A warm Chabad home
A welcoming yeshiva environment in the heart of North Miami Beach’s thriving Jewish community — fifteen years of teaching young men from every background.
A year of Torah. A year of growth. A year that prepares you for life.
A full-time yeshiva experience in Miami for young Jewish men from all backgrounds — a meaningful year of Torah, growth, community, and direction before college or career. No prior yeshiva experience required.
Torah Ohr sits in the heart of North Miami Beach — a serious beis midrash inside a warm Chabad community, ten minutes from the ocean. Since 2011, more than five hundred young men have made this their home for a year.
A welcoming yeshiva environment in the heart of North Miami Beach’s thriving Jewish community — fifteen years of teaching young men from every background.
Steps from the beach, in one of the warmest corners of South Florida. Learning is serious; the setting is a gift.
Dormitory, dining room, and beis midrash under one roof — you live where you learn, with three kosher meals a day.
The year after high school is a turning point. Give that year to Torah, and it gives you back direction, structure, and a foundation for the rest of your life.
Rabbi Devlin
Torah Ohr Yeshiva, North Miami Beach
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Some students are preparing to begin college. Others are taking a break from university and looking for more direction. This is a year to grow, gain direction, build a Torah foundation, and prepare for life and the real world as a Jew.
Use the year between high school and campus to build a Torah foundation, gain direction, and arrive at college grounded in who you are as a Jew.
Step out of the lecture hall and into the beis midrash. A year of structure, learning, and clarity before you continue college or begin your career.
The heart of the year is a full-time, structured learning schedule in a warm and welcoming Chabad yeshiva environment. Special experiences fill the calendar — but the main focus is serious Torah learning.
The Chassidic teachings of the Chabad Rebbes — study that speaks to the soul as much as the mind, morning and evening.
Learn to read a page of Gemara yourself: the questions, the arguments, and the reasoning of a three-thousand-year-old conversation.
Halacha for real life — how a Jew eats, works, rests, and celebrates, learned as living practice rather than theory.
The weekly Torah portion, studied in depth so the yearly cycle becomes your own calendar of ideas.
Davening with a minyan, morning to night — prayer as a daily discipline and a daily conversation.
Personal growth and career guidance woven through the year, so the next step after yeshiva is a confident one.
Students live in the Torah Ohr dormitory and receive three meals a day — the structure, community, and support you need to focus entirely on learning and growth.
Full Shabbos experiences with the community — the table, the songs, the rest that recharges the whole week.
Late-night Chassidic gatherings where the learning turns personal — stories, niggunim, and honest conversation.
Escorting the Shabbos Queen out with music and a meal — the week begins with joy, not a Monday.
Bring what you learn to the wider Miami Jewish community. Torah grows when it is given away.
Occasional trips across Miami and South Florida — the beach is steps away, and the chevra travels together.
A small cohort of young men from all backgrounds. The friendships formed over a shared page last a lifetime.
Torah Ohr changed my life. The rabbis here do not just teach — they mentor, guide, and inspire. I came for a semester and stayed for two years.
The learning environment is unmatched. Small classes, passionate teachers, and a chevra that pushes you to grow every single day.
Miami Beach, extraordinary rabbis, and a community that feels like family. Torah Ohr gave me the foundation for everything I have built since.
One of the unique advantages of Torah Ohr is what comes after the gap year — a pathway that carries the learning into the real world instead of ending at the door.
A full-time yeshiva schedule in Miami: Chassidus, davening, Talmud, Jewish law, parsha, personal growth, and career guidance. You live in the dormitory, eat three meals a day, and give the year to serious learning.
Full-time TorahStudents who successfully complete the full gap year can join our work-study internship program — continuing part-time Torah learning with the yeshiva while gaining real-world experience in a professional field.
Torah + real-world workYou leave with a foundation: the learning, the structure, the community, and the confidence to take your next step in life as a Jew — on campus or in a career.
Built on a foundationThere is no single deadline — apply online or call, and the admissions team will walk you through the next steps. International students coordinate arrival dates with the yeshiva office.
Cost should never be the reason a young man does not come. Financial aid and full scholarships are available for qualified students — speak with us before you decide anything based on numbers.
Every family's situation is different, so we don't post one number for everyone — your quote is built around yours, with aid and payment plans already applied.
No. The program is designed for young Jewish men from all backgrounds — no prior yeshiva experience is required, just a desire to grow. Many students arrive having never opened a page of Talmud.
Jewish high school graduates and college-age students looking for direction: young men preparing to begin college, or taking a break from university, who want a year of structure, learning, and purpose before their next step.
Tuition covers dormitory housing, three kosher meals a day, the full learning program, and trips — the whole year, no hidden line items. We do not publish a flat price: after you apply, admissions sends a personal quote that reflects your situation, including aid and payment plans. Cost should never be the reason a student does not come.
After successfully completing the full gap year, students can join the work-study internship track: part-time Torah learning with the yeshiva while gaining real-world experience in a professional field — a bridge between yeshiva learning and life beyond the classroom.
Still deciding? Call 786-268-9770 — we are happy to talk it through.
Spend the year growing in Torah, building your future, and preparing for life with purpose.