(The Steipler Gaon). (Birkath Peretz) novellae on the Torah (Parshath Yithro, Re’eh, Shemini and Kedoshim).

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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(KANIEVSKY, YAAKOV YISRAEL).

(The Steipler Gaon). (Birkath Peretz) novellae on the Torah (Parshath Yithro, Re’eh, Shemini and Kedoshim).

Autograph Manuscript in Hebrew, written on the back of typewritten pages of the Steipler’s “Kehiloth Ya’akov.” The typewritten pages also contain a number of corrections in the author’s hand. Five leaves. Bound into boards. Folio.

(Bnei Brak): c. 1970

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $5,500

R. Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky (1899-1985), was known as the “Steipeler Gaon” after his hometown of Hornosteipel in the Ukraine. He briefly served as Rosh Yeshivah of the Novardok Yeshivah before he settled in Bnei Brak where he devoted himself entirely to an uninterrupted life of study. Renowned both for his Talmudic genius, as witnessed in the many volumes of Kehilath Ya’akov on the Talmud, and his piety, many sought out his blessings. He yielded enormous influence within the Torah world and yet held no official office.