Obligations of the Students

1. To perform their work in the workshop for three complete years from the day of their entry, not to cease at all during this tenure, and not to be hired by another artisan, neither as an apprentice nor as an intern in any way.
2. To work nine-hour days and to observe precisely the times of work and study, as the management council shall determine.
3. To obey the teachers, to perform all the work according to the artisan instructors, to attend all their classes and to study their lessons.
4. I am obligated to attend all the religious studies classes that are assigned to the students, to rehearse and study them, and to attend the Torah lesson on the holy Sabbath.
5. To conduct themselves in observance of the Torah and mitzvot like all observant Jews, to pray three times daily in a minyan, to be meticulous in cleanliness and good manners, to keep distant from licentiousness and the like, to go about in a brotherly and friendly spirit, especially with all the students of the workshop.
6. To use the tools and machines with the utmost care and caution against any damage and accident, to avoid injury by them.
7. To guard the tools that will be entrusted to them by the artisans and to be responsible for them.

I, the undersigned, an accepted student in the workshop, obligate myself by my signature, to perform my obligations as detailed above in every way that is most beneficial and possible.

In the holy city of Jaffa, may it be rebuilt and established, on ______ day of the week of ______ month in the year ______ .

Signed: ______

I, the undersigned, vouch for the person signed above as a student in the workshop, for fulfilling all the above-mentioned obligations.

In the holy city of Jaffa, may it be rebuilt and established, on ______ day of the week of ______ month in the year ______ .

Signed: ______

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Privileges of the Students [ . . . ]

4. The students who excel the most will receive a bonus [i.e., a scholarship] according to the discretion of the council.

5. The directors will endeavor to search for positions in workplaces for the apprentices who graduate from the school and are granted artisanship certificates. It need not be said that they will have priority over others for jobs and positions in the workshop itself.

Members of the Workshop Council of Sha‘are Torah

In the holy city of Jaffa, may it be rebuilt and established speedily in our days, Amen.