A long letter discussing the Seforim of both Gaonim. Fully in the Holy hand & signature of the Steipler.
Bnei Brak, 1962.
The famous Gaon Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky (1899-1985), an outstanding student of the Novardok Yeshivos and a son-in-law of Rabbi Shemaryahu Yosef Karelitz. Rosh Yeshiva at the Beis Yosef – Novardok Yeshiva in Pinsk (1927-1934). Settled in Eretz Yisrael in 1934 and headed the Beis Yosef Novardok Yeshiva there, whilst becoming a close disciple of his brother-in-law the Chazon Ish, and gradually becoming renowned as one of the greatest Torah authorities of his time. Generally known as ‘the Steipler’, after his hometown Hornosteipel in Ukraine. Author of Kehilos Yaakov on many tractates of the Talmud.
The recipient the Gaon Rabbi Simcha Elberg was editor of "Ha-Pardes" and chairman of the executive board of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada. Born in Warsaw, 1915. During the years of the Holocaust fled to Vilna and from there arrived with the Mir Yeshiva congregation to Shanghai in China. He came to New York in 1947 and served as editor of Ha-Pardes, the rabbinic law journal published by the Union of Orthodox Rabbis. He also was the author of multivolume books on rabbinic law and Talmudical concepts as well as a historical bibliography of prewar Poland. He was on the executive committee of Agudath Israel of America. Passed away in 1995.
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