Torah classes for women
Rebbetzin Ivy Kalazan is a women's Torah teacher whose recorded classes have gathered a devoted following among women who want to learn at their own pace. Her library spans more than seventy shiurim, ranging across tefillah, the festivals, and the seasons of the Jewish year. Rather than surveying a topic quickly, she tends to return to a subject across several sessions, letting an idea unfold gradually so listeners can sit with it and carry it into their own avodah rather than hear it once and move on.
A clear example is her multi-part study of the Shema, where she works through the words of Judaism's central declaration one section at a time. Elsewhere she turns to Kohelet, the sober meditation on meaning read on Sukkos, drawing out its questions about what truly lasts. Across her classes she keeps returning to the inner life of a Jew — how we daven, how we mark the calendar, and how we make room for reflection in the middle of an ordinary week.
The Yamim Noraim and the fast of Tisha B'Av
Several of Rebbetzin Kalazan's most substantial series are built around the most demanding times of the year. Her Aseres Yemei Teshuvah classes take up the theme of viduy, the confession at the heart of teshuvah, across more than one session — a sign that she wants listeners to do the slow work of self-examination rather than rush it. These are shiurim meant to be learned in the very weeks when a person is already trying to change, when the words have the best chance of taking hold.
For Tisha B'Av she offers a class titled "Tears for a True Loss," turning the day's mourning toward something real rather than abstract. It is characteristic of her approach: taking a fixed point on the calendar and asking what it is actually asking of us. Learners who follow the Jewish year closely will find in her classes a companion for the moments — the Yamim Noraim, the fast days, Rosh Chodesh — when the calendar plainly calls for more than routine.
Learning at the pace of the year
Because her classes are recorded, they fit naturally into the rhythm of a Jewish home. A woman can pick up the Shema series over several quiet evenings, or turn to the teshuvah classes as Elul begins and the Yamim Noraim approach. Nothing here depends on catching a live session; the learning simply waits until there is time for it. That suits mothers and working women whose weeks rarely go according to plan, and it lets a subject be revisited whenever it becomes relevant again.
What ties the collection together is a steady, unhurried voice returning to the essentials — prayer, the festivals, and the honest questions of a thinking Jew. For a household where the women of the home want their own space to learn, a teacher who covers tefillah, Kohelet, and the seasons of teshuvah offers a dependable place both to begin and to return. The material grows more familiar, and more useful, each time the year comes back around to it.
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Key takeaways
- Rebbetzin Ivy Kalazan's recorded library holds more than seventy shiurim for women.
- Her multi-part Shema series works through the central declaration of Jewish prayer section by section.
- Her Aseres Yemei Teshuvah classes take up viduy across more than one session, for slow self-examination.
- She teaches Kohelet and a Tisha B'Av class, "Tears for a True Loss," tied to the Jewish calendar.
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