 Judah HeHasid (Jerusalem)

Judah he-Hasid Segal ha-Levi ( "Yehudah he-Hasid", "Judah the Pious"; c. 1660 in Siedlce – October 17, 1700 in Jerusalem, Ottoman Syria) was a Jewish preacher who led the largest organized group of Jewish immigrants to the Land of Israel in the 17th and 18th centuries.Judah traveled from one Jewish community to another throughout Poland, urging repentance, asceticism, physical mortifications, and calling for "aliyah".