Ezrat Torah is a Haredi neighborhood in northern Jerusalem. It is bordered by Kiryat Sanz on the west, Golda Meir Blvd. on the north and east, and Tel Arza

Tel Arza

Tel Arza is a Hareidi neighborhood in northern Jerusalem. It is bordered by Ezrat Torah on the north and west, Golda Meir Blvd. on the East, and Bar Ilan St. and Yirmiyahu St...

 on the south.

History

Founded around 1970, Ezrat Torah is named for the Ezras Torah Fund, a Jewish American charitable organization.

Rabbinic presence

Rabbi Yechiel Michel Stern, the author of 84 published Torah works who is considered an expert on the halakhot

Halakha

Halakha — also transliterated Halocho , or Halacha — is the collective body of Jewish law, including biblical law and later talmudic and rabbinic law, as well as customs and traditions.Judaism classically draws no distinction in its laws between religious and ostensibly non-religious life; Jewish...

of the Four Species

Four Species

The four species are four plants mentioned in the Torah as being relevant to Sukkot. Karaite Jews build their Sukkot out of branches from the four specified plants , while Talmudic Jews take three types of branches and one type of fruit which are held together and waved in a special ceremony...

, has served as the Rav of Ezrat Torah since the 1970s. The Kapishnitzer Rebbe

Rebbe

Rebbe , which means master, teacher, or mentor, is a Yiddish word derived from the Hebrew word Rabbi. It often refers to the leader of a Hasidic Jewish movement...

, Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Palintenstein, brought his Hasidut here in 1975. Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, Rabbi of the Western Wall

Western Wall

The Western Wall, Wailing Wall or Kotel is located in the Old City of Jerusalem at the foot of the western side of the Temple Mount...

 and the Holy Sites of Israel, also resides in Ezrat Torah.

Ezrat Torah is home to battei midrash

Beth midrash

Beth Midrash refers to a study hall, whether in a synagogue, yeshiva, kollel, or other building. It is distinct from a synagogue, although many synagogues are also used as batei midrash and vice versa....

, yeshiva

Yeshiva

Yeshiva is a Jewish educational institution that focuses on the study of traditional religious texts, primarily the Talmud and Torah study. Study is usually done through daily shiurim and in study pairs called chavrutas...

s, and residents belonging to the Satmar

Satmar (Hasidic dynasty)

Satmar is a Hasidic movement comprising mostly Hungarian and Romanian Hasidic Jewish Holocaust survivors and their descendants. It was founded and led by the late Hungarian-born Grand Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum , who was the rabbi of Szatmárnémeti, Hungary...

 and Sadigura

Sadigura (Hasidic dynasty)

Sadigura is a Hasidic dynasty, one of the branches of the Ruzhiner dynasty.The dynasty began with Rabbi Avrohom Yaakov Friedman of Sadigura now located in Ukraine, who was a son of Rabbi Israel Friedman of Ruzhin, the founder of the Ruzhiner dynasty....

 Hasidic

Hasidic Judaism

Hasidic Judaism or Hasidism, from the Hebrew —Ḥasidut in Sephardi, Chasidus in Ashkenazi, meaning "piety" , is a branch of Orthodox Judaism that promotes spirituality and joy through the popularisation and internalisation of Jewish mysticism as the fundamental aspects of the Jewish faith...

 dynasties.

Landmarks

• Beit Yisrael restaurant and social hall
• Original site of Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon founded by Rabbi Simcha Wasserman
  Simcha Wasserman
  Simcha Wasserman served as Dean of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah in Detroit in the 1940s, founded Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon in California in the 1950s, and later founded Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon in Jerusalem. He was the son of Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman, and was married to Rachel Fiege , the daughter of Meyer Abovitz...