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.
Bi ...
Shabtai Sheftel Horowitz
Shabtai Sheftel ben Akiva ha-Levi Horowitz (; 1565–1619) was a kabbalistic 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 A ...
Hero of the Soviet Union
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Shabtai ( or ) is a Jewish masculine given name derived from the Hebrew word Shabbat, and is traditionally given to boys born on that day. Alternative transliterations into English include Sabbatai, Sabbathai, Shabbatai, Shabbethai, and Sh ...
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Shabbethai Panzieri Shabbethai ben Mordecai Panzieri was an Italian rabbi of the seventeenth century.
He was Rabbi of Rome in 1652 and 1653, of Sinigaglia from 1680 to 1685, and again of Rome from the last-mentioned year. He had a reputation as a Talmudist, and corre ...
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Shabbethai Premsla Shabbethai Premsla was a Galician philologist and scribe of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who lived in Przemyśl, Poland, from which his name derives.
Premsla was the author of a commentary on Moses Kimhi's grammatical work, ''Sefer Maha ...
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Shabtai Rosenne
Shabtai Rosenne (; 24 November 1917 – 21 September 2010) was a Professor of International Law and an Israeli diplomat. Rosenne was awarded the 1960 Israel Prize for Jurisprudence, the 1999 Manley O. Hudson Medal for International Law and Jur ...
(1917–2010), Israeli professor and diplomat
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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
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Shabtai Shikhman
Shabtai Shikhman (; 10 September 1915 – 9 January 1987) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Herut and Gahal between 1959 and 1965.
Biography
Born in an area that became Poland, Shikhman joined the Betar youth mo ...
(1915–87), Israeli politician
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Shabtai Teveth
Shabtai Teveth (; 1925 – 1 November 2014) was an Israeli historian and author.
Teveth was born in 1925 and grew up in the worker' quarters at the Migdal Tzedek quarry, where his father worked, near Petah Tikva. He began working as a journali ...
(born 1925), Israeli journalist and academic
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Shabtai Zvi
Sabbatai Zevi (, August 1, 1626 – ) was an Ottoman Jewish mystic and ordained rabbi from Smyrna (now İzmir, Turkey). His family were Romaniote Jews from Patras. His two names, ''Shabbethay'' and ''Ṣebi'', mean Saturn and mountain gazelle, ...
(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
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Yaakov Shabtai
Yaakov Shabtai (; March 8, 1934 – August 4, 1981) was an Israeli novelist, playwright, and translator.
Biography
Shabtai was born in 1934 in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine. In 1957, after completing military service, he joined Kibbutz Merhavia ...
(1934–81), Israeli novelist, playwright, and translator
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Kobi Shabtai
Yaakov "Kobi" Shabtai (; born November 11, 1964) is an Israeli police officer who served as the 19th Commissioner of Israel Police from January 17, 2021 to July 17, 2024. He has previously served as the Commander of the Border Police as a deputy ...
, 19th Commissioner of the
Israel Police
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See also
* Vera Shabshai (1905-1988) Soviet dancer, teacher and choreographer
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Shabtai (society)
Shabtai (formerly known as Eliezer and Chai Society) is a global Jewish leadership society based at Yale University (though not officially affiliated in any way with Yale). Shabtai's exclusive membership boasts a diverse group of Yale students, a ...
, a global Jewish society of Yale University students, alumni, and current and former faculty