Kol Torah

Kol Torah Talmud is a high school in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Bayit Vegan, Israel, which was founded in 1939. The name means voice of the Torah.

History

The Yeshiva Kol Torah was founded in 1939 by Rabbi Dr. Yechiel Michel Schlesinger (* 1898 in Hamburg, † 1948) founded and Rabbi Boruch Kunstadt, an Orthodox judges from Fulda. It was the first charedische yeshiva that taught in the Hebrew language, as opposed to the then usual Yiddish in the yeshivot of the Hasidim. This innovation had the crucial support of the Chazon Ish. According to Rabbi Schlesinger's death in 1949, the yeshiva of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach was headed until his death in 1995.

Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Schlesinger Currently, the eldest son of the founder, head of the yeshiva. Kol Torah currently has over 1,000 students. Rabbi Yeshaya Portnoy is dean of the American program.

Known teachers

  • Untermerzbach Yonah ( for many years editor of the Talmudic Encyclopedia 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 " Birka Avrohom " books )
  • Gavriel Bollag * ( a member of the Mir Yeshiva Shanghai, 1911-2007 )
  • Yitzchak Yerucham Bordiansky ( son of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach ).
  • Yitzchak Lorencz (son of Knesset Member Rabbi Shlomo Lorincz, and grandson of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach ).
  • Yaakov Stein House * ( author of " Dvar Yaakov " books)

Famous graduates

  • Pinchas Paul Biberfeld, chief rabbi of Munich
  • 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 Shemiras Shabbos KeHilchasa
  • Shmuel Rabinowitz, rabbi of the Western Wall and the holy sites of Israel
  • Shmuel Reiner, founded the yeshiva Maale Gilboa
  • Meir Schlesinger, Rabbi Yechiel Michel Schlesinger nephew of
  • Daniel Sperber, a professor of Talmud at Bar- Ilan University
  • Moshe Stav, Rabbi at Yeshiva Kerem B'Yavneh
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