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“Book of the Pious”), a highly valuable account of the day-to-day religious life of medieval German Jews known as Ḥasidim (“Pious Ones”) written by Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg,also called HeHasid or 'the Pious'
"If you are proved right, you accomplish little; but if you are proved wrong, you gain much; you learn the truth."
"The righteous gives a little more than the scale indicates."
"If the heart does not know what the lips utter, it is no prayer."
"Who is a skilled physician? He who can prevent disease."