Jewish
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masculine
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given name derived from the Hebrew word
Shabbat
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, and is traditionally given to boys born on that day. Alternative transliterations into English include Sabbatai, Sabbathai, Shabbatai, Shabbethai, and Shabsai.
It is the name of a
Levite
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Saturn
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Shabbethai Bass Shabbethai ben Joseph Bass (1641–1718) (; also known by the family name Strom), born at Kalisz, was the founder of Jewish bibliography and author of the supercommentary on Rashi's commentary on the Pentateuch.
Life
After the death of his parent ...
Shabbatai HaKohen
Shabbatai ben Meir HaKohen (; 1621–1662) was a talmudist and halakhist. He became known as the ''Shakh'' (), which is an abbreviation of his most important work, ''Siftei Kohen'' () (literally ''Lips of the Priest'') on the Shulchan Aruch.
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Hero of the Soviet Union
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Shabtai Shavit
Shabtai Shavit (; 17 July 1939 – 5 September 2023) was an Israeli intelligence officer who served as the Director-General of the Mossad from 1989 to 1996.
Biography
Shavit first joined the Israeli Navy, where he later went on to serve in the ...
(born 1941), Director General of the Mossad
* Shabtai Shikhman (1915–87), Israeli politician
* Shabtai Teveth (born 1925), Israeli journalist and academic
* Shabtai Zvi (1626–76), Jewish Messiah claimant and founder of the
Sabbatean
The Sabbateans (or Sabbatians) are a variety of Jewish followers, disciples, and believers in Sabbatai Zevi (1626–1676),
an Ottoman Jewish rabbi and Kabbalist who was proclaimed to be the Jewish Messiah in 1666 by Nathan of Gaza.
Vast ...
movement
* Shabtai Zisl ben Avraham (b. 1941), better known as "
Bob Dylan
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."
Surname
* Aharon Shabtai (born 1939), poet and translator
* Benny Shabtai, Israeli American businessman, investor, and philanthropist
* Ḥayyim Shabbethai (1557–1647), Chief Rabbi of Salonika
* Yaakov Shabtai (1934–81), Israeli novelist, playwright, and translator
* Kobi Shabtai, 19th Commissioner of the
Israel Police
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See also
* Vera Shabshai (1905-1988) Soviet dancer, teacher and choreographer
* Shabtai (society), a global Jewish society of Yale University students, alumni, and current and former faculty