the third incarnation, but his followers asked another Rebbe, who identified it as the Biblical Prophet Jeremiah. Regarding the first gilgul, he taught his followers the song, he said, that he recalled Jacob would sing as he tended the sheep. The song, Yankel hut eine kleine Lamm, is not related to the modern Mary Had a Little Lamb. His followers would teach of his previous identification with Jeremiah, and how this affected his present life. In his later days he yearned so much for the coming of the Jewish Messiah and the rebuilding of the Temple, that he wore his Shabbat clothing the entire week, anticipating the Messiah's arrival. He died on July 17, 1841. See also Teitelbaum References 18th-century Hungarian rabbis 19th-century Hungarian rabbis Rebbes of Satmar Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe) Hasidic rabbis in Europe Hungarian people of Polish-Jewish descent 1759 births 1841 deaths Rebbes of Siget Teitelbaum family