Rabbanit Yafit Clymer

Rabbanit Yafit Clymer was born in Jerusalem and has worked in Jewish education - both formal and informal - all her life. Rabbanit Clymer received her BA from Hebrew University and her MA from Haifa University, and spent five years studying full time at the Beit Midrash of Matan in Jerusalem. She is currently studying in the Bar Ilan University Jewish Philosophy department for her doctorate. Rabbanit Clymer is the head of the ‘Boee Haruach’ Beit Midrash in Kibbutz ‘Beerot Yitzhak’ and teaches at the Pre Army program for boys ‘Ruach Hasadeh’. She continues to lecture at the various Matan campuses including Matan Hasharon, Modiin, and Hashmonaim and Rehovot. She gives brief insights into the Daf Yomi for the Hadran website called On Second Thought and is on the Faculty of the Sacks Scholars Program.

Rabbanit Clymer is part of the Beit Hillel rabbinic organization and is involved with its Meshivat Nafesh initiative, bringing women’s scholarship to modern questions of Jewish Law and Thought. She and her husband Gershon have spent time on shlichut in the Washington DC area, and they now live in Modiin with their five children.