Letter handwritten and signed by R. Chaim Kanievsky. Bnei Brak, [ca. 1977].
Addressed to "the prominent Torah scholar", R. Efraim Borodiansky, who had sent him comments on one of his books. R. Chaim thanks him for taking the time to study his book, and for his valuable comments, and writes that he is sending him as a gift the last two books he has published – Nachal Eitan and Siach HaSadeh part II. He asks R. Efraim to apprise him of which of his books he already possesses, so that he can send him the rest (the two books he mentions were printed in 1977, and the letter was dated accordingly).
The recipient of the letter, R. Efraim Borodiansky (1910-1990), was one of the leading and renowned Torah scholars of the past generation. He disseminated Torah in various yeshivot and kollelim, and was one of the editors-in-chief of the Encyclopedia Talmudit. In 1943, he was appointed lecturer of the Etz Chaim yeshiva in Jerusalem (it was there that the young Shmuel Auerbach, later dean of the Maalot HaTorah yeshiva, studied Torah from him, considering him his prime teacher). He later founded the Mir yeshiva in Jerusalem, together with his teacher R. Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, and served as the first lecturer in the yeshiva. In 1949, he served as lecturer in the Lomza yeshiva in Petach Tikva (during which time the student R. Chaim Kanievsky studied there, and that is possibly were they made acquaintance), and later taught Torah in other Torah institutions.
Postcard. Approx. 10 autograph lines. 14.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Creases and stains.