kollel

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Pronunciations

kollel (KOH-lel) listen

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Definitions

  • n. An institution in which married men pursue advanced Talmudic study.

Example Sentences

  • "A Community Kollel is a group of young, dedicated Jewish families who live, learn and teach in the community." (source)

  • "After marriage and five years of kest (the equivalent of kollel that existed for promising young talmidei chachamim in pre-World War I Eastern Europe), he became rav in Kveidan, a town near Kovno, Lithuania, where he remained through World War I before he moved to America." (source)

  • "Her husband's in kolel, so they really need the second income." (Glinert)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew

Etymology

  • כולל, lit. 'community, collective'

      • Who Uses This

      • Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)

      Regions

      • North America
      • Australia / New Zealand
      • Great Britain
      • South Africa

      Dictionaries

      • The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).

      Alternative Spellings

      kolel

Notes

  • Some kollel members, potentially in conjunction with their wives, offer classes and other rabbinic services to the Jewish community around them, especially in non-Orthodox neighborhoods.

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