Editing Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim (section)

== Purpose of the Yeshiva ==
To withstand the waves of time and new winds that began blowing throughout Russia - the Haskalah and Zionist movements - the Rebbe Rashab established a large yeshiva in 1897, which branched into the "Tomchei Tmimim" yeshiva network in the region's towns.
[[File:כל התמימים משפחה.jpg|thumb|The Rebbe's response to the secretary Rabbi Binyamin Klein before his wedding regarding the fact that his family members living in Eretz Yisrael would not participate in the wedding: '''According to the words of our Rebbeim, the founders and directors of Tomchei Tmimim, all the Tmimim and Roshei Mesivtos and Roshei Yeshivos of Tomchei Tmimim are his family''']]
The yeshiva's name expresses its founder's main idea: refining and purifying middos, strengthening inner spiritual work, and shaping a complete, 'tamim' character.

That period was an auspicious time for establishing yeshivas, as other yeshivas were established then: [[Slabodka]], [[Mir]], [[Slutsk]], and [[Telz]]. Torah learning appeared then in the form of yeshivas that concentrated, developed and flourished in the land of yeshivas - Lithuania, which served as the great reservoir of Torah that nourished Jewish communities worldwide.

Yeshivas "Tomchei Tmimim" was similar to Lithuanian yeshivas, yet different from them. It was similar because the Lithuanian yeshivas' learning method was inherited, but different in the following ways.