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Also Known As Yehuda the Ḥasid • Judah the Ḥasid of Regensburg
Born Germany
Died 1217
Notable Works “Sefer Ḥasidim”
Subjects Of Study Ḥasidism
Eleazar ben Judah Of Worms
German rabbi
Simone Weil.
Simone Weil
French philosopher
Philo Judaeus
Philo Judaeus
Jewish philosopher
Heinrich Heine, c. 1827.
Heinrich Heine
German author
Isaac ben Solomon Luria
Jewish mystic
Jakob Böhme
Jakob Böhme
German mystic
Meister Eckhart
German theologian and mystic
Baʿal Shem Ṭov
Polish rabbi
Moses De León
Spanish Kabbalist
Sibyl of the Rhine
St. Hildegard
German mystic
Schwenckfeld, detail from a portrait by an unknown artist, 1556; in the Schwenkfelder Library, Pennsburg, Pa.
Kaspar Schwenckfeld von Ossig
German theologian
Blessed Anna Katharina Emmerick
German nun
Sebastian Franck
German theologian
Heinrich Suso
German mystic
Abraham Isaac Kook
Abraham Isaac Kook
chief rabbi of Palestine
Melchior Hofmann
German mystic
Otto Perl
German author
Therese Neumann
Therese Neumann
German stigmatic
Johann Arndt
German theologian
Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling
German author