Editing Tomchei Tmimim Melbourne - Yeshiva Gedolah 'Zal' (section)

== History ==
The main building on the yeshiva campus houses the study hall - the 'Zal'.

After World War II, the Frierdiker Rebbe sent Chassidim who left Russia in the Russian exodus of 1946 to various settlement points around the world, with a group of six Chassidim being sent to Australia.

Shortly after their arrival, they began working to establish a branch of Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim, which opened with three students in Cheshvan 1950. By the end of winter, several more students joined, causing great excitement that there was now a proper yeshiva in Australia. Rabbi Yaakov Eliezer Herzog headed the yeshiva at that time.

In practice, local residents did not send their children to the yeshiva, and after five years it was decided to invest efforts in establishing educational institutions for younger ages. The yeshiva closed and was replaced by "Yeshiva College" called 'Yeshivas Oheli Yosef Yitzchak - Lubavitch'. This institution developed gradually and additional classes were opened, until after ten years, towards the 1966 school year, when the senior class students needed to move on to a continuing institution and decide whether they wanted to study at university or leave Australia to study at a yeshiva abroad, Rabbi Yehoshua Shneur Zalman Serebryanski began working to re-establish the yeshiva.

Regarding the efforts to establish the yeshiva, the Rebbe wrote in a telegram: "Opening the Yeshiva Gedolah class as they write - is very, very necessary and correct."

The yeshiva officially opened on 11 Shevat 1966.

Following the Rebbe's instructions, the yeshiva was opened near existing institutions. For five years, the yeshiva had about twenty students, and at the beginning of the 1971 school year, Chabad askanim in Australia succeeded in purchasing land and a building three times larger than the yeshiva's needs. The Rebbe addressed this publicly and mentioned it at the Yud Tes Kislev farbrengen.