Abraham Horowitz

{{Short description|16th-century rabbi}} {{Expand Hebrew|topic=bio|date=August 2023}} '''Abraham ben Shabbetai Horowitz''' ({{Langx|he|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 a rabbi in several communities.<ref name=Fuenn/>

==Works== Horowitz authored: ''Yesh Noḥalin'' (Hebrew: {{Lang|he|יש נוחלין}}; Amsterdam, 1701),''<nowiki>'</nowiki>Emek Beracha'' (Hebrew: {{Lang|he|עמק ברכה}}; Amsterdam, 1729), and ''Brit Abraham'' (Hebrew: {{Lang|he|ברית אברהם}}; Lemberg, 1875).<ref name=Fuenn/><ref>{{Cite book|last=Trachtenberg|first=Joshua|author-link=Joshua Trachtenberg|chapter=HEBREW SOURCES, PRINTED|chapter-url=https://sacred-texts.com/jud/jms/jms40.htm|title=Jewish Magic and Superstition|location=Philadelphia|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|year=2004|orig-date=Originally published 1939|isbn=9780812218626|page=318|access-date=Aug 8, 2023}}</ref>

His works are frequently cited by his son, Isaiah Horowitz.<ref name=Fuenn>{{Cite book|author=Samuel Joseph Fuenn|author-link=Samuel Joseph Fuenn|script-chapter=he:הר"ר אברהם הלוי הורוויץ בה"ר שבתי שעפטיל|trans-chapter=Rabbi Abraham Horowitz ben Shabbetai|chapter-url=https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=46998&pgnum=20|script-title=he:כנסת ישראל|language=he|publication-place=Warsaw|publication-date=1886|page=20|access-date=Aug 8, 2023}}</ref>

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