Rabbi Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Deutch
חנניה יום טוב ליפא ב"ר שמואל אהרן
Helmetzer RavDate of Death:
Tue. December 18, 1990 -
Teves 1 5751
Rosh Chodesh
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Biographical Notes:
Photo Caption: Helmetzer Rav, Credit: Needed
Bio Information:
Rav Deutch is credited with establishing many of the mikvaos (ritual baths) around the world during the post-Holocaust years.
Credit: IFJCAH
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THIS IS MY GRANDFATHERS GRAVE
HE WROTE 40 SEFORIM THAT ENDED UP ALL OVER THE WORLD
THE BIGGEST RABBIS ALL OVER THE WORLD GAVE HIM THE UTMOST RESPECT. THE OLD SATMAR REBBE REB YOEL TEILTELBAUM SAID ONCE THAT HE IS JEALOUS OF HIS OLAM HABOH.
I DON’T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THAT YOUR GRANDFATHER USED TO WRITE ABOUT MY GRANDFATHER MONTHLY IN THE HAMOR.
Do you have pictures of the Rav?
The helmetzer Rov was before the war a dayan in a town called Dobshina (my great grand parent lived there) i saw a couple of weeks ago in der yid a mazal tov for a dobshina rov would anybosy know who this is
Dear Mo u can contact me at rabbimbrach@gmail.com
I grew up in San Antonio, Texas in the 1950’s and 60’s and remember he used to come annually to check the mikvah. My father knew him from Slovakia and told me he was the Helmetzer Rav. On one of his visits he stayed over on a Shabbat in a hotel near the shul we davened in (Rodfei Sholom). He had a friday night tish at our house. I was 8 years old and it was the first time I had seen a Chasid with Shtreimel, kapote and white stockings. After the tish, a group of men who had come to the tish and my father and me walked him back to the hotel. that night was Halloween and can you imagine a chasid in San Antonio Tx in the 1950’s in full Shabbes regalia walking the streets?
I remember when I was a small boy when the Ruv visited Houston Texas. The Ruv stayed in our house and stayed in my room. He made a profound impression on me and my siblings. We were out in the far flung corner of Texas and we had never met a chossid in our life. Part of my yichus comes from a long line of chassidishe Hungarian rebbes and tzaddikim, and as I grew older and later visited Williamsburg and Boro Park, I reconnected with the Ruv and other rebbes and the Ruv remembered me as a child in Houston.
I remember when he used to come to Buenos Aires Argentina as a child. We were learning at the Ezra shul and he was sitting on the other side of the shul next to that Arin Kidesh Lear ing and I guess having nachas from seeing us learning. I think I’m related since my great grand father was a Deutsch from yerushalaim that was a descendant of Shimon Deutsch a student of the chasam Sofer and a descendant of the Maharal from the city of Nikolshberg.