 At thirteen years of age, Teichtal began his yeshiva study under Rabbi Shalom Weider who was the "av beit din" (town rabbi) of Nyíregyháza, Hungary.At age fifteen he moved to Żabno (now in Poland), where he was a student of Rabbi Shalom Unger.Teichtal returned to Hungary and at the age of twenty-one he received rabbinic ordination (semichah) from the Rebbe of Talisheva.