Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum
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Hebrew calendar
The Hebrew calendar , or Jewish calendar, is a lunisolar calendar used today predominantly for Jewish religious observances. It determines the dates for Jewish holidays and the appropriate public reading of Torah portions, yahrzeits , and daily Psalm reading, among many ceremonial uses...
), the Sigheter
Siget (Hasidic dynasty)
Siget or Ujhel-Siget or Sighet Hasidism or Sigter Hasidim is a movement of Hungarian Haredi Jews who adhere to Hasidism, and who are referred to as Sigeter Hasidim....
Rebbe
Rebbe
Rebbe , which means master, teacher, or mentor, is a Yiddish word derived from the Hebrew word Rabbi. It often refers to the leader of a Hasidic Jewish movement...
, author of Atzei Chaim, was the oldest son of Rabbi Chananyah Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum
Chananyah Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum
Rabbi Chanayah Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum was the Grand Rebbe of Siget. He was the author of Kedushath Yom Tov, a Hasidic commentary on the Torah...
the Kedushas Yom Tov. He was the elder brother of Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum
Joel Teitelbaum
Joel Teitelbaum, known as Reb Yoelish or the Satmar Rav , was a prominent Hungarian Hasidic rebbe and Talmudic scholar. He was probably the best known Haredi opponent of all forms of modern political Zionism...
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Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum married Bracha Sima Halberstam, a sister of Rebbitzen Chaya Freidel Halberstam, who was the wife of Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam, the second Bobover Rebbe. Together they had four children. One was Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum, the late Satmar
Satmar (Hasidic dynasty)
Satmar is a Hasidic movement comprising mostly Hungarian and Romanian Hasidic Jewish Holocaust survivors and their descendants. It was founded and led by the late Hungarian-born Grand Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum , who was the rabbi of Szatmárnémeti, Hungary...
Rebbe. Another was Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Teitelbaum, who succeeded him as Sigheter Rebbe until he died in the Holocaust. One daughter married Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam
Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam
Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam was an Orthodox rabbi and the founding rebbe of the Sanz-Klausenburg Hasidic dynasty....
, Sanz-Klausenburg'er Rebbe, but also died in the Holocaust. Their youngest daughter, Chana, married Rabbi Yechiel Yehuda Isaacson, who was known as the Rav of Achuza-Haifa
Haifa
Haifa is the largest city in northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country, with a population of over 268,000. Another 300,000 people live in towns directly adjacent to the city including the cities of the Krayot, as well as, Tirat Carmel, Daliyat al-Karmel and Nesher...
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Works
- Atzei Chaim - a HasidicHasidic JudaismHasidic Judaism or Hasidism, from the Hebrew —Ḥasidut in Sephardi, Chasidus in Ashkenazi, meaning "piety" , is a branch of Orthodox Judaism that promotes spirituality and joy through the popularisation and internalisation of Jewish mysticism as the fundamental aspects of the Jewish faith...
commentary on the TorahTorahTorah- A scroll containing the first five books of the BibleThe Torah , is name given by Jews to the first five books of the bible—Genesis , Exodus , Leviticus , Numbers and Deuteronomy Torah- A scroll containing the first five books of the BibleThe Torah , is name given by Jews to the first five...
. - Atzei Chaim - commentary on moadim
- Atzei Chaim - commentary on meshechtes Gittin
- Atzei Chaim - Shalios utshovos responsa
- Atzei Chaim - commentary on hilchos mikvahos
- Kuntres Zichron Zvi - on seder Breshis from the notes of his student Rabbi mordechi Wulliger (Lakewood 2006 by Mechon Magid Mordechi)
- Atzei Chaim- commentary on Tehilem
Students
- Rabbi Shlomo Zalmen Friedman, rabbi of Tenke (Hungary and later in Brooklyn, New York)
- Rabbi Mordechi Wulliger author of many books including - Otzer Hashas Kovetz Hatosfes Pardes Mordechi.
- Rabbi David Hoch.
- Rabbi Chaim Shmuel Kleinman.
- Rabbi Avroham Yosef Kleinman.