Rabbi Yehuda Tzvi Steiner
יהודה צבי ב"ר משה
Brother of Rebbe Shayele KerestirerDate of Death:
Mon. May 15, 1916 -
Iyar 12 5676
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Directions to Kever: Baron Hirsch Cemetery in Staten Island maintains computerized records and will provide a detailed location map upon request. The cemetery is in extreme disarray with poorly paved roads, missing signs, and countless overturned tombstones. Exercise caution when visiting especially after office hours. Should an actual emergency occur call 911 or Staten Island Shomrim Safety Patrol: 718-370-2121. Location: Avenue A to 2nd Street, it's along the road on Avenue C on the right side. Section: 18, Society: Hungarian Brotherly Love Yehuda Yorkville
Name Listed on Cemetery Database: Herman Steiner
Biographical Notes:
Bio Information:
Rabbi Yehuda Tzvi Steiner was born c.1850 (or c.1842) which would make him Rebbe Shayala’s older brother who was born in 1851. He arrived on these shores from Hungary in 1891 and settled in New York City where he supplied Judaica items (Tefillin, Matzo, Esrogim est.) imported from Europe.
Photo Caption: Rabbi Yehuda Tzvi’s brother, Rebbe Yeshaya Steiner, better known as Rebbe Shayele Kerestirer, d. 1925
Photo Caption: Kever of Rebbe Yeshaya Steiner in Kerestir, Hungary, Credit: Elan Jaffa, Kew Gardens Hills, Queens
Photo Caption: Kever of Rebbe Yeshaya son Rebbe Avrohamele (d. 1927) who succeeded his father, Credit: Elan Jaffa, Kew Gardens Hills, Queens
Source: The Morning Journal, February 21, 1930
Photo Credit: Yossi Rubinfeld
Photo Caption: At the kever of Rabbi Yehuda Tzvi Steiner on the yartzeit of his brother (3 Iyar), Rebbe Rebbe Yeshayale Kerestirer
Photo Caption: Kever of Rabbi Yehuda Tzvi’s son Sigmund at the Mount Lebanon Cemetery in Glendale, Queens, Credit: Shmuel Amsel, Brooklyn, NY
Photo Caption: Kever of Rabbi Yehuda Tzvi’s son Adolph at the Mount Lebanon Cemetery in Glendale, Queens, Credit: Shmuel Amsel, Brooklyn, NY
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Was he a Rav or Rebbe?
he sold kosher lpesach matzohs that he imported from hungary
Reb Yid:
Do you know anything else about him?
Where is Rebbe Yeshayale Kerestirer buried?
In Kerestir, Hungary
Thanks.
What does Mem, Hay” Vov stand for?
Joe,
Mem, Vov “Hay are the abbreviations of Moreni Harav, which is a typical Hebrew title for a Rabbi.
מו’רנו ה’רב
Thanks
I was recently contacted by an alter yid who claimed that Rav Steiner lived in Mount Vernon, NY where he was known as the “Mount Vernon Rav”. Can anyone shed any light on this?
Staten Island is a wee bit off the beaten path from Mount Vernon (Westchester) especially back in 1916, how did he end up at the Baron Hirsh Cemetery?
r’ Yona Landau arranged a tour with people from brooklyn to pray at his kever on his brother r’ yeshayele’s yurtzeit
I stopped at the Rebbe’s kever yesterday on my way to Newark Airport, WOW parts of it are Amazon Jungle like, what a mess!!!!
The yahrtzeit is tomorrow is anyone going?
I heard a lot of people go to this kever on the yurtzeit of his brother Rav Shayale,
does someone know a mekor, to visit a close relative on the yurtziet?
בספר קב הישר כתוב אני לא זכור בדיוק המילים אבל זה בערך אם אי אפשר ללכת אל קבר ההורים ביום היארצייט אז שילכו באותה עיר לקברי של צדיקים משום סדנא דארע חד
Tomorrow, 3 Iyar is the Yartzheit of Reb Shaya’la Kerestirer
There was someone who always went to r yeshayaleh one year he wasn’t able to make it, so r yeshayaleh came to him in a dream and said I have a brother buried in America go to his kever.
MT< how many years ago did this happen?
I would like to hear fron the that person who had the dream himself
i think the inyan to go on his brother yartzeit is along the lines of a pidyan. as if someone doing something good for the tzadik , such as going to his brothers kever, then the tzadik should have “hakaros hatov” and poel a yeshua .
bbz @joseph write your tel nu 2 years ago
What’s the source for the following information that’s being said about him?:
That he was a messenger from American Jews to his brother R’ Shayele.
That he sold imported Matzhoh’s.
That he ever lived and was a Rav in Mt. Vernon.
That he wore Rabbinic garb.
And the list of information that was created in 2016-2017, one hundred years since his passing, goes on and on. I’m sure that there’s still an arsenal of more fabricated stuff to come.
If anyone want’s to visit the Kever because he was the brother of R’ Shayele, Dayanu
If anyone want’s to visit this Kever because there was a(n unconfirmed) dream, Dayanu
If anyone just want’s to visit this Kever, Dayanu
But why all these false things that have to be created for marketing purposes??!!
To BENBEEZEE
All info is from Harav Yona Landau
Got it from his decents
He lived at one time on the upper East Side in the Yorkville area. Kehilas Bnai Yehuda, the Yorkville Synagogue, which still exists was the Hungarian shul in that neighborhood. At one time he owned a business on Lexington Ave in that neighborhood.