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Rabbi Mordechai Baak, Esteemed Monsey Torah Leader, Dies Suddenly at 80
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First reported by Behadrei Haredim · 5 hours ago
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Rabbi Mordechai Baak, a leading Torah scholar and community rabbi in Monsey, New York, died suddenly at age 80 from cardiac arrest. He was renowned for his Brisk yeshiva scholarship, leadership of the Segulat Yisrael community, and staunch anti-Zionist views. His funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon in Monsey.
- 01Rabbi Mordechai Baak died suddenly at 80 from cardiac arrest en route to teaching Torah in Monsey.
- 02He led the Segulat Yisrael community and founded the Tiferet Moshe yeshiva with about 80 students.
- 03Born in post-WWII Czechoslovakia, he studied at Nitra, Lakewood, and Brisk yeshivas.
- 04He was a close disciple of Rabbi Yitzchak Dov Soloveitchik and aligned with Satmar Hasidism.
- 05Rabbi Baak opposed Borough Park's eruv and alternative medicine on halachic grounds.
- 06In 2023, he actively fought government interference in Orthodox education in New York.
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