About the Rosh Yeshiva

Rabbi Eliyahu Mitterhoff, the Rosh Yeshiva, immigrated to Israel in 1982 from New Jersey lives in Bayit Vegan Jerusalem with his wife and many children. He has had a long and distinguished career in studying and teaching students the "process" of Talmudic thought.    Rabbi  Mitterhoff spent many years studying in Yeshiva Toras Yisrael and subsequently received smicha from both  HaRav Hagaon Rabbi M.Goldstein shlita and HaRav Hagaon Yehudah Deri shlita, Chief Rabbi of Ber Sheva. He holds a Bachelors of Art in psychology and sociology from Ithaca College in New York and has spent much in-depth study on the methods of the "Mussar Movement".    Recently, after many years of learning in the Mir Yeshiva, Rabbi Mitterhoff decided to open Shaare HaTalmud. He believes that a deep understanding and real clarity in one’s learning will bring one to true happiness, which is our Jewish inheritance.