Editing Kollel (section)

==Structure==
===Leadership===
Most kollels have a scholar serving as a ''[[rosh kollel]]'', or head of the kollel.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Kollel Community |website=JewishJournal.com
|date=7 March 2002
|url=http://jewishjournal.com/news/los_angeles/community_briefs/5630
|quote=Rabbi Chaim Fasman now holds the position of rosh kollel (head) of Kollel Los Angeles Bais Avrohom, the largest of six kollels in Los Angeles, with 15 full-time learners. ...  you need years of training to become a Torah scholar.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=History
|url=https://kollel.com/history/
|quote=... Sunday morning by the Rosh Kollel Harav Shlomo Miller Shlita}}</ref> He decides on the subject matter studied by the kollel. In many cases he also has to spend considerable time fund-raising to support the kollel.

Many kollels employ former students – {{Transliteration|he|avrechim}} ({{lang|he|אברכים}}), {{abbr|sg.|singular}} {{Transliteration|he|avrech}} ({{lang|he|אברך}}) – as fundraisers, often giving them titles such as Executive Director or Director of Community Programming. Fundraising projects may include sponsorships of specific events or "day(s) of learning."

===Student body===

Many Orthodox Jewish yeshiva students study in kollel for a year or two after they get married, whether or not they will pursue a rabbinic career.<ref>Helmreich, W. ''The World of the Yeshiva'' (The Free Press, 1982), p. 261</ref> Modest stipends, or the salaries of their working wives, and the increased wealth of many families have made kollel study commonplace for yeshiva graduates. The largest United States kollel is at [[Beth Medrash Govoha]] in [[Lakewood, New Jersey]]. More than 4,500 kollel scholars are attached to the yeshiva, which has  6500 students in total. Large kollels also exist in [[Ner Israel Rabbinical College]], numbering 180 scholars, and in [[Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin]], with more than 100 scholars. In the [[Israel]]i [[Haredi Judaism|Haredi Jewish]] community, thousands of men study full-time for many years in hundreds of kollelim.

Kollel has been known at times to cause a great deal of friction with the secular [[Israel]]i public at large. It has been criticized by the [[Modern Orthodox Judaism|Modern Orthodox]], non-Orthodox, and secular Jewish communities.<!-- why? --> The Haredi community defends the practice of kollel on the grounds that Judaism must cultivate Torah scholarship in the same way that the secular academic world conducts research into subject areas. While costs may be high in the short run, in the long run the Jewish people will benefit from having numerous learned laymen, scholars, and rabbis. (See also: [[Religious relations in Israel]])

Yeshiva students who [[Torah study|learn]] in kollel often continue their studies and 
become [[rabbi]]s,<ref>{{cite web
|title=Our Faculty & Staff - Shapell's Darche Noam
|url=http://shapellsjerusalem.com/about/our-faculty-staff
|quote=... studied at Yeshiva University's Gruss Kollel, where he earned smicha.
|access-date=2018-10-23
|archive-date=2018-10-23
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181023200052/http://shapellsjerusalem.com/about/our-faculty-staff/
|url-status=dead
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Kollel Toronto |url=https://www.kollel.com/history |date=January 11, 2017
|quote=Toronto's Kollel graduates have become Rabbis}}</ref> [[Posek|poskim]] ("deciders" of [[Jewish law]]), or teachers of Talmud and Judaism. Others enter the world of business. If successful, they may financially support the study of others while making time to continue their own learning.