Yeshiva Maharsha Beis Aharon is a Haredi Community and Yeshiva

Yeshiva

Yeshiva is a Jewish educational institution that focuses on the study of traditional religious texts, primarily the Talmud and Torah study. Study is usually done through daily shiurim and in study pairs called chavrutas...

 based in Fairmount, Johannesburg

Johannesburg

Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...

. The community was founded in 1982 by the late Rabbi Aharon Pfeuffer

Aharon Pfeuffer

Aharon Pfeuffer was a Rabbi and Posek and a recognised authority on Kashrut. He was active in Johannesburg and Bnei Brak. He founded the Yeshiva Maharsha Beis Aharon in 1982 and headed the Yeshiva College of South Africa in the early 1980s...

 (for whom the Yeshiva was later named), and is Headed

Rosh yeshiva

Rosh yeshiva, , , is the title given to the dean of a Talmudical academy . It is made up of the Hebrew words rosh — meaning head, and yeshiva — a school of religious Jewish education...

 by Rabbi M. Raff. The Yeshiva comprises a Beit Midrash, a post high school programme, and a semicha

Semicha

, also , or is derived from a Hebrew word which means to "rely on" or "to be authorized". It generally refers to the ordination of a rabbi within Judaism. In this sense it is the "transmission" of rabbinic authority to give advice or judgment in Jewish law...

 programme. It also operates a pre-primary, and primary and high schools for boys and girls.

See also

• Jewish education in South Africa under History of the Jews in South Africa
• Orthodox yeshivas in South Africa