Reb 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.
He was full of life.. very interesting person didn’t see him in a while… Moshiach is practically here will live for ever….
Don’t remember seeing him in CH. Where did he daven?
He had his own shul in the basement of the house he lived in in Schenectady Ave and Carrol. ST
He used to ask Bochurim in Oholei Torah to chazer over a Rashi Sicha of the Rebbe. And then he would talk with them for hours going into the sources deeply. he loved the Rebbe’s Sichos and loved to discuss it with the Bochurim.
A brilliant Talmid Chochom and Gaon.
May he be a Meilitz Yosher for his beautiful family.
A wonderful friend and mentor.
I met him at Park East Synagogue in 2014. The first person to treat me in a mentschie way when I stated to go on a weekly basis.
He was modest and sat towards the back of the Shul. realized in relatively little time that although in the back row he was surrounded by very prominent people who enjoyed sitting with him and learning Torah from him.
He loved seeing my then young boys coming to Shul and in his own way made me a better person.
BDE.
He lived in Flatbush for a while
He was a true Torah scholar. He lived on Crown and Schenectady and was an anchor on that community before the Neighbourhood expanded. He was often seen in 770 and loved to meet with the Bachurim in Oholei Torah. Rabbi Hagar also spent time along with his son Isaac at Rabbi Popacks Chabad Shul in West Hampton’s. BDE
A big fixture at the Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach. With his children, Boruch, Debbie and Isaac, would constantly have Shabbos guests over to give them a real taste of Olam Habbah and help people expand in their observance of Yiddishkeit in a positive, warm manner.
His son Itche Meyer took care of him with the utmost respect.
A great loss for CH.
Sorry to hear. I remember going to his family’s shul on Empire with my zaidi where I tasted shmaltz hering and mashke with kichel at a yung age.
May he be a mailitz yoisher for clal Yisroel
Wasn’t he the rabbi of the Wall Street Synagogue years ago?
R’ Joseph Hager was the original Rabbi of the shul he was nifter in 1981. His son R’ Mayer was the Rabbi until he was nifter around 2012. His brother R’ Moshe took over after and he himself was nifter a few months ago. They were part of the Radwietzer chassidus (I’m sure that I am spelling it wrong).
in the 80th and 90th he davended in many of the shtiblach on the north side of CH