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HaGaon HaRav
Shlomo Zalman Auerbach Zt”l

The first spark of the huge Ateres Shlomo network was ignited in 1994, when it opened its first Kollel in Beit Shemesh. Serious avreichim were moving to the city and the desperate need for a high-level kollel encouraged Rav Shalom Ber Sorotzkin shlita to establish a kollel in the city.

A few months before the establishment of the kollel, Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt"l passed away. The Kollel was named liluy nishmas this great Gadol and, since then, the name "Ateres Shlomo" graces all the network's institutions.

Since then, the name "Ateres Shlomo" graces all the network's institutions.

צאנה וראינה בנות ציון
במלך שלמה,
בעטרה שעיטרה
לו אימו
(שיר השירים ג' יא')

Rosh HaYeshivah, HaGaon HaRav
Shalom Ber Sorotzkin shlita

Yeshivas Ateres Shlomo

Entrenched on the roots of the past, the yeshivah nurtures and cultivates magnificent fruit, talmidei chachamim. It serves as a beis vaad l'chachamim and a sanctuary for those who toil in Torah. A scion of the Telshe Roshei Yeshivah, Rav Shalom Ber Sorotizkin shlita founded the yeshivah on Telshe's glorious legacy. He planted a tree that draws from the past and blossoms for the future.

Basking in their
Shadows
Maran V'Rabbanan zt”l
Ateres Shlomo and
Gedolei Torah and Leadership

Maran, Rosh HaYeshivah HaGaon
HaRav Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman zt"l

The Rosh Yeshivah zt"l wanted us to build a yeshivah that would encourage its talmidim to achieve their maximum and aspire.
TO SHLEIMUS

Maran, Sar HaTorah, HaGaon
HaRav Yoseph Shalom Elyashiv Zt”vl

Maran HaGaon
HaRav Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz Zt”vl

Maran, Sar HaTorah, HaGaon
HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Zt”vl

Maran, Rosh HaYeshiva, HaGaon
HaRav Gershon Edelstein Zt”vl

Following
their Ways
Maran VRabbanan shlita
Ateres Shlomo
and Gedolei Torah

Maran, Rosh HaYeshiva, HaGaon
HaRav Dov Lando Shlita

Maran, Rosh HaYeshiva, HaGaon
HaRav Baruch Mordechay Ezrachi Zatzukal

Maran, HaMashgiach, HaGaon
HaTzadik HaRav Dan Segal Shlita

ה"לרת א"מרת ד"סרת פר"ת א"שת

The fields around Telshe
smell like the Ketzos
HaChoshen (The Gadol of Minsk)

Looking Back
The foundations of this Torah empire are rooted in its magnificent past. Strong, deep roots were planted in the picturesque village of Telshe, Lithuania. Gedolei Olam dedicated themselves to forming the yeshivah model and infused the yeshivah with their splendor and glory.

Maran, Rosh HaYeshiva
HaGaon HaRav Eliezer Gordon Zt”l
The Founder of the Yeshiva
In 1880, Rav Eliezer Gordon arrived in Telshe to serve as Rav. He was immediately placed at the helm of the yeshivah that was established in the city in 1875 by Rav Meir Atlas, Rav Shlomo Zalman Able and Rav Zvi Oppenheim.

Maran HaGaon
HaRav Yoseph Yehuda Leib Bloch Zt”l
A year after the yeshivah was established, Rav Gordon appointed his son-in-law, Rav Yosef Yehudah Leib Bloch, a talmid of his from Kelm, as ra"m in Telshe. Rav Yosef Yehuda Leib Bloch passed away in 1930.

“Three outstanding generations of gaonim, gedolim, mechanchim and manhigim, labored to build the Telshe Torah empire. Rav Eliezer Gordon molded the foundations and its glorious construction; Rav Yosef Yehuda Leib fashioned its educational and pedagogical approach; and Rav Avraham Yitzchak Bloch, a perfect blend of his father and grandfather, led the yeshivah to the height of its glory."

Maran HaGaon
HaRav Shimon Shkop Zt”l
In the Yeshivah's first years, HaGaon HaRav Gordon appointed HaGaon HaRav Shimon Shkop, author of Shaarei Yosher, as ra"m.

