Artificial intelligence and data
From no programming at all to a model you trained yourself. The mathematics is taught inside the course, not assumed.
Safed · Northern Israel
A trade learned in the evening, without giving up the morning seder.
Raising a generation of leaders
We teach yeshiva students, avreichim and rabbis in Northern Israel to write software, read a balance sheet and start a business — in the evening, in Hebrew, Russian or Ukrainian. And when the first invoice is paid sixty days late, our gemach lends the difference without interest.
- Legal form
- Amuta — association, Israel
- Registration number
- 580663482
- Registered
- 10 May 2018
- Registered office
- Safed, HaShiv’a St. 77
You want to learn a trade
Four evening programmes, from your first line of Python to your first invoice. No previous experience is needed.
The programmes →You need a loan, not a gift
The gemach lends without interest and is repaid, so that the same money reaches the next family.
How the gemach works →You are checking who we are
Amuta 580663482, registered in Safed on 10 May 2018. Registration, documents and figures, each with its public source.
Registration and documents →Torah is taught here by Rav Eliyahu Rozenblyum. Hi-tech I teach myself.We have been building this for seven years, following the wish of the Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson. — Yehuda Hasdo, founder of Hasidav
What we teach
Four programmes, all of them after the seder
Hebrew in class, with teaching support in Russian and Ukrainian. Shabbat and the festivals are never teaching days.
Web development and design
The full stack, ending in work you can do as a freelancer from Safed as easily as from Tel Aviv.
Financial literacy and bookkeeping
Income tax, VAT, עוסק פטור, a pension and a household budget — before the first invoice, not after the first penalty.
Start-up track
For someone who would rather build a business than take a job. Teams as well as individuals, mentoring past the demo day.
Before you ask
The four questions everyone asks first
When are the classes?
Afternoon and evening, so that nothing collides with the sedarim. Shabbat and the festivals are never teaching days.
Who teaches?
Observant Jews who work in Israeli technology companies by day. You never have to translate between two worlds — your mentor already lives in both.
In which language?
Hebrew in class, with support in Russian and Ukrainian for those who came from Ukraine and the former Soviet Union.
And when the course ends?
We write the CV with you, rehearse the technical interview, and introduce you to employers. A course that ends at the certificate ends too early.
The second thing we do
Gemach — money lent without interest
A gemach — from גמילות חסדים, the doing of kindness — lends money without interest. The loan is repaid, and the same money then helps the next person. It is one of the oldest working institutions of Jewish communal life.
A new freelancer waits sixty days for the first payment while the rent falls due in thirty. That gap is where people give up on a new trade. It is exactly the gap this fund is for.
A loan is not charity, and that distinction is the whole point. Whoever takes one keeps the standing of a person who repays.
- Interest is never charged. Not reduced — not charged.
- The loan is repaid, and the same money is lent again.
- Amount and schedule are agreed in writing before anything is paid out.
- You may also lend money into the fund so that it can be lent onwards.
How to join
Three steps, and the first one is a single e-mail
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Write to us
Say which programme interests you, where you study or live, and the language you would rather be taught in.
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A short conversation
We tell you when the next intake starts, what the evenings look like and whether a place is open. You decide after that, not before.
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You start
Groups are kept small. Evening teaching with mentors who work by day cannot be made bigger without ruining it.
Where this comes from
The association is from 2018. The work is from 1999.
Hasidav is the third organisation in one line of work. The subject has never changed: helping someone who arrived with nothing to stand on their own feet.
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1999–2012
G7 Prague
A self-help group of foreigners working in the Czech Republic. Three rules: do the paperwork together, say out loud what an hour of work is worth, and share what you know about employers.
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2011–2017
Academy Hidud, Jerusalem
The same method carried to Israel and to a religious audience: study first, and beside it a trade that supports a family.
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2018 / 2020–
Hasidav, Safed
An Israeli amuta since 10 May 2018, working publicly under this name since 2020, together with Beit Lubavitch. Torah and hi-tech, instead of trade licences and paperwork.
For students and staff
Working tools of the association
Internal services of the association, listed here so that the people who use them can find them.