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本章考察Sefer Ḥasidim写作的时间。德国的虔信派不是群众运动,而是精英运动,是一群精神上的大师,人数不多,但仍足以构成一场运动。如果说Sefer Ḥasidim是延续到14世纪中期的作家们的劳动成果,那么我们谈论的是一场持续了四五代人的运动,或者,至少,它反映了几十年来孕育的思想,然后发展成一场 mes d’日新月异的运动。然而,如果Sefer Ḥasidim是13世纪早期的产物,那么它似乎是一个与与之相关的两位著名人物的生活同时代的运动,因为在任何后来的日期都没有提到它的存在。如果是这样的话,Ḥasidei阿什肯纳兹运动——与其遗留给阿什肯纳兹犹太人的一些思想不同——是一个短暂的事件,持续时间不超过一两代人。
This chapter examines when Sefer Ḥasidim was written. German Pietism was not a mass but an elite movement, a group of spiritual virtuosi, small in numbers but still enough to constitute a movement. If Sefer Ḥasidim is the labor of writers that stretches on to the mid-fourteenth century, we are talking of a movement that lasted four or five generations, or, at the very least, that reflects ideas that gestated for decades and then developed into a movement of âmes d'élite. If, however, Sefer Ḥasidim is the product of the early thirteenth century, it would then appear to be a movement coeval with the lives of the two famous figures associated with it, for there is no mention of its existence at any later date. If so, the movement of Ḥasidei Ashkenaz — in contradistinction to some of the ideas it bequeathed to Ashkenazic Jewry — was a short-lived affair, lasting no more than a generation or two.