Zevi Joshua HaLevi Horowitz (1760–1816) also known as the Ribash (ריב"ש, Rabbi Joshua ben Shmuel) was the son of
Shmuel Shmelke Horowitz of Nikolsburg and a prominent
Moravian Hasidic
Hasidism () or Hasidic Judaism is a religious movement within Judaism that arose in the 18th century as a spiritual revival movement in contemporary Western Ukraine before spreading rapidly throughout Eastern Europe. Today, most of those aff ...
figure.
Biography
Born in
Nikolsburg
Mikulov (; ) is a town in Břeclav District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 7,600 inhabitants. From the 16th to the 19th century, it was the cultural centre of the Jewish community of Moravia. The historic centr ...
,
Moravia
Moravia ( ; ) is a historical region in the eastern Czech Republic, roughly encompassing its territory within the Danube River's drainage basin. It is one of three historical Czech lands, with Bohemia and Czech Silesia.
The medieval and early ...
around 1760. In his early years he and his brother, Jakob Horowitz studied under their father. After his studies, Zevi Joshua married the daughter of his uncle
Pinchas Horowitz
Rabbi Pinchas HaLevi Horowitz (c. 1731 – July 1, 1805), also known as the Baal Hafla'ah, was a rabbi and Talmudist.
Life
The descendant of a long line of rabbinical ancestors and the son of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Horowitz of Chortkiv, he received a ...
. From 1781 to 1786, Zevi Joshua was the Chief Rabbi
Jamnitz, later moving to
Trebic, where he served as Chief Rabbi from 1786 to 1800. In 1811, he moved to
Prossnitz, where he served as Chief rabbi up until his death in 1816. He is best known for his novellae "Hiddushei ha-Ribash" which appeared posthumously in 1878. He also wrote "Semikhat Moshe" which was published as an appendix to his father's work "Nezir ha-Shem''".''
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References
18th-century rabbis from Bohemia
Hasidic rabbis
People from Mikulov