Kollel Chazon Ish is a ''

kollel A kollel (also kolel) (, , , , a "gathering" or "collection" f scholars is an institute for full-time, advanced Torah study, study of the Talmud and rabbinic literature. Like a yeshiva, a kollel features Shiur (Torah), shiurim (lectures) and ...

'' (group of married Jewish men who study Torah) of rabbis on HaAri St 3, in

Bnei Brak Bnei Brak ( ) or Bene Beraq, is a city located on the central Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean Israeli coastal plain, coastal plain in Israel, just east of Tel Aviv. A center of Haredi Judaism, Bnei Brak covers an area of 709 hectares (1,752 acre ...

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

with a focus on

Talmud The Talmud (; ) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (''halakha'') and Jewish theology. Until the advent of Haskalah#Effects, modernity, in nearly all Jewish communities, the Talmud was the cen ...

study. The Kollel was originally established by Rabbi

Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz (; 7 November 1878 – 24 October 1953), also known as the Chazon Ish () after his magnum opus, was a Belarusian-born Orthodox rabbi who later became one of the leaders of Haredi Judaism in Israel, where he spent ...

, who was known as the

Chazon Ish Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz (; 7 November 1878 – 24 October 1953), also known as the Chazon Ish () after his magnum opus, was a Belarusian-born Orthodox rabbi who later became one of the leaders of Haredi Judaism in Israel, where he spent ...

. Rabbi

Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky (), known as The Steipler or The Steipler Gaon (1899 – 10 August 1985), was a Haredi rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and ''posek'' (decider of Jewish law in new situations), and the author of ''Kehilos Yaakov'', a 19-volume c ...

, his brother-in-law, taught there.

Notable members

* Rabbi Yechezkel Brettler * Rabbi Aharon Feldman * Rabbi

Chaim Kanievsky Shemaryahu Yosef Chaim Kanievsky (; January 8, 1928 – March 18, 2022) was an Israeli Haredi rabbi and ''posek''. He was a leading authority in Haredi Jewish society on legal and ethical practice. Known as the '' Gadol HaDor'' ("greatest of his ...

* Rabbi

Nissim Karelitz Shmaryahu Yosef Nissim Karelitz (; July 19, 1926 – October 21, 2019) was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and posek who served as the chairman of the '' beis din tzedek'' (rabbinical court) of Bnei Brak. Biography Karelitz was born in 1926 in Kosa ...

* Rabbi Yaakov Kohn * Rabbi Gedaliah Nadel * Rabbi

Moshe Shmuel Shapiro Moshe Shmuel Shapiro (; 1917–2006) was a rosh yeshiva (dean of a Jewish seminary). Early life and education Shapiro was born in the Minsk, Belarus. In 1937 he moved to Palestine. In Israel In Israel, Shapiro attended Yeshivas Lomza in Petah ...

* Rabbi Yehuda Shapiro (Yudel Shapiro) * Rabbi Dovid Shmidel * Rabbi

Aaron Teitelbaum Aaron Teitelbaum (born 20 October 1947) is one of the two Grand Rebbes of Satmar, and the chief rabbi of the Satmar community in Kiryas Joel, New York. Background Aaron Teitelbaum is the oldest son of the late Grand Rabbi of Satmar Moshe Te ...

Mishpacha Article on the Satmar Rebbe
/ref> * Rabbi Yisroel Eliyahu Weintraub * Rabbi Yechezkel Moskovitz

References

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