The Volozhin Yeshiva “Etz Chaim” – “Tree of Life” Founded in 1803 by the prodigious Rabbi Chaim Volozhiner . Within these walls were educated the best young Jewish men of the 19th century. “Mother of Yeshivot” , it became a model for all religious schools. Because of its worlds renowned educational methodology, great prodigious teachers and high level of scholastic students, who became religious leaders, great rabbis, poets and writers

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