Rabbi Shlomo Mordechai Hager, 94, OBM
Reb Shlomo Mordechai Hager, a respected Rabbi who lived in Crown Heights and a member of the Vizhnitz Rabbinic family, passed away on Sunday, 29 Teves, 5786. UPDATE: The Levaya will not pass by 770 and will go straight to the cemetery from Shomrei Hadas.
by COLlive Editor · COLliveReb Shlomo Mordechai Hager, a respected Rabbi in New York and a member of the Vizhnitz Rabbinic family, passed away on Sunday, 29 Teves, 5786.
He was 94.
Rabbi Hager lived in Crown Heights since 1948 and was known as a great Gaon and Talmid Chacham. His family is known to be rooted in Torah and Chesed, and are descended from a distinguished lineage of Rabbanim and Admorim of Vizhnitz.
Reb Shlomo Mordechai was the father of the philanthropist Reb Yitzchak Meir (Isaac) Hager, a well known Crown Heights askan and supporter of communal causes.
The levaya will take place on Monday at 11:00 a.m. at Shomrei Hadas in Boro Park to burial at Old Montefiore Cemetery.
Update: The levaya will not pass by 770.
Baruch Dayan Ha’emes.
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