Kehillot Yaakov. Copy Given by the Author, the Steipler, to Rabbi Michel Yehudah Lefkowitz as Payment for an Etrog

Kehillot Yaakov. Copy Given by the Author, the Steipler, to Rabbi Michel Yehudah Lefkowitz as Payment for an Etrog

Kehillot Yaakov on Tractate Chulin by Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky. Bnei Brak, [1968]. Presentation copy.

Unique Features: The book was given by the author, Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky - the Steipler, to Rabbi Michel Yehudah Lefkowitz as payment for an etrog. Rabbi Lefkowitz had a close relationship with the Chazon Ish. The Chazon Ish gave him pits from an etrog that was definitely not grafted, and he planted them in his yard. Rabbi Kanievsky, the Chazon Ish's brother-in-law, was careful to make a blessing every year on an etrog from the tree in Rabbi Lefkowitz's yard. Still today, many Torah giants from all factions purchase their etrogs from Rabbi Michel Yehudah's tree.

The book bears Rabbi Lefkowitz's signature along with the date 13th of Menachem Av [1969]. This is the date that he received the book in lieu of the etrog. 

A letter from the family confirming that the Steipler made a special visit to their home in order to bring this book as payment for the etrog is attached.

Rabbi Michel Yehudah Lefkowitz (1913-2011) was a leader of the Lithuanian [yeshiva] community. He was one of the most prominent students of the Chazon Ish, a member of  Degel HaTorah's Council of Torah Sages and rosh yeshiva of Ponevezh L'Tzeirim.

Condition: Very fine.