Rav David Jaffe

Rav David Jaffe teaches Talmud at the Gann Academy in Boston Massachusetts. He has also been teaching adults in the Boston area, teaching basic Jewish skills for new Jewish parents, and developing a course of middot development based on Rav Shlomo Woble's Alei Shor. David lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife Janette and thier two sons. He was a student at Bat Ayin for two years.

David writes: I am grateful to the Yeshiva and the Rebbeim for so many things. Learning how to teach from the heart. Staying committed to my own personal Avodah as the key to being authentic as a teacher. Connecting the head and the heart, Torah and Tefilla. And, of course, a connection to Rebbe Nachman. Just the other day I brought my 10th grade Iyun Gemara class out to the woods behind the school. We just finished a sugia. I told them about Torah and Tefilla and the importance of integrating Torah into our whole being - mind, hearts, body. Based on what my gemara rav at Bat Ayin did with us, I asked them all to go out into the woods and think of a part of the sugia or anything they learned in Torah this year and speak or think about how it relates to their life now. When we got back together a few of the students shared some really profound connections. B"H. This is something I got directly from the Yeshiva.