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of Siget, and the author of ''Kedushath Yom Tov'', a

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commentary on the

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he wrote in 1895.

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

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. He served as rabbi at

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, 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

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, before he became the Rebbe of the Satmar Hasidic community.

References

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