The Theological Sources of the Yeshiva High School

The yeshiva high school is a 9th–12th grade boys’ school with a curriculum that includes religious studies during the first half of the day and secular subjects in the second. This article clarifies the theological sources of yeshiva high schools. It demonstrates this theology by referencing several religious Zionist thinkers who defined the Torah as multi-dimensional, i.e., combining the sacred and the secular. The article describes the development of the yeshiva high school, the arguments with the Ultra-Orthodoxy that this development entailed, and the attitude towards secular subjects as equal to religious studies.