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Kollel Chazon Ish

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Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 22, 2022
Entity authorityQ7007712 ↗
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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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kollel Chazon Ish” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.