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

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