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n. - An academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts (primarily the Talmud).

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  • Her sister Serenity is already going to an all girl's yeshivah in Atlanta.
  • Asnat Barazani served as a rosh yeshivah in Kurdistan in the seventeenth century.
  • Then again, I did not have the advantage of a yeshivah education so I could be mistaken.
  • As Schenirer saw it, the best young men were still under the safe influence of the yeshivah.
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