups, and free entry to in-person events and dinner-and-learning nights.