Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, the de-facto head in Israel of the Lithuanian department of extremely-Orthodox Judaism, who died last thirty day period, was regarded as by a lot of as the biggest rabbinical scholar of his technology. His funeral was a single of the largest at any time witnessed in Israel and it now appears that many are geared up to pay out substantial amounts for the writings affiliated with his non secular heritage, and this has sparked a dispute among his heirs.

US extremely-Orthodox businessman Eliezer (Louis) Scheiner, who owns (alongside one another with his spouse Teddy Lichtenstein) a chain of dozens of nursing households in Texas, Pennsylvania and Florida and life in Monsey, New York has made available $7 million for the primary writings of the commentaries published by Rabbi Kanievsky’s on the Jerusalem Talmud, in accordance to sources near to the make any difference. In the past Scheiner was cited by the US media as an important donor to previous US President Donald Trump. In Israel he is properly identified for his significant donations to the yearly function in Uman of the Breslov haredi neighborhood.

Right after the demise of Rabbi Kanievsky, Scheiner approached his son Shaul and made available to invest in the commentaries from the family members. After negotiations with Shaul Kanievsky, they agreed a fee of $7 million. Nevertheless, Shaul Kanievsky’s brothers experienced no expertise of the make any difference and only discovered out by incident.

This discovery has resulted in an acrimonious inheritance dispute conducted discreetly about the past few weeks. On the just one side is Shaul Kanievsky who life in the household household of his late father and is regarded the leading figure between the late Rabbi Kanievsky’s followers, when pitted from him are his two older brothers Avraham Yeshayahu, who was also shut to their father and wrote numerous publications with him and Shlomo, the head of the Kiryat Melekh Yeshiva who was less involved with his father’s followers.

Shaul Kanievsky has advised his brothers that their father intended for him to be his sole heir. His two more mature brothers ended up astonished by this news and insist that their father normally claimed that his inheritance would be bequeathed according to Torah regulation. Rabbi Kanievsky experienced 8 little ones – a few sons and five daughters and according to Torah regulation his inheritance really should be divided concerning the 3 sons.

The lack of religion among the parties has led to an get halting any sale of the late rabbi’s commentaries and the sides have turned to New York primarily based authentic estate tycoon and philanthropist Rubin Schron, a close confidante of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, to mediate. Schron collectively with Charles Bronfman were being the former controlling shareholders in Israel Discount Financial institution (TASE: DSCT).

The dispute has not only put the brothers at loggerheads but also two of the cousins who managed their grandfather’s household for quite a few several 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 over the past two decades when he was filmed encouraging his gradfather to oppose Covid limitations in Yeshivot.

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky lived modestly but his intensive writings and their price mixed with the relatives property in Bnei Brak necessarily mean that his estate is worth an estimated tens of millions of pounds.

The Kanievsky family declined to comment on the dispute.

Published by Globes, Israel business information – en.globes.co.il – on April 28, 2022.

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