Marcel's Maternal Horowitz Family Tree
More photos throughout site.
https://marcel-my-husband.blogspot.com/2011/02/marcel-family-tree.html

Baruch Dayan HaEmet

THEA KRAUTHAMMER

TOVA MATIL bat Meshulem Issachar v’ Mina (Geldzahler Horowitz) Krauthammer

Tribute to Thea in her memory, from Joy Krauthammer, daughter-in-law

Baruch Dayan HaEmet.❤ On day of hearts and love, February 14, 2019, Thursday evening and 10 Adar 1 5779, my mother-in-law, Thea Krauthammer released her body of 97 years and returned her neshama/ soul to The Compassionate One.

Only hours after Thea's passing over, hearing a Mockingbird beautifully sing in my garden this morning, for the first time since the 2015 SoCal Gas Blowout, I am sure that Thea is in Shamayim/ Heaven for her beloved Shabbat with her 2 sons, her husband Shulim, and parents, brother, and mishpucha/ family with countless friends, all z"l, may their memories be for blesSings, who either perished or survived WWII. Following Sunday’s funeral, her family is sitting Shiva in Maryland at the last home of TOVA MATIL bat Meschulam Issachar v’ Mina.

For decades every Erev Shabbat, I spoke with Thea by phone. I visited my mother-in-law on each trip to the East Coast. She had settled there for several years after marrying another Jewish refugee in Havana, Cuba, and birthing Marcel, z"l, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and then post WWII living shortly again in France and England before immigrating to America and Manhattan's upper west side.

Thea deeply loved her sons Marcel, z"l, and Charles, z”l, grandchildren Aviva (Brett), and Daniel, and her little great-granddaughters that brought great pleasure to her. She loved reading to Maya and Ellie, laughing with them, and speaking endearing French words. Thea loved speaking her native French to Marcel, my husband, and with my friends, and so we gave private French lessons to Aviva prior to her Hebrew lessons.

Since Pesach 1970, for 49 years, I knew Thea beginning in French-speaking Montreal, Canada, and Long Beach, Long island, Miami Beach (she was a 'snow bird'), and Palm Springs. Until my husband died, we spent every Passover together.

Thea, the balabuste/ homemaker always arrived in Los Angeles from the East Coast by plane with a suitcase of kosher cooked food: Chicken soup, and what I had taught her to make--vegetarian chopped liver. Thea gave to me her much appreciated old wood chopping bowl and Ulu rounded rocker chopping knife with the red tape 'meat' label. I miss Thea's awesome gefilte fish. She never shlepped to LA her home-made gefilte fish, and it was absolutely the best I had ever eaten. She must have kept the live fish in her tub, as her mother had done. My 'suburban DC' Maryland family always shared Shabbat dinner with their Granny.

Mostly before I knew Thea, she loved swimming, ice skating, skiing and bike riding on the boardwalk, and standing on her head. Thea loved playing in pools and ocean with us, and doing a bissel golf. She enjoyed making picnic lunches for us at the beach, and in her garden at her summer cottage for all the family visitors. After her caregiving years and her scholar husband Shulim, z"l, died in 1987 (only a year before Marcel's cancer reared its ugliness for the next 18 years and he became paralyzed), Thea enthusiastically shared with me that she truly loved learning with her new rabbis and teachers.

Although it was not Jewishly ‘traditional’, I was grateful that Thea allowed me to add and engrave her Hebrew name to Marcel’s, z'l, grave stone, as the mother along with his father’s name. Thea was present with me in LA weeks at a time, for Marcel’s most major challenging surgeries, 1981 and 1988 and 2005 with 24/7 vigils, and for his passing over in 2006. For difficult nights, Thea shared her sleeping pills with me. I would send to her by messenger, relaxing herbal teas. Thea said to me that there is nothing worse than seeing their child die.

Thea and Shulim had also lived for a year in Boston by the hospital bedside of her younger son when he became paralyzed. By the next summer Charlie was able to again spend weekends witih family at the beach cottage. With his wheelchair, I would pick up Charlie at the rehab. Manhattan hospital erev Shabbats and drive him to Long Beach.

When I gave workshops on 'Ageing', I asked Thea to share some of her sage wisdom with me, and she offered, “When you fall down, get up!” She 'walked her talk'!

