Rhineland Pietists to Mishnaic Period: Medieval and Pre-Medieval Transmission of Jewish Esoteric Traditions

ORAL AND INITIATORY

Tannaitic and Amoraic periods to the German Pietists. Consider all the well-known lines in Jewish and Christian sacred literature about knowledge for the public and knowledge restricted to the initiated few.

RHINELAND PIETISTS, HASIDEI ASHKENAZ INSPIRES 17TH CENTURY GERMAN PIETIST MOVEMENT

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The German Pietists in the 17th to 18th century owe their mystical roots to the Ashkenazi Hasidim or Hasidei Ashkenaz in the 12th-13th century medieval German Rhineland. Notable figures of the latter included Rabbi Judah the Pious and Rabbi Eleazar of Worms; and following evidence of their influence from the Sefer Hasidim text containing esoteric commentaries on Shi`ur Qomah. They spread their knowledge, which contained angelology, numerology and magical theurgy through explicitly secret means of transmission.

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December 14, 2025

Author Name:

Dominique Johnson

🏷️Comparative Religion, Cultural History, Esotericism

🏷️Ashkenazi Hasidim, Babylonian Geonim, Geonic period, Hekhalot, History of Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism, Jews, Judaism, Judaism in France, Judaism in Spain, Kabbalah in Babylonia, Languedoc, Medieval Judaism, Merksvah, Middle Ages, Religious Studies, Renaissance Period, Talmudic mysticism

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Dominique Johnson is a writer and author of The American Minervan created years ago and changed from its first iteration as Circle of Asia (11 years ago), because of its initial Eurasian focus. The change indicated increasing concern for the future of their own home country. He has spent many years academically researching the deeper philosophical classical sources of Theosophy, Eclecticism and American Republicanism to push beyond current civilizational limitations. He has spent his life since a youth dedicated to understanding what he sees as the “inner meanings” and instruction in classical literature, martial philosophies, world mythology and folklore for understanding both the nature of life and dealing with the challenges of life.

Rhineland Pietists to Mishnaic Period: Medieval and Pre-Medieval Transmission of Jewish Esoteric Traditions

RHINELAND PIETISTS, HASIDEI ASHKENAZ INSPIRES 17TH CENTURY GERMAN PIETIST MOVEMENT

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