Kelm (Kelme)
Lithuania (Mussar)
Kelm (Lithuanian Kelmė), a small town in Samogitia in northwestern Lithuania, was a central seat of the Mussar movement. Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv (the Alter of Kelm), a foremost disciple of Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, was born there and founded the Kelm Talmud Torah (around 1862), a select institution focused on character refinement through intensive Mussar study that trained many leaders of the Lithuanian yeshiva world.
10 teachers
Teachers who lived here
Alter of Kelm
Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv (1824–1898)
death 1881–1898
Eliezer Gordon
Rabbi Eliezer Gordon (1841–1910)
rabbinate 1874–1883
Alter of Navardhok
Rabbi Yosef Yozel Horowitz (1847–1919)
study 1863–1867
Yehuda Leib Chasman
Yehuda Leib Chasman (1869–1935)
studied 1885–1893
Naftali Trop
Rabbi Naftali Trop (1871–1928)
study 1895–1899
Yeruchom Levovitz
Yeruchom Levovitz (Mir mashgiach) (1873–1936)
rabbinate 1903–1908
Yitzchak Isaac Sher
Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Sher (1875–1952)
study 1904–1908
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Lev Eliyahu
Eliyahu Lopian (1876–1970)
study 1900–1928
Yechezkel Levenstein
Rabbi Yechezkel Levenstein (1885–1974)
study 1905–1910
Eliyahu Dessler
Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (Michtav me-Eliyahu) (1892–1953)
study 1905