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I have heard lots of what seminary costs, but what does sending a 21-22 year old bochur cost? I was told a shared “deerah” runs about $200-300 per person, but what does tuition cost? Phone bills? Food? How many r/t flights in the 12 months?
I’m not asking to name names, but figure on the standard post-Bklyn yeshiva bochur, and the Brisk / Mir / BMG type of boy.
How much am I looking at?
your arm…your leg…and your firstborn son!
Don’t know, but if he goes for 9 months instead of a year and a half……
Why any return flights? The kid’s not old enough to be here for a year without going home? He doesn’t have any relatives/friends he can go to for the chagim?
I’m married about 15 years so my info isn’t current, but since noone else is answering i’ll share ny 2 cents. In my days a Mir/Brisk dira ran 80-100$ per boy per month. plus say $20 utilties and $100 meals in Brisk (Mir serves 3 meals a day). Take into account laundry and other misc and a frugal boy shouldn’t need more then $300/month, $200 in the Mir. If he gets into the Mir dorm, life can be virtually free.
hello99,many boys are not very frugal. I have a brother in law that is learning in the Mir. He is a real masmid, would not miss a seder or zman tefilla, but likes to be comfortable, and enjoys nice things (like many of us). Mir serves 3 meals, but he’d prefer to buy supper, either go out to eat or quick takeout; schwarma, shnitzel… He enjoys the bagel shop, or pizza for lunch. He travels around by taxi (as apposed to bus) and occasionally, he and his friends will rent a car for a shabbos getaway to Miron or Tzfas. Nothing harmful, like I said, he is really ehrliche boy that doesnt make trouble, but he ends up spending a nice amount of money a month. All these little things add up…(and I am not talking about laundry and utilities)
Poster,funny you mention that. When my husband was in the dorm, if he didn’t like what was being served he just went hungry. (He was pretty skinny at the time.) Wonder why the boys now won’t make do with pas b’melech, or pb, at least a good part of the time.
Poster: I know and don’t disagree. I simply stated the minimum one could spend in my experience, and I feel a parent may demand their child live frugally if he wants to learn in EY.
There are boys that do not come to Israel with enough spending money, many of them find ways to make money. Once when leaving from a trip to Israel, my husband’s friend (then not yet married, learning there) approaced him and said he borrowed someones car and is driving someone to the airport, for 120 shekel, he will take us too. That is cheaper than taxi so we went with him. I assume he charged the other guy 120 as well, and I wouldnt be surprised if he found someone in the airport to bring to Yerushalayim for another 120 or more.
poster: do u send your kid to e.y to learn or work?
WOTW, I do not have children of age yet, I am simply stating facts of cases that I know. I dont think these are exceptions. The boy that drove us to the airport was in yeshiva learning a whole day, this was at night. He must be very tight on cash. There are bucherim that get jobs to pack away the sefarim, this is not instead of their learning this is in addition to.
To wordofthewise: ever heard of work study?
If this is the appropriate time for this boy to go and the parents can’t afford the whole nine yards, the boy should be resourceful enough either to pitch in with savings, or live as responsibly as he can while there.. If that means working part time, so be it.
Do you have a problem with a boy/young man working while in the US or otherwise chu”l during the zman, e.g. haircuts, tutoring, or whatever he can find?
To wordofthewise: sorry if my tone was a bit confrontational (“ever heard of work study?”)
But this is not a bad thing for our boys. I’m not saying you subscribe to this, but there seems to be a school of thought that feels that if a boy concentrates on absolutely anything but learning, he has to go back to square one or something or he won’t reach gadlus (or his full potential). I beg to differ.
sorry to all offended
when a parent want to send a bachor to learn in E.Y i dont think they are interested in him making money to support himself. and if parents cant afford to send them there are people these days who dont go to E.Y.
and yes there are always people in yeshivas binding giving haircuts i did them my self but thats in yeshiva not out of yeshiva!
and yes if he wants to go work (and learn)nothing wrong either
I was in EY for a few years, I came home every Pesach. Technically I could have stayed but very few did and both my parents and I wanted to spend Pesach together.
These days you can expect to give $100-$150 spending money monthly add that to the cost of a dira mentioned above.
ETA my last $100-$150 at the minimum.
BPTotty: Mir and Brisk do not charge tuition.
sorry mir does charge
Some kids do NOT have any friends or relatives at whose homes they could stay bein hazmanim. It is one thing to spend a Shabbos by a friend of a friend, but expecting to be put up for a few weeks is really an imposition on someone’s generosity. So going home becomes a necessity, if all the other students are going home. That does not reflect poorly on their inability to be away for the year.
That’s new. How much?
oomis: if he’s renting an apt, he can stay there and if he’s in the dorm it is likely to be open.
My son was enrolled in the Mir. He never actually went, but we got to the point of discussing tuition. They certainly do charge tuition but they are VERY flexible and will accept whatever you can afford. At least that was my experience.
I have 2 sons in E’Y , one in a dormitory yeshiva tuition is less then what we payed in the states to allow for him to come home for Pesach.He buys some food but mostly makes due with yeshiva food.It is that yeshivas policy that unless staying with family members for the entire off time all bochrim come home.He has some minor expenses less than $50 a month. The other is in a shared dira $150 a month plus phone,laundry,utilities and some food and misc about $300 a month total.
first of all how in the world did syags comment make it through.
for the op- i just got married and was in one of the brisk-esque yeshovos. so heres the lowdown. a dira will cost between 130-175 a month,175 is a bit high. youll need to pay gichon, chashmal, bezeq, and maybe gas. figure another 75-100 dollars. ass spending money. this depends on which yeshiva hes in. ie if its brisk he gets all meals etc., youll have to figure it yourself. i did ok on 250 a month, but im very frugal. for bein hazmanim youll probably need to give more for food, trips, daled minim,etc. anything else?
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