Shabbethai Horowitz

Shabtai Horowitz (also Hurwitz ) ( Schabbatai , * around 1590 probably in Ostroh , Volhynia , Poland-Lithuania ; † April 12, 1660 in Vienna ) was a Talmud scholar , Kabbalist and chief rabbi of Frankfurt am Main (1632-1642).

Life

Horowitz was the son of the Kabbalist and rabbi Isaiah Horovitz . At a young age he married the daughter of the rich and learned Moses Charif from Lublin . After the expulsion from Frankfurt in 1614 by the Fettmilch uprising , he traveled with his father to Prague , where he held the position of rabbi . From Prague he went to Fürth . In 1632 he became chief rabbi in Frankfurt am Main. In 1650 he was called to Vienna, where he finally died on April 12, 1660.

Shabbethai Sheftel Horowitz was his cousin.

Works

Additions to the work Emeq Berakhah by his grandfather Abraham Horowitz (first edition 1729 in Amsterdam ).
Additions to his father's prayer book.
Vavey Ha-Ammudim (an essay on religious ethics), which he modestly referred to as the introduction to his father's main work ( Shney Luchot Ha-Brit “The Two Federal Chapters ”) and to which it is usually attached as an appendix.

Ṣawwa'ah ( Frankfurt an der Oder , undated , often reprinted). It is an ethical testament, including teachings on charity and calls for rigor in ritual practice and in the study of Kabbalah.

Some prayers (contained in his father's prayer book), especially a Selichah for the 20th Siwan .

Web links

Isidore Singer , Cyrus Adler: HOROWITZ, SHABBETHAI. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.

Individual evidence

↑ Benjamin Murmelstein: History of the Jews: The people wandering around the world . J. Belf, Vienna 1938, p. 266 .
^ Cilli Kasper-Holtkotte: The Jewish community of Frankfurt / Main in the early modern period: Families, networks and conflicts in a Jewish center . De Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-023157-1 , p. 263 .
↑ Jewish Encycloipedia - HOROWITZ, SHABBETHAI. Retrieved June 13, 2016 .

personal data
SURNAME	Horowitz, Shabbethai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Horowitz, Shabtai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Rabbi and Talmudic scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	1590
PLACE OF BIRTH	uncertain: Ostroh , Volhynia
DATE OF DEATH	April 12, 1660
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Benjamin Murmelstein: History of the Jews: The people wandering around the world . J. Belf, Vienna 1938, p. 266 .

[2] Cilli Kasper-Holtkotte: The Jewish community of Frankfurt / Main in the early modern period: Families, networks and conflicts in a Jewish center . De Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-023157-1 , p. 263 .

[3] Jewish Encycloipedia - HOROWITZ, SHABBETHAI. Retrieved June 13, 2016 .