A Hasidic dad from Brooklyn whose body was dismembered and dumped by Colombian thugs was in South America to meet a potential new wife, a close pal told The Post.
Nachum Israel Eber, 51, a member of the Boro Park Belz Hasidic community, was found dismembered inside a bloody wardrobe that was dumped on a street in Bogota on Sunday.
Colombian authorities and media mistook the visitor from the Big Apple as a rabbi — though his friends say he was not.
“It’s a terrible tragedy,” close friend Motti Dresdner said on Thursday.
“A person, a gentleman in his prime. He was always talking about his future, how he was going to get remarried and find a perfect bride, and have a beautiful life. And to be cut off like this is very sad.”
Dresdner said Eber, a divorced dad, was a developer who also worked as a plumber and had found a possible new wife in the Hasidic community in Bogota, and traveled there to meet her.
Eber was captured on haunting surveillance video leaving his Airbnb in the Colombian capital around 9 p.m. on April 21 — then disappeared without a trace.
Days later, bystanders reported seeing the bloody wardrobe on the other side of the city, which was later confirmed by authorities as Eber.
Police have not determined a motive for the grisly slaying, but believe he may have been targeted by violent gangs that thrive on robbing tourists.
Eber’s family is now making arrangements to bring his body home for burial.
“He wouldn’t hurt a fly,” Dresdner said.
“He was always kind, always with a smile. He always spoke positively. In his hardest times, he would always talk about how things are going to work out for the best, he makes the best of everything. He always tried to make lemonade out of lemons.
“The community is devastated, the community is in shock, how a person goes there just to take care of personal business and end up like this,” he added. “It just makes everything feel unstable.”
Officials at the US Embassy in Bogota did not immediately respond to request for comment.
