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

(KANIEVSKY, YAAKOV YISRAEL).

c.

(Bnei Brak)

1970

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.

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.