Our mission involves eight principal commitments:

1. To educate adults by increasing their Jewish knowledge, improving their textual skills and building their confidence as independent learners.

2. To encourage all our students to pass on their knowledge both at home and within their own communities.

3. To develop a faculty of outstanding educators who teach with respect, openness, intellectual rigour and creativity.

4. To study with Yirat Shamayim, a profound reverence for God, in order to strengthen character, guide actions and elevate lives.

5. To exchange ideas at the highest level through academic research and the advanced study of traditional Jewish texts.

6. To promote the full participation of women in Jewish learning.

7. To deepen our community’s understanding and love for Israel.

8. To examine critical issues facing modern society in order to develop a Jewish response and to promote social action.