“Perhaps it would be effective also to ask your father, the gaon shlita”. Rare, exciting, a long letter of divrei torah from Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, addressed to his future brother-in-law, Rabbi Shlomo Elyashiv, around a month before his wedding to the daughter of the Grish Elyashiv, the rabbanit Bat Sheva. Petah Tikva 1952.
The letter was written when he was still a yeshiva bachur at the Lomza yeshiva in Petah Tikva. He begins by protesting the long list of titles with which Rabbi Shlomo opened his letter: “I must protest the first line, it exaggerates and I wish you to refrain from this.” Later there is a long discussion about Seder Kaparot for a pregnant woman and chiddushim on the gemara of Yevamot.
29 handwritten lines by the rabbi, extremely rare since he was known for his brevity.
20x15cm. Stains, light creases. Some of the content has been withheld from his description in order to preserve its uniqueness for the purchaser.
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky (1928-2022) was the son of Maran the Steipler and the student of his uncle the Chazon Ish. He was known for his great genius in all sections of the Torah. As a bachur he would finish all sections of the Torah, Talmud Bavli, Yerushalmi, Safra, Sifrei, Zohar, and midrashim every erev Pesach. He was also known for his tshuvot and heavenly brachot, and tens of thousands would suspend the order of their lives according to his answers and instructions as like the urim v’tumim from the mouth of the high priest.
