Lakewood, New Jersey · Jerusalem, Israel
Lighting the future with the torch of the past.
Kollel Ner Naftali funds full-time Torah learning — our own beis medrash, and a small number of programmes whose mission and outlook match ours. Not a building. A payroll. Your gift buys a seder on the clock.
501(c)(3) public charity · EIN 81-3000775 · Tax-deductible in the United States.
Why this exists
A kollel doesn’t run short of men who want to learn. It runs short of money.
There is no shortage of yungeleit who would sit and learn all day. What runs short is the stipend that lets a man do it without his family going without.
Kollel Ner Naftali exists to pay that stipend. We run our own beis medrash, and we support a small number of other programmes whose mission and outlook match ours. Stipends go to lomdim directly — the money becomes a seder on the clock, not a line in an overhead budget.
What we actually are
Our beis medrash, and a few we stand behind.
Kollel Ner Naftali runs its own beis medrash and supports a small number of programmes whose mission and outlook match ours. Stipends go to lomdim directly. That’s the whole structure, and it’s worth saying plainly rather than hiding behind a generic “about us.”
Pay stipends
A lomed’s seder is a monthly obligation. We fund it, per seder, per man — the unit the Kollel actually budgets in.
Carry the compliance
One 501(c)(3), one EIN, one receipting and reporting operation — so the hours go into learning instead of paperwork.
Pay lomdim directly
The stipend reaches the man learning. No intermediary layer between your gift and the seder it pays for.
Our namesake
Naftali ben Yehudah Shmuel, A"H
ל״נ נפתלי בן יהודה שמואל
Just as the Sukkah provides shelter and comfort from the outside elements, so too does the Torah provide shelter and comfort from the ever growing distractions of the outside world. Kollel Ner Naftali is modeled after the seven guests of the Ushpizin and the attributes they displayed, as exemplified by our namesake.
We strive to infuse these ideals into our lomdim, and to always remember that we all are but guests in this world for a brief time.
Where the money goes
Give against a real unit of learning.
Not tiers invented for a website — the units the Kollel actually budgets in. Every figure below is per lomed, per month.
Night seder · monthly
$400
One lomed, night seder, for a month.
Second seder · monthly
$600
One lomed, afternoon seder, for a month.
Morning seder · monthly
$800
The main seder of the day. One lomed, one month.
A full day · monthly
$1,800
All three sedarim for one lomed — morning, second and night.
One day of morning seder
$36
$800 across 22 learning days. Double chai — and it happens to be the real arithmetic rather than a number picked to look nice.
Morning seder · a year
$9,600
One lomed, first seder, twelve months.
A full day · a year
$21,600
One lomed, all three sedarim, twelve months.
Before you give
The questions donors actually ask.
Is my donation tax-deductible?
How much of my gift reaches learning?
Can I give monthly instead of all at once?
Can I dedicate my gift — a yahrzeit, a refuah, a simcha?
Can I give by check?
Can I give from a donor-advised fund?
Can I give appreciated stock or securities?
Does my employer’s matching programme work here?
The ask
Someone is learning right now. Keep him there.
A stipend is a monthly obligation, which means it is only ever as secure as next month’s giving. That is the whole case.
Kollel Ner Naftali · 208 Downing St, Lakewood, NJ 08701 · EIN 81-3000775