March 29, 2024

The Domestikated Life

One Passion

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 very last month, was considered by lots of as the greatest rabbinical scholar of his generation. His funeral was just one of the most significant ever witnessed in Israel and it now appears to be that quite a few are well prepared to shell out enormous quantities for the writings involved with his non secular heritage, and this has sparked a dispute between his heirs.

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US ultra-Orthodox businessman Eliezer (Louis) Scheiner, who owns (alongside one another with his husband or wife Teddy Lichtenstein) a chain of dozens of nursing homes in Texas, Pennsylvania and Florida and lives in Monsey, New York has presented $7 million for the authentic writings of the commentaries posted by Rabbi Kanievsky’s on the Jerusalem Talmud, according to sources near to the issue. In the earlier Scheiner was cited by the US media as an vital donor to previous US President Donald Trump. In Israel he is perfectly identified for his main donations to the annual party in Uman of the Breslov haredi neighborhood.

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Following the dying of Rabbi Kanievsky, Scheiner approached his son Shaul and made available to get the commentaries from the household. Following negotiations with Shaul Kanievsky, they agreed a charge of $7 million. Nevertheless, Shaul Kanievsky’s brothers experienced no know-how of the matter and only discovered out by incident.

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This discovery has resulted in an acrimonious inheritance dispute carried out discreetly around the past handful of weeks. On the a person facet is Shaul Kanievsky who life in the relatives residence of his late father and is deemed the top determine among the late Rabbi Kanievsky’s followers, though pitted in opposition to him are his two more mature brothers Avraham Yeshayahu, who was also near to their father and wrote various textbooks with him and Shlomo, the head of the Kiryat Melekh Yeshiva who was a lot less included with his father’s followers.

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Shaul Kanievsky has advised his brothers that their father supposed for him to be his sole heir. His two older brothers were being astonished by this information and insist that their father always explained that his inheritance would be bequeathed in accordance to Torah legislation. Rabbi Kanievsky had eight youngsters – a few sons and five daughters and in accordance to Torah legislation his inheritance ought to be divided in between the three sons.

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The deficiency of faith among the parties has led to an order halting any sale of the late rabbi’s commentaries and the sides have turned to New York dependent genuine estate tycoon and philanthropist Rubin Schron, a close confidante of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, to mediate. Schron jointly with Charles Bronfman were being the previous controlling shareholders in Israel Lower price Financial institution (TASE: DSCT).

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The dispute has not only set the brothers at loggerheads but also two of the cousins who managed their grandfather’s household for quite a few decades. 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 highlighted 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.

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Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky lived modestly but his extensive writings and their worth put together with the household house in Bnei Brak necessarily mean that his estate is worthy of an believed tens of thousands and thousands of dollars.

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The Kanievsky family members declined to remark on the dispute.

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Printed by Globes, Israel business news – en.globes.co.il – on April 28, 2022.

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