From the time that the Chazon Ish moved to Eretz Yisrael and went to live in Bnei Brak, his home became a beacon of light to the gedolei Yisroel of those times, bnei Torah who wished to hear what G-d wanted, Torah scholars who came to enjoy his Torah thoughts, and all types of Jews who came to benefit from his advice.

The Chazon Ish’s study was not only the room he learned Torah in around the clock. Like our forefather Yaakov – “a simple man who sat in tents” – he determined that the room in which he lived, ate, and slept, was his study, with him not leaving it aside from Shabbos, when he would eat in the rebbetzin’s room which was opposite his study.

The study is saturated with the voice of the Chazon Ish’s Torah study. From this place, halachah was taught to the Jewish nation. In this place, the Torah world was rebuilt, with halachic decisions, mussar and avodas Hashem, and Torah writings which decorate the world of Jewish books.

Regarding his incredible diligence, Maran Rav Wosner, author of the Shevet HaLevi, related, that he once came to visit him in his study, and found him lying on the floor. To his incredulity, the Chazon Ish related that every day when he learns Torah he calculates his strength, so that he can finish learning and go to bed, and this time he miscalculated and remained to learn slightly beyond his strength, and so he was unable to get to his bed. This was how amazing his diligence was.

The most famous photograph from his study is his well-known meeting with the then prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, who came to visit the Chazon Ish so as to discuss recruitment of girls for the army, which was then part of the public agenda. Later, Yitzhak Navon, who was the prime minister’s secretary and also present at the meeting, would describe the modesty and simplicity of “the modest room, with its main furniture being Torah and halachah books” in his words, and the great respect which the first prime minister held towards the leader of the chareidi community.

During the restoration of the Home of the Chazon Ish, his study was also discovered. Using the testimonies of his student the Gaon, Rabbi Aharon Yeshaya Rotter, and his nephew, the Gaon Rabbi Meir Greineman, who testified where every item stood, the room was reconstructed down to the finest detail, with the original walls remaining in place, witnesses to the sound of Torah which was heard from the room around the clock.