Background
Teichtal was born in New York and grew up in a Hasidic Jewish family.
Teichtal was born in New York and grew up in a Hasidic Jewish family.
Rabbi Teichtal graduated from high school in 1989 and then attended rabbinical college in Morristown, New Jersey.
His great-grandfather Rabbi Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal was one of the few European rabbis to support an active effort to settle the land of Israel. After completing his studies in New York, Los Angles, Morristown (United States of America), Melbourne (Australia) and Wellington (New Zealand), Yehuda Teichtal was ordained as a rabbi. The largest Jewish education center in Europe was opened in 2007 under his direction in the western part of Berlin.
The building was financed through contributions from community members.
At age 23 he was ordained as a rabbi by Rabbi Zalman Goldberg - one of the senior judges in the High Court of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate. In 2002 Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal was ordained by the chief rabbi of Israel Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron to be a community rabbi.
Teichtal advocates a Jewish congregation that is open to all regardless of background and promotes readiness to spread Jewish knowledge.
Today Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal is also a member of the rabbinical court of Berlin Machzihei-Hadat, which is recognized by the chief rabbi of Israel as declared on July 3, 2014.