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Can Torah Teachers Get Paid? – Gefet 48

In our sugya, it is mentioned that it is forbidden to take a fee for teaching Torah. How do we explain the existence of the world of yeshivot and midrashot that pays salaries to Torah teachers? Maybe every Torah teacher should actually have a different profession? Join us for a particularly lively Gefet.

Rabbanit Yael Shimoni

Rabbanit Shimoni has learned at Migdal Oz, Matan, and the Susi Bradfield Women鈥檚 Institute for Halakhic Leadership at Midreshet Lindenbaum. She holds a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and a BEd in Torah Shebe鈥檃l Peh and Jewish Thought from Herzog College. She is currently studying towards an MA in Jewish Thought Education at Herzog College. Rabbanit Shimoni taught gemara and halakha at Pelech High School and served as a ramit for shana bet at Migdal Oz. She directs Meshivat Nefesh, the online responsa program of the rabbaniyot of Beit Hillel. She is also a plastic artist and member of 鈥淎 Studio of Her Own.
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