Thea shared with me that fleeing from the Nazis as they marched into Antwerp, "the family survived because they had sewn diamonds into the hems of their coats.”

Thea wanted nothing of the legal reparations being paid to Shoah survivors, but it surely upset her when she visited Belgium after the Holocaust, to see her family's paintings still hanging in their Antwerp home which had been taken over by former non-Jewish household help.

For the "only good news" times that Thea always wished us all, she and Shulim were present at my and Marcel's 1974 LA Chabad wedding (bringing along her own entourage of Montreal orthodox rabbis), and for Aviva Leba's new born baby shower with our Chabad friends in our new LA home, and for Aviva's awesome Sukkot Bat Mitzvah, and her joyous June 2005 wedding to Brett. Thea was in ecstasy holding her newborn great-grandaughters, seeing them play in a toy store for the first time, and celebrating their birthdays and Jewish holidays.

My home has hanging beautiful needlework Granny had made, and I will give it to my children. I already gave to them the Pesach Seder plates which Granny had gifted to us. My home is also filled with the paintings that Thea brought back for us from her treasured visits to Israel (especially on Sukkot), and the siddurs and other wonderful Jewish books Thea gave to me.

Thea's shuls have included: Congregation Ohav Zedek, NY’s upper west side; Shaar Hashomayim, Montreal; Young Israel of Long Beach, Long Island; and B'nai Israel Congregation, Rockville, Maryland. Shulim had founded a shul in Havana.

An Eshet Chayil/ a woman of valor, Tova Matil bat Meshulam Issachar v’ Mina (Geldzahler) Horowitz Krauthammer was proud of her illustrious Horowitz rabbinic lineage traced directly back 17 generations to the 16th century Shelah HaKodesh - Rabbi Isaiah HaLevi Ish Horowitz. Thea told me that her family history was traced further back to Spain.

Thea and Shulim gave fine yeshivah educations to their sons, both MD's, and now L'Dor V'Dor/ generation to generation, Thea is fulfilled that her great-granddaughters both happily attend Jewish day schools on the East Coast as their mother, Aviva had done on west coast.

Sad for me, is the loss of Granny for her grown grandchildren, and especially for the two little girls, ages 2 and 6, who were blessed with a great-grandma only for a short time, but a loving time. Thea adored them and had nachas.

With love and in sympathy,

Joy

A condensed only 3 minute version of my Tribute to Thea was shared for me at my mother-in-law's funeral on February 17, 2019, held at her shul, B'nai Israel Congregation in Rockville, Maryland, and kindly read by Thea's Rabbi Michael Safra.
- Joy Krauthammer

Funeral service was Sunday, February 17th, 2019 at B'nai Israel Congregation, Rockville, Maryland, and burial ceremony followed at Adas Israel Cemetery, 1400 Alabama Ave. SE, Washington D.C. 20032.

Shiva and prayer services were observed at Thea's apartment at Ring House, Rockville, MD and at her shul.

In lieu of flowers, our family welcomes donations in memory of Thea to causes and organizations close to her heart:

·Pro Musica Hebraica

·Hadassah

·ORT ‘Educating for Life’

·Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation's Capital
and
·Any other institution of Jewish learning and culture of your choice

with love from Joy

Thea (Horowitz) Krauthammer

Thea's 70th birthday celebration party in her Long Beach, Long Island, NY garden, 1991

Surrounded by her children and grandchildren and a few cousins.

Granny Thea at Aviva's Bat Mitzvah, LA, CA 1990,

Thea & Shulim Krauthammer wedding
Mina & Meschullam Issachar Horowitz, parents

Thea & Shulim at

Chabad wedding of their son Marcel to Joy 1974, LA, CA

4 Generations

Thea, 92, with great-granddaughter Maya, 2013

with new mom Aviva and Bubbie Joy, Aviva's mom

Thea 93, Joy, Brett, & Aviva, & Maya, Rob & Shelley, Andrew, Russell

2014

Thea 93, Joy, Aviva, Maya

4 Generations 2014

Thea, 90th birthday

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Thea Krauthammer
excerpt from Charles' book

https://www.charleskrauthammer.com/theakrauthammer

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Obit published in The New York Times, Washington Post, Miami Herald, Montreal Gazette, and with obits in the LA Jewish Journal and Pico-Robertson Hillygram, and Legacy on Feb. 16, 2019

