Shabbatai HaKohen
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Shabbatai ben Meir HaKohen was a talmudist and halakhist. He became known as the Shakh, which is an abbreviation of his most important work, Siftei Kohen on the Shulchan Aruch.
Shabbatai HaKohen
Tomb of Sabbatai ben Meir ha-Kohen in Holešov
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Mstsibava
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Mstsibava or Mstibovo is a village in Vawkavysk District, Grodno Region, Belarus. It is part of Hnyezna selsoviet.
Shabbatai HaKohen
…of his most important work, Siftei Kohen (Hebrew: שפתי כהן, lit. 'Lips of the Priest') on the Shulchan Aruch. Shabbatai HaKohen was born either in Amstibovo or in Wilno, Lithuania, in 1621 and died in Holešov, Moravia, on the 1st of Adar, 1662. He first studied with his father Meir HaKohen and in 1633 he…
Site of the original settlement
Historic photo of Mstibovo, including Kostel Svyatogo Ioanna Krestitelya (English: Church of St. John the Baptist)