• Transmit Halachic and hashkafic information, including carefully selected excerpts from classic Torah sources which guide kallah teaching.
• Incorporate medical and psychological information and best practices critical to a kallah’s first few years of marriage
• Impart integral teaching strategies and invaluable women’s health and wellness resources.
• Guide teachers in teaching different types of kallot from different communities and backgrounds.
• Provide tips for naturally conversing about the kallah & chattan relationship and שלום בית through specific touch-points in each of the classes.
• Advise kallah teachers about common challenges that may arise in keeping טהרת המשפחה.
• Create a dynamic relationship between Rabbis, Yoatzot Halacha, Rebbetzins, Kallah Teachers who can together provide critical support to couples in their marriages.

• Applicants will be chosen for their innate interpersonal people skills, paired with a deep sense of יראת שמים and rigorous commitment to halacha.
• Participation requires competence in basic halachic texts such as Tanach, Rambam, Shulchan Aruch and modern halachic compendia in English and (easy to average difficulty) Hebrew.

• Recordings are password protected and can only be viewed by participants in the class.
• Course meets asynchronously, on your own time. You will:
  • Learn from veteran Yoetzet Halacha and experienced Kallah Teacher YH Shoshana Samuels via video recordings of taught using Nishmat’s secure Kallah Teacher web platform unique to this course. 
  • Submit formative post-class assessments built to encourage review of each session’s content and to incorporate that session’s content into your personalized kallah classes.
  • Be paired with an experienced Kallah Teacher mentor who will support each of her students in digesting the subject matter and will provide specific feedback for submitted work.
  • Upon completion of the course and all formative assignments, submit a new and/or improved Kallah classes curriculum compiling all of the materials you will use going forward as a Kallah Teacher. This includes, at minimum: a course outline, relevant handouts, sources, links and resources.
  • Wrap up the course with an exit interview with course instructor YH Shoshana Samuels upon completion of all of the other course requirements.
  • Receive a certificate from Nishmat attesting to your certification as a Nishmat Kallah Teacher.
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  • Please note: Nishmat’s Miriam Glaubach Center is the final arbiter of certification and has the right to terminate a student’s participation at any point, in the event that the educational faculty determines she is not meeting the program’s requirements.

I truly feel so blessed to have taken your course as the start to my Kallah teaching journey, and can’t thank you enough for being such an amazing teacher! I am enjoying this holy work more than I ever could have imagined and just wanted to share my appreciation now that I’ve put your teaching into action!