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How Many Hours are Required at Kollelim?
by Eliezer Rauchberger

MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni tabled an amendment to the law allowing yeshiva students to defer military service, to allow kollel students to learn 35 hours per week in their main kollel and another 10 hours in a different framework, instead of 45 hours per week in a single kollel as required by the current law. Yeshiva students would continue to be required to study at least 45 hours at their institution. These numbers are not difficult for the typical yeshiva or kollel student. Most study longer hours.

Rabbi Gafni said that kollel students study 45 hours per week, but in combination with an evening kollel. "The original law contains an error, for there is no distinction between yeshiva students, who constitute the majority of students, and married avreichim, a distinction that existed throughout the years in the Defense Minister's rules and regulations," reads the explanation for the bill. "Therefore it is suggested a distinction be made between yeshiva students and kollel students regarding the number of study hours required of them at the institution and it should be determined that a student at a yeshiva which is not a kollel will have to study 45 hours, which he himself and the rosh yeshiva will have to affirm. The kollel student will study at least 35 hours at the kollel, which the rosh yeshiva will have to affirm, and will learn at least ten additional hours in other Torah frameworks, so that the talmid himself will affirm his studies [total] at least 45 hours."

 

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