The Central Lubavitcher Yeshiva, or Central Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch, 885 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York.

Graduates - usually of the latter institutions mentioned - also often work as 'community Rabbis' more broadly. Some affiliated institutions (often essentially “post-graduate”) specifically focus on Rabbinical training, with the Semicha correspondingly requiring further depth and breadth.Ī significant number of graduates of Tomchei Tmimim continue working within Chabad as religious functionaries, whether as shluchim in Chabad Houses or as teachers in schools. True since the 1950's for the majority of students. Many of the branches also perform the functions necessary to grant Semicha, rabbinical ordination, to their students (Not all carry the name 'Tomchei Tmimim' however.

Similarly named yeshivas, many of which are nevertheless formally independent, are to be found in major cities in the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, South Africa, Australia, and the former Soviet Union, and Israel. The central Yeshiva is housed today at the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters, at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, NY, with approximately six hundred students. See also: Yeshiva § Contemporary Orthodox yeshivas, and List of rabbinical schools § Orthodox Rabbi Yisroel Yitzchok Piekarski was the Rosh Yeshiva for 42 years, from 1951 until 1993. Starting with 10 students, the Yeshiva quickly grew to the extent that it expanded to other nearby locations, giving rise to the group known as 'United Lubavitcher Yeshivas' see next section.

Within 24 hours the Rebbe had opened a yeshiva branch. Once the Rebbe was safely evacuated to New York, the Yeshiva was reestablished in New York City, where it remains to this day. In the course of World War II, the yeshiva escaped to Shanghai, China, along with some other yeshivot like Mir. When Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn left the Soviet Union in 1927, the yeshiva reestablished itself in Warsaw and later in Otwock, Poland. Here, Rabbi Schneersohn authored Kuntres Eitz HaChayim, guidelines and standards for a student's learning goals and schedule, personal conduct, prayer, and appearance.Ĭorrespondingly, he called the students of this yeshiva ' tmimim' (sing. Schneersohn ( Tzemach Tzedek)Īs above, Tomechei Tmimim was founded in 1897 in Lubavitch, by Rabbi Sholom DovBer Schneersohn for the study of Hasidic philosophy according to the Chabad tradition, in parallel with the traditional Yeshiva curriculum.

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