KRAUTHAMMER--Thea (nee Horowitz), died Thursday evening, February 14, 2019 in Rockville, MD. She was 97. Beloved wife of the late Shulim; devoted mother of the late Marcel (Joy) and the late Charles (Robyn); grandmother of Aviva (Brett) and Daniel; great-grandmother of Maya and Eliana. Born in Antwerp, Belgium, she escaped to America during World War II and worked as a translator between the US Army and the Free French Forces. After meeting and marrying her husband - also a Jewish refugee - in Havana, Cuba, she moved throughout the post- War world with him until finally settling in New York and later Montreal, where they raised their family and built a business. Idyllic summers were spent together in Long Beach, NY, where she continued her lifelong passions for languages, the arts and athletics. Thea was a woman of valor, putting her family, her Jewish faith and the pursuit of learning above all else in life. In her later years she retired to Miami and then suburban Maryland to be close to family, with whom she spent her final days in peace and comfort. Funeral will be in Rockville, MD, and burial in Washington, D.C.

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Hillygram newspaper, Pico-Robertson, LA

BARUCH DAYAN HAEMES

LEVAYA/SHIVA SUNDAY MARYLAND

It is with great sadness that we inform the community of the passing of Thea Krauthammer (nee Horowitz), Tova Matil bas Meshulam Issachar ob”m, an Eishet Chayil, of Rockville, Maryland

Thea passed over on Feb. 14th, Thursday night at the age of 97.

Mother-in-law of Joy Krauthammer and Robyn Krauthammer, and beloved mother of sons Marcel, z”l, and Charles, z”l, and beloved grandmother of Aviva (Brett) Krauthammer, and Daniel Krauthammer, and beloved great-grandmother.

LEVAYA/SHIVA, Sunday, Feb. 16,

In Rockville, Maryland

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MINA (Geldzahler) Horowitz
Marcel's maternal grandma MINA, mother of Thea (Horowitz) Krauthammer

Memorial plaque of Marcel's maternal grandma MINA, mother of Thea Krauthammer,

located in Congregaton Ohev Zedek, Upper West Side, NY.

L1 - L'zichron olam - for an everlasting memory

L2 MINA (nee Geldzahler) HOROWITZ

L2 - No Hebrew name - but concludes abbreviation ayin hey - aleiha hashalom - may peace be on her

L3 - Niphtarah b'shem tov daled Iyar taf shin kaf daled - Passed away with a good name on 4th Iyar 5724

L4 - V'Hoova'ah l'menuchot b'hay iyar - And was brought to rest 5th Iyar

L5 - DIED APRIL 16, 1964 - Yom Ha'atzma'ut - Israel Independence Day

L6 - Standard acronym abbreviation .ת.נ.צ.ב.ה

T'hay Nishmata Tzrurah Bitzror HaChayim

תהא נשמתם צרורה בצרור החיים

Hebrew to English translation courtesy of David Israel of Congregation Ohev Zedek,
and Geni maven, David Ziants.

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This week's Torah Parshat Shemot chanted during Marcel's yahrzeit, 17 Tevet, teaches us how important are the names and memories of our ancestors. We honor those who came before us by remembering them and their merits.

Shemot is the opening chapter of the 2nd book of Torah, Exodus. The Exodus narrative begins from Egypt with the 40 years of wandering in the desert wilderness. The parsha Shemot name comes from a word in the first line of the text. Shemot's English translation is "names". Shemot's first lines are, "And these are the names of the B'nai Yisrael who came to Egypt with Yakov (Jacob)... including Yosef (Joseph) who was already in Egypt".

In this light, I share names of Marcel's maternal ancestors in his rabbinic Horowitz family tree, going back 17 generations to Rabbi Isaiah/Yesaje ha-Levi Isch Horowitz, The Sheloh haKodesh, 1565-1630, and ending with his mother's father Meschulem Isachar ha-Levi Isch Horowitz, 1891-1968.
Marcel's first cousin, Michael Horowitz in London wrote that his own father David Horowitz had his father Meschulem (Marcel's grandfather) included also in this tree #17, that was originally made for a tree for cousin Baron George Weidenfeld, who was born in Vienna, and thus German quotes are used on the sides.

- Joy Krauthammer 5779

Marcel's Maternal Horowitz Family Tree

17 illustrious Rabbinic generations

17th Generation is Marcel's maternal great...grandfather.

