Talk:Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg

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Dirk Gently added the category "Jews buried in the Mount of Olives". Is this a fact? If so, how did he get there? Did he move to Eretz Yisrael towards the end of his life? If so, that should be in the text of the article, and properly sourced. Zsero 18:09, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Date of death
According to Hebrew Wikipedia (https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/יהודה_החסיד), the date of death is in doubt, but both dates given there are different from _all three_ dates given in the reference here. See also the talk page there for a discussion of the correct date. MikeR613 (talk) 17:23, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

Didn't value Talmud study?
This article is generally of poor quality in its lack of structure, redundancy and patchwork-like quality. Specifically, I find it incomprehensible to at once declare "The study of the Talmud, especially as it was treated by his contemporaries, seemed to him fruitless." and "Judah's mysticism was in such a stage of opposition; he therefore undervalued the study of the Halakhah and indulged in marked departures from the accepted religious practises." and also list him as the teacher of three of the most preeminent halakhic luminaries of the time, Maharam Rottenburg, Or Zarua, and Semag. Additionally, there are no sources cited for these odd declarations of his disregard for Talmudic law. MosheEmes (talk) 03:57, 7 April 2013 (UTC)


 * You misunderstood the intention of these statements. Although I agree that the problem lays with the statements themselves, as they are poorly worded. Nevertheless, one familiar with the history of the Jewish people in the diaspora can understand their meaning. Debresser (talk) 15:41, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
 * He held that the people of his time didn't pay enough attention to their devotional intentions in prayers, and to knowing and understanding the text of the Tanakh. He held that people so highly valued the study of the Talmud (without deteriorating from the fact that that in itself is laudable), to such an extend that they didn't pay enough attention to other - more basic - things, and he sought to remedy this. Debresser (talk) 15:49, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

For now I just took the phrase out. If someone has a source for it we could see what it actually said. I'd imagine it's some kind of disagreement on Talmudic methodology, which happened frequently among different sages. MikeR613 (talk) 02:45, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

Shapiro
At one point the article mentions that the author of the ethical will "Tzava'at Rabbi Yehudah Hechasid" was Harav Yehudah HeChasid Shapiro. As "Shapiro" is nowhere else mentioned in the article, I assumed that was someone different, someone I didn't know. However, I followed the link and it seems to be the same person! Unless someone corrects me, I think the word should be removed. (Btw, maybe it comes from "Speyer", his birthplace, which is pronounced with an Sh?) MikeR613 (talk) 02:41, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

Alleged Prophecy
In Israel Today page 18 - L. Schneider quotes a prophecy

http://issuu.com/ryaninzion/docs/israel_today_march_2008

by Judah ben Samuel. Is there credibility to the claim?

Benjamin 92.192.108.118 (talk) 16:14, 6 January 2015 (UTC)


 * I couldn't find the text you are referring to, but I can tell you that prophecy has been ascribed to this rabbi's father in traditional religious Jewish sources. Debresser (talk) 01:57, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Just curious, is this related to http://judaism.stackexchange.com/q/51405/5151? Scimonster (talk) 08:38, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I fixed a mistake above: prophecy was ascribed to his father, rabbi Shmuel. Debresser (talk) 11:01, 7 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Just to say in case it helps, later article in Breaking Israel News, tries to find a source for this prophecy and it all goes back to that one article by Schneider, and they couldn't find a source and contacted the author to ask for a source but got no reply Robert Walker (talk) 10:51, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

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