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Ki Tetse (\u05db\u05d9 \u05ea\u05e6\u05d0 \u2014 \u201cwhen you go out\u201d)
<\/strong>Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 21:10\u201325:19 \u2022 Yeshayahu \/ Isaiah 54:1\u201310<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moshe sets out laws governing communal life: the conduct of war, respect for others, protection of the vulnerable, and justice and honesty in human relationships. The haftara is a message of consolation addressed to Zion: after rupture come return, rebuilding, and renewal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deuteronomy 23:10
\u05db\u05b4\u05bc\u05d9\u05be\u05ea\u05b5\u05e6\u05b5\u05d0 \u05de\u05b7\u05d7\u05b2\u05e0\u05b6\u05d4 \u05e2\u05b7\u05dc\u05be\u05d0\u05b9\u05d9\u05b0\u05d1\u05b6\u05d9\u05da\u05b8 \u05d5\u05b0\u05e0\u05b4\u05e9\u05b0\u05c1\u05de\u05b7\u05e8\u05b0\u05ea\u05b8\u05bc \u05de\u05b4\u05db\u05b9\u05bc\u05dc \u05d3\u05b8\u05bc\u05d1\u05b8\u05e8 \u05e8\u05b8\u05e2
<\/strong>\u201cWhen you go out as a camp against your enemies, guard yourself from every evil thing.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea of founding a new talmudic academy in Yavneh\u202f[1]<\/sup> dates back to 1913, when Rav Avraham Yitz\u1e25ak HaCohen Kook proposed purchasing the historical lands\u202f[2]<\/sup> of Yavneh to establish an agricultural settlement and a yeshiva. The project was carried by the Mizra\u1e25i movement, but construction of the building was only completed in the late 1940s. Yeshivat Kerem BeYavneh<\/strong>\u202f[3]<\/sup> finally opened in 1953 under the leadership of Rav \u1e24ayim Yaakov Goldvicht\u202f[4]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In its early years, the institution functioned as a classic yeshiva, without any particular military framework\u202f[5]<\/sup>. It was only in 1965 that the Hesder<\/strong> program\u202f<\/strong>[6]<\/sup> (\u05d4\u05b6\u05e1\u05b0\u05d3\u05b5\u05bc\u05e8 \u2014 arrangement) was established, combining intensive Torah study with military service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A military camp is not a space where rules cease to apply. In Israeli military ethics, this requirement is expressed in the notion of Tohar HaNesheq<\/strong>\u202f[7]<\/sup> (\u05d8\u05b9\u05d4\u05b7\u05e8\u05be\u05d4\u05b7\u05e0\u05b6\u05bc\u05e9\u05b6\u05c1\u05e7 \u2014 purity of arms), which states that the use of force must remain subject to moral limits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kerem BeYavneh campus is a collection of study and residential buildings surrounded by a wide green area. The Beit Midrash forms its core. Construction of the main building, designed by architect Meir Ben\u2011Uri\u202f[8]<\/sup>, began in 1946. The buildings are set within a landscape of gardens, trees, and agricultural land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[<\/sup>1]<\/sup> Yavneh<\/strong> \u2014 According to talmudic tradition, Rabban Yo\u1e25anan ben Zakkai established a center of study there after the destruction of the Second Temple.
[2]<\/sup> Purchase of the Yavneh lands<\/strong> \u2014 The lands were acquired in 1940 through the joint initiative of Rav Meir Berlin (Bar\u2011Ilan), president of the Mizra\u1e25i movement, and Mena\u1e25em Ussishkin, head of the Jewish National Fund.
[3]<\/sup> Kerem BeYavneh<\/strong> \u2014 The name \u201cKerem BeYavneh\u201d predates the modern yeshiva: it already appears in the Mishnah (Eduyot 2:4; Ketubbot 4:6). The Jerusalem Talmud (Ketubbot 4:1) explains that it was not a vineyard in the literal sense, but sages seated in rows \u201clike a vineyard.\u201d
[4]<\/sup> Rav \u1e24ayim Yaakov Goldvicht<\/strong> \u2014 Born in 1925, trained at Yeshivat Etz \u1e24ayim in Jerusalem, close to the \u1e24azon Ish and the Brisker Rav, he led Kerem BeYavneh for nearly forty years. In 1991, he received the Israel Prize on behalf of the Hesder yeshivot movement.
[5]<\/sup> Gahalat nucleus<\/strong> \u2014 The yeshiva was founded by a group from the Gahalat nucleus (\u05d2\u05d7\u05f4\u05dc\u05ea, Garin \u1e24alutzi Lo\u1e25em Torani<\/em>), composed of highly committed religious youth with strong discipline, including alumni of the Bnei Akiva yeshiva of Kfar HaRo\u2019e. Rav Goldvicht became the first Rosh Yeshiva after consulting the \u1e24azon Ish.
[6]<\/sup> Hesder program<\/strong> \u2014 Hesder combines intensive Torah study with military service. The Nahal Torani<\/em> framework was formalized in 1965, two years before the Six-Day War \u2014 Kerem BeYavneh thus becoming the first yeshiva of this type, later nicknamed \u201cthe mother of the Hesder yeshivot.\u201d
[7] <\/sup>Tohar HaNesheq<\/strong> \u2014 A central concept of Israeli military ethics, later integrated into the formal ethical code of the IDF, Ru\u2019a\u1e25 Tzahal<\/em> (\u05e8\u05d5\u05d7 \u05e6\u05d4\u05f4\u05dc \u2014 \u201cspirit of the IDF\u201d). Maimonides links the requirement of sanctity in the military camp (Deuteronomy 23:15) to moral limits in the conduct of war (Guide of the Perplexed<\/em> III:41). Issues of distinction between combatants and civilians, proportionality, and limits of violence are debated in military, legal, and halakhic contexts.
[8]<\/sup> Meir Ben\u2011Uri<\/strong> \u2014 An Israeli architect trained during the British Mandate period, part of the generation that shaped the educational and religious institutions of the Yishuv. His work is characterized by functional, sober architecture attentive to communal needs and integration into the rural landscape. He contributed to several public and institutional projects in the 1940s\u20131960s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ki Tetse (\u05db\u05d9 \u05ea\u05e6\u05d0 \u2014 \u201cwhen you go out\u201d)Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 21:10\u201325:19 \u2022 Yeshayahu \/ Isaiah 54:1\u201310 Moshe sets out laws governing communal life: the conduct of war, respect for others, protection of the vulnerable, and justice and honesty in human relationships. The haftara is a message of consolation addressed to Zion: after rupture come … Continuer la lecture de Yeshivat Kerem BeYavneh, Israel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2677],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6516"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6529,"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions\/6529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}