This original hand-calligraphed with gold paint, Horowitz family tree had hung in Marcel's parents' home.

I saw the framed tree in their family Long Beach, Long Island, NY home by the beach.

After Marcel's 2006 death (and 19 years after his father's death in 1987, a year before Marcel's cancer was evident in 1988, his mother moved from NY and Miami, Fla. to Washington, DC area to be near her son, Charles. This artfully written family tree hung in the DC office of Charles Krauthammer until he died in 2018.

At this time, my daughter Aviva cares for the framed calligraphed rabbinic Horowitz tree with the hope of having it reconditioned. I hope that Aviva and Brett's children will continue to enjoy their ancestral tree. Below, in honoring my husband Marcel, I have included other versions of that tree.

- Joy Krauthammer 12.25.2018 17 Tevet 5779, on the 13th yahrzeit of Marcel.

Thoughts by 5 people published this week on Parshat Shemot and Names

https://jewishjournal.com/culture/religion/torah_portion/table-for-five/291381/weekly-parsha-shemot/

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For Marcel's z"l, 13th yahrzeit, I share his hand-calligraphed and gold painted Horowitz rabbinic family tree for 17 generations that ends with his maternal grandfather, Meschulem. First listed was Rabbi Isaiah HaLevi Isch Horowitz –The Shaloh (1565-1630).

Marcel was a 'yeshivah bocher', as were his father, Shulim, z"l, and younger brother, Charles, z"l, deceased June 2018. His mother, too, has loved learning Jewishly.

For 18 years, Marcel also served as Ba'al Koreh (Torah chanter) at two synagogues, every Shabbat; One, a Chabad and another, a traditional minyan. Marcel continued his Talmud studies all his life. Not long before he died, Marcel had a siyyum at a Young Israel following his 14 years of Gemarah study. He used his studies in Jewish medical ethics to teach others in medicine. When Marcel was paralyzed, I asked Marcel about his prayers with the little bible that always was with him, and he said he didn't need it, because the siddur was memorized. I gave the little siddur to our daughter. I had Marcel buried in his tallit with cut-off tzitzit, and with his baseball cap/kipa, and favorite teddy bear that went everywhere with him, to all hospitals during his 18 years of disease. 'Oatmeal' had disappeared when hospital sheets were changed and sent out, and I had the hospital chase down Oatmeal the Teddy Bear through the streets of Los Angeles until the bear was found and returned and then washed...

For countless years in Marcel's 23 years as UCLA Professor Of Medicine, he was voted by all medical housestaff, as #1 Professor. Marcel's professional goal from his time of Yeshivah's Albert Einstein College of Medicine graduation, was that he wanted to be as good as his best professors who had taught him.

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Thea, 97 this week

THEA Krauthammer is mother-in-law to Joy Krauthammer (married to Marcel, z"l) since 1974. We spoke every Shabbat and we spoke on Thea's 97th birthday this week. Beloved Granny to Aviva Krauthammer and husband Brett, and to Daniel, and loving great-Grandma to Maya and Eliana. They all make her smile, and so happy. Thea has loved reading holiday books to the girls and sharing Shabbat meals. Now we visit each time I am in Maryland and share Shabbat. Pesach we were always together for decades of Seders along with Shulim, z"l, in Montreal, New York, Florida, and California. Summers were spent in Long Beach, Long Island, NY. We loved the beaches in both Long Beach and Miami. When Thea visited us in Los Angeles, she always brought a suitcase filled with Kosher deli food, especially chicken soup, from her home. Thea speaks French to the girls. Shulim, z"l, Grandpa, would say Aviva grew like a champignon, a mushroom. Thea loves her girls sooo much. And we love Thea. Her needlework art of a band of musicians hangs framed on my wall, as well as the art Thea brought back to us from Jerusalem. Once I was in Jerusalem at same time as Thea and we visited with her niece and nephew, the Wohls, who were also visiting at their Israeli home.

- Joy Krauthammer 7.30.2018

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Photo scans copied from Geni.com 8.2018

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Rabbi Isaiah HaLevi Horowitz –The Shaloh (1565-1630)

https://www.meaningfullife.com/shaloh/ by Rabbi Simon Jacobson

Rabbi Isaiah, a community leader in Russia, Austria, Frankfurt, Prague and then Israel, wove together in lucid and contemporary language the legal, ethical and mystical dimensions of Torah in his magnum opus, the Shaloh, the first work to begin applying mysticism to modern life.

