For the Israeli LGBT association, see Havruta (organization).
Khaveyrim (study partners) sit opposite each other or side by side in the beth midrash of Yeshiva Gedola of Carteret.
Chavrusa, also spelled chavruta or ḥavruta (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: חַבְרוּתָא, romanized: ḥāḇruṯā, lit. "fellowship"; pl.: חַבְרָוָותָא, ḥāḇrāwāṯā), is a traditional rabbinic approach to Talmudic study in which a small group of students (usually 2–5) analyze, discuss, and debate a shared text. It is a primary learning method in yeshivas and kollels, where students often engage regular study partners of similar knowledge and ability, and is also practiced by those outside the yeshiva setting, in work, home, and vacation settings. The traditional phrase is to learn b'chavrusa (בְחַבְרוּתָאbəḥāḇruṯā "in partnership"); the word has come by metonymy to refer to the study partner as an individual, though it would more logically describe the pair.
Unlike a teacher-student relationship, in which the student memorizes and repeats the material back in tests, chavrusa-style learning puts each student in the position of analyzing the text, organizing their thoughts into logical arguments, explaining their reasoning to their partner, hearing out their partner's reasoning, and questioning and sharpening each other's ideas, often arriving at entirely new insights into the meaning of the text.[1][2]
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together to study the same subject at the same pace with their individual chavrusa (study partner). Every chaburah is headed by a rosh chaburah (head/leader...
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afternoon, and night seders (the first two being classes and the last one chavrusa learning). While its secular studies program is very sparse and normally...
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Jewish businessmen to participate in an early-morning program that included chavrusa-style learning and a shiur (Torah lecture), followed by morning prayers...
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should be sought, therefore, in the late second century BCE. Am ha'aretz Chavrusa Chavurah Demai Ma'aserot Pharisees Talmid Haver "Chaber Meaning in Bible...
argued to have historical roots in ancient oral educational traditions. The chavrusa rabbinic approach, for example, involved pairs of learners analyzing, discussing...
year after his bar mitzvah, he moved to the Mir yeshiva and learned in chavrusa (study partner) with Rabbi Chaim Kamil, where he was recognized as an outstanding...
Moshe and Gitta. Eliyahu Moshe studied at the Lomza Yeshiva where he was a chavrusa with Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky and later served as one of the early religious...
that he woke up every day was Shmuel Kamenetsky. Shlomo Carlebach was his chavrusa (study-partner) there for some time. In 1958, he married Trani Rosenblatt...
shiur given by its rabbinical director, Rabbi Aver Jacobs, along with chavrusa learning, regular classes and other events organized by program director...
Empire) in 1908. In his youth he was known as an illui and learned in Chavrusa together with Chaim Shmuelevitz in Grodno, and learned from Shimon Shkop...
University. He was also editor of the school's alumni's scholarly jourmal, Chavrusa. He was appointed dean of RIETS in 1971 on the retirement of his predecessor...
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