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Steipler
Steipler
1899 CE–1985 CE · Acharonim · Hornostaypil
Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky (1899–1985), remembered as the Steipler, took his byname from Hornostaypil in Ukraine, where he was born to a family connected to the Chernobyl Hasidic circle. As a boy he entered the Novardok yeshiva, learning under Yosef Yoizel Horowitz. Still young, he was sent to help lead a Novardok branch in Rogochov and was conscripted into the Red Army during the revolutionary years; afterward he studied in Bialystok under Avraham Yoffen and went on to head a Novardok yeshiva in Pinsk. His marriage to Pesha Miriam Karelitz made him a brother-in-law of the Chazon Ish, at whose urging he settled in Bnei Brak in 1934, teaching at the Beis Yosef–Novardok yeshiva. His writings include the Talmudic work Kehillot Yaakov and the ethical treatise Chayei Olam. He died in Bnei Brak in 1985.
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