Experience Hadar HaTorah Kollel
At Hadar HaTorah Kollel, spiritual wellbeing is the forefront of our efforts. Our program and activities are designed to be catalysts that propel kollel students to reach their goals and fulfill their potential. Learn more about the positive impact we have and join us in bringing about positive change and Moshiach.
Hadar HaTorah Kollel at a Glance
When students of Hadar HaTorah, (a yeshiva for baalei teshuvas) get married, the yeshiva offers these students the opportunity to continue learning in yeshiva for the first year of marriage.
The Lubavitcher Rebbe was in favor that married men continue their learning in a formal learning environment for at least the first year after getting married.
The first year of marriage builds the very foundations for the newlywed couple’s life. Therefore, spending that year learning in yeshiva helps solidify the basis of their home on the foundations of Torah and Mitzvos as illuminated by Chassidus.
The Kollel learning schedule is not quite as long as the full yeshiva day. This allows the young men to spend time with their wives.
The Kollel schedule is however similar to that of the yeshiva. Kollel students attend the regular yeshiva classes throughout the day, as well as spending time in the Beis Medrash to learn whichever course of study they decide to pursue.
The programming and fundraising of the Kollel is run by the students with the help of the yeshiva staff.
The Kollel students develop their own programs with the guidance and oversight of the yeshiva staff. This programing is geared to the needs of the students which includes special speakers, farbrengens, and activities exclusively for Kollel yungerleit.
The Kollel pays a monthly stipend to the newlyweds in order to help them pay rent and bills. This eases the burden of parnassah (making a living) in order for the young men to remain immersed in the yeshiva environment.
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This allows the main focus of the yungerleit to be establishing their Torah foundation for the rest of their lives!
What We Do
The main goal of our organization is to support, empower, and provide quality resources to our yungerleit (married men). Our success isn’t measured in terms of wealth or profit margin, but by the value we provide to those we serve.
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The Kollel provides young married men with an opportunity to further their Jewish learning, with an organized learning schedule supervised by Rabbi Yaakov Goldberg shlita.
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This learning schedule consists of both Chassidus and Nigleh.
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Each married man is given a monthly stipend for the time learning in yeshiva.
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Chassidus: 8am-9am
Shacharis: 9am-10:30am
Shiur Gemorrah: 11:45am -1:30pm
Chavrusa learning: 1:35pm - 2:35pm
Mincha: 2:45pm - 3:05pm
Halacha Chavrusas: 4:00pm - 6pm
Halacha Shiur: 6:00pm-7:00pm
Hadar Hatorah Yeshiva, a yeshiva for the baalei teshuva (returnees to observance).
Located in the headquarters of the global Chabad Lubavitch movement in Crown Heights Brooklyn.
Founded by Rabbi JJ Hecht and Rabbi Jacobson by order of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Insight Into the Driving Force of the Kollel
The Rosh Kollel and Rosh Hayeshiva, Rabbi Yaakov Goldberg shlita, has been at the helm of the Yeshiva for over 4 decades. He is extremely experienced in teaching baalei teshuvah in Chassidus and Nigleh.
The Lubavitcher Rebbe formulated the learning schedule, which still exists today, for the yeshiva.
"One moment of Torah and mitzvot is eternal, for through them you are bound to the Eternal G-d and entirely transcend the boundaries of time."
Lubavitcher Rebbe
Contact Hadar Hatorah Kollel
Get in touch with Hadar Hatorah Kollel to learn more about our work and how you can get involved.
824 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11213, USA
Aharon Berelowitz
My name is Aharon Berelowitz. I was born in Cape Town, South Africa where my family attended an Orthodox shul led by a Chabad Rabbi, Rabbi Shlomo Lazarus.
My family moved to America when I was 3 years old after which we got involved with Chabad in Natick, Massachusetts, led by Rabbi Levi Fogelman.
I grew up in a traditional family. Shabbos dinner and attending shul were important. We were not observant, yet I always felt a special connection to Yiddishkeit, hence I was able to express both at home and at the Chabad shul. In high school I began spending more time at shul and taking steps to observe Torah and mitzvos, such as keeping Shabbos.
After high school I went on to college and continued growing in my yiddishkeit with the help of Rabbi Shmuel Kravitsky, Chabad of the 5 colleges in Amherst, Massachusetts. Towards the end of college, I decided to take a sabbatical semester in order to have my first yeshiva experience at Mayanot Yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel. I loved it so much that I decided to return for a year after graduating at university. After completing a year in Mayanot and seeing tremendous growth in my yiddishkeit. I decided it was time to continue my Jewish learning in America and came to Hadar HaTorah Yeshiva in Crown Heights. I found this time in Hadar HaTorah to really be a time of tremendous growth where I was internalizing what learnt in Mayanot as well as increasing in learning. I was afforded many opportunities to assist in Yeshiva and I grew a lot really being able to internalize the Shlichus mentality.
I am very excited to be able to spend another year in Hadar HaTorah before fully bringing it out into the world.
Chananyah Duthie
South African born Chananyah Duthie, while studying in Stellenbosch University, became in touch with yiddishkeit. He learned more about his heritage in Germany while learning under the guidance of Rabbi Ehrenberg of Berlin. After moving back to Cape Town, he connected with Chabad Chassidus and started learning chassidus at the Chabad Of Cape town. In the beginning of 2019 he went on to start his formal learning in yeshiva at the Mayanot Institute of Jewish Studies also known as Mayanot Yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel.
After two and a half years of learning and building a foundation in Learning at the heed of his rabbis, went on to learn at Hadar HaTorah in February of 2021 and later went get married in Summer of 2021.
Yonason Stebbins
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Hillel Rosenzweig
My name is Hillel Rosenzweig from Dix Hills, NY. I grew up going to the local Chabad House, the Dix Hills Chai Center led by Rabbi Yaakov Saacks and Rabbi Dovid Weinbaum.
I attended the Hebrew School from Kindergarten until my Bar mitzvah and continued to Hebrew High which later became CTeen.
I was inspired by the International CTeen shabbaton in my Senior year in High school and signed up for the gap year program in Israel at Mayanot Institute of Jewish Studies.
After spending a year immersed in yeshiva learning all about Judaism, I committed to living a life in accordance with Torah and Mitzvos. I then went to college for four years. During that time I was very involved with Chabad on Campus and took part in much of their programs. I was blessed to return to Mayanot on two occasions during college to continue learning in a yeshiva environment.
After graduating college, in the midst of the Corona Pandemic, Aaron Berelowitz reached out to inform me that Hadar Hatorah had resumed their learn schedule. I decided to join with a plan to stay for the summer and leave yeshiva after Simchas Torah. After spending some time in Hadar HaTorah, I decided to stay in yeshiva and continue learning for rest the year. Baruch HaShem, in the duration of the year I got married in Tammuz and please G-d continue learning at Hadar Hatorah in the new Kollel for the year.
Reuvein Mizrahi
My name is Reuvein Shmuel Mizrahi. I was born in Caracas,Venezuela but I lived most of my life in Weston,Florida. In Weston I became connected to yiddishke through the local Chabad shul led by Rabbi Yisroel Spalter. After many years of attending the synagogue, Rabbi Spalter advised me to attend Mayanot Yeshiva in Jerusalem,Israel. It was there where I went on to spend three incredible years, solidifying and cementing myself in Torah and Mitzvos. After my studies in Jerusalem, I went on to continue my learning at Hadar HaTorah in the summer of 2019, and have had the privilege to attend ever since.