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COMMUNITY TEACHING
We are now offering the opportunity to set up classes or learning chaburot that are tailor made to the needs and interests of your community. Be in touch to discuss some ideas.
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ONLINE LEARNING
Women in Israel and abroad can participate in classes online, access material & sync with devices. To see how our online platform works, please take a look at our sample classes.
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COMMITMENT TO GROW
Our program is designed to touch upon the depths of Torah wisdom with a rigorous textual approach. Check out our course list.
Our classes are open to any interested woman on a regular or drop-in basis. They are geared toward the needs and skills of the intermediate to advanced student.
What’s for me?
Get in touch, we can help you decide what’s right for you.

YOUR TEACHERS

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Yehudis Golshevsky
Rebbetzin Golshevsky founded and is the director of SHIVITI because teaching Torah is her first love. She holds primary and secondary teaching certification from Yavne Teacher’s College in Cleveland, as well as a BA from SUNY Buffalo in Classics-Judaic Studies. Read More
Rebbetzin Golshevsky founded and is the director of SHIVITI because teaching Torah is her first love. She holds primary and secondary teaching certification from Yavne Teacher’s College in Cleveland, as well as a BA from SUNY Buffalo in Classics-Judaic Studies. Rebbetzin Golshevsky has been a well-known Torah educator in Jerusalem and abroad for twenty-five years, with students all over the world. She is also published author, editor, and translator. Read Less
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Yael Dworkin
Mrs. Dworkin, recently of Montreal, has been a Judaic studies educator for nearly three decades. Her love of Torah and chassidut inspire her to share the depth of Torah, in all its facets, with others who aspire to grow in their Avodat HaShem. Yael has a teachers’ diploma from Beis Read More
Mrs. Dworkin, recently of Montreal, has been a Judaic studies educator for nearly three decades. Her love of Torah and chassidut inspire her to share the depth of Torah, in all its facets, with others who aspire to grow in their Avodat HaShem. Yael has a teachers’ diploma from Beis Yaakov Seminary Montreal, a B.A. in Judaic Studies from McGill University, and has studied in the Masters program in Jewish Education at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Read Less
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Rebbetzin Silber
Rebbetzin Rochel Silber has been teaching and counseling worldwide for more than 30 years. She holds a BA in Mathematics from Queens College, and a BA in teaching from Esther Schonfeld Teachers Seminary. She strives to help her students find their unique gifts in Torah learning and serving Hashem. She Read More
Rebbetzin Rochel Silber has been teaching and counseling worldwide for more than 30 years. She holds a BA in Mathematics from Queens College, and a BA in teaching from Esther Schonfeld Teachers Seminary. She strives to help her students find their unique gifts in Torah learning and serving Hashem. She draws from the wellsprings of Chassidut in addition to all classical Torah sources. Read Less
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Sarah Goldstein
Sarah loves to delve into the Torah from an inner perspective, feeling the מאור שבה, discovering the experience of Hashem and inner transformation within the Torah she learns and shares. She loves to ‘go inside’ and explore all of chassidut, but the Torah of Rebbe Nachman and Rav Kook are Read More
Sarah loves to delve into the Torah from an inner perspective, feeling the מאור שבה, discovering the experience of Hashem and inner transformation within the Torah she learns and shares. She loves to 'go inside' and explore all of chassidut, but the Torah of Rebbe Nachman and Rav Kook are where she finds her home. Read Less
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Shoshana Judelman
Shoshana Judelman is passionate about teaching Torah and Jewish History. She holds a BA in History from Union College and an MA in Jewish History from Columbia University. She is very grateful to have made Aliyah with her husband and 6 children to Efrat in 2013. Shoshana teaches Torah through Read More
Shoshana Judelman is passionate about teaching Torah and Jewish History. She holds a BA in History from Union College and an MA in Jewish History from Columbia University. She is very grateful to have made Aliyah with her husband and 6 children to Efrat in 2013. Shoshana teaches Torah through the light of Chassidus in the Shirat David community of Efrat as well as co-leading inspirational trips to Ukraine and around Eretz Yisroel for women. Shoshana has been a guide at Yad Vashem since 2014. Read Less

Recommendation from Rav Moshe Weinberger shlita

A LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

Shiviti is a community…

“Shiviti Hashem l’negdi tamid”–“I place Hashem before me always.”

My intentions when building Shiviti were to create a learning space for women that would provide the kind of study that I spent a lifetime piecing together for myself–one that I hoped would bring me to the place of “Shiviti Hashem l’negdi tamid”–to feel Hashem’s Presence with me always.

When we began, I was focused on creating a year-long program for women either already in Jewish education or hoping to enter the field who were seeking greater depth, more soul, in their learning. They were seeking an environment where their creative endeavors were also celebrated; where their life experience was valued; where age was not a factor, only the desire of the heart and the willingness to work. The greater goal was to help cultivate a cohort of learned and soulful women who would make their contributions to the Jewish people felt, in whatever field they entered or already operated.

It became clear early on that many of our classes were also a good fit for women who just wanted to learn–to grow and deepen their connection with their Jewish practice, in a way that stayed true and close to the original sources but that spoke in a language they could understand and apply. So Shiviti was also, from the beginning, about community education–strong and deep learning for women everywhere.

Our students come from all over the world, from a broad variety of Jewish backgrounds, with a spectrum of talents and areas of expertise of their own to contribute, and above all are magnificent Jewish women who are seeking a closer relationship with their Creator, with others, and with themselves. Torah study–intense, joyous, perplexing, challenging, comforting–is the hearth that we gather ourselves around, and its light warms us and illuminates our way.

Online learning has proven to be a blessing; it’s through these fiber and satellite connections that we’ve woven a community of learning for women that will, with G-d’s help, continue to expand and embrace the many women all over the world who are seeking the uniquely nourishing Torah that comes forth from the beating heart of Yerushalayim.
I’m so looking forward to learning with you!

Yehudis Golshevsky

 

 

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