Henya Tova Feig

Henya Tova Feig was a member of the Vizhnitz Monsey Hasidic community in Monsey, New York, best known as the wife of Rabbi Mordechai Yisroel Feig, the longtime personal attendant, or gabbai, to the Vizhnitz Monsey Rebbe. She died on Saturday night, November 14 into November 15, 2026, known in the Hasidic calendar as Motzaei Shabbos, after years of severe illness. She was 67.

Mrs. Feig was born into a family with deep ties to the Vizhnitz Monsey court. Her father, Reb Yaakov (Yankel) Rosenfeld, served as gabbai to the previous Vizhnitzer Rebbe, placing her among the inner circle of the community from birth. Her brother, Rabbi Yehuda Yoel Rosenfeld, is a well known philanthropist within the Vizhnitz Monsey community, and her late sister was married to Rabbi Yosef Gruber, the mashgiach, or spiritual supervisor, of the Vizhnitz Monsey yeshiva.

She married Rabbi Mordechai Yisroel Feig, who went on to become a central figure in the daily workings of the Vizhnitz Monsey court. He has long been responsible for writing the kvitlach, the written petitions that followers submit to the Rebbe for blessing, a role that placed him, and by extension his household, at the heart of the community's religious life for decades. He continues to serve in that capacity today, under the current Vizhnitz Monsey Rebbe.

Within the close knit world of Vizhnitz Monsey, Mrs. Feig was known as the wife of a man who stood in the Rebbe's inner circle, and her family's generations long service to successive Vizhnitzer Rebbes gave her standing in the community in her own right. She was not a public figure in the secular sense and left no public record of statements, writings, or appearances outside the Hasidic press that covered her passing.

News of her death was reported by Hasidic and Orthodox Jewish outlets including Monsey Scoop and JFeed, which described her as having endured years of severe illness before she died. Her death prompted expressions of mourning within the Vizhnitz Monsey community, where she and her husband were well known figures.