The Problem
Tanach is the foundation of Torah.
It is almost never learned.
Despite being the core text of the Jewish tradition, Tanach receives virtually no serious attention in advanced Torah settings. In the post–high school and adult learning world, Talmud study dominates almost exclusively. Tanach is treated as background, as inspiration — rarely as a primary discipline worthy of sustained intellectual engagement.
"There is no widely accepted methodology for how Tanach should be learned at a high level. Without a clear method, it lacks both seriousness and sustainability."
— Rabbi David Fohrman
This is not a minor gap. Tanach is the story of Am Yisrael as a people living in history, in its land, and in covenantal responsibility. To neglect it is to lose something essential — a Torah consciousness rooted in nationhood, leadership, moral struggle, and collective destiny.
Kollel Bein HaMikraos exists to address this directly.
Our Story
How this kollel
came to be.
It began, as most real things do, in the middle of a conversation that wouldn't let go.
Menachem Fischer, Yossi Bergmann, and Nochum Spiegel had been learning together — serious about Tanach, but without the framework they were looking for.
They wanted a real chaburah. One with structure, depth, and a method that could hold up.
Then they heard that Rabbi Fohrman was in town — and that he too had been thinking about building something. A kollel. A real one, built around his methodology.
The next day, together with their mutual friend Judah Fish, they went to meet him. The conversation moved quickly from idea to plan. Something clicked. What had been a persistent question suddenly had an answer — and what had been a private vision suddenly had the people to make it real.
Four months later, Kollel Bein HaMikraos was off the ground.
