Editing Isaiah Horowitz (section)

==Biography==
Isaiah Horowitz was born in [[Prague]] around 1555.<ref name=je>{{Jewish Encyclopedia|inline=1|title=HOROWITZ, ISAIAH|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7876-horowitz-isaiah|access-date=Jan 5, 2017}}<br />'''''Jewish Encyclopedia'' bibliography:'''{{Bulleted list|[[David Conforte|Conforte]], ''Ḳore ha-Dorot'', p. 47b;|[[Chaim Yosef David Azulai|Azulai]], ''Shem ha-Gedolim'';|[[Moritz Steinschneider|Steinschneider]], ''{{abbr|Cat. Bodl.|Catalogue of the Hebrew Books in the Bodleian Library }}'';|[[Leser Landshuth|Landshuth]], ''<nowiki>'</nowiki>Ammude ha-'Abodah'', pp. 133-134, Berlin, 1862;|[[Aryeh Leib Frumkin|Frumkin]], ''Eben Shemuel'', pp. 111-122, Jerusalem and Wilna, 1874;|[[Márkus Horovitz|Horovitz]], ''Frankfurter Rabbinen'', i. 41-44, 58-60 (in which Horowitz's contract with the Frankfort congregation is reproduced);|Pesis, ''<nowiki>'</nowiki>Aṭeret ha-Lewiyim'', Warsaw, 1902.}}</ref><ref name=Trachtenberg>{{Cite book|last=Trachtenberg|first=Joshua|title=Jewish Magic and Superstition|location=Philadelphia|publisher=[[University of Pennsylvania Press]]|year=2004|orig-year=Originally published 1939|isbn=9780812218626|page=319}}</ref> His first teacher was his father, [[Abraham Horowitz|Avraham ben Shabtai Sheftel Horowitz]], a notable scholar and author, and a disciple of [[Moses Isserles]] (Rema).<ref>{{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 22, 2023}}</ref> Horowitz studied under [[Meir Lublin]], [[Joshua Falk]] and [[Megaleh Amukot|Nasan Nota Shapirah]] He married Chaya, daughter of Abraham Moul, of [[Vienna]], and was a wealthy and active [[philanthropist]], supporting [[Torah study]], especially in [[Jerusalem]]. In 1590, in [[Lublin]], he participated in a meeting of the [[Council of Four Lands]], and his signature appears on a decree that condemns the purchase of rabbinic positions.

In 1602, Isaiah Horowitz was appointed [[Av Beit Din]] in [[Austria]], and in 1606 was appointed Rabbi of [[Frankfurt]]. In 1614, after serving as rabbi in prominent cities in [[Europe]], he left following the [[Frankfurter Judengasse#The Fettmilch Uprising|Fettmilch Uprising]] and assumed the prestigious position of chief rabbi of [[Prague]].

In 1621, after the death of his wife, he moved to [[Israel (region)|Israel]], was appointed rabbi of the [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazi community]] in Jerusalem, and married Hava, daughter of Eleazer. In 1625, he was kidnapped and imprisoned, together with 15 other Jewish rabbis and scholars, by the [[Pasha]] (Ibn Faruh) and held for ransom. After 1626, Horowitz moved to [[Safed]], erstwhile home of Kabbalah, and later died in [[Tiberias]] on March 24, 1630 ([[Nisan]] 11, 5390 on the [[Hebrew calendar]]).

In his many [[Kabbalah|kabbalistic]], [[aggadah|homiletic]] and [[halakha|halachic]] works, he stressed the joy in every action, and how one should convert the [[Jewish principles of faith#People are born with both a tendency to do good and to do evil|evil inclination]] into good, two concepts that influenced Jewish thought through to the eighteenth-century, and greatly influenced the development of [[Hasidic Judaism]].

Famous descendants of Isaiah Horowitz included [[Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin]] (known as {{Script/Hebrew|החוזה מלובלין}} "The Seer of Lublin"), the prominent Billiczer rabbinical family of [[Szerencs]], [[Hungary]] and the Dym family of rabbis and communal leaders in [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galicia]], [[Aaron HaLevi ben Moses of Staroselye]] (a prominent student of [[Shneur Zalman of Liadi]]), the Fruchter-Langer families, Rabbi Meir Zelig Mann of Memel, Lithuania (b. 1921, d. 2008), and, on their mother's side, the important Yiddish writers [[Daniel Charney]], [[Shmuel Niger|Shmuel Charney]], and [[Baruch Charney Vladeck|Baruch Vladek]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Charney |first=Daniel |date=1951 |title=Duḳor memuarn; ershṭer ṭayl |url=https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/yiddish-books/spb-nybc200642/charney-daniel-dukor-memuarn-ershter-tayl |access-date=2023-08-25 |website=www.yiddishbookcenter.org |publisher=Tint un feder |page=34 |language=yiddish |publication-place=Toronto, Canada}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Charney |first=Daniel |url=https://bookshop.org/p/books/dukor-a-memoir-daniel-charney/18826881 |title=Dukor - A Memoir |publisher=JewishGen |year=2022 |edition= |language=en |translator-last=Skakun |translator-first=Michael}}</ref> as well as [[Elie Wiesel]].<ref>Wiesel, Elie, and Elie Wiesel Catherine Temerson (Translator). "Rashi (Jewish Encounters)". ISBN 9780805242546. Schocken, January 1, 1970. Web. October 27, 2016.</ref>