Rabbanit Yael Shimon has been a Torah scholar and educator for many years but she’s also an artist and Bezalel graduate.  

One of her works of art was acquired by the Jewish Museum in Berlin: the piece Tzena U’Rena צְאֶנָה וּרְאֶינָה (Song of Songs 3:11). This piece brings together thoughts about Torah, art and women’s learning that will lead us on a tour of "The Garden of Forking Paths," a phrase coined by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges in the title of his 1941 short story, followed by a discussion about women learning Torah, art and midrash.

Rabbanit Yael Shimoni is the Assistant Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshivat Drisha. She founded and previously directed the “Meshivat Nefesh” initiative – the online halachic and spiritual responsa program of the rabbaniyot of Beit Hillel. She taught at Pelech High School in Jerusalem for a decade and served as a ramit for Shana Bet at Migdal Oz for two years. Over the years she has taught in various other institutions – Midreshet Emuna v’Omanut, Midreshet Lindenbaum, and Herzog College. She is a plastic artist and member of “A Studio of Her Own”, and exhibits her works around the country. She studied for three years at the Institute for Halakhic Leadership at Midreshet Lindenbaum, for six years at Migdal Oz, and for two years in Matan’s Advanced Talmud Institute. She holds a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and a B. Ed in Torah Shebe’al Peh and Jewish Thought from Herzog College.