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Kehilot Ya'acov, R. Jacob Israel Kanievsky (Steipler), Bnai Berak 1966

קהלות יעקב - The copy of R. Shmuel Rozovsky

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  • Lot Number 47347
  • Title (English) Kehilot Ya'acov
  • Title (Hebrew) קהלות יעקב
  • Note The copy of R. Shmuel Rozovsky
  • Author R. Jacob Israel Kanievsky (Steipler)
  • City Bnai Berak
  • Publication Date 1966
  • Estimated Price - Low 300
  • Estimated Price - High 600

  • Item # 1364061
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Physical Description

109, [3] pp., octavo, 234:162 mm., light age staining, signed on title, bound in the original boards, no spine.

The copy of R. Shmuel Rozovsky (1913–1979) was known as a Talmudic lecturer at the Ponevezh Yeshiva located in Bnei Berak,and was counted amongst the great rabbis of his generation. He was known worldwide for his clarity in explaining complex Talmud topics. He was born in Grodno to the town's Chief Rabbi, R. Michel Dovid Rozovsky and Sarah Pearl, daughter of R. Avraham Gelburd (the previous Rabbi of Grodno). At a very young age, he began studying under R. Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz in the Yeshiva of R. Shimon Shkop, and eventually became considered one of the principal students of R. Shimon Shkop.

In 1935, after the death of R. Shmuel's father, R. Shmuel had to flee to Erez Israel to escape being drafted into the Russian army. There he studied in the Lomzha Yeshivah in Petach Tikvah. In Erez Israel, R. Shmuel married his wife, the daughter of R. Tzvi Pesach Frank, Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. R. Shmuel eventually began to lecture in the Lomzha Yeshiva in Petach Tivkva alongside R. Moshe Shmuel Shapiro and R. Elazar Menachem Shach. In 1944, he was asked by R. Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman to head the newly opened Ponovezh Yeshivah in Bnei Berak. Eventually, R. Dovid Povarsky and R. Elazar Shach also joined as co-Roshei Yeshiva there. While being treated medically in a hospital in Boston, R. Shmuel was said to have specifically asked for an audience with R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik. Despite his strong emphasis on Talmudic skills, R. Shmuel also stressed personal perfection and Mussar as well as the need to study other facets of Torah including Chumash with the commentaries of Rashi and Nachmanides.

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Novellae work by R. Jacob Israel Kanievsky ("the Steipler"; 1899–1985), was born in Hornistopol from which his appelation, "the Steipler," was derived. From an early age he studied at the yeshivah of Gomel, which was directed by the "elder of Novogrudok," R. Joseph Yozel Hurvitz. Steipler soon became known as the illui ("genius") from Stopol. At the end of his teens he was pressed into service in the Russian army.

In 1925 his first book, Sha'arei Tevunah, was published. After the Hazon Ish, R. Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz, read the work, he offered his sister Miriam in marriage to R. Kanievsky and the two were married. Immigrating to Palestine in 1934 - about a year and a half after his Brother-in-law had settled in Bene-Berak - Steipler was appointed the head of Bet Yosef-Novohardok yeshivah in Bene-Berak. R. Karelitz was once asked was there any man in his generation for whom one could recite the blessing "blessed is He for having shared His wisdom with His reverers," and the reply of the Hazon Ish was, "the Steipler."

Steipler was the author of nearly 30 books and devoted much time to writing, teaching, and dealing with the vast public which constantly streamed to his home seeking spiritual guidance. Religious and non-religious alike sought his counsel, and Jews from many communities looked to him for guidance. Some 200,000 people from all over Israel attended his funeral.

 

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