The yeshibah was reopened under the deanship of Rabbi Raphael Shapira of Bobruisk, and still exists, though in a rather precarious condition.
But soon the fame of the yeshibah and its founder spread far and wide, and students flocked to it from all corners of Russia and outside of it.
The ruins of Rabbi Judah he-Hasid's synagogue" and Yeshibah in Jerusalem still keep the memory of the event fresh in the minds of Palestinian Jews.
The heder is indeed far from what a school should be, and the yeshibah is hardly to be tolerated in a civilized community; yet what spiritual feasts, what noble endeavors, and what unselfish devotion are witnessed within their dingy walls!
Some students advocated openly the transformation of the yeshibahinto a rabbinical seminary on the order of the Berlin Hochschule.
But surpassing all the yeshibot of the nineteenth century, if not of all centuries, was the Yeshibah Tree of Life (Yeshibat 'Ez Hayyim) in the townlet of Volozhin.
The yeshibahof Volozhin raised a whole generation of scholars and rabbis "in the spirit of the Gaon.
Abel Gumbiner, Rosh-Yeshibah in Kalish, whose parents perished during the time of unrest, and many others.
Little Poland, and that he stood at the head of the yeshibah which sent forth the rabbinical celebrities of the following generation.
Thereupon silence was restored, and the rosh-yeshibah delivered his lecture, presenting the new results of his study.
The Rabbi and Rosh-Yeshibah of Niemirov, Jehiel Michael ben Eliezer, hid himself in the cemetery with his mother, hoping in this wise at least to be buried after death.
But the Rosh-Yeshibah of Tulchyn, Rabbi Aaron, implored them not to touch the pans, on the ground that such action might draw upon the Jews all over the Empire the hatred of the Polish population.
On Fridays the heder pupils presented themselves in a body before the rosh-yeshibah himself, to undergo a similar examination.
The Rosh-Yeshibah was the first to offer up his body as a burnt-offering.
Needless to say, no yeshibah student could lay claim to such mastery until the completion of the college course.
Footnote 2: On the yeshibah in Volozhin, in the government of Vilna, see Vol.
There the local rabbi or a private scholar gave lectures on the Talmud which were listened to by hosts of yeshibah bahurs.
Five years old when he entered heder, at eleven he was already a yeshibah bahur--a student in the seminary.
The intellectual originator of this institution which bears the name Yeshibah Ets Chayim (Tree of Life College),(62) was the Gaon himself.
For the whole income of the Yeshibahhas never exceeded the sum of about L1800.
Smolenskin paints a characteristic Yeshibah scene enacted by these embryonic Talmudists: "It is a strange spectacle that meets the eye of the observer on his first visit to the women's gallery in the Yeshibah [at nightfall].
Even during the period of the Behalah ("Terror") the Yeshibah remained unscathed, beyond the reach of misery and baseness.
Joseph forfeited the privilege of sanctuary residing in the Yeshibah on the day he was taken redhanded, in the act of reading a profane book.
When all is said, the Yeshibah provided a living for the young people, not overabundant, it is true, but at least they were relieved of material cares.
Smolenskin goes to the Yeshibah for the subject of one of his novels, Gemul Yesharim ("The Recompense of the Righteous").
For the aristocracy among the Jews, whose minds had not yet been stimulated by the new ideas, the Yeshibah was the home of all the virtues, the school in which the ideal was pursued, and lofty dreams were dreamed.
Do you think that theYeshibah students are guileless youths who have never dropped their mother's apron strings?
Frequently it is at the Yeshibah that the young man for the first time finds sincere friends for whom he forms a lasting attachment, and they become his trusted advisers.
And all the tables here are taken by boys who came to the Yeshibah long ahead of you.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yeshibah" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
