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[[File:Scheftel (Rabbi a talmudista pražský).jpg|thumb|From the Jewish museum of Prague - Scheftel (Rabbi and talmudist of Prague). Painted by an unknown painter from the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century. Photo of the year 1913.]]{{distinguish|text=his cousin, [[Shabtai Sheftel Horowitz]]}}

'''Shabtai Horowitz''' ({{langx|he|שבתי הורוויץ}}; {{abbr|c.|circa}} 1590 – 12 April 1660) was a rabbi and [[talmudist]], probably born in [[Ostroh]], [[Volhynia]].  He was the son of the [[kabbalist]] [[Isaiah Horowitz]], and at an early age married the daughter of the wealthy and scholarly [[Moses Charif]] of [[Lublin]]. With his father he seems to have gone to [[Prague]], where he occupied a position as preacher; from Prague he went as rabbi to [[Fürth]], whence he was called to [[Frankfurt]] am Main about 1632, and finally to [[Vienna]] 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 ''[https://hebrewbooks.org/24543 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 (Oder)|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 [[selichot|selichah]] for the 20th of Sivan.

== References ==
* {{JewishEncyclopedia|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=H&artid=914|article=Horowitz, Shabbethai}}

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