Shabtai Sheftel ben Akiva ha-Levi Horowitz (; 1565–1619) was a
kabbalistic
Kabbalah ( he, קַבָּלָה ''Qabbālā'', literally "reception, tradition") is an esoteric method, discipline and Jewish theology, school of thought in Jewish mysticism. A traditional Kabbalist is called a Mekubbal ( ''Məqūbbāl'' "rece ...
author, who flourished in
Prague in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His father, named Akiba according to Steinschneider and Benjacob, not Jacob, was the son of Abraham Sheftels and the brother of
Isaiah Horowitz.
Shabtai Sheftel Horowitz wrote ''Nishmat Shabbethai ha-Levi'', a kabbalistic treatise on the nature of the soul (Prague, 1616), and ''Shefa Tal'' (Prague, 1612;
Frankfurt, 1719), another kabbalistic compendium, containing also some works of others. The latter has been often reprinted, and is highly recommended by his cousin,
Shabbethai the Younger, in his will. According to
Seder HaDoroth
The ''Seder HaDorot'' or "Book of Generations" (completed 1725, published 1768) by Lithuanian Rabbi Jehiel Heilprin (1660–1746) is a Hebrew-language chronological work that serves as a depot of multiple Hebrew language chronological books an ...
he wrote a commentary on
Moreh Nevuchim
''The Guide for the Perplexed'' ( ar, دلالة الحائرين, Dalālat al-ḥā'irīn, ; he, מורה נבוכים, Moreh Nevukhim) is a work of Jewish theology by Maimonides. It seeks to reconcile Aristotelianism with Rabbinical Jewish the ...
but no copies are known.
See also
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Aaron Abraham ben Baruch Simeon ha-Levi
Aaron Abraham ben Baruch Simeon ha-Levi was a kabbalist, born in the first quarter of the sixteenth century. He published a small kabbalistic work, ''Iggeret ha-Ṭe'amim'' (''Letter on the Accents''), about the middle of the century, in which eac ...
References
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1565 births
1619 deaths
Kabbalists
Rabbis from Prague
Writers from Prague
16th-century Bohemian rabbis
17th-century Bohemian rabbis