Seder Olam Rabbah – Warsaw, 1904 – Copy of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar

Seder Olam Rabbah – Warsaw, 1904 – Copy of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar

Seder Olam by the Tanna Rabbi Yosi son of Chalafta, with commentary and glosses from R. Yaakov Emden, the Vilna Gaon, and Meir Ayin by R. Yerucham Meir Leiner of Radzyń. Warsaw: Shimon Ber Landau, 1904.

Copy of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar. On the last leaf is the Rebbe's stamp from his tenure as Av Beit Din of Carei: "Yoel Teitelbaum, Av Beit Din of Carei and the region".

Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887-1979) was the youngest son of Rebbe Chananya Yom Tov Lipa, the Kedushat Yom Tov (1836-1904), and grandson of Rebbe Yekutiel Yehuda, the Yitav Lev (1808-1883), who both served as rabbis of Sighet (Sighetu Marmației) and were leaders of Chassidic Jewry in the Maramureș region. He was renowned from his youth as a leading Torah scholar of his generation, for his perspicacity and intellectual capacities, as well as for his holiness and outstanding purity. At a young age, he was appointed rabbi of Irshava. In 1925, he was appointed rabbi of Karoly (Carei; in place of R. Shaul Brach who went to serve as rabbi of Kashoi), and in 1934, of Satmar (Satu Mare). In all the places he served as rabbi, he also maintained a large yeshiva and Chassidic court. He stood at the helm of the faithful, uncompromising Orthodox Jewry in the Maramureș region. He was one of the founding pillars of the Torah world in the generation following the Holocaust. After surviving the Holocaust, he emigrated to the United States, where he established the Satmar Chassidic community. He served as president of the Eda HaCharedit in Jerusalem, and as leader of Orthodox Jewry in the United States and throughout the world. His writings were published in dozens of books: VaYoel Moshe, Responsa Divrei Yoel, Divrei Yoel on the Torah and more.

[2], 3, IV-XVIII, 46 leaves. 21.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and light wear. Stamps. New leather binding.