Elazar Rokeach (or Rokeiach) (1165-1238) of Worms, Germany, was a leading rabbi, and was known as one of the Chassidei Ashkenaz ("Righteous Ones of German[ic] Jewry"), a group of Jewish German pietists. Events November 23 - Pope Alexander III enters Rome. ... Events In the Iberian peninsula, James I of Aragon captures the city of Valencia September 28 from the Moors; the Moors retreat to Granada. ... Worms is a city in Germany, situated in Rhineland-Palatinate. ... Rabbi (Classical Hebrew רִבִּי ribbÄ«; modern Ashkenazi and Israeli רַבִּי rabbÄ«) in Judaism, means teacher, or more literally great one. The word Rabbi is derived from the Hebrew root-word RaV, which in biblical Hebrew means great or distinguished,. In the ancient Judean schools the sages were addressed as רִבִּי (Ribbi or Rebbi... The Chassidei Ashkenaz (literally the Pious of Germany) was a Jewish movement in the 12th and 13th century founded by Rabbi Judah the Pious (Rav Yehuda HaChassid) of Regensburg, Germany and several other German Jews. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... Pietism was a movement, in the Lutheran Church, lasting from the late-17th century to the mid-18th Century. ...

His work is known as the Sefer HaRokeach ("[The] Book of the Rokeach") and is a guide to ethics and Jewish Law. Ethics is the branch of axiology – one of the four major branches of philosophy, alongside metaphysics, epistemology, and logic – which attempts to understand the nature of morality; to define that which is right from that which is wrong. ... Halakha (Hebrew: הלכה; also transliterated as Halakhah, Halacha, Halachah) is the collective corpus of Jewish rabbinic law, custom and tradition. ...