Auction 3
Rare And Important Items
Oct 26, 2020
United Kingdom
105 Eade road, Building A, 2nd floor unit 4, London N4 1TJ, England
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LOT 249:
RABBI YAAKOV YISRAEL KANIEVSKY – THE ‘STEIPLER’, SHARPLY-WORDED HANDWRITTEN SIGNED LETTER REGARDING A HUSBAND ...
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Sold for: $550
Start price:
$
500
Estimated price:
$800 - $1,000
Auction house commission: 23%
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RABBI YAAKOV YISRAEL KANIEVSKY – THE ‘STEIPLER’, SHARPLY-WORDED HANDWRITTEN SIGNED LETTER REGARDING A HUSBAND WHO REFUSED TO DIVORCE HIS WIFE ‘IT IS CLEAR THAT THE ONLY WAY FORWARD IS FOR HER TO BE RELEASED BY THE WRITING OF A GET’.
Sharply worded letter, written in 1966, refuting the claim made by a husband who refused to divorce his wife, that he had the support of Rav Kanievsky.
Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky (1899-1985), an outstanding student of the Novardok Yeshivos and a son-in-law of Rabbi Shemaryahu Yosef Karelitz. Rosh Yeshiva at the Beis Yosef – Novardok Yeshiva in Pinsk (1927-1934). Settled in Eretz Yisrael in 1934 and headed the Beis Yosef Novardok Yeshiva there, whilst becoming a close disciple of his brother-in-law the Chazon Ish, and gradually becoming renowned as one of the greatest Torah authorities of his time. Generally known as ‘the Steipler’, after his hometown Hornosteipel in Ukraine. Author of Kehilos Yaakov on many tractates of the Talmud.
1 side. 16.5 x 24 cm. Good condition.
