Editing Kollel (section)

===Original sense===
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Originally, the word was used in the sense of "community". Each group of European Jews settling in Israel established their own community with their own support system. Each community was referred to as the "kollel of {{small|[place-name]}}" to identify the specific community of the [[Old Yishuv]]. The overwhelming majority of these Jews were scholars who left their homelands to devote themselves to study [[Torah]] and serve God for the rest of their lives. The kollel was the umbrella organization for all their needs.

The first examples were [[Kolel Perushim]] (students of the [[Vilna Gaon]] who established the first [[Ashkenazi]] Jewish settlement in Jerusalem) and [[Colel Chabad]] for the [[History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union|Russian]] [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidim]]. The [[Polish Jews]] were divided into many kollelim: [http://www.kramban.org Kolel Polen] (Poland), headed by Rabbi [[Chaim Elozor Wax]]; [[Kolel Vilna Zamość]] was under different leadership; and the [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galicians]] were incorporated under [[Kolel Chibas Yerushalayim]]. The last initially included the entire [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian Kingdom]], but as each subparty looking for more courteous distribution, the Hungarians separated into [[Kolel Shomrei HaChomos]].