Leaves from the printed book Kehilot Ya'akov, on Tractates Chulin and Bechorot, by Rabbi Ya'akov Ysrael Kanievsky. Bnei Brak, 1976.
Early draft, printed on only one side, with corrections in the handwriting of the author, the Rabbi of Horonsteipel (the Steipler).
The Kehilot Ya'akov used to toil throughout many nights in writing his books, making correction after correction so that the matters would be easily understood by yeshiva students. Even after he gave his novellae to be printed, he would sometimes make corrections on the early drafts, thinking that there was yet room for improvement. (Toldot Ya'akov, pg. 209).
On the present pages, there are some parts on which slight corrections were made, and some parts which were erased and written again. The erasings were sometimes done in the Steipler's special method – he would make a frame around the word, in order not to erase words of Torah.
On verso of title-page there are notes of different questions addressed to the Steipler, and interesting stories.
Approx 43 leaves, 35 cm. Printed on one side of the leaf, corrected in blue pen. New binding.