These three Gedolim, each in his own way, established a unique approach that enriched their students' ability to understand, clarify and be mechadesh. The blend of these three approaches became the basis for the Telshe derech halimud.

Maran HaGaon
HaRav Chaim Rabinowitz Zt”l
In 1904, Rav Chaim Rabinowitz, known as "Reb Chaim Telzer," replaced Rav Shimon Shkop as ra"m. He paved his own approach to learning and taught talmidim to delve into the meaning of each sugya. He constructed refined definitions for each yesod. The "chakirah" was his forte and he would be choker and take sides in all foundations of the Shas. Many of his chakiros are the building stones studied in yeshivos today.

Maran HaGaon HaKadosh
HaRav Abraham Yitzchok Bloch H"yd
In 1920, Rav Yosef Yehuda Leib appointed his son, Rav Avraham Yitzchok hy"d, to serve as ra"m in the yeshivah. At the time, Rav Avraham Yitzchok was only about thirty years old.

Maran HaGaon
HaRav Eliyahu Meyer Bloch Zt”l
Rav Yosef Yehuda Leib also appointed his son Rav Zalman as Mashgiach in the yeshivah and Rav Eliyahu Meir as ra"m.

Rav Eliyahu Meir wrote about his brother:

"An ordinary man's greatness is measured by the complete insignificance of everything around him, but my brother, HaGaon HaRav Avraham Yitzchok, was greater than this. In addition to being loftier than everyone around him, he also elevated everyone around him."

Decimation
The 20th of Tammuz, 1941, is etched in our history as the day of the brutal murder of the Roshei Yeshivah, talmidim and community of Telshe. Their bodies burned and blackened, but their neshamos ascended lofty heights. ארץ אל תכסי דמם.

תשכ"ה

התנערי
מעפר קומי

The few surviving embers of the yeshivah reestablished Telshe in Cleveland, Ohio. There, in the United States, the lone, surviving flame of the yeshivah world was reignited.

Maran HaGaon HaRav
Eliyahu Meyer Bloch Zt"l
In 1920, Rav Yosef Yehuda Leib appointed his thirty-year-old son, Rav Avraham Yitzchak hy"d as ra"m in the Yeshiva. He also appointed Rav Zalman as mashgiach and Rav Eliyahu Meir as ra"m. Rav Eliyahu Meir escaped Europe together with his brother-in-law, Rav Chaim Mordechai Katz, and they reignited the fire of Telshe

Maran HaGaon
HaRav Chaim Mordechai Katz Zt"l
HaGaon HaRav Eliyahu Meir Bloch survived the Holocaust along with his brother-in-law, Rav Chaim Mordechai Katz. In Elul of 1940, the Gaonim reestablished the Telshe Yeshivah in Cleveland.

Maran HaGaon
HaRav Mordechai Gifter Zt"l
Rav Mordechai Gifter was born in America. In the winter of 1932, his father sold his life insurance policy to buy his son a ticket to Lithuania, so he could learn Torah in the Telshe Yeshivah. Rav Gifter was a very close talmid of Rav Avraham Yitzchak hy"d.
When the yeshivah was reestablished in Cleveland, Rav Mordechai Gifter moved there to serve as ra"m. In 1961, he was appointed Rosh Yeshivah.
In 1976, HaGaon HaRav Mordechai Gifter moved to Eretz Yisroel and established the yeshivah in Telzstone. In 1979, after the death of Rav Baruch Sorotzkin, the Steipler advised Rav Gifter to return to the United States, where he served as Rosh Yeshivah in Cleveland until his passing.
In addition to his role as Rosh Yeshivah, Rav Mordechai Gifter was involved in communal affairs. He was particularly involved with Agudas Yisroel, Chinuch Atzmai and Torah U'Mesorah. He was also a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah.

Maran HaGaon
HaRav Boroch Sorotzkin Zt"l
When the Second World War broke out, Rav Baruch Sorotzkin fled from the Kaminetz Yeshivah to Vilna, where he joined the Telshe Yeshivah. Six months later, with the blessing of his parents who were already in Eretz Yisroel, he became engaged to Rochel, the daughter of his cousin, Rav Avraham Yitzchok. Two weeks after his marriage, he fled to Japan via the Trans-Siberian railroad. The Japanese then forced the refugees to move to Shanghai, from where Rav Boruch eventually emigrated to the United States. In 1965, Rav Baruch Sorotzkin was appointed Rosh Yeshivah in the Telshe Yeshiva in Cleveland. He was a prominent Torah leader in the United States and was a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah.

