(The Steipler Gaon, 1899-1985). Autograph Letter Signed, on letterhead, written to Rabbi Menachem Porush (of Agudath Israel, 1916-2010).

KANIEVSKY, YA’AKOV YISRAEL

Bnei Beraq

1967

Acknowledges with thanks receipt of check of $100, $50 of which he will pass to his son R. Chaim.

Settled in Eretz Israel in 1934, having been a student of the Alter of Novardhok (R. Yosef Yoizel Horowitz, 1847-1919). Author of Kehilath Ya’akov on the Talmud, Karyana D’Igarta, a collection of his letters on a wide variety of topics, and other works. He married the sister of the Chazon Ish. The Steipler’s only son is Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky (b. 1928), the singular most important rabbinic leaders of the Lithuanian community in Israel today (as was his father).