BROOKLYN – Harav Shraga Feivish Hager, the Kossover Rebbe of Borough Park, after a prolonged illness has passed away over Shabbos at Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan, at the age of 66.
The funeral took place Sunday morning at at his beis medrash, located at 1353 55th Street in Boro Park. The procession then moved to Monsey for a funeral service at the Vizhnitz beis medrash, located at 25 Phyllis Terrace.
The aron was taken to the Vizhnitzer Bais Hachaim at 290 NY-306 in Monsey, where the burial took place near the grave of his father, Harav Avraham Yehoshua Heschel Hager, the Kossover-Zalishchiker Rebbe, zy”a.