Meet Rabbanit Yosefa

Yosefa Fogel Wruble is a teacher of Torah both in Israel and abroad. She is passionate about creating learning experiences that authentically explore and honor the Torah and those that safeguard it. Yosefa feels most at home in the Bet Midrash but has a deep appreciation for the perspectives and professional skills acquired in the academy. She enjoys experimenting with different teaching mediums as a way to touch different audiences and create relevant Torah learning experiences. 

 

Yosefa teaches Tanach, Jewish thought, and Halacha in Matan, the Migdal Oz Women’s Bet Midrash, and lectures in Herzog College’s Tanach department.

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While Yosefa spends many hours of the week in the classroom, she is also passionate about the power of candid and heartfelt conversation. She officially entered the podcasting space five years ago with what has morphed into Matan’s weekly Parsha Podcast with tens of thousands of listeners.  Yosefa also hosts a Hebrew podcast put out by the Migdal Oz Women’s Bet Midrash titled ‘ha-Zman Grama’ (time-caused) which is released in short series before holidays.  She is also the co-host of "Women Talking Mitzvot," a bi-monthly Migdal Oz/Deracheha podcast which explores both Halachic sources and women’s lived experiences of keeping mitzvot. Yosefa was a ‘Sacks Scholar’ in the second cohort of the Rabbi Sacks Scholars program.

 

Yosefa believes in the value of personalized education, especially for life’s most sensitive topics, which is why she prioritizes one-on-one educational work with women and couples both before and after marriage. Her hadrachat kallot combines halachic knowledge which empowers women and couples to take ownership over their own observance, alongside research-based sexual education.  Yosefa meets with her brides for sessions before the wedding and for a post-marriage session several months afterward to provide support, troubleshooting advice, and further guidance. 

 

Yosefa is a Nishmat-certified Yoetzet Halacha and a trained sexual educator through the Eden Center.  She is currently writing a book on the intersection of sexual intimacy and religious life. 

 

Yosefa holds a doctorate in Bible studies from Bar Ilan University which was completed under the auspices of its Presidential Scholarship. Her Master's degree in Bible and Exegesis was pursued simultaneously in Bar-Ilan and in Matan’s Shaul Bellows Master’s Program in Tanach and Biblical Exegesis, and received her teaching degree from Herzog College.  Her BA is in Judaic studies and creative writing from Stern College, Yeshiva University.

 

Yosefa is a fluent English and Hebrew speaker and loves weaving in and out of different cultures and communities. 

 

She lives in Gush Etzion with her husband and their five children.