Maran HaGaon
HaRav Isaac Ozband Zt"l
Rav Eizik Ausband was a close talmid of Rav Avraham Yitzchok in Telshe and eventually became his son-in-law. When the war broke out, he fled with a group of talmidim to Russia and then Siberia, where he spent the war years. After the war, Rav Ausband was appointed Rav of Vilna. After his marriage, he moved to the United States. As soon as he arrived in Cleveland, he started giving shiurim in the Telshe Yeshivah. At first, he gave shiur in the high school and later in the Yeshivah Gedolah. He was also a posek for the Cleveland Jewish community.

תהי
לראשך
עטרת

The Yeshivah's Rabbanim in Eretz Yisroel

The Roshei Yeshivah and rabbanim carry the torch of the mesorah for future generations. Like the amud ha'ish, the pillar of fire that walked in front of the camp, they pave the way and direct the yeshivah. They are role models of Torah toil, with amkus and charifus. With their talks and divrei Torah, they transmit the yeshivah's unique derech halimud and hanhagah and elevate the bachurim to lofty Torah heights.

Yeshivas Ateres Shlomo is privileged to be headed by Roshei Yeshivah who are admired and famed throughout the Torah world.

Rabeinu, the Rosh Yeshiva, HaGaon
HaRav Binyomin Sorotzkin Shlita

Rabeinu, the Rosh Yeshiva, HaGaon
HaRav Chaim Feinstein Shlita

Rabeinu, the Rosh Yeshiva, HaGaon
HaRav Chaim Mordechai Ozband Shlita

Rabeinu, the Rosh Yeshiva, HaGaon
HaRav Shalom Ber Sorotzkin Shlita

Rabainu, HaMashgiach, HaGaon
HaRav Yoseph Davis Shlita

Kollel Ateres Shlomo
In memory of HaGaon HaRav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt"l, Beit Shemesh

Yeshivas Ohr Eliezer
In memory of HaRav Eliezer Lutz, Beit Shemesh

Kollel Eretz HaTzvi
Beit Shemesh

Talmud Torah Ateres Shlomo
Beit Shemesh, Ramah Aleph

Kollel Ateres Shlomo
Modiin Illit

Kollel Ateres Shlomo
Yerushalayim, Chafetz Libo

Kollel Ateres Shlomo
Yerushalayim, Egert

Kollel Ateres Shlomo
Petach Tikva

Kollel Ateres Shlomo
Ofakim

Talmud Torah Ateres Shlomo
Modiin Illit

Kollel Ateres Shlomo
Bnei Brak

Yeshivas Ateres
Shlomo Aryeh
Yerushalayim

Talmud Torah Ateres Shlomo
Bnei Brak - Center

Yeshivas Ateres Yoseph
Bnei Brak

Yeshivas Torahs Yisroel
Ofakim

Kollel Ateres Shlomo
Telzstone

Yeshivas
Ateres Yoseph Shalom

In memory of HaGaon HaRav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv zt"l Modiin Illit

Yeshivas
Ateres Yoseph Shalom

In memory of HaGaon HaRav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv zt"l Modiin Illit

Kollel Ateres Shlomo
Neve Yaakov, Yerushalayim

Yeshivas Ateres Shlomo
Beitar

Talmud Torah Ateres Shlomo
Bnei Brak - West

Kiryas HaYeshivah
Rishon LeZion

Kollel Ateres Shlomo
Beit Shemesh, Ramah Gimel

Yeshivas Ateres Shlomo
Elad

Talmud Torah Ateres Shlomo
Beis Shemesh, Rama Gimel

Kollel Ateres Shlomo
Achisamach

Kollel Ateres Shlomo
Charish

Kollel Eyon HaDaf, Ateres Shlomo
Yerushalayim

Kollel Ateres Shlomo
Beit Shemesh, Ramah Daled

Talmud Torah Ateres Shlomo
Telzstone

Talmud Torah Ateres Shlomo
Charish

Talmud Torah Ateres Shlomo
Beit Shemesh, Ramah Daled

Yeshivas Ateres Shlomo
Achisamach

Kollel Ateres Shlomo
Beitar

Talmud Torah Ateres Shlomo
Bnei Brak - North

שִׁיתוּ לִבְּכֶם לְחֵילָה פַּסְּגוּ אַרְמְנוֹתֶיהָ

Ateres Shlomo in Numbers

57
Sifrei Torah

הכל תלוי במזל, אפילו ספר תורה שבהיכל
57 Hachnasas Sifrei Torah, donated by generous Gvirim, placed in Hichal HaKodesh of our Yeshivos Kedoshos.

