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Rabbi Irons learning at the Kollel

area rabbis and leaders learn and pray
at the Kollel.
"The Kollel is where I get my spiri-
tual and intellectual stimulation," said
Rabbi E.B. "Bunny" Freedman, who
The Rabbis Learn
directs the Southfield-based Jewish
Hospice and Chaplaincy Network. "I
Many alumni of the Kollel have
turn to Rabbi Irons on a pretty regular
become leaders of their own agencies
basis for his authority and rabbinic
and congregations.
guidance in my professional work to
"There are dozens of positions both
give the Jewish ethical view on dying.
in Detroit and throughout North
He has also consulted with doctors and
America founded and led by Detroit
family members of patients."
Kollel alumni," said Rabbi Yakov
Rabbi Avraham Cohen, frequently
Shulman of Beth Medrash Govoha in
calls Rabbi Irons from his cell phone
Lakewood, N.J. "The reputation of
while in class with his seventh-grade
the Detroit Kollel, both as a place to
further Jewish studies and as providing students. "If the kids ask me a question
I don't know the answer to, I call
qualified manpower to Jewish institu-
him," he said.
tions, is unparalleled."
Regularly seen arriving on his bicy-
When Israeli-born Rabbi Jacobovitz
cle, Rabbi Tolwin has taken advantage
came to the Seminary program from
of the accessibility of the Kollel, from
Brooklyn in 1977, he was already a
attending services, to learning as a
rabbi. "I was looking for a top-quality
teacher, a peer and as a student. He
environment to develop Talmudic
also encourages the non-Orthodox
skills on a high level," he said. "I was
Aish HaTorah participants to attend.
extremely impressed by the high cal-
"Some come to the Kollel to learn,
iber of Kollel members and the corn-
some to pray and others to work out
plete education of Torah study and
family and marriage and work issues,"
community involvement."
Rabbi Jacobovitz's Kollel connection Rabbi Green said.
"To be a practicing Torah person,
allowed him the inspiration and sup-
where it is part of my life, I would be
port to establish Machon L'Torah 22
years ago. The first classes were held in remiss not to put in my own personal
scholarship time," Rabbi Freedman said.
the basement of the Kollel.
'At the Kollel, I will see a yeshivah
"Machon L'Torah is a natural devel-
boy, home for the summer spending
opment of my time at the Kollel," he
part of his day learning, and I see men
said. "I saw the Kollel as a pillar of
quickly putting on a yarmulke just
Torah study in our town for those
before they enter the building. Whether
who come inside its walls, and I want-
they are there hill-time or for half-an-
ed to go out into the community and
hour one night a week, whether they
reach those who weren't yet comfort-
study
with a partner or do research on
able walking into a Jewish institution."
their own, the Kollel is like the Harvard
Even with their own Jewish-based
for Torah scholarship in Detroit."
organizations and synagogues, many

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