Kollel Chazon Ish Explained

Kollel Chazon Ish is a kollel (group of married Jewish men who study Torah) of rabbis on HaAri St 3, in Bnei Brak, Israel with a focus on Talmud study.

The Kollel was originally established by Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz, who was known as the Chazon Ish. Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky, his brother-in-law, taught there.^[1]

Notable members

• Rabbi Yechezkel Brettler^[2]
• Rabbi Aharon Feldman
• Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky
• Rabbi Nissim Karelitz
• Rabbi Yaakov Kohn^[3]
• Rabbi Gedaliah Nadel^[4]
• Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapiro
• Rabbi Yehuda Shapiro (Yudel Shapiro)
• Rabbi Dovid Shmidel
• Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum^[5]
• Rabbi Yisroel Eliyahu Weintraub
• Rabbi Yechezkel Moskovitz

Notes and References

1. Web site: Moadim Uzmanim . www.shemayisrael.co.il . 13 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080701020010/http://www.shemayisrael.co.il/shavous/disguise.htm . 1 July 2008 . dead.
2. News: Hamodia Staff . Hagaon Harav Refael Yechezkel Brettler, Zt"l . 25 March 2021 . . February 26, 2019.
3. Web site: The Torah Returns to its Former Place . 2010-04-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20050319185031/http://chareidi.shemayisrael.com/archives5761/shemos/afrance.htm . 2005-03-19 . dead .
4. http://chareidi.shemayisrael.com/archives5764/shelach/SHL64arnadel.htm HaRav Gedaliah Nadel, zt"l
5. https://www.scribd.com/doc/14027175/Mishpacha-Article-of-Satmar-Rebbe Mishpacha Article on the Satmar Rebbe