Person · 5640–5686 AM · 1880 CE — 1926 CE

Atzei Chaim—Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum of Sighet עצי חיים — רבי חיים צבי טייטלבוים מסיגט

the fourth rebbe of Sighet; father of Rabbi Moshe, the Satmar Rebbe

The elder son of Rabbi Chananya Yom Tov Lipa. He took the rabbinate and court of Sighet in 1904; his younger brother, Rabbi Yoel, was then still a youth and later settled in Satmar.

The court. Under him Sighet remained the chief court of Maramureș: a yeshiva, a rabbinical court, thousands of chasidim. His talks were published as the Atzei Chaim.

Sons. He died young, on 6 Shevat 5686 (1926). Sighet was taken by his son Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda, who perished in the Shoah; another son, Rabbi Moshe, survived, led Sighet in America, and in 1979 took Satmar after his uncle.

On the timeline

5537 · 1777 CEThe courts of Galicia, Bukovina and Hungary: Ruzhin, Belz, Sanz, Satmar 5674 · 1914 CEThe First World War

Places

Ujhely and Satmar Sighet

Kedushas Yom Tov—Rabbi Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum of Sighet Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum of Satmar—the Berach Moshe

Sources

Acharonim and later rabbinic literature

Atzei Chaim — his teaching
The traditions of the houses of Sighet and Satmar — the succession of Sighet and Satmar

Scholarship

Reference works on the chasidic courts of Hungary — the dates

Basis: documents and evidence.