Grave

Shabtai Sheftel Horowitz

Baal HaAmudim (son of the Shela HaKadosh)

Yahrzeit (Hillula)

28 Nisan — Rabbi Shabtai Sheftel Horowitz - Baal HaAmudim

Rabbi Shabtai Sheftel Horowitz (1590–1660) was a prominent Talmudist and rabbi in Ostroh, Fürth, Frankfurt am Main, and Vienna.

Yahrzeit - 28 Nissan Resting place - Austria, Vienna, Seegasse 9 Street (in the courtyard of the Nursing Home) He was the son of the kabbalist Rabbi Yeshaya Horowitz - the Shela HaKadosh - and at a young age married the daughter of the wealthy and learned Moshe Sharif of Lublin. He traveled with his father 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. He died there on April 12, 1660. Rabbi Shabtai Sheftel wrote additions to the "Emek Berakha" of his grandfather Avraham (which first appeared in the Amsterdam edition of 1729). His main work is a supplement to his father's prayer book and a treatise on religious ethics called "Vavei HaAmudim". He modestly described 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 (Tzavaah, Frankfurt an der Oder, undated, frequently reprinted). Besides some very compassionate teachings, it contains calls for strictness in ritual practice and kabbalistic study. Shabtai also wrote several prayers (included in his father's prayer book), especially a selichah for the 20th of Sivan. May the merit of the tzadik protect Am Yisrael!

P.S. The Shela HaKadosh's prayer for children on Rosh Chodesh Sivan was most likely dedicated to his son Shabtai Sheftel. Prayer for the Children of the Shela HaKadosh on Rosh Chodesh Sivan https://silatehilim.com/молитва-за-детей-шла-акодеш-в-рош-ходеш/