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Zohar of the Teitelbaum Rebbe Dynasty Vilna, 1894
Zohar of the Teitelbaum Rebbe Dynasty
Vilna, 1894
The Zohar. Personal set of the Admor Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum of Sighet, author of Atzei Chaim.
The set later passed by inheritance to his sons, Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum and Rabbi Meshulam Zusha Teitelbaum.
There is also a signature that appears to be that of the Kedushas Yom Tov. Since it is written in faint pencil, however, it cannot be identified with certainty.
Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum, Author of Atzei Chaim
On the front flyleaf of the Bereishis volume appears the following handwritten ownership inscription:
“This holy sefer Zohar belongs to the great Gaon, the illustrious luminary, the holy and saintly Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum, shlita.”
An additional ownership inscription appears on the inside cover of the Shemos volume:
“This sefer Zohar belongs to the distinguished and brilliant Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum.”
Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum
A later inscription on the same leaf reads:
“This sefer belongs to the famous holy Rebbe and righteous Gaon… Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum, son of the holy Gaon, our master the author of Atzei Chaim, zt”l, grandson of the holy elder Rabbi Chananya Yom Tov Lipa, son of the holy gaon raban shel kol bnei hagolah, maran the Yitav Lev.”
Rabbi Meshulam Zusha Teitelbaum
All three title pages bear the ownership stamp of his son, Rabbi Meshulam Zusha Teitelbaum, Hy"d.
The Admor Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum of Sighet, author of Atzei Chaim (1880–1926), was born to Rabbi Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum, author of Kedushas Yom Tov, grandson of the Yitav Lev, and a descendant of the Yismach Moshe. He married the daughter of Rabbi Shalom Eliezer Halberstam of Ratzfert, son of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz, and was the elder brother of Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar.
He became Rebbe at only twenty-four years of age and led thousands of chassidim with remarkable leadership.
Throughout his life, he faced physical illness and frailty but drew on his profound spiritual strength to combat the challenges of modernism and maintain spiritual sanctity in Hungary. He passed away suddenly from a hemorrhage in 1926, at the young age of 46. His son-in-law was the Sanz-Klausenburg Rebbe, author of Shefa Chaim and his son is the Satmar Rebbe, author of Beirach Moshe, father of the present Satmar Rebbes.
The Admor Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda (Zalman Leib) Teitelbaum, Av Beis Din of Sighet and its district (1912–1944), was the last Rebbe of the Sighet dynasty before the Holocaust. The son of the Atzei Chaim, his first wife was the daughter of his uncle, Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar, and after her passing, he married the daughter of his uncle Rabbi Zusha, son of Rabbi Shalom Eliezer Halberstam of Ratzfert.
From a young age, he was renowned for his holiness and purity. He was orphaned of his father at the young age of fourteen in 1926, and was immediately appointed to succeed him. Already at the funeral, Rabbi Shaul Brach presented him with a kvittel. Despite his young age, he led the community with exceptional wisdom and leadership and was known for his inspiring drashos.
During the Holocaust, he inspired his chassidim to remain strong in their faith and sacrifice themselves al kiddush Hashem. On the 25th of Iyar 1944, he arrived in Auschwitz leading his community, and ascended heavenward in sanctity and purity.
Regarding the holy bachur
Rabbi Meshulam Zusha Teitelbaum, Hy"d, son of the Atzei Chaim, the following is written in the sefer U’Moshe Hayah Ro’eh (vol. I, p. 72):
“Reb Meshulam Zusha was still very young when his father, the Atzei Chaim, passed away. He was an exceptionally refined chassidishe young man with a brilliant future ahead of him, a precious scion of the holy Teitelbaum family. He possessed an exceptionally sharp mind. Tragically, he was killed while still unmarried during the war, sanctifying Hashem’s Name.
The Beirach Moshe would often speak with great admiration about his younger brother, Zushele, expressing deep appreciation for his exceptional intelligence.”
(See there regarding the Megillas Esther that he inherited from his father, the Atzei Chaim. The drasha delivered by the Atzei Chaim at his bris was later printed in Imrei Chaim (Lerner), p. 268.)
Vilna, 1894.
Page Count: Bereishis: [3] leaves, 8 pages, [1], 267 leaves. Shemos: [1], 278 leaves. Vayikrah–Devarim: [1], 309, [8] leaves.
Size: 23.5 cm.
Condition: The stamp of Rabbi Meshulam Zusha is fully preserved on the title page of the Vayikrah volume, while only partial impressions remain on the title pages of Bereishis and Shemos. Wear and tears to the title pages and several individual leaves. Preserved in a new protective case.
This set of Zohar remained together for many years with the following group of sefarim, all of which arrived from Sighet after the Holocaust. We have therefore chosen to keep them together, despite their modest monetary value:
1.
Bnei Yissachar – Lemberg, 1868-Piotrków, 1884. Ownership stamp of Rabbi [Shm]uel? Michel Teitelbaum, possibly Rabbi Yechiel Michel Teitelbaum, son of the Etzei Chaim, who perished as a youth in the Holocaust. See U’Mosheh Hayah Ro’eh, vol. I, p. 77.
Bnei Yissachar – Lemberg, 1868-Piotrków, 1884. Ownership stamp of Rabbi [Shm]uel? Michel Teitelbaum, possibly Rabbi Yechiel Michel Teitelbaum, son of the Etzei Chaim, who perished as a youth in the Holocaust. See U’Mosheh Hayah Ro’eh, vol. I, p. 77.
2. Shem HaGedolim (Warsaw, 1902), bearing the signature and stamp of Rabbi Meshulam Zusha Teitelbaum, together with the stamp of the miracle worker
Rabbi Yaakov Shalom Rosenfeld of Charde, near Sighet, who later settled in Sighet.
Rabbi Yaakov Shalom Rosenfeld of Charde, near Sighet, who later settled in Sighet.
3. Midbar Kedmos (Piotrków, 1929), bearing the stamps of
Rabbi Ben Zion Hager of Sighet, Hy"d, son of Rabbi Pinchas of Borsha. Bound together with Divrei Yehonasan (Tarnów, 1928), likewise bearing his stamp.
Rabbi Ben Zion Hager of Sighet, Hy"d, son of Rabbi Pinchas of Borsha. Bound together with Divrei Yehonasan (Tarnów, 1928), likewise bearing his stamp.
4. Pri Megadim, Orach Chaim (Lemberg, 1873), with the stamp of the beis medrash of the prominent chassid
Rabbi Kalman Kahana of Sighet, a follower of the Rebbes of Sanz and Shinova. The Shinover Rebbe stayed in his home while visiting Sighet and conducted the Seudah of Reva d’Revin there.
Rabbi Kalman Kahana of Sighet, a follower of the Rebbes of Sanz and Shinova. The Shinover Rebbe stayed in his home while visiting Sighet and conducted the Seudah of Reva d’Revin there.
5. Shelah HaKadosh, Part III (place and date of publication are missing), bearing the stamp of the Vizhnitz kloiz in Sighet.
6. Mishneh Torah of the Rambam (Berlin, 1880). Three parts bound in one volume, bearing the stamp of the Sighet Young Men’s Society and a Sighet bookseller.
7. Mishneh Torah of the Rambam (Warsaw, 1881), in an antique red leather binding, bearing an ownership stamp in Latin script from Sighet.
