A kollel ("a gathering/collection [ofscholars]") (plural: kollelim)'s an institute for advanced studies of the Talmud and of rabbinic literature for Jewish men, essentially a post-graduate yeshiva which pays married men a regular monthly stipend or annual salary (and/or provides housing and meals) to study Judaism's classic texts in depth. History Original sense Originally, the word was used to identify the support organizations of the Yishuv haYashan, which were scholars who went up to spend… (More on Kollel)