WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT THE CURRICULUM OF THE ITJ?
In the words of ITJ Dean Rabbi Ronald Price: “The Metivta is a place where our students have the freedom to learn Torah in a depoliticized atmosphere, where one can be fully committed to faith and halakhic adherence, yet comfortable in expressing and researching philosophical and textual questions. Thus our motto of emunah tzerufah v’yosher da’at, Genuine Faith and Intellectual Integrity…Rabbinical students must also be educated with a variety of study methodologies in order that they appreciate the ‘Torah’ of different religious communities. In addition to the approach of our founder and teacher, Rabbi David Weiss Halivni, Metivta students are exposed to faculty of different backgrounds, that of Brisk and Mir as well as to traditional Sefardic text study.” In addition, Metivta students utilize critical methodologies in their study of the Bible and the Talmud. The ITJ accepts such methodologies as a valid approach in the study of sacred texts. The ITJ rabbinical program focuses on the
