Editing Yeshiva Gedolah Miami

In 1971, Rabbi Shalom Dovber Lipskar along with one of his supporters approached the Rebbe requesting help in establishing a Chabad yeshiva in Florida.

Following this, in 1974, the Rebbe established the yeshiva and sent Rabbi Yehuda Leib Schapiro to serve as Rosh Yeshiva. The Rebbe personally selected the founding group of 11 students, including Rabbi Avraham Moshe Deutsch.

Initially, the yeshiva was located in a three-room apartment, with one room designated for the Schapiro couple and two bedrooms used for the 11 students. The actual learning took place in a shed in the courtyard. Only after some time did the yeshiva move to operate in the educational complex on Alton Road.

The establishment of the yeshiva brought momentum to all Chabad activities in the South Florida area, with many people who were drawn to Chabad activities setting fixed learning times at the yeshiva complex and establishing chavrusas with the yeshiva students.

The first group of student shluchim returned to New York after three years and was replaced by another group, a tradition that continued for many years until the yeshiva became independently established.

The yeshiva is considered prestigious, and students from around the world knock on its doors each year, primarily coming to hear the shiurim of Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Yehuda Leib Schapiro.

Every year during summer breaks, the yeshiva students travel to towns throughout Florida, Venezuela, Panama, and Mexico as part of the Merkos Shlichus program, engaging in spreading Torah and Yiddishkeit.

Over the years, an entire community has developed around the yeshiva and the personality of Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Schapiro, who serves as the community's rabbi.

The yeshiva publishes an almost yearly collection of pilpulim and notes from the Temimim and Anash under the name "Shaarei Yeshiva Gedolah," with 36 volumes published as of 2022.

As of 2024, there are 25 bochurim studying in the yeshiva.

== Yeshiva Faculty ==

* Rabbi Yehuda Leib Schapiro - Rosh Yeshiva
* Rabbi Chaim Stern - Director
* Rabbi Yosef Yeshaya Abrams - Mashpia
* Rabbi Ben Zion Karf - Head Mashgiach
* Rabbi Zev Lipskar
* Rabbi Shmuel Chaim Winter
* Rabbi Menachem Mendel Krasniansky