Chassidei Ashkenaz

This description of the divine realm is found in a Chassidei Ashkenaz manuscript.

The themes depicted within it most significantly portray the religious ideology of the Chassidei Ashkenaz.

Medieval Kabbalists often adhered to ethical and ascetic practices, such as among the Chassidei Ashkenaz of the 12th-13th century.

Sefer Chassidim, by Rabbi Judah the Pious, is the most important work of the Chassidei Ashkenaz.

He was the first of the Chassidei Ashkenaz, and the father of Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg.

Critical historians regard it as a medieval work, most probably originating among the Chassidei Ashkenaz, as citations from it begin to appear only in the 13th century.

In the 13th century, one problem which intrigued the Chassidei Ashkenaz (literally "the Pious of Germany") was the possibility of the creation of life through magical means.

The Sefer Hasidim is a text by Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg, a foundation work of Chassidei Ashkenaz teaching.

Rabbi Judah the Pious (Rav Yehuda Ha-Hassid) of Regensburg was the foremost leader of the Chassidei Ashkenaz.

Ivan G. Marcus raised support for the community's historicity by pointing out references to Chassidei Ashkenaz practices in Arba'ah Turim and Sefer ha-Manhig.

His main kabbalistic influences appear to have been the Zohar, Sefer Yetzirah, and traditions of the Chassidei Ashkenaz, as Lurianic Kabbalah had not by that time reached Europe.

While he was likely associated with the movement known as Chassidei Ashkenaz, that early group of pious scholars preceded and was not part of the later movement we now know as Hasidim.

The theology of the Chassidei Ashkenaz is certainly independent and unique; however, it does contain meaningful similarities to the theologies of both the early kabbalists and of Saadia Gaon.

Just as the unity of the sefirot is an indispensable concept in Kabbala, the inter-connectedness of the lower Kavod and higher Kavod is crucial for the Chassidei Ashkenaz.

He received his doctorate in 1964 under the guidance of Isaiah Tishby, his thesis titled The Speculative Basis of the Ethical Teachings of Chassidei Ashkenaz.

Among Jews, this approach has been taken by the Chassidei Ashkenaz (German pietists of the Middle-Ages), the Arizal's Kabbalist tradition, Ramchal, most of Hassidism, the Vilna Gaon, and Jacob Emden.

The main corpus of the Merkabah literature was composed in Israel in the period 200-700 CE, although later references to the Chariot tradition can also be found in the literature of the Chassidei Ashkenaz in the Middle Ages.

Chassidei Ashkenaz (literally "the Pious of Germany") was a Jewish movement in the 12th century and 13th century founded by Rabbi Judah the Pious (Rabbi Yehuda HeChassid) of Regensburg, Germany, which was concerned with promoting Jewish piety and morality.

The leaders of the community of the Chassidei Ashkenaz movement were descended from the Kalonymos family of northern Italy, a family that had immigrated to Germany in the 10th century; and the Abun family of France, among others, according to the sacred books they wrote at the close of the 10th century.