28 Nisan · Yahrzeit

Rabbi Shabtai Sheftel Horowitz - Baal HaAmudim

Rabbi Shabtai Sheftel Horowitz - Baal HaAmudim (1590–1660) was a prominent Talmudist and rabbi in Ostroh, Fürth, Frankfurt am Main and Vienna. Yahrzeit - 28 Nissan Resting place - Vienna, Austria He was the son of the kabbalist Rabbi Yeshaya Horowitz - the Shelah HaKadosh - and at a young age married the daughter of the wealthy and learned Moshe Sharif of Lublin. Together with his father he traveled to Prague, where he took up the position of preacher; from Prague he went to serve as rabbi in Fürth, from where he was called to Frankfurt am Main around 1632, and finally to Vienna around 1650. There he passed away on April 12, 1660. Rabbi Shabtai Sheftel wrote additions to his grandfather Avraham's "Emek Beracha" (which first appeared in the Amsterdam edition of 1729). His main work is an addition to his father's prayer book and a treatise on religious ethics titled "Vavei HaAmudim". He modestly designated this work as an introduction to his father's famous work "Shnei Luchot HaBrit" ("The Two Tablets of the Covenant"), to which it is always printed as an appendix. He also wrote an ethical will (Tzava'ah, Frankfurt an der Oder, undated, often reprinted). Besides some very compassionate teachings, it contains calls for strictness in ritual practice and kabbalistic study. Shabtai also composed several prayers (included in his father's prayer book), especially a selichah for the 20th of Sivan.

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