Shabtai Horowitz
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Shabtai Horowitz (; 1590 – 12 April 1660) was a rabbi and
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, probably born in
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,
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. He was the son of the kabbalist
Isaiah Horowitz Isaiah or Yeshayahu ben Avraham Ha-Levi Horowitz () (c. 1555 – March 24, 1630), also known as the ''Shelah HaKaddosh'' ( "the holy ''Shelah''") after the title of his best-known work, was a prominent rabbi and mystic. Biography Isaiah Horo ...
, and at an early age married the daughter of the wealthy and scholarly Moses Charif of
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. 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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* 1590s births 1660 deaths Year of birth uncertain People from Ostroh Volhynian Orthodox rabbis 17th-century rabbis from Bohemia 17th-century German rabbis Czech Orthodox rabbis Austrian Orthodox rabbis Polish Orthodox rabbis German Orthodox rabbis {{Poland-rabbi-stub