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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