29 Cheshvan 5613
Rav Yitzchak Eizik Chaver was born to his father, Rav Yaakov in 5549, in the city of Horodona. When he was about 14, he began to study under Rav Menachem Mendel of Shklov, a talmid of the Gra, and he was then nicknamed by the lomdim as the “Peh Shlishi LehaGra” the third mouth to the Gra.
At a young age, he was appointed Rav in the town of Przewa, and later served also as Rav in Rozana, Wokowysk and Tiktin, and in his final four years in Suvalk.
Rav Chaver was proficient in all parts of Torah – Nigleh and Nistar alike – and he left behind many compilations, among them Pischu She’arim, his completion on Chochmas Hasod; Shu”t Binyam Olam; Yad Mitzrayim on the Haggadah Shel Pesach and Hagahos on Shas printed in the Vilna Shas.
On 29 Cheshvan 5613, at the age of 64, he passed away and was buried in Suvalk, the last city where he served as Rav. In accordance with his will not to write praises about him, his matzeivah bore a short epitaph that stated that as per his instructions, they had to ‘block the pen, and the etching hand and to shorten the praises’ and minimize the descriptions of him.
