Shabtai Horowitz ( he, שבתי הורוויץ; 1590 – 12 April 1660) was a rabbi and

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, probably born in

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. He was the son of the kabbalist

Isaiah Horowitz Isaiah or Yeshayahu ben Avraham Ha-Levi Horowitz ( he, ישעיה בן אברהם הלוי הורוויץ), (c. 1555 – March 24, 1630), also known as the ''Shelah HaKaddosh'' ( "the holy ''Shelah''") after the title of his best-known work, was ...

, and at an early age married the daughter of the wealthy and scholarly Moses Charif of Lublin. With his father he seems to have gone to

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, where he occupied a position as preacher; from Prague he went as rabbi to

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, whence he was called to

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am Main about 1632, and finally to

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about 1650. Horowitz wrote additions to his grandfather Abraham's ''Emeḳ Berakah'' (which appeared first in the Amsterdam edition of 1729), additions to his father's prayer-book, and a treatise on religious ethics under the title ''Vave Ha-Ammudim''. This work he modestly designated as an introduction to his father's celebrated work ''Shnei Luchot Ha-Brit'' (''The Two Tablets of the Covenant''), with which it is always printed as an appendix. He also wrote an ethical testament (''Ẓawwa'ah'', Frankfurt-on-the-Oder, n.d., often reprinted). It contains, besides some very charitable teachings, exhortations to strictness in ritual practise and in kabbalistic studies. Shabbethai further wrote some prayers (included in his father's prayer-book), especially a selichah for the 20th of Sivan.

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