Background
The concepts of classical
Jewish scholarship and their pattern of study
have been formed, tested
and enriched over the centuries,
originating in the days of antiquity when the
colleges and universities of
the Western world were yet unborn. They have emerged from the
Talmudic academies of Sura and Pumpeditha that flourished in
Babylon 2,500 to 1,500 years ago; from the Jewish schools of the
Islamic world during the Middle Ages; from the major European
centres of Jewish scholarship in Italy, Spain, France and
Germany; as well as those in the Ottoman Empire, and most
recently from the great centres of Jewish learning in Poland,
Lithuania and Western Europe.
AIM
Whilst the communal
educational objective of the Kollel is to produce fully
qualified and trained Rabbis and teachers to serve the
Australian Jewish community, our individual educational
objective is to transform the Ben Torah so that he slowly
but surely evolves into a scholarly Talmid Chacham, able
to take his rightful place amongst the Rabbinical leaders and
teachers of our people. These twin education objectives are
seen as complementary.
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