The Talmudical Academy of Baltimore or TA (Hebrew: ישיבת חפץ חיים) is a K–12 yeshiva founded in 1917.

[1] The first enrolled student was Rabbi Dr. Zalman Naftali Skaist (born 1911), who was to become a noted pioneer in American Jewish education.

[3] The rosh yeshiva (dean) is Yosef Rottenberg[4] and the mesivta mashgiach is Rav Shraga Hershkowitz.

Tractates that are studied with the Bekius method include Rosh Hashanah, Sotah, Ta'anit, Megillah, Chagigah, Succah, Brachos and others.

The Association, headed by Gavi Cohn, serves as an outlet for teenage boys to play sports and hang out in an environment that is acceptable for Orthodox Jewish groups.

The TYA sponsors a flag football league based in a public park near TA, and tennis and pizza nights on Motzei Shabbos, as well as an annual Super Bowl party.

A Mishmar program for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students takes place on most Thursdays, in which additional hours of Talmudic study occur.

TA also sponsors scholarly and religious programs for students and Jewish residents in the community, such as the small kollel they ran (which recently closed).

In the late 1970s, National Football League player Mike Collier briefly served as gym teacher.