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 extremely-Orthodox Judaism, who died previous thirty day period, was regarded as by several as the best rabbinical scholar of his technology. His funeral was a person of the most significant at any time viewed in Israel and it now looks that a lot of are ready to fork out enormous quantities for the writings connected with his spiritual heritage, and this has sparked a dispute among the his heirs.

US ultra-Orthodox businessman Eliezer (Louis) Scheiner, who owns (together with his partner Teddy Lichtenstein) a chain of dozens of nursing properties in Texas, Pennsylvania and Florida and lives in Monsey, New York has presented $7 million for the first writings of the commentaries revealed by Rabbi Kanievsky’s on the Jerusalem Talmud, in accordance to sources shut to the matter. In the previous Scheiner was cited by the US media as an essential donor to former US President Donald Trump. In Israel he is nicely recognized for his main donations to the annual party in Uman of the Breslov haredi community.

Right after the death of Rabbi Kanievsky, Scheiner approached his son Shaul and offered to obtain the commentaries from the relatives. Right after negotiations with Shaul Kanievsky, they agreed a fee of $7 million. Nevertheless, Shaul Kanievsky’s brothers experienced no information of the make any difference and only discovered out by incident.

This discovery has resulted in an acrimonious inheritance dispute done discreetly in excess of the previous handful of months. On the 1 facet is Shaul Kanievsky who life in the loved ones household of his late father and is deemed the major determine among the the late Rabbi Kanievsky’s followers, when pitted against him are his two more mature brothers Avraham Yeshayahu, who was also shut to their father and wrote various textbooks with him and Shlomo, the head of the Kiryat Melekh Yeshiva who was less involved with his father’s followers.

Shaul Kanievsky has explained to his brothers that their father supposed for him to be his sole heir. His two more mature brothers have been astonished by this information and insist that their father always said that his inheritance would be bequeathed according to Torah legislation. Rabbi Kanievsky experienced 8 children – a few sons and 5 daughters and in accordance to Torah regulation his inheritance should be divided involving the 3 sons.

The deficiency of faith amongst the get-togethers has led to an order halting any sale of the late rabbi’s commentaries and the sides have turned to New York dependent real estate tycoon and philanthropist Rubin Schron, a near confidante of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, to mediate. Schron jointly with Charles Bronfman had been the previous managing shareholders in Israel Price reduction Bank (TASE: DSCT).

The dispute has not only set the brothers at loggerheads but also two of the cousins who managed their grandfather’s household for lots of yrs. On the 1 facet 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 earlier two years when he was filmed encouraging his gradfather to oppose Covid constraints in Yeshivot.

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky lived modestly but his comprehensive writings and their price blended with the family members house in Bnei Brak indicate that his estate is truly worth an believed tens of millions of bucks.

The Kanievsky family members declined to comment on the dispute.

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

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