The Kelm Talmud Torah was a famous yeshiva in pre-holocaust Kelmė, Lithuania. Unlike other yeshivas, the Talmud Torah focused primarily on the study of...

Musar movement. He is best known as the founder and director of the Kelm Talmud Torah. Simcha Zissel Ziv was born as Simcha Mordechai Ziskind Broida in...

At a young age, he went to study at the Kelm Talmud Torah under Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv, "the Alter of Kelm." Despite his influence, he was an intensely...

§ Rabbinic and teaching career; Torah Lehranstalt § History; Kelm Talmud Torah; Yitzchak Yaacov Reines § Biography. Torah study at an Orthodox yeshiva comprises...

were there at the time of its founding. The Yiddish name is Kelm, as in Kelm Talmud Torah. Kelmė was first mentioned in 1416, the year that Kelmė's first...

(1824–1898), the Elder of Kelm, one of the early leaders of the Musar movement, founder and director of the Kelm Talmud Torah Aharon Azriel, 19th century...

was a rabbinic leader of the Musar movement and the director of the Kelm Talmud Torah from 1918 until 1931. He was born in 1863 in the city of Liepāja (Libau)...

Chaim Ozer Grodzensky; Zvi Yaakov Oppenheim, who later became the rabbi of Kelm; and Shlomo Zalman Abel, the brother-in-law of Shimon Shkop. In 1883, Eliezer...

his time exclusively to Torah study. His student, Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin, described how, when he was preoccupied with a Talmudic difficulty, he would refrain...

Eastern Europe to study at the Mir Yeshiva as a teenager and at the Kelm Talmud Torah as a young married man. In 1940 he returned to the United States,...

in the yeshivas of Slobodka and Kelm. He was a disciple of Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel, and Rav Simcha Zissel Ziv of Kelm. R' Yeruchom was the spiritual leader...

the Chofetz Chaim and Rabbi Yeruchom Levovitz, and finally in the Kelm Talmud Torah. His wife was named Chaya. From 5695 (1935), for about 2 years he...

main study hall has an original 16th-century Italian wooden aron kodesh (Torah scroll ark), brought to the yeshiva in the early 1980s, and restored and...

dean in Brest, and is therefore sometimes accredited with bringing Torah (and Torah study) to Lithuania. 1551 – Sigismund II Augustus permits the Jews...

Trakai Kenesa White Synagogue of Joniškis Zamelis Synagogue Yeshivas Kelm Talmud Torah Ponevezh Yeshiva Rameiles Yeshiva Telshe Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim −...

Timeline Khmelnytsky Uprising Vilna Gaon Groups Synagogues Yeshivas Kelm Talmud Torah Knesses Beis Yitzchak Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka) Ponevezh Rameiles...

refugees trying to escape the murderous hordes. The famous rabbis of the Talmud schools died by the hundreds as martyrs for their faith. The total number...

Timeline Khmelnytsky Uprising Vilna Gaon Groups Synagogues Yeshivas Kelm Talmud Torah Knesses Beis Yitzchak Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka) Ponevezh Rameiles...

father, Moshe Yom Tov Wachtfogel, was a rabbi. He studied in the Kelm Talmud Torah as a child. In the early 1920s, his father accepted a rabbinical post...

Israeli jurist Kovno Kollel, a Musar-type yeshiva in nearby Kaunas Kelm Talmud Torah, another Musar-type Lithuanian yeshiva It is unclear if the name "Knesses...

also wrote "An Essay on the Topic of Reinforcing Those who Learn our Holy Torah," published by his students in a collection of essays titled Etz Pri. This...

Grajewo, Poland in 1876 and studied at the yeshiva in Łomża and at the Kelm Talmud Torah of Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv. He emigrated to England in 1928, where...

Gaon, who lived in Lithuania's greatest city, Vilnius. His style of Torah and Talmud study shaped the analytical "Lithuanian-style" form of learning still...

1902–1999) was Rosh Yeshiva of Ponevezh Yeshiva. Povarsky studied in the Kelm Talmud Torah under Yeruchom Levovitz whom he followed when Levovitz went to work...

of the Kelm Talmud Torah, and shared Torah thoughts with Moshe. Three years later, Rabbi Levovitz brought him to learn in the Kelm Talmud Torah. He grew...

Timeline Khmelnytsky Uprising Vilna Gaon Groups Synagogues Yeshivas Kelm Talmud Torah Knesses Beis Yitzchak Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka) Ponevezh Rameiles...

The large and significant inscription, dated to 1796, was part of a stone Torah reading table that stood on the magnificent Bimah of the synagogue in Vilnius...

Lubavitcher Yeshivoth - Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, New York Talmudical Seminary Oholei Torah, Brooklyn, New York Mesivta Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch...

his new teacher's method, he began his studies anew, returning to Torah, Mishnah, Talmud, and Hebrew grammar. His admiration for the gaon was boundless,...

Timeline Khmelnytsky Uprising Vilna Gaon Groups Synagogues Yeshivas Kelm Talmud Torah Knesses Beis Yitzchak Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka) Ponevezh Rameiles...