While many Yeshivos were opening and growing steadily, there appeared to be a lack of accommodation for students who faced challenges in their academic achievement – at any level. In order to foster their growth and attain their aspirations, these students required more individualized instruction than what most Yeshivos could offer.

Beginning in 2005, the  Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Newman recognized a glaring need. He embarked on a program with this objective as a guide. From its initial enrollment of only fourteen students upon inception, the yeshiva has expanded to include nearly seventy students, and currently has over double the amount of applicants of any previous year. It is our hope that this examination of the yeshiva’s program and clarification of its goals in preparation for writing this Institutional Self Appraisal will serve to enhance the Torah education to our students.

Bais Medrash Mayan Hatorah was created to fill a distinct void in the yeshiva world. Although its curriculum is characteristic of a post-secondary yeshiva program, its mission is unique. The yeshiva strives to bring students of average achievement to those that attain academic excellence. Mayan Hatorah offers a quality program of Talmudic Studies coupled with extensive individualized instruction to earnest post high school bachurim of varied academic capacity. Each student’s unique abilities are assessed and cultivated so that he will utilize his utmost potential, achieve an independent level of competence, and emerge as a true ben Torah that will bring nachas to Klal Yisroel. 

Students enter Mayan Hatorah at various levels and from an assortment of backgrounds. However, it is the yeshiva’s aim to nurture each student so that he will graduate with a matured perspective in his learning and realize his potential on an individual basis. The yeshiva’s projected image of success is that, whether a student ultimately remains in the yeshiva world or joins the workforce, he will emerge as an erliche Ben Torah, well established in his learning ability and a Yarei Shomayim.

In testimony of the success of Mayan Hatorah, the majority of students continue their Talmudic studies at institutions of higher learning. The success rate, as well as the yeshiva’s ongoing increase of enrollment that is bolstered by a faculty of excellent mechanchim, highlights the popularity of the yeshiva.

Mayan Hatorah’s graduates have largely achieved the goals set for them at the yeshiva.  One alumnus, a married yungerman and serious Ben Torah who works within the yeshiva itself, wholly attributes his standing today to his years in Bais Medrash Mayan Hatorah.