Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum | |
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Sigeter Rebbe | |
Term | September, 1883 – 15 February 1904 |
Full name | Chananya Yomtov Lipa |
Main work | Kedushath Yom Tov |
Born | 22 May 1836 Stropkov |
Predecessor | Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum |
Successor | Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum |
Father | Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum |
Mother | Ruchl Ashkenazi |
Children 2 | Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum Joel 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.
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.