I am really not very aware of the great Litvak sages [gedolim] that are around nowadays. It is only by a sheer miracle that I have heard of Rav Shach.
But today I was in the Na Nach place and saw an interesting book about the wife of Rav Kinevsky. [Sadly she passed away this year.] [Rav Kinyevsky I think is the son of the author of the series of books called Kehilat Yaakov. I saw that book when I was in Shar Yashuv but did not have much of a chance to learn it.]
At any rate there is a nice story I saw in that book. Rav Elyashiv is apparently one of the present day Litvak sages. [From what I understood from that book he is apparently a grandson of the Leshem, a commentary on the Eitz Chaim.]
So the story goes like this. There is a fellow who was married for ten years but did not have children. So he and his wife agreed to divorce. Then right after the divorce, it turned out that she was already pregnant. That means there was no reason to divorce in the first place. But sadly enough he is a Koken [priest] so he is not allowed to remarry. A kohen can not marry a divorced woman as you can see in the Book of Leviticus [in the section of Emor]. So he went to Rav Elyashiv. Rav Elyashiv told him to go to the Western Wall. Though that seems to have nothing to do with the problem at hand still this fellow had "faith in the sages" so he went there and prayed his heart out. Then someone there walked over to him and asked what he is crying about. He said, "It does not matter there is nothing anyone can do to help me." The fellow that walked over to him was stubborn and kept insisting that he tell him what is the matter. So finally he gave in and told him. That fellow that had walked over to him then said to him, "You need to go to your father." [His father was in a hospital in the USA]. This also seemed to have no bearing on teh issue at hand. Still in his confidence in the advice of Rav Elyashiv he decided to go visit his father. When he got to the USA it was in fact close to the end of the life of his father. He got to the hospital. When he walked into his father's room his father told him it is very good that he came just then because he had something to tell him that he had never told him before. But since he knew it was time to leave this world , he decided he must tell him. That he is adopted. That means that he really is not a kohen in the first place. Thus he returned to Israel and remarried his wife.
