Editing Kollel (section)

===Modern sense===
The first kollel – in the modern sense of the term – in the [[Jewish diaspora]] was the [[Kovno Kollel]] ("Kolel Perushim"<ref>{{cite web |title=Kovno Kollel |website=Spectroom.com
|url=https://www.spectroom.com/1021751027-kovno-kollel
|quote=The Kovno Kollel also known as Kollel Perushim of Kovno or Kollel Knesses Beis Yitzchok, was ...}}</ref>) founded in [[Kovno]] (Kaunas, Lithuania) in 1877.<ref>{{cite book 
|title=Prince of the Torah Kingdom: Excerpts
|url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1583305831  |isbn=1583305831
|quote=Kollel Kovno was the first kernel of the yeshivah, established in 5637 (1877).
|author1=Shimon Yosef ben Elimelekh Meler  |date=2006| publisher=Feldheim Publishers }}</ref><ref name=TEN.1877>{{cite web
|title=Kollel |url=http://www.seraia.com/seraiauk/lexicon/Kollel.htm
|quote=The first kollel .. was the Kovno Kollel, the "Kollel Perushim" founded in Kovno (Lithuania) in 1877. The ten students were required to separate from their families, except for the Sabbath, and devote themselves to studying for the Rabbinate.}}</ref> It was founded by Rabbi [[Yisrael Salanter]]<ref name=By.YS>{{cite web
|url=https://www.thebreman.org/Portals/0/Oral%2520History%2520Transcripts/Taylor%2C%2520Herbert%252010717%2520Transcript%2520MASTER%2520X.pdf
|title=herbert ta - The Breman Museum
|quote=Yitzchak Elchanan Yeshiva is also known as the Kovno Kollel (also known as ... It was founded in 1877 by Rabbi Yisrael Lipkin Salanter
}}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and directed by [[Yitzchak Blazer|Rabbi Isaac Blaser]]. The ten students enrolled were required to separate from their families, except for the [[Sabbath]], and devote themselves to studying for the Rabbinate. There was a four-year limit on one's membership in the kollel.

Two people can be considered to have spearheaded<ref>{{cite web
|title=It takes a Kollel
|url=http://ou.org.s3.amazonaws.com/publications/ja/5763/5763winter/ITTAKESA.PDF
|quote=..Kollel ... under the guidance of Rabbi Aharon Kotler. At first, he traveled to each community ...
|access-date=2018-10-23
|archive-date=2020-09-29
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929020044/http://ou.org.s3.amazonaws.com/publications/ja/5763/5763winter/ITTAKESA.PDF
|url-status=dead
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|title=Rabbi Aharon Kotler
|url=http://doctoronnie.com/wp-back.php?riurjcqd=rabbi-aharon-kotler-lakewood
|quote=The Legacy Of Maran Rav Aharon Kotler: A Vivid Portrait of ... the kollel philosophy ...}}</ref> the kollel philosophy and outgrowth in today's world: Rabbi [[Aharon Kotler]] (founder of [[Beth Medrash Govoha]], [[Lakewood Township, New Jersey|Lakewood, New Jersey]], the largest yeshiva in the US) and Rabbi [[Elazar Shach]], one of the most prominent leaders of the Jewish community in Israel until his death in 2001. The community kollel movement was also fostered by [[Torah Umesorah]], the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools.<ref>{{cite news 
|newspaper=The Jewish Ledger  |date=May 18, 2010
|title=An Orthodox community comes of age in Waterbury
|url=http://www.jewishledger.com/2010/05/an-orthodox-community-comes-of-age-in-waterbury
|quote=This year, the Waterbury Jewish community turns 10. ... a little extra, so they bring in a yeshiva or a kollel or more young families. ... until the dreamer approached Torah Umesorah, the national society of Orthodox day schools and ...}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265577831
|title=The Emergence of the Community Kollel: A New Model |date=February 22, 2016
|quote=.. communities in North America: the community kollel. .... as a unique movement within American Orthodoxy. ... the Torah Umesorah educational network}}</ref>

Currently, the term is applied in America to any stipend given for yeshiva study and is now a general term for the yeshivah approach to life.<ref name=TEN.1877/>