Biographical Highlights:

~1565: Born in Prague.
~ His first teacher is his father, R’ Abraham ben Shabse Sheftel HaLevi, author of many works including Emek Brochoh, Chesed Avraham and Bris Avraham.
~ Family moves to Cracow in Poland, then to Lublin where he studied at the yeshivah of the Maharam.
~ Marries Chaye, daughter of a leading member of the Vienna Jewish community. Has two sons.
~ Participates in meetings of the Vaad Arba HaArotzos – Council of the Four Countries – together with
other leading Rabbis.
~ 1600: First Rabbinical post in Dubno.
~ 1602: Appointed head of Beis Din in Austria
~ 1606: Appointed Rabbi of Frankfurt.
~ 1614: Jews expelled from Frankfurt – R’ Horowitz leaves with the community.
~ 1615: Appointed chief Rabbi of Prague.
~ 1620: Wife passes away.
~ 1621: Moves to Israel. Appointed Rabbi of the Ashkenazic community in Jerusalem. Marries Chava with whom he has a daughter.
~ 1623: Completes “Shnei Luchot HaBrit” (Two Tablets of the Covenant), known as the “Shaloh.”
~ 1625: Arrested by local government together with fifteen leading Rabbis.
~ 1626: Released from prison. Goes to live in Tzfat and Tiberius in the north of Israel.
~ 1630: Passes away 11th of Nissan. Buried in Tiberius near the graves of Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai and the Rambam.
~ 1648: “Shnei Luchot HaBrit” first published in Amsterdam.
~ 1648-1930: 16 editions of “Shnei Luchot HaBrit “ published.

(Some) Concurrent Events in History:

1580-89: Walter Raleigh establishes first English colony in North America ~ Decimal fractions introduced to mathematics by Dutchman, Simon Stevin ~ Francis Drake completes circumnavigation of the globe ~ First black slaves arrive in America 1590-99: Compound microscope invented, pioneering study of microorganisms ~ William Shakespeare presents many plays ~ Trading agency, Dutch East India Company formed after Spain closes spice market to English and Dutch
1600-10: Black Death kills more than 33 000 in London ~ German astronomer, Johannes Kepler, establishes that planets move in an inconstant rate of motion along elliptical paths ~ Plot to blow up English Parliament uncovered – Catholic perpetrators hanged by Protestant powers.
1610-20: Explorer Henry Hudson disappears after crew mutinies and strands him at James Bay ~ King
James version of Bible published in England ~ 200-year Romanov dynasty begins in Russia ~ Pocahontas, daughter of Indian chief of Powhatans, marries John Rolfe ~ Galileo Galilei arrested by Catholic Church on charges of heresy.
1620-30: The Mayflower arrives in North America ~ William Harvey proposes that the heart is a muscle that pumps blood throughout the body ~ The idiot Mustafa is restored to the Ottoman throne ~ Dutch purchase Manhattan

Published Writings:

Commentary on Emek Berocho; The Shaloh – Shnei Luchot HaBrit; Siddur Shaloh – Shaar Hashomayim (Gate of Heaven) – commentary on the prayer book; Bigdei Yesha; Mitzvat Tefillin; Commentary on Zohar; Commentary on Tur Shulchan Aruch; Names of Gittin

Resources in English:

Shnei Luchot HaBrit , Section on Torah portions translated and annotated by Eliyahu Munk, Jerusalem, 1992
www.kabbalahonline.org – a good, authentic resource.

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http://www.ics.uci.edu/~dan/genealogy/Krakow/Families/Cypres.html

--- Here is a summary of the article which is in the Hebrew tab (taken from http://horabis.blogspot.com/2007/10/blog-post_4240.html ):-

Michael son of haRav Chaim Ariyeh (Leib) "Horowitz man". He was born in 1870 and his father was head of Krakow bet din. After WW1, he joined Mizrachi Movement and established schools with this outlook "Hebrew cheder" and "Tachkmoni").

He wrote a commentary on the 5 megillot - "avodat hal'vi'im" and wrote - often anonymously - articles for Mizrachi Movement periodicals.

After his father died, he was a candidate to replace him as head of bet din, but he was not accepted. This due to an anti-zionist coalition formed together by the chassidim and the assimilationists.

