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The grave of Isaiah Horowitz in the Tomb of Maimonides compound, Tiberias, Israel. Isaiah or Yeshayahu ben Avraham Ha-Levi Horowitz (Hebrew: ישעיה בן אברהם הלוי הורוויץ), (c. 1555 [1] [2] – March 24, 1630), also known as the Shelah HaKaddosh (השל"ה הקדוש "the holy Shelah") after the title of his best-known work, was a prominent rabbi and mystic.
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, also known as Torah Shebikhtav ("Written " as opposed to "Oral" Torah) is a collective term for the three sections of the Bible, those being the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim. Separately, the Nevi'im and Ketuvim are also called Nakh.
Abraham ben Shabbetai Horowitz (Hebrew: אברהם בן שבתי שעפטיל הלוי הורוויץ) was a 16th-century rabbi and author from Prague. Horowitz was a student of Moses Isserles and served as rabbi in several communities.
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh [a] (/ t ɑː ˈ n ɑː x /; [1] Hebrew: תַּנַ״ךְ tanaḵ, תָּנָ״ךְ tānāḵ or תְּנַ״ךְ tənaḵ) also known in Hebrew as Miqra (/ m iː ˈ k r ɑː /; Hebrew: מִקְרָא miqrāʾ), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, comprising the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim.
Horowitz also gained a reputation as a miracle-worker who could accomplish the tikkun, or repair of the soul, of those who sought his assistance and guidance. During his stay in Lublin, Horowitz was opposed by a prominent mitnaged rabbi, Azriel Horowitz. [5] He established his synagogue there at Szeroka 28 in the Jewish Quarter of Lublin. [6]
Painting of R. Shabbethai Horowitz (1590–1660) from the Jewish museum of Prague Grave of R. Shmelke Horowitz in Nikolsburg.. As the Jewish community in Prague expanded and the Bohemian Diet enacted land rights reform in 1501, permitting increased Jewish ownership of real estate in the city, the Horowitz family opted to sell its holdings in Hořovice.
The largest organized collection of Hebrew Old Testament manuscripts in the world is housed in the Russian National Library ("Second Firkovitch Collection") in Saint Petersburg. [4] The Leningrad/Petrograd Codex is the oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible in Hebrew. The Leningrad/Petrograd codex is the manuscript upon which the Old ...
A sample page from Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (Genesis 1,1-16a).. The Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, abbreviated as BHS or rarely BH 4, is an edition of the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible as preserved in the Leningrad Codex, and supplemented by masoretic and text-critical notes.