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...

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,...

the Talmud and rabbinic literature, making an attempt toward a critical examination of the text. He devoted much time to the study of the Torah and Hebrew...

headed by Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer. Nosson Meir studied in the Kelm Talmud Torah as a youth. In the early 1920s, his father accepted a rabbinical post...

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...

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...