For a period he lived in Antwerp and dealt with diamonds. Passed away Kislev 5700 - winter of 1939

The above was cited from the "Encyclopaedia of Religious Zionism", rabbanim who were murdered in the Holocaust:- http://horabis.blogspot.com/2007/10/blog-post_4240.html

About him in the encyclopedia:- http://jgaliciabukovina.net/he/144212/digitalbook/%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99-%D7%92%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%94-%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94-%D7%9C%D7%97%D7%9B%D7%9E%D7%99-%D7%92%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%94-%D7%97%D7%9C%D7%A7-%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%99#page_145

From his son:- http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=27961&st=&pgnum=17

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From: "A. Marmorstein" <mehadrin@aol.com> from Geni
Subject: Re: [ravsig] Horowitz genealogy back to Spain

Date: December 7, 2015

To: "Joseph Gilad" <sujo1@bezeqint.net>
Cc: "E. Randol Schoenberg" <randols@bslaw.net>

There is no question that there is a legend that Horowitz's are descended from Benvenisti Halevi in Spain. The question is how authentic is that story and when was it first recorded. One of the elders of the family is Abraham (son of Shabtai) Horowitz (1540-1615). At the end of his book Yesh Nochlin they published the ethical will of his grandson Rabbi Sheftel (Shabtai) Halevi Horowitz (1590-1660) who writes very strongly about the importance of knowing one's family history:

As is well known the third destruction (after the destruction of the 2 temples in Jerusalem) in the years 1648 and 1649 caused massive loss of life and also caused confusion about family identity. The sages of that time tried to salvage the family lineages but there was a limit to how much they could do, and there is reason to fear that in later times people will claim to be part of a distinguished family or to place a blemish in a holy seed. Therefore it is important for anyone who lives in such a time to write a clear pedigree and leave it for his children so that they may know precisely from whom they are descended. I therefore wish to tell you my beloved young and wise son Isaiah (SG"L) that you are my son, and I am the son of the Gaon and pious Rabbi Yeshaye SG"L author of Shnei Luchos Habris, grandson of Rabbi Avrohom son of Rabbi Sheftel, author of Emek Brachah, and Rav Sheftel was the son of Rabbi Yeshaye SG"L and he (Rabbi Yeshaye) was the son-in-law of the prince Akiva of Oben (OBuda, now part of Budapest) who is buried in the holy community of Prague near the grave of my mother. My mother Chaya was said in her time to have performed all the good deeds of the matriarchs Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah. She was the daughter of a Torah scholar, who was also a great philanthropist and her mother too was from a great family the daughter of Rabbi Moshe Charif (the sharp mind) son of Rabbi Israel of Lublin, and all of them were of pure family lineage.

I have written this not that I wish to boast of it just that you and my daughter should know who you are and who are your ancestors, and you should instruct your children, and they to their children for all time, for the Holy One blessed be He only rests His presence on those of pedigree.

Now if Rav Sheftel Horowitz, the son of Rabbi Yeshaye Horowitz, writing between 1650 and 1660 and recalling his family lineage with pride did not include the prior generations before Rabbi Yeshaye Horowitz (the 1st), and the careful genealogies of the family only allude to the Benveniste connection as כפי המסופר or מספרים במשפחתנו and only those who wrote much later incorporated it as documented fact, shouldn't we consider it more of a tradition and legend than established with certainty.
On the other hand since I am also an Epstein descendant of the Benveniste Halevi family of Spain and they came via Frankfurt and I think documented the connection more, I don't have to worry about having some kind of ancestry in Gerona!
Best wishes
Avrohom Marmorstein

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Permission given to copy 3 paragraphs.
Published and copyrighted by Kehot Publication Society

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/112346/jewish/Rabbi-Isaiah-Halevi-Horowitz-The-Sheloh.htm

Rabbi Isaiah Halevi Horowitz (The Sheloh)

(5318-5388 - 1558-1628)

By Nissan Mindel Next »

The Saintly Shaloh

Rabbi Isaiah Halevi Horowitz was born in the well known city of Prague, in the year 5318 (1558) , just over 400 years ago. His father, Rabbi Abraham bar Rabbi Shabse Sheftel Halevi, was a celebrated Gaon and author of many works (Yesh Nochlin, Emek Brochoh, Chesed Avrohom, Bris Avrohom). He was the first teacher of Rabbi Isaiah. Later on, the father, with his whole family, left Prague, and went to Cracow in Poland, and from there to Lublin, where Rabbi Isaiah studied at the celebrated Yeshivoh of the Maharani. He married the daughter of one of the leading members of the Vienna community, Reb Avrohom Moul. His wife's name was Chaye.

