Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky Credit: Tomer Reichman

Rabbi Kanievsky’s sons embroiled in bitter inheritance dispute

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Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, the de-facto head in Israel of the Lithuanian branch of ultra-Orthodox Judaism, who died last month, was regarded by quite a few as the greatest rabbinical scholar of his era. His funeral was 1 of the premier ever viewed in Israel and it now would seem that several are geared up to pay back huge amounts for the writings related with his religious heritage, and this has sparked a dispute among his heirs.

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US extremely-Orthodox businessman Eliezer (Louis) Scheiner, who owns (alongside one another with his companion Teddy Lichtenstein) a chain of dozens of nursing properties in Texas, Pennsylvania and Florida and lives in Monsey, New York has offered $7 million for the original writings of the commentaries printed by Rabbi Kanievsky’s on the Jerusalem Talmud, according to sources close to the make any difference. In the previous Scheiner was cited by the US media as an important donor to previous US President Donald Trump. In Israel he is properly recognized for his big donations to the annual occasion in Uman of the Breslov haredi local community.

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Following the dying of Rabbi Kanievsky, Scheiner approached his son Shaul and offered to buy the commentaries from the family members. Soon after negotiations with Shaul Kanievsky, they agreed a charge of $7 million. Having said that, Shaul Kanievsky’s brothers experienced no information of the make any difference and only uncovered out by accident.

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This discovery has resulted in an acrimonious inheritance dispute conducted discreetly around the previous several months. On the 1 facet is Shaul Kanievsky who life in the loved ones house of his late father and is viewed as the major determine between the late Rabbi Kanievsky’s followers, while pitted towards him are his two older brothers Avraham Yeshayahu, who was also near to their father and wrote numerous textbooks with him and Shlomo, the head of the Kiryat Melekh Yeshiva who was much less included with his father’s followers.

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Shaul Kanievsky has told his brothers that their father intended for him to be his sole heir. His two more mature brothers were astonished by this news and insist that their father constantly said that his inheritance would be bequeathed according to Torah legislation. Rabbi Kanievsky experienced eight children – a few sons and five daughters and in accordance to Torah law his inheritance must be divided amongst the three sons.

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The lack of faith in between the events has led to an order halting any sale of the late rabbi’s commentaries and the sides have turned to New York primarily based true estate tycoon and philanthropist Rubin Schron, a close confidante of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, to mediate. Schron with each other with Charles Bronfman had been the previous managing shareholders in Israel Price cut Lender (TASE: DSCT).

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The dispute has not only set the brothers at loggerheads but also two of the cousins who managed their grandfather’s residence for lots of years. On the a person aspect is Aryeh Kanievsky, the son of Avraham Yeshayahu, and on the other side Yanki Kanievsky, the son of Shaul, who featured prominently in the Israeli media above the past two a long time when he was filmed encouraging his gradfather to oppose Covid limits in Yeshivot.

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Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky lived modestly but his comprehensive writings and their price blended with the relatives household in Bnei Brak imply that his estate is well worth an estimated tens of hundreds of thousands of bucks.

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The Kanievsky loved ones declined to comment on the dispute.

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