yeshiva /jəˈʃiː.və/ noun1 •(Judaism) An academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts.Nonetheless, in 1976, after graduating with a B.A. in religious studies, he entered Yale's doctoral program in the same department. A year later, he left Yale to study Talmud in a Manhattan yeshiva. — 1995 formsYeshivas · Yeshivot · yeshivas · yeshivos · yeshivot