Rabbi Isaiah Halevi Horowitz is famous as the "Sheloh Hakodosh" (the saintly Shelo) because of his great work, Shnei Luehos Habris (SheLoH). At an early age, he was recognized as a great Gaon, and he took part in the meetings of the Rabbis of the Vaad Arba HaArotzos (Council of the Four Countries), together with the greatest Rabbis of his generation. He held Rabbinical positions in various communities such as Dubno, Ostraha, Posen, Cracow, Vienna and Frankfurt, where he headed great Yehsivos and had large numbers of students.

When the Jews were driven out of Frankfurt in the year 5375 (1615) on the 27th of Elul, Rabbi Isaiah went with them into exile. Later on, he was chosen as Chief Rabbi of his native Prague, a position he occupied for seven years. At first, he shared the office together with the great Rabbi Efraim Luntschitz (author of "Olelos Efraim"), and upon Rabbi Efraim's death (7th Iyar, 5379 [1619]), the Shelo remained the sole Chief Rabbi in Prague, where he stayed until he left for Eretz Yisroel in the year 5381 (1621) . He always felt a desire to live in the Holy Land, and when his wife died in 5380 (1620) , he decided to satisfy his longing for the Holy Land, and he went there. He left his comfortable position, bade farewell to his children and grandchildren, and set out on the long journey. It was especially difficult for him to leave his dear son, Rabbi Sheftel, who was already a Gaon himself. Rabbi Isaiah stopped at Venice and other places on the way, where he was welcomed with great honor.
READ MORE:
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/112346/jewish/Rabbi-Isaiah-Halevi-Horowitz-The-Sheloh.htm

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Photo courtesy Jerusalem Post, 12.31.2018 inauguration of reconstruction of Maimonides/Rambam and adjacent tombs, including facing us, with circular top:
Rabbi Isaiah HaLevi Horowitz tomb of the Sheloh HaKadosh, Tiberias, Israel

ישעיה בן אברהם הלוי הורוויץ

c. 1555 – March 24, 1630) 5318-5388

Earlier photo:

Rabbi Isaiah HaLevi Horowitz is buried in Tiberias next to the grave of the Maimonides/ Rambam. Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz was a 16th century rabbi and mystic. He was born in Prague, but served in prominent rabbinic positions in Austria, Germany, and Prague, before becoming the chief Ashkenazic rabbi of Jerusalem. Dates of death vary.

The Shla"h's tomb translation is courtesy of David Ziants ("Marcel's first cousin once removed's wife's step second cousin").
L0: Po nikbar
translation: Here is buried
L1: HaShla"h haKadosh
translation: The Holy Shla"h - (Acronym Shla"h stands for "Shnei Luchot Habrit" = "two tablets of stone" - the name of the book that he wrote.)
L2: Moreinu haRav, Reb Yeshayahu ben haRav Avraham haLevi Horowitz tzatz"al
translation: Our teacher the Rav, Reb Yeshayahu son of the Rav Avraham the levi Horowitz, may the righteous one be remembered for a blessing
L3: Shimesh av-bet-hadin b'kehillot gedolot b'eiropa
translation: He served as the Head of the Bet Din in (various) large communities in Europe
L4: Alah miPraag l'Eretz Yisrael b'shnat hay-shin-pay-aleph
translation: He made aliya from Prague to the Land of Israel in the year 5371 (=1620/1621)
L5: Kihain k'rav shel kehillot Yerushalayim, Tzefat v'Tiveria
translation: He held the positions as rav of the communities of Yerushalayim, Tzefat and Tiveria
L6: Chibair sepharim "Shnei Luchot Habrit" v'achairim
translation: He wrote the books "Shnei Luchot Habrit" and others
L7: Niphtar b'Tiveria b'yud-aleph Nissan b'shnat hay-shin-tzadi
translation: He passed away in Tiberias on the 11th of Nissan in the year of 5390
L8: Tihiyeh nishmato tzror b'tzror hachaim
translation: May his soul be bound in the bond of life.

