An unusual pairing
Rabbi Yitz Greenman's recorded corpus stands out for a subject most Torah teachers never touch: professional fundraising. Titles like "How to Reach the Donor of Your Dreams," "Maximizing Your Fundraising Appointments," and "Starting a Fundraising Operation from Scratch" read like a development professional's curriculum — because that is largely what they are. Alongside Torah and Pirkei Avos, a substantial part of this collection is practical training for people who raise money for Jewish institutions.
That focus fills a genuine gap. The Jewish community runs on mosdos — yeshivos, chesed organizations, kollelim — and those institutions live or die on their ability to raise funds, yet almost no one teaches the skill from within a Torah framework. A corpus that treats fundraising seriously, and ethically, is a rare and practical resource for anyone in that world.
Fundraising taught as a craft
The fundraising talks are notably concrete. "Overcoming Your Fundraising Fears and How to Handle Objections," delivered in parts, is the kind of material found in professional sales training, applied here to the specific work of asking for tzedakah support. "Mega Gifts - Who Gives Them, Who Gets Them?" digs into the dynamics of major-donor giving. This is craft, not cheerleading: how to prepare, how to ask, how to handle a no.
What keeps it grounded in Torah is the framing of the whole enterprise. Raising money for a mosad is, in this telling, a form of avodah — building the infrastructure of Torah and chesed — and doing it well is a skill worth mastering. For an executive director, board member, or volunteer, the collection offers guidance that is hard to find anywhere else.
Pirkei Avos, seforim and communal life
Beyond fundraising, the corpus is tagged with Ethics of the Fathers, the study of seforim, and philosophy, pointing to a teacher engaged with mussar and machshavah as well. Pirkei Avos in particular is a natural home for someone thinking about character, integrity, and how a person conducts themselves — themes that connect directly to the ethics of asking for and giving money.
The collection also touches communal hardship, tagged under tragic events — the reality that Jewish organizations and families face loss and must respond. Taken together, the corpus reflects a teacher concerned with the practical machinery of Jewish communal life: how it is funded, how it holds its values, and how it responds when times are hard.
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At a glance
Key takeaways
- Rabbi Yitz Greenman's recorded corpus runs to more than 260 talks.
- A large and distinctive portion is practical training in nonprofit fundraising.
- The fundraising talks are concrete craft — reaching donors, handling objections, major gifts.
- He pairs this with Pirkei Avos, seforim, and machshava on character and communal life.
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