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NEWS
HaRav Eliashiv Instructs Seminary Directors to Comply with
Rabbinical Committee Directives
by Yated Ne'eman Staff
Seminary directors met in the home of Maran HaRav Yosef
Sholom Eliashiv, shlita, to address a number of
problems and offer solutions regarding the issue of
enrollment for the next school year.
As the number of students enrolling grows from year to year,
seminary directors must find suitable solutions to
accommodate an every larger number of applying students,
kein yirbu. Every year the Rabbinical Committee, whose
members are appointed by HaRav Eliashiv, must address the
matter in coordination with seminary directors and municipal
officials in order to make proper arrangements for all of the
8th grade graduates at Jerusalem's Beis Yaakov elementary
schools.
At the meeting were the committee members, seminary directors
and heads of the City of Jerusalem's Department for Chareidi
Education. Committee member HaRav Refoel Reichman laid out
the guiding principles for enrollment and admission, noting
that in Maran's opinion places must be found for all entering
9th graders. Enrollment can involve inui hadin for
those who are not admitted soon, he told the seminary
directors, adding that concerted efforts must be made to
place all the girls based on the solutions presented by the
Rabbinical Committee and past directives for balancing
classes.
"It must be made clear that the seminars are considered
institutions which belong to the tzibbur," Maran told
the seminary directors at the end of the meeting, "and
therefore he who undertakes to run an institution belonging
to the tzibbur is obligated to the tzibbur, and
more than just making accommodations for girls he is
interested in accepting, accommodations must be made for all
of the girls. Therefore one must obey the Rabbinical
Committee, which knows the [overall figures] and is
authorized to handle the matter, and one must operate in
accordance with its directives."
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