The Tetsh

Hasidic dynasty A Hasidic dynasty is a dynasty led by Hasidic Jewish spiritual leaders known as rebbes, and usually has some or all of the following characteristics: * Each leader of the dynasty is often known as an ''ADMOR'' (abbreviation for '' ADoneinu MOreinu ...

is a branch of the Ujhel-Siget Hasidic dynasty founded by Rabbi

Moshe Teitelbaum Moshe Teitelbaum may refer to: * Moshe Teitelbaum (Ujhel) (1759–1841), Hasidic Rebbe * Moshe Teitelbaum (Satmar) Moshe (Moses) Teitelbaum (Yiddish: משה טײטלבױם; November 1, 1914 – April 24, 2006) was a Hasidic rebbe and the w ...

(1759–1841), Rabbi of

Sátoraljaújhely Sátoraljaújhely (; archaic german: Neustadt am Zeltberg ; sk, Nové Mesto pod Šiatrom; yi, איהעל, Ihel, or ) is a town located in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county in northern Hungary along the Slovak border. It is east from the county ...

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, who was a disciple of the Polish Hasidic leader Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin (the Chozeh of Lublin). Rabbi

Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum Chanayah Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum (22 May 1836 – 15 February 1904)Yizhak Raphael, Shalom Hayim Parush, Yitshak Alfasi. ''Entsiklopedyah la-Hasidut''. Mosad ha-Rav Kuk (1980). OCLC 13175627. p. 20. was the Grand Rebbe of Siget, and the autho ...

(author of ''Kedushas Yom Tov''), a great-grandson of the founder of the Siget dynasty, was also the Rabbi in the town of Tetsh (then Técső, now Tyachiv, Ukraine). After assuming his father Rabbi

Zalman Leib Teitelbaum Yekusiel Yehuda III Teitelbaum, known by the Yiddish colloquial name Rav Zalman Leib (born 23 December 1951),Arye Ehrlich. Malkhut shel Khesed'. Mishpacha, 13 December 2012 (p. 28). is one of two Grand Rebbes of Satmar, and the son of Grand Ra ...

's position in Siget ( Sighetu Marmaţiei, Romania), and continuing the main branch of the Siget dynasty, his brother, Rabbi Elya Betzalel Teitelbaum, formerly rabbi of Polien-Ruskova (also called Havasmező), became the rabbi of Tetsh. Rabbi Chaim Teitelbaum, Rabbi Elya Betzalel's son, succeeded him as

Rebbe A Rebbe ( yi, רבי, translit=rebe) or Admor ( he, אדמו״ר) is the spiritual leader in the Hasidic movement, and the personalities of its dynasties.Heilman, Samuel"The Rebbe and the Resurgence of Orthodox Judaism."''Religion and Spiritu ...

there until his death in the

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...

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