Rabbi Scheiner's two sons and his son-in-law also teach at the yeshiva.Toward the end of the 1940s, he married a granddaughter of Rabbi Boruch Ber Leibowitz.Scheiner died from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel on 31 January 2021, at the age of 98.[6][7] His death occurred just hours after that of Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik.An estimated 8,000 mourners attended Scheiner's Jerusalem burial.