Hesder (Hebrew: הסדר "arrangement"; also Yeshivat Hesder ישיבת הסדר ‎) is an Israeli yeshiva program which combines advanced Talmudic studies with military service in the Israel Defense Forces, usually within a Religious Zionist framework. The program allows Orthodox Jewish men to serve in the Israeli military while still engaging in Torah study.

…hesder provides a convenient framework for discharging two different – and to some extent conflicting – obligations. It enables a talmid, morally and psychologically, to salve both his religious and his national conscience, by sharing in the collective defense burden without cutting himself off from the matrix of Torah…

2015年4月26日 · Hesder at its finest seeks to attract and develop bnei torah who are profoundly motivated by the desire to become serious talmidei hachamim but who concurrently feel morally and religiously bound to help defend their people and their country; who, given the historical exigencies of their time and place, regard this dual commitment as both a ...

Friends of Sderot operates over 10 educational and outreach programs in the Western Negev town of Sderot, Israel. The flagship program is the men’s Hesder Yeshiva, which combines advanced Torah study with Israel’s mandatory IDF army service. By now, many Israelis and supporters of Israel are familiar with the Hesder Yeshiva...

Yeshivat Har Etzion (YHE; Hebrew: ישיבת הר עציון), commonly known in English as "Gush" and in Hebrew as "Yeshivat HaGush", is a Hesder yeshiva located in Alon Shvut, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank.

Standing in tears atop Har HaZeitim, the bleak sight of kol hamekudash mechavero charev yoter mechavero stretching before him, what would the Ramban have given to head a yeshivat hesder? This essay is excerpted from “The Ideology of Hesder” which appeared originally in TRADITION (Fall 1981) and appears here with permission.

The yeshiva is located in the town of Sderot, one kilometer from the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian Arab town of Beit Hanoun. It is the largest Hesder Yeshiva in Israel, with a student body of over 800 students from communities all over the country.

2014年4月30日 · The first hesder yeshiva for haredi (ultra-Orthodox men) has recently received approval from the Defense Ministry and is now up and running, with 16 students having embarked on a four-year course...

they are not what Hesder, ideally considered, is all about. Properly understood, Hesder poses more of a challenge than an opportunity; and in order to perceive it at its best we need to focus upon difficulty and even tension rather than upon convenience. Optimally, Hesder does not merely provide a religious cocoon for young men fearful of 200

2024年8月30日 · Hesder, for R. Lichtenstein, is not merely a way to balance conflicting demands, but a challenge; it is not a compromise, but a vision. It is an ideal whose goal is “the enrichment of personal and communal spiritual life, the realization of that great moral and religious vision whose fulfillment is our national destiny.”