Programmes · and the gemach
Four programmes, taught in the afternoon and evening so that nothing collides with the sedarim. Hebrew in class, with support in Russian and Ukrainian. Shabbat and the festivals are never teaching days.
What we teach
From no programming at all to building and training a model. The mathematics is taught as part of the course, not assumed.
The full stack, ending in work that can be done as a freelancer from Safed as easily as from Tel Aviv.
The course a person needs before the first invoice, not after the first penalty.
For someone who wants to build a business rather than take a job. Teams as well as individuals.
Two further tracks run alongside these four: online marketing and promotion, and a track for wives of yeshiva students who want paid work that can be done from home. Ask us which of them is open in the current intake.
Can I do this?
Neither had most of the people sitting next to you. Python starts at the beginning, and the mathematics is taught inside the course rather than expected of you.
That is exactly the preparation. Years of holding a structure in your head, following an argument to its consequence and finding the place where it breaks — a debugger asks for the same muscle.
Class is in Hebrew, and support runs alongside it in Russian and Ukrainian. Tell us which language you would rather be taught in when you write.
Yeshiva students, avreichim and rabbis in Northern Israel, and members of their households, from 18 years of age. Places in a group are limited — ask early.
How to apply
Say which programme interests you, where you study or live, and the language you would rather be taught in.
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.
Then it continues past the certificate: the CV, the technical interview, and an introduction to employers.
The second thing we do
A gemach — from גמילות חסדים, the doing of kindness — is a fund that lends money without interest and is repaid, so that the same money can help the next person. It is one of the oldest working institutions of Jewish communal life.
A loan is not a grant and it is not charity, and that distinction is the whole point of it. Whoever takes one is not a recipient of help; he is someone who will repay, and who keeps the standing of a person who repays. In a community where one broken washing machine or one delayed invoice can push a family over, that difference matters more than the amount.
The gemach is the practical companion to the courses. 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 — and it is exactly the gap an interest-free loan is for.
To ask about a loan, or to lend money into the fund so that it can be lent onwards, write to us. Terms are agreed individually and in writing.