Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum

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Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum
TitleSigeter Rebbe
Personal
Born
Chananya Yomtov Lipa

22 May 1836
ReligionJudaism
ChildrenChaim Tzvi Teitelbaum
Joel Teitelbaum
Parents
Jewish leader
PredecessorYekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum
SuccessorChaim Tzvi Teitelbaum
BeganSeptember, 1883
Ended15 February 1904
Main workKedushath Yom Tov

Chanayah Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum (22 May 1836 – 15 February 1904)[1] was the Grand Rebbe of Siget, and the author of Kedushath Yom Tov, a Hasidic commentary on the Torah he wrote in 1895.[2]

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. He served as rabbi at Técső, before he went to Sighet after his father's death in 1883.[2]

He had two sons: Rabbi

Satmar Hasidic community.[2]

References

  1. ^ Yizhak Raphael, Shalom Hayim Parush, Yitshak Alfasi. Entsiklopedyah la-Hasidut. Mosad ha-Rav Kuk (1980). OCLC 13175627. p. 20.
  2. ^ .