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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox Jewish leader Shemaryahu Yosef Chaim Kanievsky (Шаблон:Lang-he; January 8, 1928 – March 18, 2022) was an Israeli Haredi rabbi and posek.[1] He was a leading authority in Haredi Jewish society on legal and ethical practice.[2][3][4] Known as Gadol HaDor ("the greatest of his generation")[5] and the "Prince of Torah", much of his prominence came through Torah education and advice about Jewish law.[6][7]

Though Kanievsky held no formal community-wide post,[8] 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.[9]

Early life

Chaim Kanievsky was born in Pinsk, Poland (now in Belarus), to Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky, known as the "Steipler Gaon", and Miriam Karelitz (Pesha Miriam: Pesha was added[10]), sister of Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz, known as the "Chazon Ish".[1]

When Kanievsky was six years old, the family moved to Mandatory Palestine. After his immigration, he never left the country, even briefly.[11][12] He worked hard learning Torah in his youth and was able to elucidate complicated rabbinic teachings as a young adult.[13] 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.[13]

Rabbinic career

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Artistic Portrait of Kanievsky[14]
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Kanievsky in 2006

Kanievsky became a major authority on all matters of Jewish law, authoring several books about Jewish legal writings.[6][15] He was notable even among Jewish scholars for annually learning the entire text of many sources of Jewish law, including not only the Babylonian Talmud but also the less commonly studied Jerusalem Talmud.[5][16]

Kanievsky was the official rabbi and spiritual guide for the non-profit organization Belev Echad, which was founded in Israel in 2011 for the purpose of assisting sick and disabled children and adults.[15][17]

Starting around 2010, a controversy arose as to who would take control from the aging founder and director of Bnei Brak's Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center, Шаблон:Ill. Historically, the hospital had been managed by three distinct groups: A board of directors, an association of rabbis and public servants, and most influential of all, the "Halakhic Supervision Committee", a rabbinical committee consisting of Shmuel Wosner, Nissim Karelitz and Yitzchok Zilberstein, with Yisrael Rand, a confidant of Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman, serving as its secretary. Rothschild wanted his son Shlomo to become director, while the rabbinical committee thought him to be a poor choice. In 2013, Kanievsky wrote a letter of recommendation for Shlomo, with Shteinman and Wosner signing on. One year later, Kanievsky was persuaded to join the board of directors.[18]

From Shteinman's death in December 2017 until his own death, Kanievsky and Ponevezh Yeshiva head Gershon Edelstein were considered to be the leaders of the Israeli Haredi community.[19][20][21] He was regarded as the preeminent leader of Israel's non-hasidic ultra-Orthodox Jews.[6]

Halakhic rulings

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Chaim Kanievsky

In 2012, Kanievsky ruled that it is forbidden to possess or use a smartphone without individual permission from a halakhic authority, and that owners are not allowed to sell their phones, but should instead burn them.[22][23][24][25][26] In 2015, he instructed United Hatzalah paramedics that in the event of a terrorist attack, they should not treat the terrorists before the victims, even if the terrorist is more seriously injured, and they may even leave the terrorist to die.[27][28]

In 2016, Kanievsky declared that medicinal cannabis was kosher for Passover as long as the possession of the cannabis is not in violation of the law of the land.[29]

In 2017, Kanievsky ruled that reporting instances of sexual child abuse to the police is consistent with halakha (Jewish law).[30][31]

In 2011, he interpreted Arab Spring uprisings as evidence that the Messiah might be near.[32] In 2015, following the 2014 Jerusalem synagogue attack, he repeatedly referred to the imminent arrival of the Messiah, and urged diaspora Jews to make aliyah (immigrate to Israel), reportedly resulting in the arrival of a substantial number of French Jews.[33][34] In February 2020, shortly before the Israeli legislative elections, it was reported by one rabbi that Kanievsky had stated that the coming of the Messiah was possibly imminent.[35]

Covid-19

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Kanievsky in December 2021

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Kanievsky told his followers that the best ways to defeat the virus were to avoid lashon hara (gossiping about one's peers), to strengthen humility, and to place the needs of others before their own.[36] As a result of the discussion, he was visited, on March 15, by senior police officials who, with great respect, wanted to ask him of the importance of following the orders of medical professionals with regard to the outbreak.[36]

On March 29, after the ultra-Orthodox community was hit hard by the virus,[37] with Bnei Brak having a high percentage of coronavirus cases in Israel, relative to its population,[38] Kanievsky ruled that one who does not follow the Israeli Health Ministry's guidelines on COVID-19 is in the position of a rodef, i. e., one who pursues another with intent to kill, a murderer.[39] He also ruled that telephones may be answered on Shabbat to get COVID-19 test results, and that minyanim must not meet at all during the pandemic – a stricter requirement than the Health Ministry's rules, which at the time allowed congregations to meet outdoors as long as participants are at least two meters (6 feet) distant from each other.[40]

On October 2, 2020, Kanievsky was diagnosed with COVID-19.[41] On October 28, 2020, his physician said Kanievsky had recovered from the virus.[42]

Kanievsky endorsed vaccination for all, and wished experts success in the national campaign of vaccination.[43]

At one point in 2020, Rav Chaim advocated for Jewish academies to remain open. On the 11th of October, however, he rescinded.[44]

Death

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Funeral for Kanievsky in March 2022

Kanievsky died at his home in Bnei Brak due to a heart attack, on the Jewish holiday of Shushan Purim on March 18, 2022, at the age of 94.[45][46][47] More than 800,000 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 800,000 in October 2013.[48]

Personal life

Kanievsky was married to Batsheva Kanievsky, daughter of Yosef Sholom Eliashiv. They had eight children. She died in 2011.[1]

Published works

References

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External links

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