10 Comments

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   David Allen on July 14, 2011 at 11:15 pm

   I was at this grave today. Rabbi Kaplan is my Great-Great Grandfather. I can provide some family history. I would love to learn more about him, his life and contribution to the community.

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   YD Miller on July 18, 2011 at 12:41 pm

   He wrote many Chidusie Torah in the Torah Journal Yagdil Torah.

   I dont know where the information that he was rabbi in Bnai Yisroel – Shomre shabbos comes from, but I find him being the Rabbi of Cong. Bnai Avrohom of Brooklyn:
   http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31789&st=&pgnum=6&hilite=

   (Intresting how he spelled the name טוביא instead of טובי-ה this is probably for the reason of not writing the י-ה)

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   YD Miller on July 18, 2011 at 12:43 pm

   And by-the-way, his fathers name is not mentioned on the Matzieve (grave stone) but in the link above you can see it was Yehuda Leib Kaplan.

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   BLACKLEIBEL on July 18, 2011 at 4:29 pm

   Miller:
   Correct. Look at the spelling of his father’s name, Yehuda with an Aleph.

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   YD Miller on July 18, 2011 at 5:02 pm

   Leibel,

   To spell Yehuda with an Aleph is much more common and custom the Tovia, as a matter of fact it is not even mentioned as an option in Beth Shmuel, see:
   http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=8084&st=&pgnum=58
   whereas the name Yehuda altough in a get it is written with an Hah, it is still mentioned in Beth shmuel 9see next page in above link) as Kosher if written with an Aleph.

   [What is interesting to note that in Talmud the name Tovia is spelled with an Aleph as teh Armaic format would require]

6. 

   Ben Bee Zee on September 6, 2012 at 11:23 am

   Hamodia 1913 Rabbi Kaplan is sending condolence to his brother who lost a son

   http://tinyurl.com/9ua3qlm

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   Ben Bee Zee on September 6, 2012 at 11:41 am

   Besides being a Rav he was also fundraising for the Telz Yeshiva.

   In this piece of Hamodia in 1912 he mourns the death of a big philanthrop in Brooklyn who died.

   http://tinyurl.com/cpnnofv

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   Farshlufen on April 30, 2015 at 10:15 am

   http://goo.gl/3u0c0C

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   Yehyda Aharon Horovitz on November 11, 2024 at 11:20 am

   He was related to the family of R. Zalmen Pinchas Kaplan of Galvani, The son in law of the Meir LaOlam Of Shat
   And his son was Efraim Kaplan editor of the Yiddish paper der Morgan Journal

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    Yehuda Ahahron Horovitz on November 11, 2024 at 12:40 pm

    Efraim Kaplan was actualy the son in law of his uncle Rav Shimon Tuvia Kaplan .