Rabbi Kanievsky’s sons embroiled in bitter inheritance dispute
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, the de-facto head in Israel of the Lithuanian branch of extremely-Orthodox Judaism, who died last thirty day period, was considered by several as the best rabbinical scholar of his generation. His funeral was one of the most significant at any time viewed in Israel and it now seems that a lot of are geared up to pay out enormous quantities for the writings associated with his non secular heritage, and this has sparked a dispute between his heirs.

US extremely-Orthodox businessman Eliezer (Louis) Scheiner, who owns (collectively with his associate Teddy Lichtenstein) a chain of dozens of nursing residences in Texas, Pennsylvania and Florida and lives in Monsey, New York has offered $7 million for the authentic writings of the commentaries posted by Rabbi Kanievsky’s on the Jerusalem Talmud, according to sources close to the subject. In the earlier Scheiner was cited by the US media as an important donor to former US President Donald Trump. In Israel he is effectively known for his important donations to the yearly function in Uman of the Breslov haredi local community.

Just after the demise of Rabbi Kanievsky, Scheiner approached his son Shaul and presented to purchase the commentaries from the household. Just after negotiations with Shaul Kanievsky, they agreed a cost of $7 million. Nevertheless, Shaul Kanievsky’s brothers had no know-how of the make a difference and only found out by incident.

This discovery has resulted in an acrimonious inheritance dispute done discreetly about the earlier few weeks. On the one particular aspect is Shaul Kanievsky who lives in the family members property of his late father and is viewed as the primary figure amid the late Rabbi Kanievsky’s followers, while pitted in opposition to him are his two older brothers Avraham Yeshayahu, who was also close to their father and wrote several publications with him and Shlomo, the head of the Kiryat Melekh Yeshiva who was considerably less associated with his father’s followers.

Shaul Kanievsky has told his brothers that their father supposed for him to be his sole heir. His two more mature brothers were being astonished by this news and insist that their father often stated that his inheritance would be bequeathed in accordance to Torah law. Rabbi Kanievsky experienced eight kids – a few sons and 5 daughters and in accordance to Torah regulation his inheritance should be divided between the three sons.

The lack of faith amongst the functions has led to an purchase halting any sale of the late rabbi’s commentaries and the sides have turned to New York based mostly genuine estate tycoon and philanthropist Rubin Schron, a close confidante of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, to mediate. Schron collectively with Charles Bronfman had been the previous managing shareholders in Israel Price cut Financial institution (TASE: DSCT).

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

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky lived modestly but his intensive writings and their value mixed with the family dwelling in Bnei Brak imply that his estate is well worth an approximated tens of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The Kanievsky family declined to comment on the dispute.

Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise news – en.globes.co.il – on April 28, 2022.

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