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ISAIAH HOROWITZ (c. 1555-c. 1630)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 711 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ISAIAH See also:HOROWITZ (c. 1555-c. 1630)  , Jewish See also:rabbi and mystic, was See also:born at See also:Prague, and died at Safed, then the See also:home of Jewish Kabbala . His largest See also:work is called Shelah (abbreviated from the See also:initials of the full See also:title Shene luhoth ha-berit, " Two Tables of the See also:Covenant ") . This is a compilation of See also:ritual, See also:ethics and See also:mysticism, and had a profound See also:influence on Jewish See also:life . It has been often reprinted, especially in an abbreviated See also:form . For an See also:account of the Jewish mystics at Safed see S . Schecter, Studies in Judaism, See also:series ii . (1908) .

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