Rabbi Breuer served as the rabbi of Frankfurt's seceded Orthodox Jewish community, having received the position after the death of his father-in-law, Rabbi
Samson Raphael Hirsch. In 1893, he founded the Torah Lehranstalt yeshiva, aiming to raise his community's appreciation of
Torah study. The yeshiva was run in the style of
the Hungarian yeshivas which Rabbi Breuer had studied in prior. Besides for the classic
Gemara study, the yeshiva also included a secular studies program as well as classes in Jewish history and ''
Nevi'im''. There was also a focus on studying the laws of
Shabbos,
kashruth,
prayer, and
blessings. In 1911, his son, Rabbi
Joseph Breuer, joined the yeshiva faculty and introduced a learning program where the older students of Torah Lehranstalt studied together with the younger students from the community's Orthodox high school, the
Samson Raphael Hirsch Realschule. This convinced the
Realschule students to enroll in yeshiva after graduation. In 1921, the yeshiva was divided into five
levels of study, with approximately thirty students in each track. While the students were primarily Germans, many came from Hungary, Austria, and
Moravia as well. After the death of Rabbi Solomon Breuer in 1926, his son Rabbi Joseph Breuer became
rosh yeshiva (dean). The yeshiva closed at the onset of
the Holocaust. Rabbi Breuer left Germany in 1938 and became the leader of
Khal Adath Jeshurun community in New York. In some sense, the
Yeshiva Gedolah Frankfurt established in 2000, continues the tradition. == Notable alumni ==