Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum (December 28, 1879 – January 21, 1926) (''6 shevat 5686'' on the

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), the Sigheter

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, author of ''Atzei Chaim'', was the oldest son of Rabbi

Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum 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 autho ...

, the ''Kedushas Yom Tov''. He was the elder brother of Rabbi

Joel Teitelbaum Joel Teitelbaum ( yi, יואל טייטלבוים, translit=Yoyl Teytlboym, ; 13 January 1887 – 19 August 1979) was the founder and first Grand Rebbe of the Satmar dynasty. A major figure in the post-war renaissance of Hasidism, he espoused a ...

, and the father of

Moshe Teitelbaum Moshe Teitelbaum may refer to: * Moshe Teitelbaum (Ujhel) (1759–1841), Hasidic Rebbe * Moshe Teitelbaum (Satmar) Moshe (Moses) Teitelbaum (Yiddish: משה טײטלבױם; November 1, 1914 – April 24, 2006) was a Hasidic rebbe and the w ...

, both rebbes of Satmar.

Biography

Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum married Bracha Sima Halberstam, a sister of '' Rebbitzen'' Chaya Freidel Halberstam, who was the wife of Rabbi

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, the second Bobover Rebbe. Together, they had four children. One was Rabbi

, the late Satmar Rebbe. Another was Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Teitelbaum, who succeeded him as Sigheter Rebbe until he was murdered in the

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. One daughter married Rabbi

Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam (January 10, 1905 – June 18, 1994) was an Orthodox rabbi and the founding rebbe of the Sanz-Klausenburg Hasidic dynasty. Halberstam was one of the youngest rebbes in Europe, leading thousands of followers in the ...

, the Sanz-Klausenburg'er Rebbe, but she also was murdered in the Holocaust. Their youngest daughter, Chana, married Rabbi

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, who was known as the Rav of Achuza-

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Works

*''Atzei Chaim'' – a

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commentary on the

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*''Atzei Chaim'' – commentary on moadim * ''Atzei Chaim'' – commentary on meshechtes Gittin * ''Atzei Chaim'' – Shalios utshovos responsa * ''Atzei Chaim'' – commentary on hilchos mikvahos * ''Atzei Chaim'' – commentary on Tehilem

Students

*Rabbi Shlomo Zalmen Friedman, Rabbi of Tenke (Hungary, and later in Brooklyn, New York) *Rabbi Mordechai Wulliger, author of many books, including �
Otzer HashasKovetz HatosfesPardes MordechaiTefillos Mordechai
* Rabbi David Hoch * Rabbi Chaim Shmuel Kleinman * Rabbi Avrohom Yosef Kleinman

References

1879 births 1926 deaths Hungarian Hasidic rabbis Rebbes of Siget Teitelbaum family {{Hasidic-Judaism-stub