Rav Shlomo Kanievsky brings the family legacy to a new generation
Photo: Moshe Oiknine
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n the spacious beis medrash of the Lakewood yeshivah in which I am davening Shacharis, there is a surge of excitement. Two teenage boys near me exchange thrilled smiles, even as they pretend, in the manner of teenage boys, not be thrilled, when the gabbai calls up the oleh laTorah.
“Yaamod Rav Shlomo ben Moreinu Harav Shmaryahu Yosef Chaim.”
The guest says the brachos, like any other talmid chacham from Bnei Brak might, and makes his way back to his seat as if his father isn’t the gadol hador and it isn’t extraordinary that he’s in America walking up the aisle in a Lakewood yeshivah.
I’ve seen visiting fundraisers sell letters, stories, or brachos from Rav Chaim with more drama and theatrics than the man who shares a last name and strong physical resemblance with Maran Sar HaTorah.
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