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Wedding of Hagaon Rav Nechemia Kaplan in Brooklyn

Apr 16, 2026·1 min read

Last night, in Brooklyn, NY, the wedding of Hagaon Rav Nechemia Kaplan, rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Shaar Hatalmud in Yerushalayim was held in Brooklyn, drawing prominent roshei yeshiva and rabbonim who came to take part in the simcha.

Rav Kaplan is a son of Rav Boruch Kaplan and Rebbetzin Vichna Kaplan, noted pioneers of Yiddishkeit in the last century. His first wife, Rebbetzin Hendel a”h, was the daughter of Rav and Rebbetzin Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik, Rosh Yeshivas Brisk.

The rosh yeshiva remarried to Rebbetzin Chaya Esther Lerner of New York. The wedding took place at Tiferes Mordechai Hall on McDonald Avenue in Brooklyn.

A large number of prominent roshei yeshiva and rabbonim attended the chasunah.

In a unique moment during the simcha, following the first dance, the chosson, the esteemed rosh yeshiva, delivered a shiur to the assembled guests.


 

{Matzav.com}