Rav Eliyahu Rozenblyum
Torah
He teaches the half of the evening that was never in question. Nothing in these programmes is built at the expense of it.
Who we are
Twenty-seven years of the same work, in three countries.
Prague in 1999, Jerusalem in 2011, Safed today. The tools changed completely. What a person needs in order to stand on their own feet did not change at all.
Who teaches
Two people, two halves of the same evening
Yehuda Hasdo
Hi-tech · founder
He teaches the technology himself, and he founded the association. Uzhhorod, then Prague, then Safed — the whole road is on this page.
Around them teach observant Jews who work in Israeli technology companies by day. That is the reason a student never has to translate between two worlds: the mentor already lives in both.
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
Where the work began
Prague, 1999
A student came from Uzhhorod to Prague to study. He was robbed and forced to hand over his money. Instead of studying he ended up on a building site. A year later he had a trade licence of his own — in his words, “I had no certainty of food and a roof even a week ahead.” The pay was 35 to 55 Czech crowns an hour, roughly half the market rate. For his papers he was charged 40,000 crowns; the real cost was 5,000.
What came out of that was not a complaint. It was a method — and it is still the method this association uses.
G7 Prague — three rules
Do the paperwork together
One person alone pays eight times the price and has no way of knowing it. A group finds out in a week.
Say out loud what an hour is worth
People on a trade licence were invoicing 70 to 130 crowns an hour. Nobody had told the newcomers. Telling them was the single most valuable thing the group did.
Share what you know about employers
Including the warnings. Especially the warnings.
The line of organisations
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1999–2012
G7 Prague
A self-help group of foreigners working in the Czech Republic. Documents, fair rates, shared information.
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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 — with Beit Lubavitch
An Israeli amuta since 10 May 2018, working publicly under this name since 2020, in partnership with Beit Lubavitch. Torah and hi-tech, instead of trade licences and paperwork.
The same thing, a different century. Hasidav is not the beginning of the road. It is what the road arrived at.
The founder
One man, three cities, three spellings
Uzhhorod, Prague and Safed each wrote his name their own way. All three spellings belong to the same person, and all three appear on his papers.
Yuriy Hozda
Uzhhorod. The name he was born with, and the name on his student card at the Faculty of Economics of Uzhhorod National University.
Jiří Hozda
Prague. The name on his Czech documents, from the years on the building site and the trade licence onwards.
Yehuda Hasdo
Safed. The name used in the religious world and in the association — founder of Hasidav, authorised signatory.
The association
The formal details
Hasidav is registered in Israel as an amuta — a non-profit association — under the name חסידיו (ע"ר). It was entered in the register on 10 May 2018, its registered office is in Safed, HaShiv’a Street 77, and the register classifies its field as welfare services (שירותי רווחה).
The association has two purposes: professional courses for yeshiva students and graduates, aimed at a trade and at entry into the labour market; and a gemach — interest-free lending. Both are on this website; neither is decoration.
It is a small association: one employee and seven members. Its figures are on the transparency page, with the public source next to each one.
| Registered name | חסידיו (ע"ר) |
| Latin form used | Hasidav |
| Registration number | 580663482 |
| Registered | 10 May 2018 |
| Status | Registered (רשומה) |
| Field | Welfare services (שירותי רווחה) |
| Registered office | HaShiv’a St. 77, Safed, Israel |
| Authorised signatories | Yehuda Hasdo · Miryam Hasdo · Yosef (Yosi) Daskal |
Partners
Who we work with
Hasidav works in partnership with Beit Lubavitch and with the Lubavitch.Pro platform. Both share the premise this association was built on: that traditional Jewish study and a modern profession belong in the same life, not in two separate ones.
An open invitation
Were you there?
If you remember G7 Prague, Academy Hidud in Jerusalem, or the first Hasidav courses — write to us. Thousands of people passed through those years, and every one of them holds a piece of the story that we do not.
We are collecting facts: dates, places, the firms that hired people, what actually helped and what did not. One sentence is useful. A photograph or a document is better.
Whatever you send reaches a mailbox of the association and is read by a person. We will not publish your name, your contact details or your photograph without asking you first and getting your answer.