Yechiel Yosef Tzeitlin
Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have contentRabbi Yechiel Yosef Tzeitlin (born 1961) is one of the Rebbe's shluchim to Montreal and the founder of "HaSicha HaShavuit" (The Weekly Sicha) organization.
Life History[edit | edit source]
Born in 1961 to his father Rabbi Yehuda Leib Tzeitlin and his mother Gita, daughter of Rabbi Yechiel Yosef Rivkin in Montreal, and was named after his maternal grandfather.
In his youth, he studied at Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim in Montreal and in his bochur years at Ohalei Torah in Crown Heights. In 1981, he was among the group of Shluchim talmidim sent by the Rebbe to Yeshiva Gedola Casablanca in Morocco.
HaSicha HaShavuit[edit | edit source]
After his marriage in 1986 to his wife, daughter of the Chossid R' Yehuda Leib Sverdlov, he established his residence in Montreal and joined the educational staff of the Cheder at the local Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch.
In 1996, he founded the "HaSicha HaShavuit" organization, which produces weekly video programs of the Rebbe with English translation (and in recent years also with Hebrew translation) screened at 770 and Chabad Chassidim homes of speakers of these languages. In the past, he also published booklets with typed translations before ShabbosCite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content.
Family[edit | edit source]
- His brother-in-law, Rabbi Yehuda Friedman - Shliach in Mill Basin, New York
- His brother-in-law, Rabbi Shneur Zalman Marozov - Montreal
- His brother-in-law, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Paris - Montreal
- His daughter, Mrs. Chaya Mushka, wife of Rabbi Shneur Yechilov - Crown Heights
- His son, Levi Yitzchak Tzeitlin - First Shliach in the American Navy (in California and elsewhere)
- His son-in-law, Chaim Yisroel HaKohen Sperlin - Crown Heights
- His son, Shneur Zalman Tzeitlin
- His son, Shmuel Menachem Mendel Tzeitlin - Montreal
- His son, Sholom Dov Ber Tzeitlin
- His son-in-law, Rabbi Chananya Niazov - Crown Heights