Outside Sources
Though there may be earlier printed mentions that still exist, the book Yuḥasin by Abraham Zucato on leaf 221 of which 2 original texts exist at Jewish museums, from the early 16 Century (1500-1503), mentions 'Eleazar Ben Yehudah Ben Kalonymous Of Worms', the son of Judah the pious. Then takes a page to discuss his book Yera'i El (Fear of God) which is clearly a successor to the 'Pious of Ashkenaz' book of this article. The book discusses many ideas including ideas of the 3 parts of God etc. (not to be confused with Christianity, it makes clear as all Judaism does, God is not human and has no body, numbers can be sacred). The 3 parts of God's nature seems to be integral in Jewish mysticism, as Saadia Gaon, obsesses on triangles as well.
Secular philosopher Martin Buber states that he was influenced by the books of the Hassidei Ashkenaz, twice once in a letter to Jewish Nietzschean story-teller Mica Josef Berdiczewsky. Then more notably in his 1906 book 'Die Geschichten des Rabbi Nachman', which connects these ancient Jews to the 18 Century Hassidism of Nachman of per-Holocaust Breslev in Eastern Europe, on page 36.
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