Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum (I)

Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum
Sigeter Rebbe
The headstones over the graves of Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum and his wife in Sighet
Term	1858–1883
Full name	Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum
Main work	Yetev Lev
Buried	Sighet
Predecessor	Elozor Nison Teitelbaum
Successor	Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum
Father	Elozor Nison Teitelbaum
Wife	Ruchl Ashkenazi
Children	Avrohom Aharon Chananya Yomtov Lipa Moshe Yosef Elya Btzalel three daughters

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.

He was the son of Rabbi Elazar Nison Teitelbaum, rabbi of Drubitsh, who was the son of the Yismach Moshe (Moshe Teitelbaum).

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.

Yekusiel Yehuda Tetelbaum married Ruchl, a daughter of Rabbi Moshe Dovid Ashkenazi of Tolcsva 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.