Yaakov Kahana-Shapira

;Rav Zalman Sender

Kahana-Shapira, born in Nisowiz, in the Minsk region, to Rav

Moshe Shapira Kamenetzky, av beis din of Lida and son-in-law of Rav

Chaim of

Volozhin. Rav Zalman sender learned under the Beis HaLevi and his son,

Rav Chaim Brisker, in Volozhin. He married and lived in Kobrin, where

he raised 5 children (4 boys and a girl). When his wife tragically

passed away, he married the widow of Rav Binyamin Wolf Hayahalomstein,

Rav of Maltsch, and moved to that city. He eventually became Rav of

Maltsch and started a yeshiva there, Anaf Eitz Chaim, modeling it

after Eitz Chaim of Volozhin. In 1902, he moved the yeshiva to Kriniki

where he became Rav. Among his students there were Rav Yaakov

Kamenetzky and Rav Aharon Kotler. In 1921 he moved to the Shaarei

Chesed section of Yerushalayaim. (

same person as: Yaakov Kahana-Shapira