Reb Chaim Moshe Daskal was born in 5645/1885 to Reb Yitzchak Beirach. He received an excellent chinuch from his father, who was very wealthy. Reb Chaim Moshe was sent to learn in Warsaw, under the eminent Harav Yitzchak Wertzberger, the dayan of Borsa.
As a bachur, Reb Chaim Moshe earned a sterling reputation, and was well-known as a talmid chacham and yarei Shamayim. Often, while learning, he was mechavein l’daas gedolim and asked the same questions that the Rishonim had asked.
Reb Chaim Moshe told his children the story of his marriage to Tzipporah Rosenberg, daughter of Rav Alter Avraham Baruch Rosenberg (author of the Tzava’as Abba, printed in Romania in 5691), as related by his son (from this marriage) Reb Yisrael Daskal:
The Borsa Rav was very impressed with Reb Chaim Moshe and redt him to the grandfather of the prospective kallah, the renowned chassid Rav Yudel Eber Rosenberg. Reb Yudel Eber entered the beis medrash while Reb Chaim Moshe was learning, and after testing him for a few hours, sent a message to the bachur’s father Reb Yitzchak Beirach, and they finalized the shidduch.
Reb Chaim Moshe and his wife Tzipporah had six children. But when he was just forty years old, his life suddenly fell apart.
During childbirth, Tzipporah’s condition deteriorated suddenly. She was taken from Massif to the hospital in Sighet in serious condition, where she passed away on 19 Kislev 5686/1925.
Her father, Rav Alter Avraham Rosenberg, noted the date of her passing on the title page of his sefer, Tzava’as Abba, Reb Yisrael Daskal related. (Reb Yisrael eventually purchased the manuscript of the sefer from the heirs of his grandfather, the Tzava’as Abba.)
Newly widowed, Reb Chaim Moshe now had to carry the burden of six orphans. His oldest son, Asher Anschel, was eighteen, and little Yisrael was not yet three. A short time later, he married Faiga Stein from the town of Mittel-Visheve, with the wedding held in her hometown. Many chassidim lived in this town, including a number of distinguished Vizhnitzer chassidim and eminent talmidei chachamim.
