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== Achei Tmimim Yeshivas ==
In 12 Tammuz 5702 (1942), the Frierdiker Rebbe established the Achei Tmimim Yeshiva in Worcester, with the support and active assistance of Rabbi Zerach Horowitz, rabbi of the 'Bnei Yaakov' community in the city who was close to the Frierdiker Rebbe, with Rabbi Avraham Dov Hecht appointed as director.

Within just one year, the yeshiva was already established and a building was purchased for it, and after two years the place was too small to contain everyone, and the yeshiva administration purchased another building and opened a new branch in another neighborhood in the city.

Parallel to the development of the yeshiva in Worcester, in late winter of 5703 (1943), the Frierdiker Rebbe established another branch of Achei Tmimim Yeshiva in Boston.

Rabbi Yehuda Tzvi Fogelman served as the director of the yeshiva in the first period, and later Rabbi Avraham Dov Hecht moved to oversee the establishment of the yeshiva in Boston, with his younger brother taking his place in managing the yeshiva in Worcester.

In the first period of its operation, the students studied in the central Nusach Ari synagogue of Chabad chassidim in the city, and later the yeshiva purchased a building, which also served for a Chabad kindergarten that was founded in the city, and also allowed the division of students into additional classes that would provide a more tailored response for the students, and the yeshiva continued to develop when in the month of Kislev, less than a year after its establishment, it had about 80 students.

The yeshiva students received special attention from the Rebbe, and several times they merited that the Rebbe would say a special sicha in front of them.