Letter from Rebbe Chaim Meir Hager, the Imrei Chaim of Vizhnitz

Rebbe Chaim Meir Hager, author of Imrei ...

Letter from Rebbe Chaim Meir Hager, the Imrei Chaim of Vizhnitz

Rebbe Chaim Meir Hager, author of Imrei Chaim (1888-1972), second son and successor of the Ahavat Yisrael of Vizhnitz. In 1944, he escaped the Holocaust and immigrated to Eretz Israel. Following the Holocaust, he returned to Grosswardein (Oradea), immigrating in 1947 to Eretz Israel and settling in Tel Aviv. He established the Kiryat Vizhnitz neighborhood in Bnei Brak, and later settled there. He rebuilt the Vizhnitz Chassidic dynasty, and set up its institutions. He was one of the leaders of Orthodox Jewry in Eretz Israel, and a member of the Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah. His teachings were published in the Imrei Chaim series.