Rav Chaim Kanievsky's Learning "Debts"
Rav Chaim Kanievsky called his daily learning quota "chovos", debts, and when he murmured about them at his engagement, the Elyashiv family was briefly alarmed.
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Rav Chaim Kanievsky called his daily learning quota "chovos", debts, and when he murmured about them at his engagement, the Elyashiv family was briefly alarmed.
A second grader writes to Rav Chaim Kanievsky about a puzzling word in Parshas Mikeitz. Rav Chaim knew a reply would give the boy chizuk, and answered with a smile.
The Chazon Ish shortened the Steipler's all-night search for chametz, and Rav Chaim Kanievsky taught his grandson that his grandmother's peace of mind comes first.
So his young son would not cry on his first days of cheder, Rav Chaim Kanievsky sat learning at the back of the classroom every day for a month.
On a Chol HaMoed trip to the zoo, Rav Chaim Kanievsky cited every animal's place in Tanach, Gemara and halacha, and soon a crowd of visitors was following him.
A fundraiser needs a shidduch for his son, and Rav Chaim Kanievsky sends him to daven for a donor's daughter. Both children are soon engaged, just as Rav Chaim promised.
Rav Chaim Kanievsky told a businessman to keep wearing a hat and jacket for bentching. At his next restaurant meeting, reaching for his hat won him a fifteen-million-shekel deal.
A kollel man shrugged off the custom of avoiding the tochachah aliyah. When an inheritance pulled him from learning into business, Rav Chaim Kanievsky saw the lesson.
A long-haired man with earrings asks Rav Chaim Kanievsky for a blessing for children. Rav Chaim tells him to cut his hair, but only after Sefiras HaOmer, and a child follows.
Asked whether the Chazon Ish skipped Birchas Ilanos, Rav Chaim Kanievsky recalls the walk when the Chazon Ish told him to make the beracha.