 He is one of the most widely known living Haredi Litvish Jewish gedolim outside of Israel.Shmuel Kamenetsky was born in Tytuvėnai, Lithuania to Yaakov Kamenetsky, one of America's great Torah leaders.He attended Eitz Chaim Day Schools in Toronto, then studied at Ner Israel Rabbinical College under the tutelage of his father's cousin, Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman.