
	Where results make sense

Topic: Sherira Gaon

In the News (Sun 29 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - SHERIRA B. ḤANINA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sherira boasted that his genealogy could be traced back to the pre-Bostanaian branch of that family, which, he claimed, on account of the deterioration of the exilarchate had renounced its claims thereto, preferring instead the scholar's life (Letter of Sherira Gaon, in Neubauer, l.c.
		Sherira wrote a work on the Talmud, under the title "Megillat Setarim." In this work he seems to have discussed the importance of the Haggadah (Aboab, introduction to "Menorat ha-Ma'or"); but the portion of the work containing his opinions on this subject has been lost.
		Sherira has become famous by a letter of his addressed to the community of Kairwan, which letter is the chief source for the history of the Talmudic, post-Talmudic, and geonic periods.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=617&letter=S (781 words)

	[No title]
		The title of geon (also gaon) came to be applied to the heads of the two Babylonian academies of Sura and Pumbedita, though it did not displace the original title of Rosh Yeshivah Ge'on Ya'akov (Hebrew, head of the academy, pride of Jacob).
		At the end of the kallah month the gaon designated the Talmudic treatise which the members of the assembly were obliged to study in the months intervening till the next kallah should begin.
		During the kallah, the gaon laid before the assembly a number of the questions that had been sent in during the year from all parts of the Diaspora.
	www.seedwiki.com /wiki/conj/geonim?wpid=476488 (1142 words)

	Jewish History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sherira wrote a Biblical commentary as well as one on several tractates of the Talmud.
		Inquired of R' Sherira Gaon (906-1006) as to the history of the Talmud and how it was composed.
		R' Sherira's reply to R' Nissim, known as Iggeret Rav Sherira Ga'on, is the foremost source of our knowledge of the history of Talmudic times and the growth and compilation of the Mishna-Talmud.
	www.jewishhistory.org.il /900.htm (2543 words)

	Ben Yehuda Press
		Gaon: The title of “gaon,” was given to the heads of the two Babylonian academies of Sura and Pumbedita, though it did not displace the title of “rosh yeshibah”(Aramaic, “resh metibta”), which properly designated the office of head of the academy, and remained to the end the official designation for that position.
		Sherira, who is the source for the exact sequence of the Geonim, apparently considers “gaon” an ancient title of the head of the academy, for he says (ed.
		34) that the amora Ashi was gaon at Mata Meḥasya (Sura).
	www.benyehudapress.com /yct/biblio/index.html (6106 words)

	JewishGates.Com - The Definitive Source for Talmudic Learning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sherira bar Channina (906-1006 CE) was one of the most influential Jews in Babylonia.
		The gaon, head of the academy, was the recognized scholar in Babylonia.
		It was an astonishingly thorough piece of work and served as the basis for 19th (and some 20th)century Jewish historians' understanding of the redaction process of the Mishnah and the Talmud.
	www.jewishgates.com /file.asp?File_ID=365 (566 words)

	Hai - LoveToKnow 1911
		HAI (93910 3 8), Jewish Talmudical scholar, was born in 939.
		He was educated by his father Sherira, gaon of Pombeditha (Pumbedita), whom he afterwards assisted in his work.
		They were cast into prison for a short time by the caliph Qadir, and subsequently on Sherira's death Hai was appointed gaon in his place (998).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Hai (163 words)

	Gaonim - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The greatest Gaon at Sura was Saadia ben Joseph al-Fayumi.
		Of those who held office at Pumbedita, Sherira Gaon (968-98) and his son Hai Gaon (998-1038) are most notable.
		Under Sherira the waning prestige of the Babylonian academies was restored, and it was maintained by Hai until his death.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-gaonim.html (217 words)

	JewishGates.Com - The Definitive Source for Talmudic Learning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The son of Sherira Gaon, he may have worked on his father's famous Letter.
		Challenged for the position of gaon by Samuel ben Hofni in 998 CE, Hai solved the problem by marrying Samuel's daughter.
		Despite being gaon during the decline of the Abbasid dynasty, Hai was still regarded as a great halachic authority.
	www.jewishgates.com /file.asp?File_ID=229 (480 words)

	Geonim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		(singular - Gaon) Title borne by the heads of the two large academies in Babylonia in Sura and Pumbedita, between the 6th and 11th centuries.
		The last Gaon in Pumbedita was Rav Hai, the son of Sherira Gaon.
		The heads of the academies in Eretz Israel at this period were also called Gaon, but their influence was limited.
	www.ort.org /ort/edu/rolnik/halacha/geonim.htm (109 words)

	Amazon.com: "Rav Sherira Gaon": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A good illustration of this may be seen in the words of Rav Sherira Gaon.
		* Rav Hai Gaon-(939-1038) One of the major Geonim,* son of Rav Sherira Gaon, head of the Pumbedita Yeshivah* in Babylonia,...
		Destruction of synagogues: B Yoma loa; Iggeret Rav Sherira Gaon (p.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Rav-Sherira-Gaon (434 words)

	9th and 11th Century Gedolim
		Some attribute it to Rav Yehudai the son of Shmuel Gaon, who headed the academy in Sura, Babylonia and lived from approximately 820 through 905, while others claim that it was written by Rav Shimon of Kaira.
		He learned under his father, Chushiel, as well as Rav Hai Gaon, and he was the teacher of Rav Yitzchak Alfasi (the Rif).
		Acronym for Rav Yitzchak the son of Yaakov HaKohen Alfasi (al-fasi, or from Fez, Morocco).He was born in Algeria in 1013, moved shortly thereafter to Fez, and fled to Spain at the age of seventy-five, ultimately settling in Lucena.
	chaburas.org /911cent.html (760 words)

	The Conflict of Halakha and Prayer
		Rav Sherira Gaon, who was asked what "novelty" was required by Samuel, explained that Samuel's permission to pray a second time in order to pray with the community extended even to Mussaf of Shabbat.
		We do not know whether Rav Sherira demanded a novelty in a true spontaneous prayer, but it is clear that even if he did, this demand was no stumbling block in its path.
		Rav Sherira's explanation is probably based on the statement of Rabbi Yosi in the Yerushalmi (Berakhot, end of chapter 4, 8c) as this responsum appears in the collection of Rav Sherira's responsum in which the Yerushalmi is frequently quoted (Teshuvat haGeonim, ed.
	www.lookstein.org /retrieve.php?ID=1130984 (7162 words)

	Jewish Light Online
		Rabbi Sherira Gaon of 10th-century Babylon noted a custom of putting three foods on the plate.
		A second reason offered by R. Sherira, however, is one that resonates more strongly with our generation: "There are those who put an additional cooked food in memory of Miriam, as it says, 'And I sent before you Moses, and Aaron, and Miriam'" (Micah 6, 4).
		It would seem that since, according to R. Sherira, the Leviathan corresponds to the fish and the fish represents Miriam, verses about both the Leviathan and Miriam are suitable to be recited.
	www.stljewishlight.com /passover/288667975194423.php (1518 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - Texts: Editing of the Talmud
		In this letter, Sherira Gaon recounts the history and development of the Mishnah and the Talmud).
		But this was compiled centuries after the "close" of the Talmud so that, while containing reliable traditions, the work does not solve all the problems and, at times, reads later conditions into the Talmudic sources.
		Sherira Gaon--and he is followed by all subsequent scholars--gives as the reason the persecutions to which Jews were subjected, which could have resulted in them forgetting the Talmud, or rather the actual debates and so forth, unless these were compiled and recast in a complete, accessible form.
	www.myjewishlearning.com /texts/talmud/Gemara/TalmudEditing.htm (1221 words)

	Mail-Jewish Volume 41 Number 78 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		There is a third approach, i think of the Me'iri, which escapes me. Moshe Halbertal has an article where he fully details these approaches, it's on the web at http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/Gruss/halbert.html and forms a chapter of his most recent book ("People of the Book").
		That goes as far as Halachah is concerned, but I think Rav Sherira Gaon or Rav Hai Gaon wrote to people from Europe or North Africa that we don't have to accept Aggada and in fact cannot since various aggadahs contradict each other.
		HAI GAON: "you should be aware that divrei agada is not like 'shmuah' [accepted halakha, mesora etc.]; rather each person expounds that which enters his mind such as [using terms like] 'efshar' or 'yesh lomar' [='one could possibly say...'].
	www.ottmall.com /mj_ht_arch/v41/mj_v41i78.html (1644 words)

