Chanayah Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum (22 May 1836 – 15 February 1904)
[Yizhak Raphael, Shalom Hayim Parush, Yitshak Alfasi. ''Entsiklopedyah la-Hasidut''. Mosad ha-Rav Kuk (1980). OCLC 13175627. p. 20.] was the Grand
Rebbe of
Siget, and the author of ''Kedushath Yom Tov'', a
Hasidic
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commentary on the
Torah he wrote in 1895.
Biography
Rabbi Teitelbaum was born in
Sztropkó, the son of Rabbi
Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum of
Máramarossziget, the ''Yeitev Lev'', and Ruchl Ashkenazi, the daughter of Rabbi Moshe Dovid Ashkenazi of
Tolcsva ez maga Zsombibacsi uradalma
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Notable residents
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. He served as rabbi at
Técső, before he went to Sighet after his father's death in 1883.
He had two sons: Rabbi
Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum, the author of ''Atzei Chaim''; and Rabbi
Joel Teitelbaum, author of ''Divrei Yoel'' and ''VaYoel Moshe'', who was the rabbi of
Satmar, before he became the Rebbe of the
Satmar Hasidic community.
References
Rebbes of Siget
1836 births
1904 deaths
Teitelbaum family
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