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LINEAGE OF THE VIZNITZER DYNASTY

  • Rebbe Yisroel Baal Shem Tov - founder of Hassidism .

  • ---Rebbe Yaakov Koppel Chassid - disciple of the Baal Shem Tov.

  • --Rebbe Menachem Mendel Hager of Kosov - author of ''Ahavas Shalom'' - son of Rebbe Yaakov Koppel Chassid.

  • -Rebbe Chaim Hager of Kosov - author of ''Toras Chaim'' - son of the ''Ahavas Shalom''

  • Rebbe Yaakov Shimshon Hager of Kosov, son of the ''Toras Chaim''

  • Rebbe Yosef Alter Hager of Radovitz, son of the ''Toras Chaim''- Grandson-in-law of Rebbe Moshe Zvi of Savran.

  • Rebbe Menachem Mendel Hager of Viznitz - author of ''Tzemach Tzaddik'' - first Rebbe of Viznitz - son of the 'Toras Chaim' of Kosov - son-in-law of Rebbe Yisroel of Ruzhin .

  • --- Rebbe Menachem Mendel was succeeded by his son the Rebbe Baruch Hager of Viznitz - author of ''Imrei Baruch'' - son of the ''Tzemach Tzaddik''.

  • --Rebbe Yisroel Hager of Viznitz - author of ''Ahavas Yisrael'' - son of the ''Imrei Baruch''.

  • --Rebbe Chaim of Antania''- son of the "Imrei Baruch".

  • --Rebbe Moshe of Shotz''- son of the "Imrei Baruch".

  • -Rebbe Eliezer Hager of Viznitz (1890-1945) - author of ''Damesek Eliezer'' - son of the ''Ahavas Yisrael''

  • -Rebbe Baruch Hager of Seret-Viznitz - author of ''Mekor Baruch'' - son of the ''Ahavas Yisrael''.

  • Rebbe Eliezer Hager of Seret-Viznitz - present Rebbe of Seret-Viznitz of Haifa - son of the ''Mekor Baruch''.

  • Rabbi Hager, previous Rosh Yeshivah of Seret-Viznitz - son of the ''Mekor Baruch''

  • ---Rabbi Hager, Shotz-Viznitz Rebbe of Haifa - son of the previous Rosh Yeshiva of Seret-Viznitz

  • -Rebbe Chaim Meir Hager of Viznitz - author of ''Imrei Chaim'' - son of the ''Ahavas Yisrael''.

  • Rebbe Yehoshua Moshe Hager of Viznitz - present Viznitzer Rebbe of Bnei Brak - son of the ''Imrei Chaim''.

  • ---Rabbi Yisroel Hager - son of the present Viznitzer Rebbe of Bnei Brak.

  • ---Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager - son of the present Viznitzer Rebbe of Bnei Brak .

  • Rebbe Mordechai Hager - present Viznitzer Rebbe of Monsey - son of the ''Imrei Chaim''.




VIZNITZ TODAY


The head Rabbi s are also know as ''Admorim'' (Hebrew אדמור, which is the Acronym for "אדונינו מורינו ורבינו" ''"Adonainu Morainu V'Rabainu"'', "Our master, Our teacher, and Our Rabbi"), who are located in Monsey, New York and Bnei Brak in Israel .

Rabbi Mordechai Hager is the Viznitzer Rebbe in Monsey and Rabbi Moshe Yehoshua Hager is the Viznitzer Rebbe is Bnei Brak. They are sons of Rabbi Chaim Meir Hager, author of ''Imrei Chaim''. His father was Rabbi Israel Hager, author of ''Ahavas Yisroel''. His father was Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager, founding Viznitzer Rebbe, author of ''Tzemach Tzaddik''. He was the son-in-law of Rabbi Israel of Ruzhin, and a scion of the Kosover Dynasty.

The Viznitzer Rebbe in Bnei Brak has two sons and four daughters. His daughters married famous Rabbis. One daughter married Rabbi Menachem Ernster, the Rosh Yeshiva of Viznitz Yeshiva in Bnei Brak . One daughter married Rabbi David Twersky, the Skverrer Rebbe from New Square , NY. One daughter married Rabbi Issachar Ber Rokeach, the Belzer Rebbe from Jerusalem . And the other daughter married Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum , Grand Rabbi of Satmar in Monroe , NY, eldest son of the previous Satmar Rebbe from Williamsburg, Rabbi Moshe Tietelbaum. His two sons are Rabbi Yisroel and Rabbi Mendel, the Av Beit Din of the Vizhnitzer congregation in Bnei Brak.

Grand Rabbi Eliezer Hager is the Seret Viznitz Rebbe in Haifa , Israel , he is a first-cousin of the Rebbes of Bnei Brak and Monsey.

There is also a Shotz-Viznitz Rebbe in Haifa , E. Israel, a nephew of the Seret Viznitzer Rebbe.

Grand Rebbe Shraga Hager, the Kosover Rebbe of Brooklyn follows many of the customs of Viznitz.

Grand Rebbe Shmuel Yaakov Kahn , the Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok Rebbe of Jerusalem was a student of Rebbe Chaim Meir of Viznitz, and has adopted many of the customs of Viznitz.


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