	Zmanim Terms
		The zmanim as defined by the Vilna Gaon, Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman of Vilna (1720-1797), are identified by GR"A.
		The resolution of this contradiction is at the root of a major dispute associated on one side with the geonim and the Vilna Gaon (GR"A) and on the other side with Rabbeinu Tam, a grandson of Rashi.
		According to the first school of thought, of which the geonim (See Responsa Maharam Alashkar, 96, citing R. Sherira Gaon and R. Hai Gaon) and the GR"A (see Biur to Shulchan Arukh, 261:2) represent different versions, the statement in Pesachim is not applicable to the halakhah in these cases.
	kehillatisrael.net /hcal/zmanim.html (2033 words)

	[No title]
		This view is expressed by R. Sherira Gaon in his Letter, R. Abraham ben Daud in the introduction to the Book of Tradition, R. Nissim Gaon in Mafteach L'Manuelei Hatalmud, and R Saadiah Gaon in his numerous anti-Karaite works.
		Never did the sages of the Talmud, and certainly not of the Mishna teach anything, however trivial of their own invention, except for enactments which were made by universal agreement in order to make a hedge around the Torah " [3].
		3 R, Sherira Gaon (Ch.2 of the Iggeret) follows the same view but he introduces another strand of thought.
	www.aishdas.org /midrash/5765/behar.html (1392 words)

	Amazon.com: "Sherira Gaon": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		17 R. Sherira Gaon (128) explains that R. Ashi was head of the academy for approximately sixty years.
		[214] T-S NS 36.25 Talmud commentary, (Responsa); Sherira Gaon on BT Bava Batra 22b, referring to a question he was asked in the Kallah of Adar 1284 Sel.
		The Epistle ofRav Sherira Gaon (987 C. E.) is the most renowned early attempt to resolve this dilemma.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Sherira-Gaon (534 words)

	Where is Miriam on the Seder Plate?
		A second reason offered by R. Sherira, however, is one that resonates more strongly with our generation: "There are those who put an additional cooked food in memory ofMiriam, as it says, "And I sent before you Moses, and Aaron, and Miriam" (Micah 6, 4).
		It would also appear that a whole fish with head and tail intact should be used, much as many customs call for use of an entire neck and a whole egg.
		In order to explain the reason for the additional foods at the seder.It would seem that since, according to R. Sherira, the Leviathan corresponds to the fish and the fish represents Miriam, verses about both the Leviathan and Miriam are suitable to be recited.
	www.edah.org /levine.cfm (786 words)

	Gen. 5:3
		Elazar, Sherira, and Kimhi about Gen. 5:3 in three respects: it describes a curse, comparable to the "ban" that Adam was under after his expulsion from Eden; it refers to children who do not resemble their parents; and it describes them as unnatural or grotesque.
		Elazar, Sherira and Kimhi is striking; it is, in fact, more striking than their resemblance to Gen. 5:3 itself.
		The facts that "begetting children who resemble their parents" refers to normal rather than malformed, inhuman-looking offspring; that anomalous births were relatively more common in antiquity; and that the subject received considerable attention in ancient literature, lend color to their view that Gen. 5:3 means that Adam fathered a normal child with a human appearance.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /jwst/gen5v3.htm (3755 words)

	Parshas Bo: Rabbeinu Tam Tefillin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As pointed out in Tosafos (Ibid.), Rav Hai Gaon concurred with this latter view, noting that in this order, the two "Havayos" that is, the two Parshiyos which start with the word "V'Haya" (V'Haya Ki Yaviacha and V'Haya Im Shamoa) are juxtaposed.
		The Chida, however, in his Sefer Sheim HaGedolim (Ma'areches Sefarim Erech Yerushalmi) quotes those who write that there is a text in the Yerushalmi (which we no longer have today) which indicates that the correct order is as presented by Rabbeinu Tam.
		In a Teshuvah, the Rambam (Sheilos V'Teshuvos HaRambam, Blau Edition, Chelek 2 Siman 289) also writes that Rav Hal Gaon himself wore Tefillin with the Parshiyos in the order that they appear in the Torah, and he asserts forcefully that this is the Halacha, as he rules in his Mishneh Torah (Hilchos Tefillin 3:5).
	www.tzemachdovid.org /thepracticaltorah/bo.shtml (1518 words)

