Kol Torah
Kol Torah is a yeshiva in the Bayit Vegan area of Jerusalem, Israel founded in 1939. It is famous for its high standards in Talmudic teaching and quality of students, who are recognised as being some of the foremost Talmudists in the world.
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Early years
Yeshivas Kol Torah was founded in 1939 by Rabbi Dr. Yechiel Michel Schlesinger (1898–1948), born in Hamburg, Germany and Rabbi Boruch Kunstadt, a Dayan from Fulda, Germany. It was the first mainstream Haredi yeshiva to teach in Hebrew, as opposed to Yiddish, as was accepted at the time. This innovation had the crucial support of the Chazon Ish. After Rabbi Schlesinger's death in 1949, Kol Torah was headed by Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach until his death in 1995.
Present
Currently Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Schlesinger, eldest son of the founder, is serving as Rosh yeshiva. Kol Torah is separated into two parts, the rabbinical college and the high school. The number of students in both combined reaches around 1000 students.
Notable faculty members
- Rabbi Gavriel Bollag (member of the Mir Shanghai Yeshiva, 1911–2007)
- Rabbi Yitzchok Yerucham Bordiansky (son in law of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach).
- Rabbi Boruch Shmuel Deutsch (chief disciple of Rabbi Elazar Shach)
- Rabbi Shimon Moshe Diskin (1932–1999)
- Rabbi Avrohom Erlanger (author of the famous "Birkas Avrohom" books)
- Rabbi Dovid Hecksher (1943–1997)
- Rabbi Yitzchok Lorincz (son of Knesset Member Rabbi Shlomo Lorincz, and married the granddaughter of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach).
- Rabbi Dr. Yonah Merzbach (for many years chief editor of the Talmudic Encyclopedia and former rabbi of Darmstadt, Germany, 1900–1980)
- Rabbi Yehoshua Neuwirth (author of Shemiras Shabbos Kehilchosoh, 1927-2013)
- Rabbi Sholom Povarsky, son of Rabbi Dovid Povarsky
- Rabbi Yosef Yehuda Reiner
- Rabbi Yaakov Steinhouse (author of the "Dvar Yaakov" books)
Notable alumni
- Rabbi Dr. Pinchas Biberfeld (1915–1999), Chief Rabbi of Munich
- Rabbi Yehoshua Erenberg, the Rosh Yeshivot of "Kneses Yitzchok" -Chadera and Kiryat Sefer.
- Rabbi Benyamin Goldstein, current Chief Rabbi of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
- Rabbi Nissan Kaplan, one of the head lecturers at Mir Yeshiva, Jerusalem.
- Rabbi Ephraim Klyne, dean of Torah Temimah School, London.
- Rabbi Israel Meir Lau (b. 1937), Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel (1993–2003)
- Rabbi Yehoshua Neuwirth (b. 1927), author of Shemiras Shabbos KeHilchasa
- Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, Rabbi of the Western Wall and the Holy Sites of Israel
- Rabbi Shmuel Reiner (b. 1954), established Yeshivat Maale Gilboa (later a student of Rabbi Meir Schlesinger at Yeshivat Shaalvim)
- Rabbi Meir Schlesinger (b. 1935), nephew of Rabbi Dr. Yechiel Michel Schlesinger, founder of Yeshivat Shaalvim
- Rabbi Dr. Daniel Sperber (b. 1940), Professor of Talmud at Bar-Ilan University
- Rabbi Moshe Stav, rebbe at Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh
- Rabbi Yechezkel Yaakovson (b. 1954), current Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Shaalvim (later a student of Rabbi Meir Schlesinger at Yeshivat Shaalvim)
- Rabbi Don Segal, world-famous mashgiach previously of Mir Brooklyn, now at Yeshivas Tifrach
- Rabbi Chaim Walder, bestselling author of Haredi children's literature[1]
References
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External links
- KOL TORAH RABBINICAL COLLEGE.
- HaRav Yechiel Schlesinger zt"l Part 1
- HaRav Yechiel Schlesinger zt"l Part 2
- HaRav Yechiel Schlesinger zt"l Part 3
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