Bais Midrash Zichron moshe

Kollel Zichron Moshe is located in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ma'aleh HaZeitim, across from Har Habayit upon which the Beit HaMIkdash stood. With the encouragement of our generations Gedolim, the Kollel set as its goal to realize the vision of the Chafetz Chaim zt"l of producing Torah scholars thoroughly versed in the laws of Tractate Kodshim and able to teach these laws to the Kohanim. This is in preparation for the rebuilding of the Beit HaMikdash speedily, in our times. The members of Kollel Zichron Moshe are Rabbis and full time Torah scholars (avrechim) who were carefully selected based on their many years of intensive Torah study, several of whom have completed requirements for Dayanut. They are outstanding in their learning and maintain a high level of Torah knowledge. In the Kollel they are presently studying the complex subject of the Korbanot and all its aspects Quoting from a letter of the Chafetz Chaim we learn: ] "As we find in the Talmud Yerushalmi, chapter 4 of Shkalim, at the beginig of the period of the second Temple Israelite Torah scholars received wages from the Temple treasury,from the half shekel donations, to study the laws of Shechita, Kabala and Zerika (integral parts of the Temple service) with the Kohanim. This took place in their time when the half shekel was collected. In our time however there is no Temple and no Half shekel. It is therefore only proper that the wealthy population provide the Israelite Torah scholars with the means to study the laws of the Temple service. What great merit will accrue to them for having increased the study of Torah in Israel. Even more so, due to their efforts, they themselves will merit a part in the service that the Kohanim will perform later on. For it is they who made it possible, during the course of studying these laws, for the Kohanim to become expert and worthy of serving in the Beis HaMikdash!"