Term 1858–1883 Role I Main work Yetev Lev Died 1883 | Buried Sighet Parents Elozor Nison Teitelbaum Name Yekusiel Teitelbaum | |
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Full name Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum Predecessor Elozor Nison Teitelbaum Successor Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum Place of burial Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania Children Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum Grandchildren Joel Teitelbaum, Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum Great grandchildren Moshe Teitelbaum, Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum | ||
The headstones over the graves of rabbi yekusiel yehuda teitelbaum and his wife in sighet
Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum (1808–1883), known as the Yetev Lev (Hebrew: ייטב לב) pronounced Yitev Lev by many, based on the two Yuds of his initials), was a Hasidic Rebbe in Austria-Hungary.
Contents
- The headstones over the graves of rabbi yekusiel yehuda teitelbaum and his wife in sighet
- Early life and education
- Career
- Family life
- Teachings and published works
- References
Early life and education
He was the son of Rabbi Elazar Nison Teitelbaum, rabbi of Drubitsh, who was the son of the Yismach Moshe (Moshe Teitelbaum).
Career
After his studies, Yekusiel Yehuda, also known by his Yiddish equivalent names as Zalman Leib, was appointed as the rabbi of Stropkov (1833). He moved to Ujhely (1841) and then to Drubitsh (1856). When the Jewish community in the city of Sighet, Hungary, was looking for a new rabbi, he was invited by the heads of the community and was appointed to that post in 1858. He also served as a hasidic rebbe and became known as the rebbe of Siget.
Family life
Yekusiel Yehuda Tetelbaum married Ruchl, a daughter of Rabbi Moshe Dovid Ashkenazi of Toltsva and his wife. Their sons were Chananya Yomtov Lipa, author of Kedishas Yomtov, who succeeded his father in Siget; Avrohom Aharon, who became the rabbi of Kolbasov; Moshe Yosef, the rabbi of Ujhel; and Eliyohu Betsalel, rabbi of Tetsh (Tyachiv, Ukraine) (see: Tetsh (Hasidic dynasty)). Yekusiel and Ruchl Teitelbaum also had three daughters.
Among the descendants of Yekusiel and Ruchl was their grandson Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, the rebbe of Satmar, who emigrated to the United States after the Holocaust.
Reb Boruch of Gorlitz, son of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz, married one of their daughters. A great-grandson of Teitelbaum's from that marriage was Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam of Klausenberg.
Teachings and published works
Yekusiel Yehuda was the author of Yetev Lev, a Hasidic commentary on the Torah, which he originally published anonymously; Yetev Ponim on the Jewish holidays, and the responsa Avnei Tsedek and Rav Tuv.