Life: Rabbi Judah ben Samuel (jan 1, 1150 – feb 22, 1217)
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Rabbi Judah ben Samuel was also called 'Judah the Pious' in Hebrew, was a leader of the Chassidei Ashkenaz, a movement of Jewish mysticism in Germany considered different from the 18th-century Hasidic movement founded by the Baal Shem Tov.
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