Yeshiva Birchas Chaim is an ultra Orthodox Jewish Mesivta high school in Lakewood Township, New Jersey.It was founded by Rabbi Shmuel Zalmen Stein in 2001, after his father, Rabbi Chaim Stein, asked him to open a branch of Telshe Yeshiva in Lakewood.As of the 2009-10 school year, the school had an enrollment of 76 students and 6.6 classroom teachers (on a FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.5:1.