Rabbi Kanievsky’s sons embroiled in bitter inheritance dispute
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, the de-facto head in Israel of the Lithuanian department of ultra-Orthodox Judaism, who died very last thirty day period, was thought of by numerous as the finest rabbinical scholar of his era. His funeral was a single of the biggest ever found in Israel and it now appears that numerous are prepared to pay large quantities for the writings involved with his religious heritage, and this has sparked a dispute between his heirs.

US extremely-Orthodox businessman Eliezer (Louis) Scheiner, who owns (collectively with his husband or wife Teddy Lichtenstein) a chain of dozens of nursing residences in Texas, Pennsylvania and Florida and lives in Monsey, New York has supplied $7 million for the primary writings of the commentaries printed by Rabbi Kanievsky’s on the Jerusalem Talmud, in accordance to resources shut to the subject. In the past Scheiner was cited by the US media as an critical donor to former US President Donald Trump. In Israel he is properly recognised for his important donations to the once-a-year celebration in Uman of the Breslov haredi local community.

Right after the death of Rabbi Kanievsky, Scheiner approached his son Shaul and offered to buy the commentaries from the loved ones. After negotiations with Shaul Kanievsky, they agreed a price of $7 million. On the other hand, Shaul Kanievsky’s brothers experienced no know-how of the make a difference and only discovered out by incident.

This discovery has resulted in an acrimonious inheritance dispute executed discreetly more than the past handful of weeks. On the a single facet is Shaul Kanievsky who life in the spouse and children home of his late father and is regarded as the main figure between the late Rabbi Kanievsky’s followers, when pitted towards him are his two older brothers Avraham Yeshayahu, who was also close to their father and wrote a number of publications with him and Shlomo, the head of the Kiryat Melekh Yeshiva who was much less concerned with his father’s followers.

Shaul Kanievsky has advised his brothers that their father supposed for him to be his sole heir. His two more mature brothers have been astonished by this news and insist that their father often mentioned that his inheritance would be bequeathed according to Torah legislation. Rabbi Kanievsky had eight young children – a few sons and five daughters and according to Torah law his inheritance really should be divided involving the three sons.

The lack of religion among the functions has led to an buy halting any sale of the late rabbi’s commentaries and the sides have turned to New York based mostly true estate tycoon and philanthropist Rubin Schron, a near confidante of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, to mediate. Schron together with Charles Bronfman have been the former controlling shareholders in Israel Lower price Lender (TASE: DSCT).

The dispute has not only set the brothers at loggerheads but also two of the cousins who managed their grandfather’s property for quite a few years. On the a person aspect is Aryeh Kanievsky, the son of Avraham Yeshayahu, and on the other facet Yanki Kanievsky, the son of Shaul, who showcased prominently in the Israeli media in excess of the previous two yrs when he was filmed encouraging his gradfather to oppose Covid limitations in Yeshivot.

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky lived modestly but his in depth writings and their value merged with the household household in Bnei Brak necessarily mean that his estate is worthy of an estimated tens of thousands and thousands of pounds.

The Kanievsky spouse and children declined to remark on the dispute.

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

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