Full name Chananya Yomtov Lipa Name Chananya Tov | Main work Kedushath Yom Tov | |
Term September, 1883 – 15 February 1904 Father Yekusiel Yehudah Teitelbaum Died February 15, 1904, Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania Children Joel Teitelbaum, Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum Parents Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum, Yekusiel Yehudah Teitelbaum Grandchildren Moshe Teitelbaum, Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum | ||
Grandparents Elozor Nison Teitelbaum Great grandchildren Aaron Teitelbaum | ||
Chanayah Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum (22 May 1836 – 15 February 1904) was the Grand Rebbe of Siget and the author of Kedushath Yom Tov, a Hasidic commentary on the Torah he wrote in 1895.
Biography
Rabbi Teitelbaum was born in Stropkov, the son of Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum of Sighet, 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.
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
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