The place of the tomb of Maimonides/Rambam is also the burial place of Rabbis Isaiah Horowitz and Yochanan ben Zakai.

Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Toledano purchased the area around Rambam’s grave and the Tomb of Rabbi Akiva from local Arabs in 1920. He also built a wall around the Tomb of Maimonides.

"The first ancestor is known as the most famous, with a pseudonym of "The Shelah HaKadosh" - Shelah is an acronym for "Shnei Luchot Habrit", the name of his sefer.

"Throughout the generations from the times of the Achronim (post 1500's era) he is one of four Rabbi's known with the appellation "HaKadosh", the holy one." Isaiah Horowitz - Wikipedia.

Most of the rabbis are considered famous. One of the more recent ones is the Bostoner Rebbe (late 1800s) and his sons.

The Horowitz's may be able to trace their lineage back to the sons of Korach, even earlier than Rashi."

Rabbi Nachi Klein, YION, shared the above with Joy Krauthammer.

In addition, this rabbinic lineage is written in book, "The Unbroken Chain" by Dr. Neil Rosenstein. (He has interviewed me, Joy, about further descendants.)

A Horowitz cousin, Chaim Tepfer, published a book in Hebrew about the ancestors. Below is a photo he took of a new gravestone that he arranged for in Krakow, Poland.

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R. Chaim Aryeh Leevsh Ish Horowitz

1851 - 1904

courtesy Chaim Tepfer of Israel

Hakamas Hamatzaivah of our G grandfather Rav Chaim Aryeh.

New Jewish Cemetery⁩, ⁨Kraków⁩, ⁨Poland⁩

From Chaim Tepfer.

I was very hesitant to start writing on my own, so what i did was i looked through letters that were written to him (Rav Chaim Aryeh 1851-1904) by prominent rabbis of his time when turning to him for advice or guidance and used those titles they used.

Yes the actual stone was still complete, just the marble where the wording is is new and we painted the rest the same color.

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Translation

Here is buried

The pillar of Torah,

glory of his generation,

purity of knowledge,

distinguished and genius,

descendant of a great dynasty,

hagaon Rabbi Chaim Aryeh Halvei Horowitz,Zt"l (1851 - 1904)

author of the sefarim chayeh aryeh, ezrat nedachim, and tikun eravin.

The son of the great tzadik and Gaon Rabbi Shaul Halevei Horowitz Zt"l (1831-1912)

Rabbi of the city of Tysmenitz

Passed away Saturday night 12 kislev.

An everlasting memorial for his son

the great Gaon Rabbi Michael Halevei Horwitz Zt"l (1869-1941)

author of Sefer Avodat Haleveim and psheta desafra

who passed away on 9 kislev

in the ghetto of Krakow in the midst of world war 2

and was brought to burial here in this cemetery

yet the exact spot is not known.

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R. Chaim Aryeh Leevsh Ish Horowitz

1851 - 1904

courtesy Chaim Tepfer of Israel

Hakamas Hamatzaivah of our Great-grandfather Rav Chaim Aryeh

New Jewish Cemetery⁩, ⁨Kraków⁩, ⁨Poland⁩

"Hi all Horowitz descendants,

I would like to share some photos of my trip to Krakow this week for the Hakamas Hamatzaivah of of our G grand father Rav Chaim Aryeh.

B"h after years of work and with your help we were able to locate his burial spot and now for his 114th yartzeit we were able to place a nice matzaivah on his burial spot. Some how I was able to put together a minyan so we were able to say kadish and e-l maleh rachamim something that he defiantly hasn't had since before world war 2."- C. Tepfer

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MbQ9Nzz-TYWmQqORKwg-O9olUuBgRv43/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bwaxhm80XdeTXnLUvonoFjeASJlsgLqd/view?usp=sharing

Walk to the cemetery:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Miodowa+55,+33-332+Kraków,+Poland/@50.0536288,19.9478703,18.02z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x47165b3ff0f20975:0x3878f5fc86c3b1ec!8m2!3d50.0545073!4d19.9501311

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MARCEL, z'l

Marcel Family Tree

Rabbi Isaiah HaLevi Horowitz –The Shaloh (1565-1630)

Biographical Highlights:

(Some) Concurrent Events in History:

Published Writings:

Resources in English:

Rabbi Isaiah Halevi Horowitz (The Sheloh)

(5318-5388 - 1558-1628)

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