	Iranica.com - EXILARCH
		68-87) and the 10th-century Iggeret of Rav Sherira Gaon, are primary sources for the exilarchate under Arab rule, and their testimony is enhanced by literary evidence and correspondence discovered in the Cairo Genizah (Fischel, pp.
		Rav Sherira and other chroniclers described the execution of an exilarch in the year 470 (or 471), probably as part of a general persecution of religious minorities during the reigns of Yazdegerd II (438-57) and his son Pe@ro@z (459-84).
		During the Mazdakite disturbances and temporary removal from the throne of Kava@d in 496-98 the exilarch Mar Zutra attempted to establish an independent Jewish kingdom (ca.
	www.iranica.com /articles/v9f2/v9f203.html (971 words)

	Avodah V16 #52
		The Maharal questioned whether Rav Sherira gaon actually said that aggada is umdiina.
		The fact is that Rav Sherira Gaon did say such and this was understood by such authorities as the Menoras HaMeor.
		Sefer HaEshkol(Hilchos Stam): Rav Sherira Gaon [found in Sefer HaEshkol] stated that those things which are produced from verses and are called medrash or agada are the result of deductive reasoning (/umdena)/.
	www.aishdas.org /avodah/vol16/v16n052.shtml (3614 words)

	Hamaayan / The Torah Spring - Ki Sisa - Torah.org
		R' Sherira (906-1006) was the dean of the yeshiva of Pumpedita, in present-day Iraq, and his book-length letter is a history of the Sages and of the formation of the Talmud.
		In the selection below, R' Sherira explains why the Mishnah cites only the few generations of sages beginning shortly before the destruction of the Second Temple in approximately 70 C.E. He also explains why there exist halachic disputes.
		[R' Sherira cites a proof from Bava Batra 134a which states that Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai, the least great of Hillel's disciples, knew the entire Torah, including all of the discussions of the sages Abbaye and Rava, although Abbaye and Rava would not be born until approximately 300 years later.]
	torah.org /learning/hamaayan/5759/kisisa.html (1709 words)

	Post-Talmudic Period
		Included among the Geonim were Rav Hai Gaon, Rav Saadya Gaon and Rav Sherira Gaon.
		Among the most famous of the Acharonim are: Rav(Rabbi) Yosef Caro and Rav Moshe Isserles, the authors of the Code of Jewish Law; Rav Eliyahu, the Gaon of Vilna; Rav Chaim Soloveichik; Rav Yisrael Meir Kagan, the Chafetz Chaim; and Rav Moshe Feinstein.
		They wrote commentaries on the Talmud and the Written Law, works of philosophy and ethics, and responsa.
	ohr.edu /judaism/survey/survey6.htm (608 words)

	Divrei Beit Hillel
		He then splits her carcass into two halves, one of which he fixes to support the “upper waters” of the sky.
		At the age of 70, Rav Sherira was appointed gaon of Pumbedita.
		In 987, Rav Sherira wrote Iggeret Rav Sherira Gaon, a work that traces the history of the writing down of the Oral Law.
	dolphin.upenn.edu /~dbh/parshas/simchattorah/02 (2734 words)

	Hoshanot
		There is also a question as to when during the prayers Hoshanot should be said.
		Rav Sa'adiah Gaon rules that they should be said after the reading of the haftarah, since the Torah is still out and thus there will be no need to remove it a second time (when it will not even be read from).
		Bach also claims that Rav Sa'adiah Gaon may feel that just as the blessing on the four species should be done earlier in the day, so too should the Hoshanot with the four species be done earlier in the day.
	chaburas.org /hoshanot.html (1246 words)

	Journal of Scriptural Reasoning Forum
		This primacy that is bestowed upon Babylonia is reiterated by Rav Sherira Gaon in his famous tenth century epistle about the development of the Talmud.
		The Psalms verse which is later quoted by Maimonides as a prooftext for underscoring why the Sages of old kissed the stones of the Land of Israel and rolled around in its dirt, is deployed by R. Sherira to ground the Temple in Babylonia.
		Yochanan ben Zakkai to R. Yehudah to Rav Sherira to Rabbenu Hayyim in the Tosafot to the Satmar Rebbe who viewed the Land of Israel as demonic.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /journals/jsrforum/writings/CohLand.html (2149 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)