Our Mission Statement:
To promote the values of Torah miTzion and Yeshiva University to the Jewish youth, collegiates, women and men of the Greater Toronto area, and to provide Torah education and Leadership training for avreichim (rabbinical students) who embrace those values.
We are the Yeshiva University-Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov, an incubator for rabbinic leaders and a resource for community education.
We are an incubator for rabbinic leaders: Avreichim spend a minimum of 21 hours each week in rabbinical studies as well as hearing shiurim from our staff, and a minimum of 11 hours each week in preparing community shiurim and learning b'chavruta with community members. They are paired with local shuls as Rabbinic Assistants, work on collaborative projects and meet with leaders of the local and global Jewish community, write for publication in our Toronto Torah, develop their own shiurim, learn from experts in local rabbinic agencies, teach at local Yeshivot Bnei Akiva and personally manage partnerships with local synagogue professionals to arrange programs, so that each avrech grows in Torah knowledge and pedagogic and leadership skills.
We are a resource for community education: We deliver shiurim and run programs like our Sunday morning Community Beit Midrash and our two monthly CME lectures for doctors, we offer chavrutot for partnered study, we work with collegiates and high school students formally and informally, we volunteer with communal organizations and publish material in our Toronto Torah bulletin and on our website. These are ways we provide inspiring and engaging Torah for the Jewish community.
Our avrechim study in Clanton Park under the guidance of Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner and Rabbi Baruch Weintraub.
In all that we do, we embrace and promote the values of our parent institutions, Yeshiva University and Torah miTzion. In particular, these values include Torah study, Mitzvah observance, Women's education, Religious Zionism and a universalist embrace that incorporates worldliness into our Torah.
Come learn with us! We invite community participation in all
three of our daily sedarim (learning sessions), and in particular at our night seder. We also offer shiurim and programs each day; please see our calendar for more information.
We are grateful for the funding and administration provided by a partnership between the Toronto community, Yeshiva University's Center for the Jewish Future, and Torah miTzion, an arm of Mizrachi. Our Beit Midrash is named "Zichron Dov" in memory of Mr. Bill Rubinstein, of blessed memory, whose ideals are represented in the Torah we learn and teach every day.
