KANIEVSKY, JACOB ISRAEL

KANIEVSKY, JACOB ISRAEL
KANIEVSKY, JACOB ISRAEL ("the Steipler"; 1899–1985), rabbi. Kanievsky 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," joseph yozel hurvitz . Kanievsky 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 Ḥazon Ish, avraham yeshayahu karelitz , read the work, he offered his sister Miriam in marriage to Kanievsky and the two were married. Emigrating to Palestine in 1934 – about a year and a half after his brother-in-law had settled in Bene-Berak – Kanievsky was appointed the head of Bet Yosef-Novohardok yeshivah in Bene-Berak. 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 Ḥazon Ish was, "the Steipler." Kanievsky 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 nonreligious 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.

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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