Official document, Kihirdetése Bizonyítvány – declaration regarding marriage of a Jewish couple. Sztropkó, August 5, 1886. Hungarian.

The document is signed by R. Moshe Yosef Teitelbaum of Ujhel during his tenure as Av Beit Din of Sztropkó and the region. In the margins of the document appear his signature (in Latin characters): "Teitelbaum M. J", and his official stamp (in Hebrew): "Moshe Yosef Teitelbaum, Av Beit Din of Sztropkó".

R. Moshe Yosef Teitelbaum of Ujhel (Sátoraljaújhely, 1845-1897), son of the Yitav Lev of Sighet (grandson of the Yismach Moshe of Ujhel) and son-in-law of Rebbe David Halberstam, Av Beit Din of Chrzanów (son of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz). He was a member of the household of his grandfather-in-law, the Divrei Chaim of Sanz, for some years, where he rose in Torah and service of God, and was a sharp Torah scholar in his Beit Midrash. At that time, he served as dean of the yeshiva for youth in Sanz together with two grandsons of the Divrei Chaim – Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam of Bobov (the first), and Rebbe Moshe Halberstam of Bardejov. R. Moshe Yosef was later appointed Rabbi of Zborov, and in 1880 he was appointed Rabbi of Sztropkó. In 1892 he was accepted as Rabbi of the "Sephardic Community" in Ujhel, where his grandfather the Yismach Moshe had previously served. R. Moshe Yosef was known for his fiery sermons and golden tongue motivating his listeners to repent. Some of his disciples in Ujhel later gained fame as great Hungarian rabbis, including R. Shaul Brach, Av Beit Din of Košice and R. Yehoshua Buxbaum, Av Beit Din of Galanta. After his passing, his son R. Berechiah Teitelbaum was appointed in his place as Rabbi of Ujhel, and after him his son-in-law R. David Dov Meisels, author of Binyan David. R. Moshe Yosef is mentioned several times in Responsa Avnei Tzedek by his father the Yitav Lev. He left behind many works that were not printed. His book Milei DeMeitav was printed posthumously.

[1] double leaf. Approx. 34 cm. Good condition. Folds. Tears on folds. Creases and light wear.