Letter of recommendation by the Gaon Rabbi Meir Greiniman Shlit”a.
His cousin Maran Hagaon Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky Zt”l added two lines in his holy hand & signature.
Maran Hagaon Rabbi Shmaryahu Yosef Chaim Kanievsky (1928 – 2022). Was a leading authority in Haredi Jewish society on legal and ethical practice.Known as the "minister of Torah", much of his prominence came through Torah education and advice about Jewish law.
Though he held held no formal community-wide post, he was the de facto head of the Lithuanian branch of Haredi Judaism, revered as a consummate scholar of Jewish law and tradition, with unimpeachable rulings.
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky was born in Pinsk, Poland (now in Belarus), to Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky, known as the "Steipler Gaon", and Miriam Karelitz (Pesha Miriam: Pesha was added, sister of Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz, known as the "Chazon Ish".
When he was six years old, the family moved to Mandatory Palestine. After his immigration, he never left the country, even briefly.He worked hard learning Torah in his youth and was able to elucidate complicated rabbinic teachings as a young adult.
During the 1947–1949 Palestine war, Rav Chaim, then a student at the Lomza Yeshiva, served in the Israel Defense Forces, guarding an outpost overlooking Jaffa.
His father gave him explicit instructions to devote his time exclusively to learning, and not to giving shiurim (lectures), which he followed.The only known exception was in the year after his father’s death, when he would give a complex shiur in Talmud Yerushalmi in his father’s memory. He stopped immediately thereafter, claiming it took away time from learning. The amount of time it took him to prepare each lecture was five minutes.
Maran was known to study Torah 17 hours each day. He received thousands of visits every year from Jews seeking religious and halakhic advice. He was widely believed to have had Ruach Hakodesh (Holy Spirit)
He died at his home in Bnei Brak on March 18, 2022, at the age of 94. Around 750,000 mourners attended his funeral on March 20, 2022, making it one of the largest funerals in Israeli history, second only to Ovadia Yosef’s funeral which had more than 850,000 in October 2013.
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