Kol Torah
Kol Torah is a Talmud high school in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Bayit Vegan , Israel , founded in 1939. The name means voice of the Torah .
history
The Yeshiva Kol Torah was founded in 1939 by Rabbi Jechiel Michel Schlesinger (1898–1948) and Rabbi Boruch Kunstadt, an Orthodox judge from Fulda . It was the first Charedic yeshiva to teach in the Hebrew language , in contrast to the Yiddish used at the time in the yeshivot of the Hasidim. This innovation had the crucial support of the Chazon Ish . After Rabbi Schlesinger's death in 1949, the yeshiva led Rabbi Schlomo Salman Auerbach until his death in 1995.
Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Schlesinger, the founder's eldest son, is currently head of the yeshiva. Kol Torah currently has over 1,000 students.
Known teachers
- Yonah Merzbach (for many years editor-in-chief of the Talmud -Lexikon and former rabbi of Darmstadt , Germany , 1900–1980)
- Shimon Moshe Diskin (1932–1999)
- Dovid Hecksher (1943–1997)
- Yehoshua Neuwirth (author of Shemiras Shabbos Kehilchosoh , 1927-2013)
- Yosef Yehuda Reiner
- Shalom Povarsky, the son of Rabbi David Povarsky of Ponevezh Yeshiva
- Shmuel Boruch (student of Rabbi Elazar Shach )
- Avrohom Erlanger (author of the famous "Birkas Avrohom" books)
- Gavriel Bollag * (Member of Mir Yeshiva Shanghai, 1911–2007)
- Yitzchak Yerucham Bordiansky (son-in-law of Rabbi Schlomo Salman Auerbach ).
- Yitzchak Lorencz (son of Knesset member Rabbi Shlomo Lorincz , and grandson of Rabbi Schlomo Salman Auerbach ).
- Yaakov Steinhouse * (author of the "Dvar Yaakov" books)
Famous Graduates
- Pinchas Paul Biberfeld , Chief Rabbi of Munich
- Yehoshua Erenberg, Rosh-Yeshiva from Knesen Yitzchak-Hadera and Kiryat Sefer.
- Nissan Kaplin, lecturer at the Mir Yeshiva, Jerusalem .
- Ephraim Klyne, Dean of the Torah Temimah School, London .
- Israel Meir Lau , Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel 1993-2003
- Yehoshua Neuwirth, author of the Shemiras Shabbos KeHilchasa
- Shmuel Rabinovitch , Rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Places of Israel
- Shmuel Reiner, founded the Yeshiva Maale Gilboa
- Meir Schlesinger, nephew of Rabbi Jechiel Michel Schlesinger
- Daniel Sperber, Professor of Talmud at Bar-Ilan University
- Moshe Stav, rabbi at the Yeshiva Kerem B'Yavneh
- Yechezkel Yaakovson, Rosh-Yeshiva of the Yeshiva Shaalvim
Web links
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