as a young boy he attended the yeshivah in plunge led by rabbi chaim yitzchak hacohen bloch, who is credited with cultivating rabbi kahaneman's potential. at the age of 14 he went to study talmud at the telshe yeshiva, where he studied torah until he was twenty, under the tutelage of rabbi eliezer gordon and rabbi shimon shkop. he then spent a half year in novardok yeshiva, after which he spent three years in raduń yeshiva studying under the chofetz chaim and rabbi naftoli trop.