Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim Austria-Hungary Begins New Year

In a beautiful rural area, cut off from the hustle and bustle of the city, not far from the main road connecting three capital cities – Vienna, Budapest and Bratislava – the ‘Tomchei Temimim’ Yeshiva was inaugurated this week. Even prior to the opening, the place became a magnet for the sons of Shluchim and Anash in Europe, a unique hotbed of Torah and Tefila where everyone feels like family.

This is the yeshiva that was opened 3 years ago in Vienna by the head Shliach to Austria, Rabbi Yaakov Biderman, and has now moved to a spacious residence “just like Lubavitch.” The yeshiva campus extends over a vast area of ​​ Many acres, less than a forty-minute drive from the Vienna airport, where the students can invest their minds and their time in learning Torah, in lush natural spaces and a warm Chassidic atmosphere.

The yeshiva is headed by the renowned educator Rabbi Chaim Fieldsteel, and directed by the dedicated Shliach Rabbi Shmuel Glitzenstein from Budapest. The yeshiva operates under the responsibility of the Chief Rabbi of Hungary, the energetic Shliach Rabbi Shlomo Kovesh, who even received government approval to open the yeshiva.

“In the first cycle of Students who completed Shiur Gimmel, they ascended to Yeshiva Gedola equipped with about two hundred and fifty pages of Gemara that were learned in Iyuna and Girsa,” says the Rosh yeshiva. “Believing in the promise of the Torah as taught by the Rebbe, ‘Meshana Makom Meshana Mazal Letova VeLivracha’, we are certain that the new place will allow the Temimim to ascend without any boundaries. Just as every father and mother seeks for their son the richest spirituality in the most suitable materialistic vessels, so in our yeshiva we seek for our sons-students the most Kosher and Mehudar – magnificent Torah in a magnificent vessel.”

“G-d gives the Bnei Israel materialism and they turnd materialism into spiritualism,” the Menahel quotes the Alter Rebbe’s proverb. “We are obligated to follow His ways. Thus, we, for our part, invest ourselves in providing the Temimim with a rich and unique materiality in abundance, and they, for their part, invest themselves in learning Torah in abundance of quantity and quality. We can see that a rich spirituality grows out of rich materiality.”

The lawn, the Zal and the classrooms, alongside the spacious dormitory rooms, together form a warm greenhouse, unique in the yeshivos landscape. In the dormitory complex, every three students are given their own small apartment, with a bedroom, a dining area, a closet room, a bathroom and even a balcony overlooking the natural landscape.

The students immigrated and came from all over the continent: Austria, Hungary, France, Italy, Germany, Ukraine, and more. The yeshiva currently has about thirty students, enjoying high-level of Torah study, a warm family atmosphere, and personal and professional guidance from the best carring staff members.