History
In 1966, a group of community leaders headed by Mr. Sheldon K. Beren approached Beth Medrash Govoha's Dov Lesser to discuss potential leadership for the yeshiva. Lesser mentioned the prospect to Rabbi Yitzchock Wasserman, who was teaching in a bais medrash in Boston at the time. Though Rabbi Wasserman was initially hesitant to leave his Boston position, Mr. Beren convinced him, along with fellow BMG talmid Rabbi Chaim Kahn, to come to Denver. When Rabbis Wasserman and Kahn realized how much time and energy went into recruiting and fundraising, they felt that the importance of having a full-time presence in the bais medrash was crucial enough to warrant the inclusion of another yeshiva head. Rabbi Wasserman's childhood friend, Rabbi Yisroel Meir Kagan, who was giving chaburas in BMG, was recruited for the job. The yeshiva opened its doors to students in the fall of 1967.
Due to the yeshiva's unique location (at the time of its founding, YTC was the first full-time yeshiva not located on the east coast), the students were initially mainly from Denver and other western cities. Seattle, Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Vancouver, British Columbia and several other cities were represented, along with bochurim from New York, New Jersey, Baltimore and other east coast communities.
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