Welcome to Beit Midrash LeMa'aseh
Beit Midrash LeMa'aseh
Beit Midrash LeMa’aseh was established in 2023 with a vision to shape a meaningful, relevant halakha that speaks to the realities of Israeli society and the broader Jewish world.
Each year, a diverse group of fellows—religious and secular, Haredi and traditional—join the Beit Midrash from all walks of Israeli life. They gather weekly for a full day of collaborative study, reflection, and creation, engaging with halakha as a living framework for navigating shared social, ethical, and cultural challenges.
Since its founding, the Beit Midrash has offered halakhic responses to pressing issues rooted in daily Israeli experience, including: collective memory and war commemoration, mixed religious–secular relationships, proposals for reducing sexual harm, wedding practices, conversion in an Israeli context, Jewish identity, and more.
The Beit Midrash is guided by Rabbi Dr. Ido Pachter and directed by Naftali Oppenheimer.
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“I believe that Zionism, as a spiritual and cultural movement, cannot sustain itself without halakha. This is not because halakha holds some mystical power… It is primarily because the deeper meaning of Zionism is itself halakhic. For what is Zionism—or Israelization—if not the process of making the abstract concrete, the ideal practical, the vision real?”
(Ido Pachter, Introduction to Israeli Halakha)
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