Editing Yeshaya HaLevi Horowitz - The Shelah Hakodesh (section)

== In Chabad Chassidus ==
[[The magid of mezritch|The Maggid of Mezritch]] connected the birth of the Baal Shem Tov to the fact that in that same year they printed the Shelah's sefer in clear letters.

The Alter Rebbe in his youth constantly learned the seforim of the Shelah and conducted himself according to the minhagim of the Shelah, and also davened from the Shelah's siddur and focused on the kavanos of the Shelah.

Following this, [[Rabbi Sholom DovBer Schneerson - The Rebbe Rashab|the Rebbe Rashab]] defined the Alter Rebbe with the title "Shelah - Yud" (Man of the Shelah).

The Chabad minhag to wait after eating dairy foods for an hour is according to the minhagim of the Shelah.

In the title page of the Tanya, the Alter Rebbe writes that it was written from seforim and sofrim. It is accepted among chassidim that by the word "seforim" the Alter Rebbe meant the seforim of the Maharal and the Shelah.

The Rebbe said that the Frierdiker Rebbe was not particular to say "the Holy Shelah," however the Rebbe himself did use the expression 'the Holy Shelah.'

On one occasion the Rebbe addressed what is brought in Polish seforim that the Shelah is one of three gedolei Yisrael who called their seforim by lofty names (the Rambam who called his sefer by the name which the sefer Devarim is called - 'Mishneh Torah', Rabbi Moshe Alshich who called his sefer 'Toras Moshe', and the Shelah who called his sefer 'Shnei Luchos HaBris') and the names were not accepted throughout Jewish communities as a 'punishment' for taking for themselves a crown that wasn't fitting for them, but the Rebbe rejected these words and said they are not acceptable to reason.