MTA instituted the Yeshiva Fellowship program to encourage talmidim to take on extra learning and grow from the experience. This program requires real dedication and hasmada to the talmid’s learning, and is therefore not something that everyone feels comfortable taking on. The talmidim who commit to the learning, do so on their own time, be it during lunch, night seder, Friday night learning in neighborhood shuls, or Shabbos day.

This year, the Yeshiva Fellowship program members committed to learning several extra perakim of the iyun mesechta being covered. Additionally each talmid attended chaburos with Rabbeinu Harav Schachter, shlita, which covered those perakim. In addition to these commitments, about 30 talmidim took voluntary bechinos on the perakim to check their understanding of what they have been learning.

Almost one quarter of the student body at MTA took part in the Yeshiva Fellowship program this year. Many of those talmidim will be mesayem the entire iyun mesechta they have been learning. Some of the talmidim learned enough perakim on their own to be awarded a beautiful, personalized shtender.

MTA thanks Rabbi Netanel Danto for heading up this very successful program, and to Rabbi Chaim Axelrod, Rabbi Baruch Pesach Mendelson and Rabbi Rafi Pearl for being grade advisors for Yeshiva Fellowship. This is a truly unique program that the yeshiva is extremely proud of.