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“Yismach Moshe” (1841)

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Tammuz 28 is the yahrzeit of Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum (1759-1841) of Uhely, Hungary, author of Yismach Moshe and patriarch of the Hungarian Chassidic dynasties.
” After his daughter married the Aryeh D’Bei Ila’i Rav Aryeh Leib Lipshitz he noticed strange behavior by his new son-in-law.  When he realized that Rav Aryeh Leib was a chosid he admonished him for his ways.  Rav Aryeh Leib agreed to give up chasidus if the Yismach Moshe would travel with him to visit the Chozeh of Lublin, his rebbe, just once.  The rest as they say is history.  The Yismach Moshe not only left his son-in-law alone, he himself became a chosid of the Chozeh and a rebbe to thousands with his base in Uyhel, founding the great Sighet-Satmar dynasty.
Aside from the sefer Yismach Moshe, his other seforim include Shailos UTshuvos Heishiv Moshe and Tefila L’Moshe on Tehilim.  His descendants include his grandson the Yeitiv Lev, as well as the Kedushas Yom Tov, and his two sons the Atzei Chaim of Sighet and the VaYoel Moshe of Satmar.  The Yismach Moshe was niftar on 28 Tammuz 5601/1841.  Yehi Zichro Boruch! “ more@Revach.com

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