18
Kollelim

2500
Avraichim

לגיונו של מלך בהיכלי הקודש
More than 2,500 avreichim toil in Torah in the 20 Ateres Shlomo Kollels all over Eretz Yisroel.'

9
Yeshivas

2200
Bachurim

לא פסקה הישיבה
2,200 exceptional bachurim elevate themselves in Torah and yiras Shamayim in Ateres Shlomo yeshivahs throughout the country.

10
Chaiderim

3500
Tinokos Shel Beis Raban

אין העולם מתקיים אלא בזכות הבל פיהם
3,500 students attend the nine Ateres Shlomo elementary schools around the country and are educated in Torah, yiras Shamayim and bein adam l'chavero.

13,550
"Klalis" Tests

הזורעים ביגיעה ברינה יקצורו.
At the end of each zman, talmidim in the yeshivah take cumulative tests that encourage them to review the material they learned.

354
Siyumim

הדרן עלך
354 festive celebrations marked the successful completion of masechtos and celebrated our talmidim's success in Torah.

56,000
Sfarim Distributed

תלמודו בידו
תלמודו בידו Talmidim who passed their end of Zman tests successfully received Sfarim as a token of appreciation for their Limud. Overall, 56,000 Sfarim were given.

6,000
Packages Distributed

תלמודו בידו
תלמודו בידו

56,000 seforim were distributed to talmidim as a token of recognition for their dedication and review and for having successfully passed the cumulative tests at the end of each zman.

96
96

לגיונו של מלך בהיכלי הקודש
More than 2,500 avreichim toil in Torah in the 20 Ateres Shlomo Kollels all over Eretz Yisroel.

144,000
Liters of Wine

לגיונו של מלך בהיכל קודשו
לגיונו של מלך בהיכלי הקודש מעל 2,500 אברכים עמלים בתורה ביגיעה ובשמחה ב20 הכוללים של הישיבה הקד' ברחבי ארץ הקודש.

573
572

לגיונו של מלך בהיכלי הקודש
More than 2,500 avreichim toil in Torah in the 20 Ateres Shlomo Kollels all over Eretz Yisroel.

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13 טון
13

לגיונו של מלך בהיכלי הקודש
More than 2,500 avreichim toil in Torah in the 20 Ateres Shlomo Kollels all over Eretz Yisroel.'

64,400
Packages of Disposable Dishes

לגיונו של מלך בהיכלי הקודש
More than 2,500 avreichim toil in Torah in the 20 Ateres Shlomo Kollels all over Eretz Yisroel.'

7,200
Hats and Suits

לגיונו של מלך בהיכלי הקודש
More than 2,500 avreichim toil in Torah in the 20 Ateres Shlomo Kollels all over Eretz Yisroel.'

ביום שמחת
ליבו

Highlights

Simchas Beis HaShoevah

Every Sukkos, the yeshivah rabbanim and talmidim join together for an uplifting celebration. One who hasn't seen this simchah, has never seen real simchah in his life.

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"Klalis" Tests

Towards the end of every zman, the bachurim in the yeshivah exert themselves to review, day and night, to properly prepare for the cumulative test known as "klalis." הזורעים בזיעה ברינה יקצורו

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Hevel Pihem

Every once in a while, a special contest is introduced in the elementary schools to encourage students to focus on particular areas of bein adam l'makom or bein adam l'chavero. אין העולם מתקיים אלא בזכות הבל פיהם של תינוקות של בית רבן

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Distributions

Every Erev Yom Tov, before Pesach, Shavuos and Sukkos, the avreichim in the Ateres Shlomo Kollels receive packages with food and other necessities, in honor of Torah and Yom Tov.

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