Seret (Hasidic dynasty)

They were headed by their Rebbe ("Grand Rabbi") whose family name was Rubin and was a scion of the Hasidic dynasties of the Kosov, Ropshitz and Belz.

Rabbi Chaim Hager, forerunner of the Vizhnitz Dynasty, died in 1854 in Kosov (at that time in Galicia, Poland) and left three sons, each of whom had followers (Hasidim).

In 1873 Reb he emigrated to the Land of Israel and left his only son, Rabbi Moshe Hager in his place in Radovitz.

[1] His elder son-in-law rabbi Shmuel Schmelke Rubin (1840-1901), who was married to his daughter Chaya, led Hasidim in nearby Seret (Siret).

After World War II he moved to Israel where he established a neighborhood called "Ramat Vizhnitz" in Haifa and became known as the Seret-Vizhnitzer rebbe, and was succeeded by his son Rabbi Eliezer Hager.