It is with great sadness that Matzav.comreports the passing of Rav Shalom Meir HaKohein Wallach zt”l, a renowned maggid meisharim and prolific author from Bnei Brak, who was niftar on Motzaei Shabbos after a prolonged illness. He was 78.

Rav Wallach was born in southern Tel Aviv on Sukkos 5708 to his father, Reb Mordechai HaKohein Wallach z”l, a Vizhnitzer chossid. In his youth, he learned in Yeshivas Slabodka in Bnei Brak.

After his marriage, while continuing his learning in kollel, he began developing his unique voice in Torah literature. With the founding of the newspaper Yated Ne’eman by Rav Elazar Menachem Shach zt”l, Rav Wallach was invited to serve as editor of its Torah supplement, where he helped shape a new style of Torah writing.

Over the years, his name became a fixture in Jewish homes through the hundreds of seforim he authored, spanning all segments of the chareidi world. With unusual talent, he bridged different communities, writing about the gedolim of both the Litvishe and chassidishe worlds, as well as producing well-known series dedicated to the heritage of Sephardic Jewry.

His works became widely popular and helped transform the landscape of Jewish storytelling. He was especially known for his haggados, publishing a new one each year that gathered the teachings of gedolei hadoros.

Alongside his vast literary output, he served for decades as the rov of the central shul in Shikun Gimmel in Bnei Brak. Residents recall a warm and radiant figure, a talmid chochom whose door was always open to those in need, and whose derashos—woven with stories and parables—drew large crowds eager to hear words of Torah.

He is survived by a distinguished family, with children and grandchildren following in the path of Torah and mitzvos.

The levayah was held last night at his home at 10 Rav Ami Street in Bnei Brak. The procession passed by his beis medrash at 74 Chazon Ish Street in Shikun Gimmel on its way to the Vizhnitzer cemetery in the city for kevurah.

Tehei nishmaso tzerurah b’tzror hachaim.