Baruch Dayan, the truth teller: In Kfar Chabad, on the first night of Rosh Hashanah, at the age of 84, the influential Rabbi Yechiel Michal Vishatsky, zt"l, one of the devoted guardians of the Hasidic embers even during the days of the "Iron Curtain" in Soviet Russia, passed away.
The late Rabbi Zacharias was born in Russia in 1951 to his influential father, Rabbi Moshe Vishatsky Zacharias.
When he was 5 years old, in 1956, the family members tried to leave the borders of Russia by smuggling as part of the 'Russian Departure of 1956', when about 1,000 Chabad Hasidim left, but they missed the opportunity - and settled in the city of Czernowitz.
In 1959, the Viszczy family tried to smuggle themselves across the border with Romania with several other families of Hasidic Jews who remained behind the 'Iron Curtain', but this attempt failed. As a result, his father was arrested and exiled to Kazakhstan for 10 years.
Only on the 1st of Kislev, 1926, did the family members manage to receive permission to leave the Soviet Union - and the Vishatsky family arrived in the Holy Land and settled in the Chabad village.
In Israel, he studied at the Tomchei Temimim Yeshiva in Kfar Chabad and later went to study at the Yeshiva at the World Chabad Center-770.
In 1968, he married his wife, Mrs. Feiga Rachel, daughter of Rabbi Shimon Stillerman from Australia, and after his wedding he lived in the Crown Heights neighborhood.
In 1986, he immigrated to Israel again and settled in Kfar Chabad. In recent years, he served as the chief kashrut supervisor at the IKEA Israel chain and lived in Kfar Chabad.
He served as an influencer in the Chabad village like his father and was a "man who produces gems" who described in fluent and fascinating language the stories of the days of preserving the embers of Judaism under difficult conditions and with dedication - and was an example of a Chabad follower.
His funeral took place this evening - the eve of Rosh Hashanah from his home at 15 Ba'Shem Tov Street in Kfar Chabad - and he will be buried, according to his request, in the Montefiore Cemetery in Queens, close to the tent of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
He is survived by his wife, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
His children:
His son, Rabbi Pinchas Wischetsky - Crown Heights.
His son, Rabbi Shneur Zalman Wischetsky - Crown Heights.
His son, Rabbi Zusi Wiszczy - Los Angeles.
His son, Rabbi Raphael Wischetsky - Crown Heights.
His son, Rabbi Bezalel Wischetsky - Crown Heights.
His son, Shimon Wiszczycki
His daughter is the wife of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Deutsch - New Haven.
His daughter, wife of Rabbi Shalom Yeshayahu Zeiler - Nachalat Har Chabad.
His daughter, wife of Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak Sternberg - Crown Heights.
His daughter, wife of Rabbi Nachum Shaul Vogel - London.
His daughter, wife of Rabbi Shneur Zalman Wilhelm - Crown Heights.
His daughter, wife of Rabbi Shalom Rubashkin - Crown Heights.
His daughter, wife of Rabbi Shmuel Gronam Schneersohn - Los Angeles.
He also left behind his brother Yavdalaht and sister:
Rabbi Ben Zion Wiszczy - Director of the Yiddish Room of Ahelei Torah, Kfar Chabad
Mrs. Sarah Zakles Nachalat Har Chabad
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