Ook vermeld als geboorteplaats: Mstibovo (Amstibovo), Grodno, Lithuania.
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Rabbi Shabtai HaKohen (Shabbatai ha-Kohen) was born in Vilna, in the year 5382 (1622). His father Rabbi Meir was Av Beth-Din (Head of the Jewish Court) in that city.
Rabbi Shabtai HaKohen (Shabbatai ha-Kohen) was born in Vilna, in the year 5382 (1622), that is, a little less than 350 years ago. His father Rabbi Meir was Av Beth-Din (Head of the Jewish Court) in that city, and he was young Shabtai HaKohen's first teacher. At the age of twelve, Shabtai HaKohen was already fully versed in the vast Talmud and Talmudic literature. His father then sent him to the Yeshiva of the great Gaon Rabbi Joshua (ben Joseph), author of the Meginei Shlomo in Tiktin. Later, in the year 1639, he traveled together with his teacher to Cracow, Poland, where his teacher headed a great Yeshiva. Subsequently, he studied Torah under the Gaon Rabbi Heshel, and the Gaon Rabbi Naftoli Katz. Rabbi Shabtai then returned to Vilna, where he was welcomed as one of the leading Talmud scholars of his time.
In Vilna Shabtai became the son-in-law of a famous scholar who was also a prominent businessman, Rabbi Benjamin Wolf Tauber, who was a son-in-law of the famed Maharshal and a grandson of the equally famous Remo. Rabbi Benjamin Wolf supported his illustrious son-in-law with great honor. In spite of his young age, he was soon chosen as a member of the Beth Din of Vilna.
Diens belangsrijkste werk is de talmudstudie: Siftei Kohen = de lippen van de priester.
Hij is getrouwd met Yenta Leah Katz Meisels.
Zij zijn getrouwd
kinderen:
V Esther Katz ca 1649-
V Toive Katz ca 1660-ca 1717 Gehuwd met David, the Katvan,HaLevi †
V Chaya Katz ca 1660-
V bat Shabtai Katz †
M Efraim Fishel Katz †
V bat Shabtai Katz † Gehuwd met Shimon Wulfe Meisels †
M Meir [rabbin] Katz †
M Yitzchak Katz †
Kind(eren):
Shabbetai ben Meir ha-Kohen (Shakh)
Harav Shabtaï ben Meir [Rabbin] Ha-Cohen Katz (HaShach) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yenta Leah Katz Meisels |
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