A Joyful Mother of Children

Issachar Shlomo Teichtal

1943

I entitled this volume Em Habanim Semeḥah [Psalms 113:9], based on the Jerusalem tractate of Berakhot (toward the close of the second chapter) which portrays Erets Yisrael as the mother of Israel and the lands of exile as the stepmother [J.T. Berakhot 2:8]. Our sages describe our mother of Zion who weeps and laments when we are in exile. She awaits…

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Issachar Shlomo Teichtal

1885–1945

Talmudic scholar Issachar Shlomo Teichtal was born in Nagyhalász, Hungary, and received rabbinic ordination in 1906. In 1921, he became head of the Moriah Yeshiva in Piestany, Slovakia; there he trained clergy to counter the teachings of liberal Judaism. He published a volume of responsa in 1924. Initially anti-Zionist, Teichtal changed his thinking radically during World War II while hiding from the Nazis in Budapest. His Holocaust-era work, A Joyful Mother of Children, encouraged Jews to return to the Land of Israel in response to the destruction of European Jewry. Teichtal was deported to Auschwitz in 1944.

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