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5 unusual facts about Kollel


Avrohom Yissochor Englard

The Rebbe also established the Radziner Yeshiva Sod Y'sharim in Jerusalem, the Radziner Yeshiva Ateres Shlomo in Bnei Brak, the Radziner Yeshiva Tiferes Yosef in Bnei Brak, with many Kollelim located in Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, and Haifa.

Benzion Yadler

After he married Henya, he began to study in the Pri Yitzchok Kollel.

Kollel

Other examples of successful community kollelim include kollelim in Dallas; St. Louis, Missouri; Atlanta; Seattle; Pittsburgh; and Phoenix, Arizona.

Meshulach

In the original meaning it was for the resque of the Yishuv ha-Yashan of Eretz Yisrael, the funds were distributed by the Kollelim in form of chalukah.

Naftoli Shapiro

He studied in the Łomża Kollel under the renowned Gaon Rabbi Aaron Yosef Bakst, and received semicha at the age of 23 from Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor.


Avraham Jacobovitz

After spending a few years in the Mirrer kollel, the young couple moved to Detroit, where Rabbi Jacobovitz studied in the Kollel Institute of Greater Detroit.

It was in Detroit where the Rosh Kollel Rabbi Moshe Schwab שליט"א encouraged Rabbi Jacobovitz to enter the kiruv world.

Chaim Rapoport

In 1987 Rapoport and his wife joined the community Kollel in Melbourne, Australia, where, in addition to his post graduate studies, he officiated and lectured in several communities, including the far flung Launceston in Tasmania.

Hesder

Many of the Yeshivot Hesder also support a Kollel and offer a Semicha ("rabbinic ordination") program, usually in preparation for the "Semicha of the Rabbanut"; many Hesder graduates also obtain semicha from Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg.

Kollel Shomrei HaChomos

The kollel is still active with Pushka and Halukka money gatherings in America and Europe for the benefit of Jerusalem, and is managing many Torah institutes of the Yishuv haYashan of Jerusalem.

Kovno Kollel

The Kovno Kollel was later transferred to Slabodka, a suburb of Kovno, where Rabbi Shimon Zvi Dubiansky was appointed rosh kollel and served there until the outbreak of World War II.

Ramot Polin

It was constructed by the Kollel Polen (Poland) in stages beginning in 1972, under the auspices of the Office for Building and Habitation, and is populated, as intended, mostly by Haredi Jewish families, including Breslov.

Yeshivas Ohr HaChaim

The yeshiva also has a kollel and an advanced and renown Rabbical Program and operates in conjunction with its high schools, Mesivta Yesodei Yisroel and neighboring Mesivta Yesodei Yeshurun.

Yitzhar

Education is a priority of the community and several institutions operate locally: a daycare center, preschools, the boy's Zilberman Talmud Torah, and the Od Yosef Chai (Joseph Still Lives) institutions headed by Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, comprising the Dorshei Yichudcha yeshiva high school, a post-high school yeshiva gedola, previously located in Joseph's Tomb Nablus, headed by Rabbi Yitzhak Ginzburg, and a kollel.

Zvi Sobolofsky

In the summer 2008, he joined Roshei Yeshiva, Rabbi Hershel Schachter and Rabbi Mayer Twersky at the NCSY Kollel in Israel.


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