The study of Mussar ("ethics"), both by attending and reviewing semiweekly lectures and through daily individual study of Mussar texts, is strongly emphasized. Dovid Leibowitz founded the Chofetz Chaim yeshiva in the footsteps of his rebbe, the Alter of Slabodka, and Rabbi Yisroel Salanter, the founder of the Mussar movement. Henoch Leibowitz would continually remind his students that as important as it is to become a lamden ("analytical scholar") and a great pedagogue, it is even more important to become a mentch ("a good human being"). An emphasis on propagating the ideals and values of Judaism. Upon completion of a rigorous term of study, students are encouraged to seek employment, often building Torah institutions like schools and Shuls in communities far away from major Jewish cities like Orlando, FL or Henderson, NV. Going in the field of Jewish education (Harbatzos Hatorah) is the greatest of goals. Torah is not just ours for us. We need to share it. The omni-significance and complete subservience to "Daas Torah" as defined in the introduction to the 6-volume collection of Henoch Lebowitz's mussar lectures, "Chidushei Halev", as well as numerous public ethical discourses. This is the concept that everything is included in the Torah and the way that the Torah logic (i.e. Talmudic reasoning) works is the way that God's mind works; therefore one who has spent years dedicated to in depth Talmudic study has shaped his mind to think like the Torah/God and is thus able to apply the Torah's logic to all manner of situations. The Yeshiva Hashkafa (philosophy) is that externals don't matter as much as internals so rather than focusing on looking like a good person it's more important on working on oneself and becoming a good person. Affiliates and branches by location United States California: Valley Torah High School, Los Angeles Torah High Schools of San Diego, San Diego Yeshivas Ner Aryeh Chofetz Chaim of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Yeshiva Ketana of Los Angeles Florida: Yeshiva Toras Chaim Toras Emes, North Miami Beach- Rabbi Binyomin Luban, Rosh Yeshiva JEC of South Florida, Boca Raton, Florida Torah Academy of Boca Raton Yeshiva Tiferes Torah of Boca Raton Orlando Torah Academy, Orlando, Florida Illinois: Torah Academy of Buffalo Grove (day school) Suburban Alliance for Jewish Education (outreach organization) Jewish Family Interactive Experience Hebrew School Kentucky Montessori Torah Academy, Louisville, KY Missouri: Missouri Torah Institute, St. Louis New Jersey: Foxman Torah Institute,