Chaim Yosef Gottlieb of Stropkov

Chaim Yosef Gottlieb of Stropkov (1794 March 11, 1867

Upon completing his studies in 1813, he married Breindel, the daughter of Myir of Tarcal, Hungary. The rabbi at that time in Tarcal was the author of Mareh Yechezkel, who later served as rabbi of Karlsburg, and he appointed him to learn with some of his disciples, and his own children. In 1823 he was appointed Dayan and teacher in the town of his birth, Tertzal, Hungary and sometime later also as rabbi, where he studied with his brother-in-law Rabbi Mordechai Ciment, and wrote extensively about Jewish law and Kabbalah. In 1841, after the author of Yeitev Lev left the rabbinate of Stropkov for Satoraljaujhely, Hungary, he was appointed chief rabbi and head of the Bet Din of Stropkov in 1847 at the recommendation of Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz. Chaim Yosef died on Monday, 4 Adar II, 5627 / 11 March 1867 and is buried in the Tisinec cemetery.

There is a school in Jerusalem named after him called Yeshivas Rabbenu Chaim Yosef. They published a book which lists all his descendants, called Sefer Hayachas.

Notes and references

The Rabbis of Stropkov Stropkov Memorial Book Arthur Kurzweil: How I discovered my Rabbinical Ancestry