The Gemara in Ketubot relates how Rav Chiyya would engage in large-scale communal limud haTorah. In an effort to emulate such a lofty goal, TABC’s Rav Daniel Fridman began a six week lecture series on Megillat Rut that is open to the community. A packed house attended the first shiur last week. Rav Fridman commented that he felt like TABC was following the teachings of his rebbe, Rav Yehuda Amital z’l—the founding Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion (Gush)—that a yeshiva has a responsibility to reach out to and be a source of Torah for the larger community.