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Rabbi Joel (Yoel) Teitelbaum, (born 1887, died August 19, 1979), known as Reb Yoelish or the Satmar Rav (or Rebbe), was a prominent Hungarian Hasidic rebbe and Talmudic scholar. He was probably the best known Haredi opponent of all forms of modern political Zionism. But his opposition to Zionism was only part of a much wider approach to Judaism that revivified many Hungarian and Transylvanian Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and led to a renaissance of the 'Ungarish' (Hungary-originated) Hasidic community.
R. Dovid Jungreis was the Rosh Av Beis Din Yerushalayim (1898-1971).In 1931, at the age of 33, he was appointed dayan in the Eidah HaChareidis' beis din, joining R. Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld. His knowledge was so vast, the Satmar Rav
once said, "If Rav Dovid is here, I don't need any sefer." Rav Dovid's insightful drashos were compiled by his students into a sefer, entitled Or Dovid. |
