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Eliezer Hager

Eliezer Hager was the second Rebbe of the Seret-Vizhnitz Hasidic dynasty, known by the title of his work, Chochmat Eliezer.

1924 to 2015Second Rebbe of Seret-VizhnitzHaganah service in HaifaSermons against slander

Born: 8 October 1924, Oradea
Died: 7 July 2015, Haifa
Occupation: Rebbe, rabbi

Eliezer Hager was born in 1924 in Oradea

Eliezer Hager was born in 1924 in Oradea, Romania. His father, Rabbi Baruch Hager, was the Rebbe of Seret-Vizhnitz, and his mother was Rebbetzin Tsirl.

In 1947 he came to the Land of Israel on an immigrant ship. He was arrested at Haifa port and held in the Atlit detention camp. He was also trained as an electrician.

After his release he joined the religious company of the Haganah in Haifa. He fought in the War of Independence at Ramat Yohanan, where he was wounded in the leg, and took part in capturing the hill in Haifa where his community later lived.

In 1951 he married Rebbetzin Chaya Tsirl Bruin. About a year after his father died, he was named his successor as Rebbe. In his sermons he often spoke against gossip and slander.

In 2013 he was hospitalized with back problems and grew weaker. Leadership passed in practice to his only son, Rabbi Yaakov Hager. He died at home in 2015 of sudden cardiac arrest, and a yeshiva in Bnei Brak was named Chochmat Eliezer after him.