Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum

Chananya 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]

Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum
Title	Sigeter Rebbe
Personal life
Born	Chananya Yomtov Lipa 22 May 1836 Sztropkó
Children	Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum Joel Teitelbaum
Parents	Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum (father) Ruchl Ashkenazi (mother)
Religious life
Religion	Judaism
Jewish leader
Predecessor	Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum
Successor	Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum

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 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.^[2]

References

1. Yizhak Raphael, Shalom Hayim Parush, Yitshak Alfasi. Entsiklopedyah la-Hasidut. Mosad ha-Rav Kuk (1980). OCLC 13175627. p. 20.
2. Rubinstein, Avraham (2007). "Teitelbaum". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 19 (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. pp. 582–583. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.