Yitzchak Isaac Chaver

Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Chaver was a prominent 19th-century scholar and kabbalist, who served as a rabbi in several Lithuanian towns. He was a student of Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Shklov, who himself had been a student of the Vilna Gaon. Chaver was among the second generation of students of the Vilna Gaon, who worked to perpetuate the teaching methods of the Vilna Gaon in their generation. He wrote over 35 books on Torah, Jewish law, Jewish thought, and Kabbalah.